Author: Patrick Brans
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
ISBN: 9780130091161
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Explains mobile technology in clear language Provides business-specific perspective, applications, and analysis Outlines a methodology for reengineering processes around mobility Covers the why, how, who, when, and where of this powerful, emerging technology "...an insightful--and essential--guidebook to the wireless transformation of the enterprise, a 'must-read' for any business or IT manager." --Barry Zellen, Editorial Director and CEO, WirelessReport.net Companies can gain an enormous advantage by mastering mobile technology. A wireless workforce allows information to flow immediately and freely between off-site employees and the home office, leading to what mobile business strategy expert Patrick Brans calls friction-free sales and service. In Mobilize Your Enterprise, Brans explains precisely what you need to know about this emerging technology, where it's heading, and how it can benefit your organization. You'll discover how to profitably apply the technology to your particular situation and how reengineer your processes around mobility, all without delving into unnecessary technical detail. Wireless technology--how, when, and why to deploy it, and anticipating what's next Wireless solutions you can apply to your company Methods to reengineer business processes and claim huge competitive advantages from mobility Portable solutions presented in detail, from computing devices, wireless network technologies and application gateways to enterprise applications and security Real-life applications--you'll learn a great deal about wireless technology without being swamped in needless details Vendor profiles--software, infrastructure, hardware, hosting, and integration Managers, planners, and anyone else looking to improve their business using wireless technology will find Mobilize Your Enterprise an excellent resource. Brans' enthusiasm animates this complex topic--you'll grasp the big picture and understand how to apply the technology to your particular situation.
Mobilize Your Enterprise
Author: Patrick Brans
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
ISBN: 9780130091161
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Explains mobile technology in clear language Provides business-specific perspective, applications, and analysis Outlines a methodology for reengineering processes around mobility Covers the why, how, who, when, and where of this powerful, emerging technology "...an insightful--and essential--guidebook to the wireless transformation of the enterprise, a 'must-read' for any business or IT manager." --Barry Zellen, Editorial Director and CEO, WirelessReport.net Companies can gain an enormous advantage by mastering mobile technology. A wireless workforce allows information to flow immediately and freely between off-site employees and the home office, leading to what mobile business strategy expert Patrick Brans calls friction-free sales and service. In Mobilize Your Enterprise, Brans explains precisely what you need to know about this emerging technology, where it's heading, and how it can benefit your organization. You'll discover how to profitably apply the technology to your particular situation and how reengineer your processes around mobility, all without delving into unnecessary technical detail. Wireless technology--how, when, and why to deploy it, and anticipating what's next Wireless solutions you can apply to your company Methods to reengineer business processes and claim huge competitive advantages from mobility Portable solutions presented in detail, from computing devices, wireless network technologies and application gateways to enterprise applications and security Real-life applications--you'll learn a great deal about wireless technology without being swamped in needless details Vendor profiles--software, infrastructure, hardware, hosting, and integration Managers, planners, and anyone else looking to improve their business using wireless technology will find Mobilize Your Enterprise an excellent resource. Brans' enthusiasm animates this complex topic--you'll grasp the big picture and understand how to apply the technology to your particular situation.
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
ISBN: 9780130091161
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Explains mobile technology in clear language Provides business-specific perspective, applications, and analysis Outlines a methodology for reengineering processes around mobility Covers the why, how, who, when, and where of this powerful, emerging technology "...an insightful--and essential--guidebook to the wireless transformation of the enterprise, a 'must-read' for any business or IT manager." --Barry Zellen, Editorial Director and CEO, WirelessReport.net Companies can gain an enormous advantage by mastering mobile technology. A wireless workforce allows information to flow immediately and freely between off-site employees and the home office, leading to what mobile business strategy expert Patrick Brans calls friction-free sales and service. In Mobilize Your Enterprise, Brans explains precisely what you need to know about this emerging technology, where it's heading, and how it can benefit your organization. You'll discover how to profitably apply the technology to your particular situation and how reengineer your processes around mobility, all without delving into unnecessary technical detail. Wireless technology--how, when, and why to deploy it, and anticipating what's next Wireless solutions you can apply to your company Methods to reengineer business processes and claim huge competitive advantages from mobility Portable solutions presented in detail, from computing devices, wireless network technologies and application gateways to enterprise applications and security Real-life applications--you'll learn a great deal about wireless technology without being swamped in needless details Vendor profiles--software, infrastructure, hardware, hosting, and integration Managers, planners, and anyone else looking to improve their business using wireless technology will find Mobilize Your Enterprise an excellent resource. Brans' enthusiasm animates this complex topic--you'll grasp the big picture and understand how to apply the technology to your particular situation.
