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Prioritization of Failure Modes in Manufacturing Processes

In the contemporary automotive manufacturing industry, service providers are continuously working to improve system optimization in order to remain competitive in the market and deliver quality products to satisfy their customers. With this comes the possibility of failure, rejection and reworking of the components or services in the system, which can incur high costs and impact the reputation of an organization. This book uses Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) to assess, investigate and predict the Risk Priority Number (RPN) of potential failures for three companies within the manufacturing industry:A metal component supplier in the automotive sectorPart manufacturer for the automobile and engineering industriesManufacturer of suspension components for commercial vehiclesIntegrating human expertise and artificial intelligence on a single platform, the authors use fuzzy logic as a tool to overcome the vagueness associated with traditional methods of assessing potential failures. The book also details the procedure and scales of how to conduct FMEA, offering guidance on how to input and rank each risk within manufacturing processes across a range of sectors's. Each of the three real-world cases offer suggested improvements for the companies themselves, alongside takeaways for researchers and professionals within the fields of manufacturing and supply chain management.

L'économie mondiale

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Qu’est-ce que la crise de l’économie mondiale ? L’internationalisation des échanges favorise-t-elle la croissance économique ? Pourquoi y a-t-il eu une crise énergétique en 1973 ? Peut-il y en avoir une autre ? La dette du tiers monde va-t-elle conduire à l’éclatement du système financier international ? Le progrès technologique explique-t-il la croissance du chômage ? Quelles sont les causes du succès économique du Japon ? L’Europe peut-elle faire face aux nouvelles formes de la concurrence internationale ?

The Book in a Box Method

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Everything you've ever been told about how to write a book is wrong.Authors assume that writing a book needs to be a struggle. They block off hours of precious time, throw away draft after draft, and never get any closer to a finished product. What if there was a way to get your idea into a published book that was better and faster?Now, finally, there is.The Book in a Box Method cuts through all the nonsense to show you the exact steps to follow to ensure that you'll be able to write and publish the best possible book, in less time than you thought possible.

Transparent User Authentication

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No existing user-authentication approaches provide universally strong user authentication, while also taking into account the human factors of good security design. A reevaluation is therefore vitally necessary to ensure user authentication is relevant, usable, secure and ubiquitous.This groundbreaking text/reference examines the problem of user authentication from a completely new viewpoint. Rather than describing the requirements, technologies and implementation issues of designing point-of-entry authentication, the book introduces and investigates the technological requirements of implementing transparent user authentication – where authentication credentials are captured during a user’s normal interaction with a system. This approach would transform user authentication from a binary point-of-entry decision to a continuous identity confidence measure.Topics and features:Discusses the need for user authentication, identifying current thinking and why it falls short of providing real and effective levels of information securityReviews existing authentication approaches, providing an in-depth analysis of how each operatesIntroduces novel behavioural biometrics techniques, such as keystroke analysis, behavioural profiling, and handwriting recognitionExamines the wider system-specific issues with designing large-scale multimodal authentication systemsConcludes with a look to the future of user authentication, what the technological landscape might look like, and the effects upon the people using these systemsThis unique work is essential reading for all researchers interested in user authentication, biometric systems and behavioural profiling. Postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of computer science will also benefit from the detailed coverage of the theory of authentication in general, and of transparent authentication in particular.Dr. Nathan Clarke is an Associate Professor of Information Security and Digital Forensics at the University of Plymouth, U.K., and an Adjunct Associate Professor with Edith Cowan University in Western Australia.

Responsible Corporate Governance

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This book discusses the tasks and functions of corporate governance in the light of current challenges and the dynamics that arise from a broader approach to company management and the integration of corporate governance with corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability. Addressing the corporate governance shortcomings that are believed to have contributed to the recent financial crisis, it explores the interplay between corporate governance and CSR, and includes examples of company practice to show how such changes affect the practices of shareholders, boards of directors and regulators. In particular, the book examines shareholders’ activities, their different investment strategies, specific reporting expectations and the submission of proposals to the annual meeting. Further, for boards of directors it explores the need to revise their tasks with respect to the criteria for executive appointments, their corporate strategy, performance measures and diversity recommendations, while for directors it provides recommendations to reconsider the structure of executive pay and performance incentives. Lastly, for regulators the book investigates the need to introduce new laws addressing, for instance, the need for integrated reporting, limiting the voice of short term oriented shareholders and providing guidelines for executive compensation.

Inductive Fuzzy Classification in Marketing Analytics

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To enhance marketing analytics, approximate and inductive reasoning can be applied to handle uncertainty in individual marketing models. This book demonstrates the use of fuzzy logic for classification and segmentation in marketing campaigns. Based on practical experience as a data analyst and on theoretical studies as a researcher, the author explains fuzzy classification, inductive logic, and the concept of likelihood, and introduces a blend of Bayesian and Fuzzy Set approaches, allowing reasonings on fuzzy sets that are derived by inductive logic. By application of this theory, the book guides the reader towards a gradual segmentation of customers which can enhance return on targeted marketing campaigns. The algorithms presented can be used for visualization, selection and prediction. The book shows how fuzzy logic can complement customer analytics by introducing fuzzy target groups. This book is for researchers, analytics professionals, data miners and students interested in fuzzy classification for marketing analytics.

