Innovation i virksomheder

Das rasante Wachstum von Technologieunternehmen und deren Einfluss auf politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen haben die Diskussion über digitale Abhängigkeiten in Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft angestoßen. Denise Joecks-Laß befasst sich in diesem Buch mit der digitalen Selbstbestimmung von Kunden innerhalb von B2B-Geschäftsbeziehungen. Zunächst wird eine theoretische Herleitung und Definition des Begriffs digitale Selbstbestimmung vorgenommen, um das Konstrukt der digitalen Selbstbestimmung zu erarbeiten und die inhaltlichen Dimensionen der digitalen Selbstbestimmung herauszuarbeiten. Darauf aufbauend wird ein Mess- und Wirkungsmodell der digitalen Selbstbestimmung im Kontext von Smart Services entwickelt und empirisch geprüft. Die Erkenntnisse ermöglichen die Ableitung von Handlungsempfehlungen zur Entwicklung und Ausgestaltung von Smart Serivces, die die digitale Selbstbestimmung der Kunden im Rahmen von B2B-Geschäftsbeziehungen berücksichtigen.

This book focuses on traditional fields of business studies and economics and how digitalization has affected them. It provides an overview about the lessons learned from academic research and highlights implications for practitioners. Digitalization has not only changed the ways business administration and economics are taught, but also the substance at the core of the two disciplines. Chapters from expert contributors define and carefully evaluate the developments that have occurred over the last decades. The authors further provide an assessment of how industry branches have adapted and in which form regulators have engaged. Attention is given to the theoretical and empirical findings from recent scholarly literature. Furthermore, the authors provide some novel insights from their own research at the University of Bremen. This book appeals to business administration, economics, and entrepreneurship scholars and practitioners alike.

This book offers a concise, yet comprehensive introduction to the engineering and other principles behind passenger cruise ships. It covers all the important regulations concerning cruise ship design and operation, as well as safety, stability, and environmental aspects. It describes principles of cruise ship hydrodynamics, structures, power plant and propulsion, as well as relevant machinery and control system. Further, it deals with key cruise ship hotel systems, such as air conditioning, freshwater, firefighting, garbage, wastewater and communication systems, and many more. Written in a concise, straightforward style, and including many original drawings, this book offers a unique, informative and inspiring guide, to students and professionals in the field of naval architecture and marine engineering, cruise ship owners and managers, and curious cruise ship passengers alike.

There's a problem with innovation inside of big companies. And it's not what you think. Corporations are better managed than ever, but they're less capable of delivering the breakthroughs that change our world for the better. Big companies are too often focused on efficiency instead of resiliency. They're optimized for safety and predictability, for maintenance of the status quo. Their focus on capital efficiency leads them to engage in an illusion of innovation: activity that feels like innovation but leads to value destruction, not progress. This book explains why meaningful innovation naturally emerges from deliberate inefficiency and how large corporations can harness the power of small teams-startups-to drive radical change through systematic experimentation. The Illusion of Innovation explores:What the Federal Witness Protection Program reveals about the power of individualsHow the Amazon river basin relies on random evolution to build resiliencyHow the NBA's shift to the three-point rule demonstrates the importance of thoughtful experimentsHow one-thousand-year-old businesses survive crisesWe need scaled corporations to recover their problem-solving capacity. This means questioning decades of embedded assumptions about why corporations exist and finding ways to run faster, cheaper, and weirder experiments. It's time to build again.

A practical step-by-step guide to building your digital transformation master plan The Digital Transformation Canvas by Marc K Peter will help you find your way through the seven steps of digital transformation for your organisation with its structured and practical approach to the subject. Key features include: multiple checklists and templates you can use in your organisation short case studies in each chapter to help you further engage with the subject and understand the objectives over 80 illustrations to support your understanding of how to apply content into practice The Digital Transformation Canvas will not only help you work with teams to drive a bottom-up strategy, but you will also be able to agree on key strategic initiatives with senior management for a top-down approach too, and identify new market potential and strategic projects.

This practical book will help you transform your business from a linear take-make-waste approach into one that is sustainable, circular, but also profitable, resilient, and competitive.