How Leaders Mobilize Workers
Author: Konstantin Vössing
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316738582
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This book explains why leaders choose social democracy, revolution, or moderate syndicalism to mobilize workers, and why it matters. In some countries, leaders have responded effectively to their political environment, while others have made ill-fitting choices. Vössing explains not only why leaders make certain choices, but also how their choices affect the success of interest mobilization and subsequent political development. Using quantitative data and historical sources, this book combines an analysis of the formation of class politics in all twenty industrialized countries between 1863 and 1919 with a general theory of political mobilization. It integrates economic, political, and ideational factors into a comprehensive account that highlights the critical role of individual leaders.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316738582
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This book explains why leaders choose social democracy, revolution, or moderate syndicalism to mobilize workers, and why it matters. In some countries, leaders have responded effectively to their political environment, while others have made ill-fitting choices. Vössing explains not only why leaders make certain choices, but also how their choices affect the success of interest mobilization and subsequent political development. Using quantitative data and historical sources, this book combines an analysis of the formation of class politics in all twenty industrialized countries between 1863 and 1919 with a general theory of political mobilization. It integrates economic, political, and ideational factors into a comprehensive account that highlights the critical role of individual leaders.
Mobilizing Democracy
Author: Paul Almeida
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421414104
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
What are the conditions and factors that drive people to protest against government economic policies in the developing world? Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Pacific Sociological Association (2015) Paul Almeida’s comparative study of the largest social movement campaigns that existed between 1980 and 2013 in every Central American country (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) provides a granular examination of the forces that spark mass mobilizations against state economic policy, whether those factors are electricity rate hikes or water and health care privatization. Many scholars have explained connections between global economic changes and local economic conditions, but most of the research has remained at the macro level. Mobilizing Democracy contributes to our knowledge about the protest groups “on the ground” and what makes some localities successful at mobilizing and others less successful. His work enhances our understanding of what ingredients contribute to effective protest movements as well as how multiple protagonists—labor unions, students, teachers, indigenous groups, nongovernmental organizations, women’s groups, environmental organizations, and oppositional political parties—coalesce to make protest more likely to win major concessions. Based on extensive field research, archival data of thousands of protest events, and interviews with dozens of Central American activists, Mobilizing Democracy brings the international consequences of privatization, trade liberalization, and welfare-state downsizing in the global South into focus and shows how persistent activism and network building are reactivated in these social movements. Almeida enables our comprehension of global and local politics and policy by answering the question, “If all politics is local, then how do the politics of globalization manifest themselves?” Detailed graphs and maps provide a synthesis of the quantitative and qualitative data in this important study. Written in clear, accessible prose, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars in the fields of political science, social movements, anthropology, Latin American studies, and labor studies.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421414104
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
What are the conditions and factors that drive people to protest against government economic policies in the developing world? Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Pacific Sociological Association (2015) Paul Almeida’s comparative study of the largest social movement campaigns that existed between 1980 and 2013 in every Central American country (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) provides a granular examination of the forces that spark mass mobilizations against state economic policy, whether those factors are electricity rate hikes or water and health care privatization. Many scholars have explained connections between global economic changes and local economic conditions, but most of the research has remained at the macro level. Mobilizing Democracy contributes to our knowledge about the protest groups “on the ground” and what makes some localities successful at mobilizing and others less successful. His work enhances our understanding of what ingredients contribute to effective protest movements as well as how multiple protagonists—labor unions, students, teachers, indigenous groups, nongovernmental organizations, women’s groups, environmental organizations, and oppositional political parties—coalesce to make protest more likely to win major concessions. Based on extensive field research, archival data of thousands of protest events, and interviews with dozens of Central American activists, Mobilizing Democracy brings the international consequences of privatization, trade liberalization, and welfare-state downsizing in the global South into focus and shows how persistent activism and network building are reactivated in these social movements. Almeida enables our comprehension of global and local politics and policy by answering the question, “If all politics is local, then how do the politics of globalization manifest themselves?” Detailed graphs and maps provide a synthesis of the quantitative and qualitative data in this important study. Written in clear, accessible prose, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars in the fields of political science, social movements, anthropology, Latin American studies, and labor studies.
