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The book discusses the study and implementation of controlling in the modern enterprise from the perspective of Industry 4.0, which helps ensure the efficient and effective use of organizational resources in order to achieve planned goals. The aim of this book is to provide the most comprehensive and effective exchange of information on current developments in Enterprise Controlling. The authors describe lean/agile approaches that enterprises can use to reach the highest level of competitiveness in a global environment and help establish channels of communication and disseminate knowledge among professionals working in manufacturing and related institutions. The authors aim to help facilitate corporate coordination and help with its planning without deviating from standards. The publication is dedicated to all who want to learn in the field of controlling from researchers and academics to students.

The objective of this book is to answer the calls from front-line managers, entrepreneurs, and scholarly researchers to reconstruct the theories of economics and business. Their request is for new theories to be more relevant to real life than the now-prevalent ones. To provide that answer, the book proposes to develop elementary postulates at the level of the four natural endowments of a business firm or an individual: self-awareness, imagination, conscience, and free will. Then, conclusions based on these postulates can be established through logical reasoning. On this realistic footing, the book employs the concepts, methodology, and logical reasoning of systems science to answer a full list of theoretically and practically important questions. Those queries involve such topics as rationality, the meanings of optima and choices of optimization methods, the relationship between micro- and macro-phenomena, consumption preferences, and utility representations. The target audience of the book includes graduate students and scholarly researchers, particularly those who look for opportunities to develop new territories in the world of economic and business knowledge. The book also aims at front-line decision-making managers and entrepreneurs who seek sounder theories than the commonly available ones on which to base their critical decisions. By competently employing the systemic intuition¿yoyo model, graduate students, scholarly researchers, decision-making managers, and entrepreneurs can attain new conclusions. In addition, they will gain insightful understanding of market signals without unnecessarily expending other resources of limited availability.

This book provides a blend of quantitative and qualitative approaches to decision making, while also bridging the gap between the theory of how to make good decisions versus how people actually make decisions.  The authors present the tools and techniques of decision analysis to learn how to become a FOCCUSSED decision maker: Identify and properly Frame the decision or problem at handSpecify the goals, Objectives, and values that you are trying to achieveDevelop creative, meaningful Choices from among which you can chooseEvaluate the Consequences of selecting each alternative using your goals, objectives, and valuesThink about the key Uncertainties that could impact the decisionUnderstand the Swaps and trade-offs that you are willing to makeDevelop an approach for implementing your SolutionElicit the data you'll need from a variety of sourcesand Disseminate and communicate your decisions to others.  The authors define a decision as the choice among alternatives, based on how we value and trade-off their pros and cons, made in the face of uncertainty about what will actually happen. The decision-making process is presented as having three pillars to support the decision maker: Preferences-what we prefer, what meets our goals and objectives, and the recognition that preferences are personal to the one making the decision; Alternatives-the choices, options, or courses of action that we have, and over which we have some degree of control; and Information-what we know about the situation, what we don't know, how we connect choices to outcomes, and how we deal with uncertainty.  Key components of good decision-making include how to define your goals and objectives, how to incorporate uncertainties that we all face, and how to develop better alternatives, all of which are discussed.  Sophisticated techniques are presented in a way that is accessible to the average decision maker. Probability theory is utilized to improve decisions, and uncertainties are captured in decision trees.  Risk avoidance, risk transfer, and risk mitigation are also discussed.  Readers will gain a clear understanding of how to articulate the goals and objectives that should be the focal point of any decision.

This book introduces readers to advanced data science techniques for signal mining in connection with agriculture. It shows how to apply heuristic modeling to improve farm-level efficiency, and how to use sensors and data intelligence to provide closed-loop feedback, while also providing recommendation techniques that yield actionable insights.The book also proposes certain macroeconomic pricing models, which data-mine macroeconomic signals and the influence of global economic trends on small-farm sustainability to provide actionable insights to farmers, helping them avoid financial disasters due to recurrent economic crises.The book is intended to equip current and future software engineering teams and operations research experts with the skills and tools they need in order to fully utilize advanced data science, artificial intelligence, heuristics, and economic models to develop software capabilities that help to achieve sustained food security for future generations.

Whether at home, at work or in your community and regardless of the change magnitude, this book will arm you with a dynamic, evidence-based framework to navigate the chaos of change.

Unless your retirement plan is dying... You have a retirement; you just might not know it. Find out where your life is going and what your present retirement plan is (if nothing in your life ever changes).At the age of thirty-two I was married with two kids and had lost one child to cancer three years before. We renting an apartment and were $25,000.00 in credit card debt. We were a one income minimum wage earning family. Then one day it hit me... I don't want to work until I die. So, I took a few minutes and made my retirement plan. I was going to retire at the magical number of sixty-five.I called it my Z plan. It was my best-worst-case scenario. Then I asked myself one question. What small change can I make to improve my Z plan? It had to be small and easy. I made one change, then another, then another slowly working my way down the alphabet... I retired at 52.My objective with this book is not to show you how to set a goal and go and get it. My desire is that you'll see that a couple working 9 to 5 jobs who make tiny changes in their lives can improve their future situation. And in the end you'll improve yours.