Changing the Indian Economy

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Changing the Indian Economy: Renewal, Reform and Revival explores the fact that post-Modi India is witnessing unprecedented socioeconomic change, truly labeled as Modi’s Mantra and his attempts to morph the Indian economic landscape. India is using an intelligent economic process for its renewal and growth, however, in a recent study by Nomura, 2016, The Japanese Financial Services firm, it is reported that there is downside risk to India’s baseline forecast of 7.8 per cent GDP growth in 2016. Although the report suggests that there was a mid-cycle consolidation in mid-2014, the recovery seems to be losing momentum. This book offers a novel, but inclusive outlook to the entire post-Modi economic overhaul. Offers a comprehensive narrative of the current economic scene in India Explores how the measures for reform are intelligent, while also considering their weaknesses Shows how India has a strong potential to grow amidst diversity of economic reforms and changing governance Includes a compilation of insightful articles on Indian economic reform and future prospects

Revenue Administration Handbook

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Revenue Administration Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the structure and management of tax and customs administrations, covering topics such as tax policy design considerations that impact tax administration, institutional setup and strategic planning, analyticalcapacities and maturity models, core business processes, and tax sanctions. It also presents pioneering work in the field of digital transformation and how to build data science capabilities, including a roadmap for policy makers and tax officials on how to incorporate and manage disruptive technologies, such as machine learning, into building modern revenue administrations while taking into account their respective maturity levels. This practical manual provides examples from real-life World Bank projects so that policy makers, tax officials, information technology experts, and information and communication technology providers can better understand the needs of revenue administrations to design and implement the most appropriate technology solutions. This reference work is intended to serve as a tool to facilitate the progress and modernization of tax and customs administrations worldwide, and to reach not only tax experts and policy makers, but also other government officials, businesses and academic communities, as well as the larger public, since all are relevant stakeholders with an active role in day-to-day revenue administration operations. ------------------------- “This is a very timely and useful reference for tax practitioners and stakeholders, coming at a time when tax administrators continue to grapple with the challenge of how to accelerate the modernization of technology systems to remain effective in a rapidly advancing and technologydriven business environment.†? MOSES WASIKE, Senior financial management specialist, World Bank “This is an impressive piece of work that pulls together many different strains on tax administration.†? JEFFREY OWENS, Director, Global Tax Policy Center, Vienna University “Applying several technologies discussed in this handbook in an innovative manner will definitely help leapfrog countries to pursue a digital transformation agenda, especially in the areas of efficiency, productivity, and citizen satisfaction.†?

La dette, le boom, la crise

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Les explications couramment admises ne prêtent pas assez d’attention aux causes financières de la crise. Est-ce bien raisonnable dans un monde où l’endettement a pris de telles proportions ? D’abord facteur de prospérité, ces dettes accumulées nous ont fait basculer de l’euphorie de la croissance - le boom - au désenchantement de l’inflation et du chômage - la crise. Pour résister à la tentation de la « relance » et éviter une rémission éphémère, ne faut-il pas réinventer une orthodoxie financière ? Le retour à la croissance est sans doute à ce prix.

Comunicación

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Esta publicación es un capítulo del libro: CREANDO VALOR A TRAVÉS DE LAS PERSONAS. ÍNDICE: La comunicación estratégica. Una adecuada estrategia de comunicación como clave del proceso de fusión. La comunicación como estrategia crítica en la empresa. La comunicación interna al servicio del equilibrio entre el capital intelectual y el capital emocional. La satisfacción del empleado, satisfacción del cliente. La medida de la opinión de los empleados. ¿Y usted qué opina?

La question monétaire

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Quel est le rôle de la monnaie dans la genèse de nos difficultés actuelles ? Les politiques d’inspiration friedmanienne sont-elles un remède approprié à l’inflation ? Les politiques monétaires peuvent-elles être à l’origine du chômage ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles ce livre s’efforce de répondre. Ce faisant, il nous convie à un retour sur les fondements des théories en vigueur, et à une relecture de l’histoire économique des dernières décennies. Il propose que soit réhabilité tout le courant de pensée qui allant de la Banking School à Jacques Rueff, affirme la supériorité des systèmes souples d’émission de monnaie, garantis par un étalon de valeur stable. Considérant que les déséquilibres dont pâtissent aujourd’hui les économies occidentales ne sont plus redevables des thérapeutiques macroéconomiques usuelles, considérant en outre que ces déséquilibres risquent d’entraîner à terme la désagrégation des institutions démocratiques, il suggère que les énergies et les imaginations se consacrent désormais à la construction d’un nouvel ordre monétaire.

