Intro -- Title page -- CIP data -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1_Knowledge Management is Fun -- Introduction -- Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom -- Business Example -- Application and Results -- Chapter 2_Knowledge Management: Strategy, Not Technology --...

This book examines two factors which are at the heart of Japanese management - the pursuit of growth and the intensive competition within and between Japanese firms. The author looks at how they interact and how they affect economic efficiency, stability, and dynamism. He avoids popular...

Managers are significant actors in contemporary organizations and yet there is very little deep-level analysis of what managers do, and how they understand their managerial selves and social situations. Instead of evaluating management techniques according to their internal logic and systematic...

Companies--especially more complex organizations--require standard, documented processes and procedures to achieve high levels of quality and productivity. Yet excessive processes can result in strangulation and inefficiency. Successful Business Process Management provides a succinct, accessible...

The era of the comfy, offsite strategy retreat is over-who has the time? Beset by rapid change, leaders have to build the strategy airplane while they fly it. Agile organizations use execution (i.e., performance) to drive strategy. Laura Stack, bestselling author of What to Do When There's Too...

Agile manufacturing is defined as the capability of surviving and prospering in a competitive environment of continuous and unpredictable change by reacting quickly and effectively to changing markets, driven by customer-designed products and services. Critical to successfully accomplishing AM...

Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to ArtificialIntelligence -- Chapter 2: The Dark Side of AI -- Chapter 3: Machine Learning in Healthcare -- Chapter 4: Natural Language Processing in Healthcare -- Chapter 5: Robotics in Healthcare -- Chapter 6: Data in...

Intro -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- About the Author -- Gratitudes -- Introduction -- LEAD A QUEST -- USING THIS BOOK -- Notes -- Part I: Default Thinking and the Kraken of Doom -- 1: The Anatomy of Default Thinking -- PATTERNS -- SYSTEMS -- TEMPLATES -- NORMS -- PRECEDENTS -- Notes -- 2: The...

Key Features:Best practices for dealing with operational and enterprise riskExamples of risk management as a competitive advantage for an enterpriseExamples of how risk management best practices add long term shareholder value.