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This book deals with the main challenges of sustainable development and the role of sustainable business and corporate social responsibility in implementing these challenges through sustainable leadership and innovations. It includes the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of...
4.1 Significance-This guide provides additional guidance to preparers of environmental disclosures; these materials are needed to address changing audience needs, the increased regulatory and accounting complexity around environmental matters, and the emergence of a variety of long-term trends and...
SCOPE AND APPROACH The Standardization Strategy adopts a Theory of Change (ToC) approach. The ToC identifies activities that should be undertaken by the project that would contribute to a chain of results leading to improved approaches and coordination of standardization in the 4IR in Africa. The...
Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer brings together thought leadership in romance and affection games to explain the past, present, and possible future of affection play in games. The authors apply a combination of game analysis and design experience in affection play for both...
Enterprise Agility is practical framework for enhancing Agility and equipping your company with the tools to survive. About This Book • Prepare your company to navigate the rapidly-moving business world • Enhance Agility in every component of your organization • Build a framework that meets the...
Preface Scientific computing has become one of the fundamental pillars of science, combining theory and experiment. Computing is providing capabilities allowing theoretical concepts to be cast in computational modeling and simulation methods for the interpretation, prediction, and design of...
Global Kata: Success Through the Lean Business System Reference Model" sets a new benchmark for the evolution of Lean and strategic improvement. The book and the reference model provide a detailed road map for leading, designing, architecting, implementing, and sustaining a holistic,...
A practical, step-by-step guide to total systems management Systems Engineering Management, Fifth Edition is a practical guide to the tools and methodologies used in the field. Using a "total systems management" approach, this book covers everything from initial establishment to system retirement,...
Preface These proceedings are dedicated to David E. Daniel in recognition of his contributions to the field of geoenvironmental engineering. The proceedings are also an expression of gratitude for the friendship, mentoring, and collegiality he has shared with the authors in these proceedings over...
Preface We are in the early stages of remarkable changes in health care and the ever-evolving foundation of information technology (IT) that supports it. Indeed, a new era of health care is upon us: An era that has seen the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly...
Based on a popular course for the FEMA Higher Education project, Preparedness and Response for Catastrophic Disasters provides important insight into plans to mitigate and respond to the devastation caused by large-scale catastrophic events. Hurricane Katrina provided clear evidence that...
Taking a learn-by-doing approach, Software Engineering Design: Theory and Practice uses examples, review questions, chapter exercises, and case study assignments to provide students and practitioners with the understanding required to design complex software systems. Explaining the concepts that...
Preface This book describes practical strategies and tactics Baylor Health Care System (BHCS) has used to operationalize the delivery of safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, patient-centered (STEEEP) care. BHCS has been committed to the delivery of high-quality health care since the...
Over the last few years, we have often questioned whether yet another book on business process improvement is truly needed. After all, it appears that new books on the subject are published almost every week! Nevertheless, as we surveyed the increasingly rich array of publications on the subject,...
Preface This Geotechnical Special Publication consists of a series of papers presenting a wide range of methods of probabilistic site characterization and demonstrating them using soil data obtained at the National Geotechnical Experimentation Sites (NGES), in particular the sites at Texas A&M...
Abstract There are strong environmental and economic pressures to increase the thermal efficiency of fossil-fired power stations. This has led to a steady increase in steam pressure and temperature in current worldwide plans for ultra supercritical (USC) power plants. To meet the requirements of...