Great Transformations
Author: Mark Blyth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521010528
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book picks up where Karl Polanyi's study of economic and political change left off. Building upon Polanyi's conception of the double movement, Blyth analyzes the two periods of deep seated institutional change that characterized the twentieth century: the 1930s and the 1970s. Blyth views both sets of changes as part of the same dynamic. In the 1930s labor reacted against the exigencies of the market and demanded state action to mitigate the market's effects by 'embedding liberalism.' In the 1970s, those who benefited least from such 'embedding' institutions, namely business, reacted against these constraints and sought to overturn that institutional order. Blyth demonstrates the critical role economic ideas played in making institutional change possible. Great Transformations rethinks the relationship between uncertainty, ideas, and interests, achieving profound new insights on how, and under what conditions, institutional change takes place.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521010528
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book picks up where Karl Polanyi's study of economic and political change left off. Building upon Polanyi's conception of the double movement, Blyth analyzes the two periods of deep seated institutional change that characterized the twentieth century: the 1930s and the 1970s. Blyth views both sets of changes as part of the same dynamic. In the 1930s labor reacted against the exigencies of the market and demanded state action to mitigate the market's effects by 'embedding liberalism.' In the 1970s, those who benefited least from such 'embedding' institutions, namely business, reacted against these constraints and sought to overturn that institutional order. Blyth demonstrates the critical role economic ideas played in making institutional change possible. Great Transformations rethinks the relationship between uncertainty, ideas, and interests, achieving profound new insights on how, and under what conditions, institutional change takes place.
A Comprehensive Guide to Enterprise Mobility
Author: Jithesh Sathyan
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1466578688
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Although enterprise mobility is in high demand across domains, an absence of experts who have worked on enterprise mobility has resulted in a lack of books on the subject. A Comprehensive Guide to Enterprise Mobility fills this void. It supplies authoritative guidance on all aspects of enterprise mobility-from technical aspects and applications to
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1466578688
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Although enterprise mobility is in high demand across domains, an absence of experts who have worked on enterprise mobility has resulted in a lack of books on the subject. A Comprehensive Guide to Enterprise Mobility fills this void. It supplies authoritative guidance on all aspects of enterprise mobility-from technical aspects and applications to
The Next Great Migration
Author: Sonia Shah
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526646307
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
'A dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN 'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER 'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific history' PROSPECT 'A hugely entertaining, life-affirming and hopeful hymn to the glorious adaptability of life on earth' SCOTSMAN We are surrounded by stories of people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands in a mass exodus. Politicians and the media present this upheaval of migration patterns as unprecedented, blaming it for the spread of disease and conflict, and spreading anxiety across the world as a result. But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behaviour, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Unhampered by borders, migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet, into the highest reaches of the Himalayan Mountains and the most remote islands of the Pacific, disseminating the biological, cultural and social diversity that ecosystems and societies depend upon. In other words, migration is not the crisis – it is the solution. Tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through to today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526646307
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
'A dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN 'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER 'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific history' PROSPECT 'A hugely entertaining, life-affirming and hopeful hymn to the glorious adaptability of life on earth' SCOTSMAN We are surrounded by stories of people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands in a mass exodus. Politicians and the media present this upheaval of migration patterns as unprecedented, blaming it for the spread of disease and conflict, and spreading anxiety across the world as a result. But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behaviour, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Unhampered by borders, migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet, into the highest reaches of the Himalayan Mountains and the most remote islands of the Pacific, disseminating the biological, cultural and social diversity that ecosystems and societies depend upon. In other words, migration is not the crisis – it is the solution. Tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through to today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope.