This book argues that uncertainty is not really uncertainty at all but just demonstrates a lack of vision and willingness to think about the unthinkable - good and bad. The task of accepting that uncertainty is about exploring the possible, rather than the impossible has to be taken on board by strategists, policy developers, and political leaders, if we are to meet the challenges that an ever changing world is throwing at us. The term "e;unknown - unknowns"e; is ubiquitous, albeit the vast majority of future uncertain events do not fall into this category. However, it has been used to absolve decision makers from criticism post-event, whereas poor foresight is the prime culprit and that most future uncertainties are "e;known-unknowns"e; or "e;inevitable surprises"e;. This re-positioning of uncertainties can help mitigate the impact of such risks through better foresight aware contingency planning. The enemy is not uncertainty itself but our lack of imagination when trying to visualize the future - we need to transform our behaviour. To better understand uncertainty we have to deconstruct it and get to grips with its component parts. Three main questions are posed and practical approaches presented: What are the main structural components that make up the conditions under which uncertainty operates? What scenario lenses can be used when exploring uncertainty? What behavioural factors do we need to consider when analysing the human responses to uncertainty? Practitioners, having to deal with making better decisions under uncertainty, will find the book a useful guide.Endorsements for the book:"e;With this book, Bruce Garvey performs a great service for consultants, planners and, indeed, anyone whose job involves a degree of speculation about what will happen in the future. Through a comprehensive survey of methods, tools and techniques, he provides a practical guide to unpacking the uncertainty that besets all human endeavour. This is no dry academic treatise: it deals with highly contemporary topics such as "e;fake news"e; - part of a fascinating dissection of "e;dark data"e; - and how our biases and preconceptions shape our views. The book finishes with three case studies dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, social mobility and inequality, and achieving net zero - all topics that are sorely in need of the critical thinking and analysis skills described previously.No one can completely eliminate "e;20:20 hindsight"e; from all business decisions but readers applying the lessons of this book may find themselves saying "e;if only we'd known less frequently."e;-- Nick Bush, Director - CMCE (Centre for Management Consulting Excellence)"e;Academic literature and practical guides to uncertainty management are disparate: this exciting edition brings it all together.  Principal author, Bruce Garvey, recognises the erroneous attribution of many recent events to unforeseeable uncertainty ('unknown unknowns'), calling these out as inevitable surprises (or 'unknown knowns'), a category of uncertainty that is typically overlooked.  Garvey describes critical dimensions of uncertainty, before examining scenarios and behavioural aspects, the latter being a 'hidden influencer' which is too often neglected.  The guidebook contains a variety of methods, tools and techniques, including several that deserve more use, and contains a detailed glossary and reference list.  Practical advice covers topics such as identifying weak signals for use in scenario development and overcoming cognitive dissonance.  This well-structured and engagingly written guide should serve as a standard text for students, academics and practitioners across policy making, business, and industry."e;-- Dr. Geoff Darch, Water Resources Strategy Manager, Anglian Water. Co-Founder, Analysis under Uncertainty for Decision-Makers (AU4DM) Network"e;This is a valuable companion volume to John Kay and Mervyn King's Radical Uncertainty - and it is a necessary corrective to the physics envy of disciplines such as economics which achieve a false sense of certainty by creating highly plausible but unreliable simplifications of things through over generalisation - leading to simplistic proposals for interventions which can only rightly be judged through a lens of complexity and probability.I would like to be more optimistic about the ultimate effects of books of this kind - and in some fields, perhaps in military decision-making and defence I am quite optimistic. In such fields, people tend to approach decision-making through the assumption that things will go wrong, and that the effects of any mistakes will be very keenly, perhaps fatally experienced.In business and softer social policy-making, I fear the battle will be much harder. In such fields as politics and business, it is often better for the reputation "e;as Keynes remarked, "e;to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally."e; In such fields, it is more important to make defensible decisions than to make good decisions, so an artificial sense of logical certainty will perhaps always hold an unhealthy appeal.But here's hoping anyway!"e;-- Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Group"e;Here is a most insightful book, which holistically examines the 'world of uncertainty', particularly as it impacts sense- to decision-making processes for many different stakeholders. Both scholars and practitioners, strategists to operators, soon gain from reading.Journeying from theory to practice, we embark on a comprehensive definition of uncertainty to subsequently become better equipped for its greater contemporary navigation when going forward, all elucidated by several well-structured scenarios and case-study examples. How uncertainty relates to risk (both qualitative and quantitative) is systematically charted, articulating their close interactivity.Forming a successful guide, this book has much enduring reference value and is therefore deserving of being readily retrievable as events and developments benefit from their improved understanding. Uncertainty can demonstrably be negotiated much more effectively. Alternative situations and conditions of denial, lamented as 'we should have (fore)seen that', no longer stand as acceptable when it comes to anticipating futures ahead. With this book, further help is now at hand."e;-- Adam D.M. Svendsen, PhD, International Intelligence & Defence Strategist, Researcher, Analyst, Educator & Consultant

