This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's rapid economic development in the post-war era and the challenges it faces in forging ahead of world leaders in the West. The...

This book emphasizes the need for experimenting with more deliberate and rigorous policy processes to attain balanced regional development, which can promote both equity and efficiency in India’s development discourse. The institutional mechanisms for dealing with regional imbalance in India...

Chapter 1. Introduction by Ratan Khasnabis and Indrani Chakraborty (IDSK) -- Chapter 2. Monetary Policy, Financial Stability and Macroprudential Regulation: An Indian Perspective by Dilip Nachane (Emeritus Professor, IGIDR).- Chapter 3. Crisis as Paradigm Shifter: Reflections on 2008 by Subir...

transformIT – Strategische und technische Perspektive -- Unternehmenstransformation mit Integrierten Informationssystemen – quo vadis? -- IT-Strategie und -Architektur für die Energiewirtschaft -- Erwartungen an eine Service-orientierte Architektur in der Praxis eines Unternehmens der...

Methoden und Technologien zur Dienstleistungsmodellierung -- Wissensorientierte Modellierung im Lebenszyklus von Dienstleistungen -- Stand und Perspektiven der Modellierung von Geschäftsmodellen aus Sicht des Dienstleistungsmanagements -- Modellierung von Dienstleistungen mittels Business...

Cloud Computing ist der nächste Paradigmenwechsel in der IT - weg von starren IT-Infrastrukturen hin zur dynamischen Nutzung von IT-Ressourcen. Beim Cloud Computing nutzen Unternehmen Hardware, Software und Services über ein Netzwerk, um ihre IT effizienter einzusetzen und Kosten zu senken. Im...

1 Projektmanagement -- 1.1 Grundlagen -- 1.2 Terminplanung -- 1.3 Aufwandsschätzung -- 1.4 Wirtschaftlichkeits- und Rentabilitätsplanung -- 1.5 Risikoanalyse -- 1.6 Vorgehensmodelle -- 1.7 Multiprojektmanagement -- 1.8 Projektmanagement-Standards -- Links -- Lernkontrollfragen -- Literatur --...

This book introduces 10 mega business trends, ranging from big data to the O2O model. By mining and analyzing mountains of data, the author identifies these 10 emerging trends and goes to great lengths to explain and support his views with up-to-date cases. By incorporating the latest...

This book teaches IT service managers how to onboard ServiceNow ITSM tools by evangelizing, educating, and coordinating their organization's service desk, developers, and stakeholders. Drawing on his own story of lessons learned in spinning up the adoption of ServiceNow throughout the Al Jazeera...

This book presents strategies and practices to allow everyday companies to cope with the fundamentally changing landscape of business models and to take advantage of the huge business opportunities arising from the advent of big data. It develops several case studies from companies in...