Discontinuous Innovation: Learning To Manage The Unexpected
Author: Peter Augsdorfer
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN: 1783263881
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
This book is based on the findings, issues and questions related to an ongoing decade-old research project named the Innovation Lab (www.innovation-lab.org). The research project focuses on discontinuous innovation in more than thirteen countries, most of which are European, and provides useful insights into its different challenges. It also raises several questions related to the subject, some of which are: how do firms pick up weak signals on emerging — and possibly radically different — innovation? What should firms do when these weak signals hit their “mainstream” process? What are the criteria for allocating resources to a strategic innovation project? What actions should firms take to avoid being left out by the “corporate immune system”? How should firms organize projects that often break existing rules and require new rules to be created?This book attempts to provide answers to the above mentioned questions by gathering information from the research project and also from firms that have tried exploring various ideas, models and insights to tackle discontinuous innovation. Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book will be of interest to both practitioners and academics alike.
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN: 1783263881
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
This book is based on the findings, issues and questions related to an ongoing decade-old research project named the Innovation Lab (www.innovation-lab.org). The research project focuses on discontinuous innovation in more than thirteen countries, most of which are European, and provides useful insights into its different challenges. It also raises several questions related to the subject, some of which are: how do firms pick up weak signals on emerging — and possibly radically different — innovation? What should firms do when these weak signals hit their “mainstream” process? What are the criteria for allocating resources to a strategic innovation project? What actions should firms take to avoid being left out by the “corporate immune system”? How should firms organize projects that often break existing rules and require new rules to be created?This book attempts to provide answers to the above mentioned questions by gathering information from the research project and also from firms that have tried exploring various ideas, models and insights to tackle discontinuous innovation. Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book will be of interest to both practitioners and academics alike.
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Category : Executives
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executives
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Mobilizing SAP
Author: Ravi Kalakota
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974827025
Category : IT-arkitektur
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974827025
Category : IT-arkitektur
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Social Democratic Moment
Author: Sheri BERMAN
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In addition to revising our view of the interwar period and the building of European democracies, this book cuts against the grain of most current theorizing in political science by explicitly discussing when and how ideas influence political behavior. Even though German and Swedish Social Democrats belonged to the same transnational political movement and faced similar political and social conditions in their respective countries before and after World War I, they responded very differently to the challenges of democratization and the Great Depression--with crucial consequences for the fates of their countries and the world at large. Explaining why these two social democratic parties acted so differently is the primary task of this book. Berman's answer is that they had very different ideas about politics and economics--what she calls their programmatic beliefs. The Swedish Social Democrats placed themselves at the forefront of the drive for democratization; a decade later they responded to the Depression with a bold new economic program and used it to build a long period of political hegemony. The German Social Democrats, on the other hand, had democracy thrust upon them and then dithered when faced with economic crisis; their haplessness cleared the way for a bolder and more skillful political actor--Adolf Hitler. This provocative book will be of interest to anyone concerned with twentieth-century European history, the transition to democracy problem, or the role of ideas in politics.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In addition to revising our view of the interwar period and the building of European democracies, this book cuts against the grain of most current theorizing in political science by explicitly discussing when and how ideas influence political behavior. Even though German and Swedish Social Democrats belonged to the same transnational political movement and faced similar political and social conditions in their respective countries before and after World War I, they responded very differently to the challenges of democratization and the Great Depression--with crucial consequences for the fates of their countries and the world at large. Explaining why these two social democratic parties acted so differently is the primary task of this book. Berman's answer is that they had very different ideas about politics and economics--what she calls their programmatic beliefs. The Swedish Social Democrats placed themselves at the forefront of the drive for democratization; a decade later they responded to the Depression with a bold new economic program and used it to build a long period of political hegemony. The German Social Democrats, on the other hand, had democracy thrust upon them and then dithered when faced with economic crisis; their haplessness cleared the way for a bolder and more skillful political actor--Adolf Hitler. This provocative book will be of interest to anyone concerned with twentieth-century European history, the transition to democracy problem, or the role of ideas in politics.