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The Complete Business Process Handbook: Extended Business Process Management is ideal for visionaries, subject matter experts, researchers, and academics who focus on the analysis, design, and modelling of tomorrow ́s enterprise. This book offers the insight around extended business process design and management, covering ground-breaking new research on BPM best practices, LEADing practices, and outperformers vs. underperformers. The book aims to increase understanding of and help avoid common pitfalls that lead to failed BPM projects, and ultimately, poor BPM adoption by including the latest research in business modelling related to BPM aspects. Authors and editors Mark von Rosing and Henr...
Seize your place in a new era in commerce and industry In Strategy in The Age of Disruption, a team of dedicated strategists delivers an exciting and practical guide to Industry 4.0, a commercial transformation that’s impacting every facet of the market, the environment, and our social lives. You’ll learn what Industry 4.0 is, what it means for you and your company, and how you—as a leader, manager, expert, entrepreneur, or investor—can capitalize on it and put it into practice. This is a complete handbook on strategic execution. It’s a step-by-step tutorial designed to get you to clearly see your strategic position, the choices available to you, and how to execute on those choices. You’ll also find: Ways to move beyond outdated business models that no longer serve the companies that follow them Common myths about strategy and how to put them to bed for good Deep and insightful explanations of the fourth industrial revolution and what it means for your sector and company Highly visual and endlessly engaging, Strategy in The Age of Disruption will systematically guide you through how to manage the challenges of the present and the promise of the future.
The Complete Business Process Handbook is the most comprehensive body of knowledge on business processes with revealing new research. Written as a practical guide for Executives, Practitioners, Managers and Students by the authorities that have shaped the way we think and work with process today. It stands out as a masterpiece, being part of the BPM bachelor and master degree curriculum at universities around the world, with revealing academic research and insight from the leaders in the market. This book provides everything you need to know about the processes and frameworks, methods, and approaches to implement BPM. Through real-world examples, best practices, LEADing practices and advice ...
The Complete Business Process Handbook: Leading Practices of the Outperformers, Volume 3, is the first of its kind to unveil how those who are ready can re-use and replicate award winning real-life examples from many of the Fortune 500 and public sector organizations that apply BPM to stand out. Learn how the leaders outthink, outcompete, and outperform the market. Volume 3 is a practical guide for executives, practitioners, and students alike, with plenty of hands-on descriptions. This book offers pragmatic instructions and a structured approach to using repeatable sequences of best practices required to achieve the best results. Written by authorities and industry leaders that shape the wa...
Managing your business processes wisely is key to staying ahead of your competitors! This book is your guide to implementing Business Process Management in all its aspects in your SAP-centric business and IT: It explains how BPM and standard software work together, how to prepare your company for the project, and how to put technology, governance, and the philosophy behind it in action. Extensive use cases from well-known SAP customers including technical and process details make this book a true real-world experience! Topic Highlights: What drives BPM -- the 4 approaches BPM Technology BPM Methodology Business rules and decisions BPM for core processes Industries, Themes, and Cross-industry Topics Governance Process Content BPM Skills Tuning Business Rules
This book describes the landscape of cloud computing from first principles, leading the reader step-by-step through the process of building and configuring a cloud environment. The book not only considers the technologies for designing and creating cloud computing platforms, but also the business models and frameworks in real-world implementation of cloud platforms. Emphasis is placed on “learning by doing,” and readers are encouraged to experiment with a range of different tools and approaches. Topics and features: includes review questions, hands-on exercises, study activities and discussion topics throughout the text; demonstrates the approaches used to build cloud computing infrastructures; reviews the social, economic, and political aspects of the on-going growth in cloud computing use; discusses legal and security concerns in cloud computing; examines techniques for the appraisal of financial investment into cloud computing; identifies areas for further research within this rapidly-moving field.
Why Industry 4.0 Sucks! Renegade - reveals the fallacies, febrile fantasies, fabulous fiction, and flatulent fibs that are fuelling the feeble fabrication behind the 4th Industrial Revolution. For almost a decade now I have been heavily involved with Manufacturers, Industries, and Universities in researching Industry 4.0, from a theoretical, academic, and practical perspective. I have always been intrigued by the manufacturing phenomena that is Industry 4.0. So much so that I wrote a best-selling book; 'Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things. I was so impressed I bought into the promise and seemingly endless potential with great gusto. The future seemed bright - and Industry 4.0 was...
The essential business guide for using reverse logistics to drive profits, growth, and sustainability. Long considered a “necessary evil” of doing business, reverse logistics is quickly becoming the key to staying competitive in today’s dynamic marketplace. In Going Circular, RecirQ Global CEO Rich Bulger reveals its potential for boosting revenue, enhancing customer experience, and supporting the circular economy. Urging a strategic shift, Going Circular showcases how integrating reverse logistics in sales, marketing, and customer retention can achieve broader business objectives, including cost reduction and environmental responsibility. It offers practical strategies for minimizing unwanted returns and repurposing products, fostering sustainable business models and market expansion. Comprising seven comprehensive chapters and three “reUse” case studies, this guide redefines reverse logistics as a vital tool for business resilience and success. A must-read for professionals in the field, Going Circular is a call to action for integrating reverse logistics into evolving business strategies, promising a pathway to sustainable transformation and profitability.
The best-selling author of Big Data is back, this time with a unique and in-depth insight into how specific companies use big data. Big data is on the tip of everyone's tongue. Everyone understands its power and importance, but many fail to grasp the actionable steps and resources required to utilise it effectively. This book fills the knowledge gap by showing how major companies are using big data every day, from an up-close, on-the-ground perspective. From technology, media and retail, to sport teams, government agencies and financial institutions, learn the actual strategies and processes being used to learn about customers, improve manufacturing, spur innovation, improve safety and so mu...
Guy Verhofstadt, a leading Belgian MEP and enthusiast for the EU, has described it as a liberal empire. In his book, Harry Cottam asks whether, and to what extent this is true, and, if it is an empire, of what and for whom? With any organisation, however big and altruistic its stated principles and intentions might be, the author believes there is always someone running it behind the scenes and he has concluded that one country, Germany, is using the EU as a fig-leaf to hide and legitimise its domination of the rest of Europe. This book sets out his research which formed his belief and explains in detail how it has been achieved.