How industrial companies in Germany's critically important investment goods sector are deploying new technological and organizational production concepts to adapt to competitiveness challenges, new market requirements, environment¤al demands, and policy pressures is examined in this book. It...

The transformation of business -- Business processes : the enablers of innovation -- Analytics : insights for innovation -- It matters : technical architecture for innovation -- Organizational legacies : impediments to value creation -- Efficiency and flexibility : managing the tension --...