A Few More Thoughts completes three decades of dedicated practice, research, and analysis of progressive management and classical management, and their associated leadership thinking and action. Readers will enjoy this interesting, insightful, and useful final contribution to the body of management and leadership knowledge that will be relevant for many years to come. A Few More Thoughts consists of critical five essays, a polemic, and a research paper. Each chapter delivers fresh thinking and breaks new ground. - What Deming Did Not Understand- Jumping to Solutions- Being a Lean Professional- Improving the Kaizen Process- Lean and Labor Unions- Lean Management Manifesto>Together, they finalize Emiliani's thoughts on various aspects of progressive management and leadership. "Bob Emiliani's voice should be heard by every CEO on the planet." - Laura Gerrits Gedvile

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.

Think people who win arguments are just loud? Some of them are, but there's a whole lot more to the art of argument than that. Yes, argument is an art. If you've never looked at it that way, consider that argument has a long and proud history stretching back to the Classical period and across the major civilizations of the ancient world. Then, giants like Socrates and Sun Tzu would face off against their opponents using logic, reason, and their great oratory skill to carry the day. While we still have many skilled at argument today, it seems as though most public.In this book, you will learn:Build a solid argument and express your ideas clearlyEvaluate evidence and identify errorsUnderstand and account for biased or flawed thinkingBecome a savvy user of technologySift through the deluge of digital informationYou'll discover innovative problem-solving approaches, move beyond conventional methods, and improve your communication, reasoning, and logic. Empathy and understanding for others' perspectives will become second nature. It is a practical, easy to read and implement book dedicated to helping you build stronger arguments, make more confident decisions, and spot logical errors. Critical thinking will elevate your personal and professional life.

A 1-hour read that will teach you the steps of the PB&J Business Strategy and help your company organize around a cause and set up a plan in under a week. The benefits for your business include positive energy, free publicity, new opportunities, collaborations, implementations, innovations, and efficient execution of every component of the plan.This is the fascinating true story behind the PB&J sandwich that fed 25,000 during a natural disaster, brought a shattered community together, and revitalized the entire company culture of my business.On September 28th, 2022, 150-mph winds hit the outer islands of Fort Myers, just 3 hours away from my office. Hurricane Ian quickly became one of the worst storms in US history. Victims of the storm needed essentials, with food being at the top of the list. Enter PB&Js. Making PB&J sandwiches for disaster victims may sound silly, but hear me out: each one delivered an essential 450-calorie meal to those in dire need.My team and I felt called to help. Understanding the urgency, we created a sophisticated operation in just 5 days: a tagline, a business plan, marketing materials, food donations, events, and deliveries. This would have normally taken 6 months to coordinate.Learn how 80 people who hadn't been in the same building in years due to Covid came together to make and deliver 25,000 PB&J sandwiches to disaster areas, including a step-by-step breakdown of how our company recognized and tackled a problem and accomplished our goal.The PB&J Strategy is universal - anyone can use it to make a difference, from those in disaster relief, to human resources, charitable organizations and sales.This experience helped us reimagine the possibilities of our jobs, our place in the community, and it helped our souls.Includes reflections and prompts to apply these steps now in your life and business.

"A powerful, fully illustrated guide to using the tools of design thinking to create a more positive and cooperative future, from Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design"--

Cultivate a new generation of self-reliant thinkers in this powerful approach to education and learning.Nothing short of a re-alignment of the heavens. Virtually a new and liberating way of looking at civilization. A BIG IDEA for big challenges.-Tom Peters, best-selling author of In Search of ExcellenceIn this groundbreaking shift to how we approach learning, best-selling author and business educator Carol Sanford offers a systemic, introspective approach to education and critical thinking.From the time we're able to learn, we take in knowledge from others. From our education system to how we work, we accept what leaders, experts, and the authorities tell us as fact. We are taught that others with more training and specialty degrees are the gatekeepers of truth. Yet, this practice of acceptance without validation leads us to design systems that feed polarization, faulty decision making, and poor leadership.No More Gold Stars answers the important question "How do we stop letting others think for us and instead learn to examine knowledge for ourselves?" If our current approach to learning undermines learning itself, it's time to dismantle the flawed behaviorism theory fueling such errors in our schools, families, and businesses and instead turn inward to be self-directed, critical thinkers.Discover:Six disciplines for fostering independent thought and creativity, crucial in tackling big challenges like climate change and social injustice.Engaging case stories demonstrating profound, sustainable learning in business and community contexts.Interactive workbook sections after each chapter, personalizing the journey of learning and application.24 specific developmental practices to revolutionize your approach to education, learning, and change.Insights to challenge and overcome the pervasive issues entrenched in our education systems, institutions, and business organizations.Rooted in ancient approaches found in indigenous cultures, spiritual communities, and quantum disruptors of modern science, No More Gold Stars is an essential instrument for those ready to challenge popular wisdom and embrace a more effective, systemic way of thinking and learning. No More Gold Stars offers an approach to developing human critical thinking skills where each human can think for themselves and become more creative, complete, and wise, at a time when we need it most.

