Strategic management of technological innovation

Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, 1e by Melissa Schilling is the first truly comprehensive, rigorous and yet accessible text for the Technology Management course. Unlike existing books for this course, Schilling#s approach synthesizes the major research in the field, furnishing students with the ...

Transforming enterprise

the economic and social implications of information technology

Innovators across all sectors of society are using information and communication technology to reshape economic and social activity. Even after the boom -- and despite the bust -- the process of structural change continues across organizational boundaries. Transforming Enterprise considers the implications of this change from a ...

The management of innovation and technology

the shaping of technology and institutions of market economy

Las tecnologías de la información

¿son realmente una ventaja competitiva?

Business research methods

Sistema de gestión

una guía práctica: cómo pasar de la certificación de la calidad a un enfoque integral de gestión

The mobile multimedia business

requirements and solutions

As the wireless world opens up, this book explores the evolving role of multimedia and UMTS technology in the mobile communications sector. The author draws on his extensive experience in the field to provide an approach that will appeal to academia and industry alike, covering ...

The innovation game

a new approach to innovation management and R&D

R&D is the single most important investment for any company or any society. Its ultimate product is an innovation. Innovations are on the other side the major propeller for the respective (socio-) economic development of the very company or society. Management science mainly treat ...

Health policy and high-tech industrial development

Many countries and regions are actively promoting high technology industries as a means of stimulating the economy. The authors point out that these efforts are not only encouraging economic development, but they also reduce an economy#s vulnerability to the negative consequences of world trade ...

Social learning in technological innovation

experimenting with information and communication technologies

This book explores the innovation processes involved in the application and use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) at work and in everyday life. These are analysed through an unparalleled set of 23 European case studies, which, uniquely, address both the design/development and the ...

Technology, knowledge and the firm

implications for strategy and industrial change

There is a long-standing tradition of research that highlights the importance of differences in the organizational and technological capabilities of firms and their effect on economic performance. This book expands on this theme by exploring the role of knowledge and innovation in firm strategy and ...

Information systems

archieving success by avoiding failure

Despite people's best efforts information systems are particulary prone to failure. Some systems never materialize, others appears late and/or over budget and those that are implemented often fail to deliver the promided levels of performance. The consequences of these failures effect people throughout ...

Governance in the extended enterprise

bridging business and IT strategies

Discover how to implement an effective IT governance structure for the long-term success of an extended enterprise IT is no longer an enabler of corporate strategy, it is now the key element of corporate strategy. Governance of the Extended Enterprise explores how some of the ...

Diseño y aplicación de modelos multiagente para la ayuda a la decisión

Balanced scorecard diagnostics

maintaining maximum performance

The complete guide to analyzing and maximizing a company's balanced scorecard Presenting the next step for balanced scorecard implementation, Balanced Scorecard Diagnostics provides a step-by-step methodology for analyzing the effectiveness of a company's balanced scorecard and the tools to reevaluate balanced scorecard measures ...

Gestión del desarrollo de sistemas de telecomunicación e informáticos

Tiene como objetivo fundamental formar al alumno en la gestión del gestor que optimiza el desarrollo de los sistemas de telecomunicaciones e informáticos, y más concretamente en aquellos sistemas en los que desarrollará su competencia, como es en la coordinación y supervisión de la ejecución ...

Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

effective enterprise risk management

Gestión económico-administrativa en agencias de viajes

A través de este libro se pretende conseguir que el lector conozca unos conceptos básicos así como el sistema económico de una agencia de viajes. Con su estudio conseguirá llevar a cabo la gestión administrativa interna y la externa derivada de las relaciones económicas con ...

Information and communication technology in organizations

adoption, implementation, use and effects

The design of things to come

how ordinary people create extraordinary products

Today's best companies are building products and services that look great, feel great, and touch customers more deeply than ever before. The Design of Things to Come reveals who's doing it#and how they're doing it. You'll learn how companies are ...