This book supports companies in the transport sector, political decision-makers, transport engineers, planners and scientists doing fundamental research who are confronted by growing challenges in transport. These challenges arise from a number of powerful socio-technical trends, including: digitalisation, globalisation, urbanisation, and the requirements of individual users and the increased need to reduce environmental impact of transport. Providing the innovations required to cope with these challenges is not a simple matter.Towards Innovative Transport Systems structures and compiles theoretical foundations from evolutionary economics, the sociology of technology and innovation research in a way that provides a broad understanding of innovation processes without demanding prior knowledge. Using the Concept of Transport System Evolution (CTSE), it explains in depth the economics of innovation in the transport sector, thus contextualising processes, drivers and obstacles at work in current practice; among such processes are the changeover to electric mobility, the realization of autonomous cars, the revival of railway by innovations and dealing with disruptive innovations in transport. The CTSE is an approach to making concrete the multi-level perspective for the transport sector introduced by Frank Geels. On the basis of the CTSE, the author proposes principles for a novel innovation policy in transport that can serve the reader as a guide when making strategic decisions. 

This book gathers extended versions of the best papers presented at the Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas (GJCIE), held virtually on October 30-31, 2021, from Istanbul Technical University. Continuing the tradition of previous volumes, it highlights recent developments of industrial engineering at the purpose of using and managing digital and intelligent technologies for application to a wide range of field, including manufacturing, healthcare, e-commerce and mobility. 

This updatable reference work gives a comprehensive overview of all relevant regulatory information and requirements for manufacturers and distributors around medical and in-vitro diagnostic devices in Europe. These individual requirements are presented in a practice-oriented manner, providing the reader with a concrete guide to implementation with main focus on the EU medical device regulations, such as MDR 2017/745 and IVD-R 2017/746, and the relevant standards, such as the ISO 13485, ISO 14971, among others. This book offers a good balance of expert knowledge, empirical values and practice-proven methods. Not only it provides readers with a quick overview about the most important requirements in the medical device sector, yet it shows concrete and proven ways in which these requirements can be implemented in practice. It addresses medical manufacturing companies, professionals in development, production, and quality assurance departments, and technical and medicalstudents who are preparing themselves for a professional career in the medical technlogy industries.

This book deals with the consistent elaboration of the research and practice basis for agricultural development based on Agrotech using groundbreaking technologies AI, big data and IoT. The authors have presented a new scientific view of agriculture in Agrotech. International experience in the formation and development of Agrotech has been reviewed and analyzed. Current problems in agriculture have been identified, and prospects for solving them with the use of Agrotech have been outlined. The authors have identified strategic development priorities of Agrotech and their advantages which include: first, the transition to extended reproduction in Agrotech for overcoming global hunger and ensuring food security, second, emergence of climate-resilient agriculture in Agrotech for the risk management in agribusiness, third, emergence of regenerative land use in Agrotech to improve the ecological efficiency of agriculture, fourth, creating high-performance jobs in Agrotech and ensuring the responsibility of agribusiness and fifth, development of autonomous agricultural production based on Agrotech to ensure food security in countries with adverse climate for agriculture. Applied recommendations for the development of Agrotech for agribusiness and state authorities managing the agricultural economy. Special chapter of the book deals with the elaboration of possible suggestions on legislative and normative aspects of AgroTech for developed and developing countries, making it possible to supplement recommendations for business with applied solutions and suggestions on State and legal regulation of AgroTech. 