"Inspired by venture capitalists' unique mindset, this is a transformative playbook for delivering extraordinary results in modern organizations, from a Stanford professor and a technology executive. Behind life changing companies like Amazon, Google, Moderna, SpaceX, Zoom, and 23andMe, are Venture Capital investors. VCs are known for extraordinary ability to spot emerging trends, identify disruptive startups, attract talent, and bring new industries into being. Ilya Strebulaev has spent the last two decades at Stanford studying VCs' counterintuitive approaches to decision-making, and the reasons behind the success and failure of corporate innovation efforts. Alex Dang, a senior leader at McKinsey and Amazon, has seen up close the impact VCs' thinking and mechanisms can have on a business' success."--

SCORE is the ultimate handbook that will help you master the fundamentals of building a scoreboard of key metrics and unlock the power of effective decision-making.

"This book unpacks the organizing metaphor of the "decisionscape," examining how psychological distance alters our decisions by dictating what we foreground and what we diminish, how our personal worldview influences how we interpret information, how the overall "composition" of the decisions we are faced with has an effect on how we react to them, and how our decisions are bounded and framed by the invisible forces of culture and context"--

This book provides a comprehensive overview of machine learning algorithms and examines their application in complex decision-making systems in a service-oriented framework.

This book reviews the development of physics-based modeling and sensor-based data fusion for optimizing medical decision making in connection with spatiotemporal cardiovascular disease processes. To improve cardiac care services and patients¿ quality of life, it is very important to detect heart diseases early and optimize medical decision making. This book introduces recent research advances in machine learning, physics-based modeling, and simulation optimization to fully exploit medical data and promote the data-driven and simulation-guided diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. Specifically, it focuses on three major topics: computer modeling of cardiovascular systems, physiological signal processing for disease diagnostics and prognostics, and simulation optimization in medical decision making. It provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in personalized cardiac modeling by integrating physics-based knowledge of the cardiovascular system with machine learning and multi-source medical data. It also discusses the state-of-the-art in electrocardiogram (ECG) signal processing for the identification of disease-altered cardiac dynamics. Lastly, it introduces readers to the early steps of optimal decision making based on the integration of sensor-based learning and simulation optimization in the context of cardiac surgeries. This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of biomedical engineering, systems engineering and operations research, as well as professionals working in the medical sciences.

Ethical decision-making challenges us every day - be it in our private or professional lives, be it on an organizational or institutional level, be it in a political or economic context. The textbook encourages ethical decision-making with ease and argumentative elegance - in the following 4 steps (SAMBA):1. See and understand the reality2. Analyze the reality from a Moral Standpoint3. Be the ethical judge!4. Act accordingly!Peter G. Kirchschlaeger is Full Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE of the University of Lucerne as well as Visiting Professor at the Chair of Neuroinformatics and Neural Systems at ETH Zurich and at the ETH AI Center. Previously, he was a Visiting Fellow at Yale University.

Do you derail yourself or do you propel yourself toward success? Your decisions lead to your destiny. You can make good decisions or bad decisions. These decisions are very often based on your mindset. Recognizing the power of your mindset is essential to reaching your destiny. Your mindset includes your goals, values, beliefs, and mode of work. It provides the framework for how you think, how you behave, and why you make decisions. Understanding your mindset puts you in control of your life.The 21st century world of work requires workers to make good and relevant decisions. This book contains thought-provoking insights into your decisions that drive your success. It speaks to anyone who would like to create and navigate a personal environment for individual success toward a desired destiny.

¿Cómo usan las empresas la inteligencia de ubicación para lograr ventajas competitivas y el éxito empresarial?En la economía digital global en la que vivimos, las empresas necesitan saber dónde obtener recursos, dónde operar y comercializar sus productos y servicios para aumentar su base de clientes. Mediante el análisis de ubicación y la inteligencia de ubicación, una empresa puede tomar decisiones mejor informadas y, en última instancia, agregar valor a su organización, sus clientes y la sociedad. Pero, ¿cómo integran las empresas los análisis de ubicación en el desarrollo, el marketing y las operaciones de la empresa?El negocio espacial: competir y liderar con análisis de ubicación es un libro escrito por expertos en el negocio espacial y diseñado para directores, profesionales y estudiantes de todos los niveles en el que se examina por qué la ubicación es un factor clave de las decisiones de negocio inteligentes y de la consecución del éxito. Los lectores aprenderán cómo pueden diseñarse, implementarse y gestionarse las soluciones de análisis de ubicación desde puntos de vista operativos y estratégicos por medio de varios ejemplos exhaustivos del mundo real.

Business Analytics: Solving Business Problems with R offers a practical, hands-on introduction to analytical methods, including machine learning in real-world business scenarios. Connecting business decisions and analytical methods across multiple fields, this book guides readers through a wide range of business problems and their fitting analytical solutions, offering examples and implementation using R.