This book will serve as a framework for you as a software engineer seeking a fulfilling career and wishing to stay passionate and maintain a healthy mental state. It is filled with protocols to achieve effective life-long learning, navigate career development, adapt to changes, maintain work-life balance, and have a healthy lifestyle.As a successful software engineer you tend to focus on improving your technical skills: learning a new programming language, mastering another tool, or using a library. But you also need to build a solid mental framework that will help you navigate your professional development. You need to develop the skills that will help you be a happy software engineer.This book will help you if you feel frustrated, unmotivated, or unhappy; lost in your career path; or uncertain if you want to be a software engineer. It can help you deal with burnout, high levels of stress, or depression; or if you struggle to be productive while working from home. What You Will LearnEfficiently organize your work dayKnow when and how to seek a new project, company, or careerTake care of your body and mind in a software engineering contextUnderstand what contributes to job satisfaction and how to integrate it into your careerUse non-coding activities for your and your company¿s benefitBuild healthy relationships with managers and colleaguesWho This Book Is ForThe typical reader of this book is a software engineer who is highly skilled in technical areas but may feel frustrated, unmotivated, or unhappy in their current position and looking for a way to navigate their professional development and find a healthy work-life balance.The book also will appeal to audiences of other IT or tech professionals, such as project managers, product owners, or designers, who work closely with software engineers and want to understand the challenges they face in their roles. Additionally, individuals who are considering a career in software engineering or development may benefit from the book by gaining insight into the profession and understanding the skills and mindset required to be successful.

Dieser Sammelband befasst sich mit Herausforderungen des Qualitätsmanagements im Bereich von Studium und Hochschullehre. Sie reichen von der Leitbildentwicklung, der Steuerung entlang von Zielen, der Errichtung effektiver Strukturen bis hin zur Errichtung eines sinnvollen Monitorings- und Evaluationswesens. Die Autorinnen und Autoren legen dar, wie ihre Universitäten die Herausforderungen im Kontext des Netzwerks Quality Audit bearbeitet haben. Anhand von konkreten Praxisbeispielen und theoretischen Untersuchungsansätzen in Anlehnung an die Praxisforschung werden die Lösungsansätze mit Bezug auf bestehende Theorien kritisch reflektiert und analysiert. Gleichzeitig wird aufgezeigt, wie Netzwerkarbeit im Hochschulkontext gelingen kann.

This report discusses the functionality and potential of Non-Fungible Tokens for various sectors in the context of token economy, crypto, blockchain and the Metaverse. It is intended to clarify for which purposes the characteristics of Non-Fungible Tokens can be profited from and which developments can be expected in the future due to the NFT technology.The presented research insights are a result of the FutureHotel Innovation Network under the leadership of Fraunhofer IAO.The report covers the following topics:- Envisioning NFTs in a token economy- Introduction into Non-Fungible Tokens- Explaining NFT in the context of blockchain, web3, highlighting controversies, sustainability and trends- NFT use cases- NFT applications in different business segments- NFT applications in a FutureHotel- Overview of relevant studies and booksReaders should be able to draw concrete conclusions for themselves and their companies with immediate relevance for action. They should also be slowly introduced to this complex topic which will undoubtedly become increasingly important in the upcoming years.

This book constitutes a selection of the best papers from the 15th International Conference on Business Excellence, Digital Economy and New Value Creation, ICBE 2021, held in Bucharest, Romania, in March 2021.This book is a collection of research findings and perspectives related to the digital economy and new value creation, led by the set of improvements and changes in the economic, societal and technological structures and processes towards the effort of reaching the sustainability goals.

Dieses essential bietet einen Einstieg in das Thema IHE - "Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)¿ - und hilft sowohl Einsteiger:innen als auch fortgeschrittenen "Interoperabilitätsförder:innen" dabei, zu verstehen, wie IT-Systeme in Gesundheitsunternehmen die richtigen Daten, zum richtigen Zeitpunkt sicher miteinander austauschen können und wie es IHE schafft dafür Lösungen in den verschiedenen medizinischen Domänen anzubieten.

This edited volume elucidates how artificial intelligence (AI) can enable customer service to achieve higher customer engagement, superior user experiences, and increased well-being among customers and employees.As customer expectations dictate 24/7 availability from service departments and market pressures call for lower costs with higher efficiency, businesses have accepted that AI is vital in maintaining customer satisfaction. Yet, firms face tough challenges in choosing the right tool, optimizing integration, and striking the appropriate balance between AI systems and human efforts. In this context, chapters in this book capture the latest advancements in AI-enabled customer service through real-world examples. This volume offers a global perspective on this contemporary issue, covering topics such as the use of AI in enhancing customer well-being, data and technology integration,and customer engagement.