When is Regional “Beautiful”?

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This book focuses on the importance of geography and space in explaining knowledge flows, entrepreneurship and innovation. During the last few decades spatial perspectives have enjoyed a growing attention outside the specific discipline of geography both in academic economics and among practitioners of policy and planning. This book constitutes a selection of empirical contributions based on data from Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The studies address issues of the characteristics of intra- vs. interregional knowledge flows (Weterings and Ponds), the restructural process when a large pharmaceutical (Pharmacia) closes activities (Dahlgren and Valentin), the different structure of university-industry relationships in three countries with differential types of universities (Broström, McKelvey and Sandström), the locational organization of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in a metropolitan region (Shearmur and Doloreux), the background of individuals in KIBS start-ups (Andersson and Hellerstedt) and give a critical scrutiny of attempts to create Regional Innovation Systems (Nuur, Gustavsson and Laestadius). The contributions thus address relevant contemporary issues regarding the structure of the service economy, the role of academia, and renewal of industries. They provide valuable information, useful to policy-makers, planners and academics.

Tu fais quoi dans la vie ?

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Ce livre s'adresse à toutes celles et ceux qui ont un rôle à jouer face aux grands défis du XXIe siécle : étudiants, salariés, demandeurs d'emploi, entrepreneurs ou dirigeants en quête de sens et d'impact positif dans leur vie professionnelle.Ce manifeste est un appel pour s'engager dans une carrière à impact.Dans le manifeste : des propositions, des portraits inspirants, des retours d'expériences de Ticket for Change pour passer à l'action !Matthieu Dardaillon et Joséphine Bouchez sont entrepreneurs sociaux et co-fondateurs de Ticket for Change, dont la mission est d’aider chacun à activer ses talents pour contribuer à résoudre nos grands défis de société. Ticket for Change a déjà sensibilisé plus de 100 000 personnes, 43 % de leurs bénéficiaires sont engagés dans une carrière à impact. Ils sont suivis par plus de 40 000 personnes sur les réseaux et soutenus par de nombreux partenaires (HEC, Cocacola, Renault, Google etc.) et mentors pionniers (Nicolas Hulot, Pierre Rabhi, Maxime de Rostolan,etc.)

Otra economía es posible

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En todo el mundo occidental los gobiernos y las élites financieras respondieron a la crisis económica de 2008 intentando restablecer las condiciones que imperaban antes de la crisis, pero los daños económicos, sociales y humanos que esta ha provocado han hecho que se ponga en entredicho la inevitabilidad del capitalismo sin trabas: han surgido una serie de prácticas y organizaciones que representan valores alterativos: el valor de la vida sobre el del dinero, la efectividad de la cooperación sobre la competencia salvaje, la responsabilidad social de las grandes empresas y la regulación responsable de los gobiernos sobre las estrategias especulativas que llevaron la economía al borde de la catástrofe. El presente libro examina el florecimiento de experimentos innovadores en la organización del trabajo y la vida que han surgido a raíz de la crisis: cooperativas, redes de trueque, banca ética, monedas comunitarias, bancos de tiempo compartido, redes solidarias, transacciones no monetarias, etc., experimentos que preparan el terreno para una economía orientada a la satisfacción de las necesidades humanas.

Culture Rules

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Wall Street Journal BestsellerPublishers Weekly Bestseller Create the company culture of your dreams—and make it last.In every organization, people either love their work or loathe it; they contribute or coast. Your culture can be soul enriching or soul crushing. Your culture gives life or takes it. Your employees care deeply or couldn’t care less. Your organization’s culture can become the most valuable intangible asset you steward. You can build a high performance culture—a place where people and the organization win.But cultures like this don’t just happen overnight—leaders are responsible for fostering them. So, what really contributes to a thriving culture? What can a leader do to make a difference? Mark Miller and his team conducted a global study with more than 6,000 participants from ten countries to find the answers to these questions and more.In Culture Rules, leaders will learn the three simple rules that determine the health, vitality, and sustainability of culture, enabling them to build organizations that uncover untapped potential and transform it into performance. Play the game well and you’ll be astonished by what your organization can become. Culture rules!

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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The Art of Worldly Wisdom is a book by Baltasar Gracián y Morales (a.k.a. Baltasar Gracián). It is a collection of maxims. Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia, and became popular throughout Europe. The book is a collection of 300 maxims, each with a commentary, on various topics giving advice and guidance on how to live fully, advance socially, and be a better person.

Strategic Risk Leadership

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This casebook extends Strategic Risk Leadership: Engaging a World of Risk, Uncertainty and the Unknown, bringing theory and practice grounded in the first book to life with an array of applicable, real-world examples. The book enables critical thinking about the current state of risk management and ERM, demonstrating contemporary shortcomings and challenges from real-life cases drawn from a global selection of well-known organizations. It confronts modern risk management practices and discusses what leaders should do to deal with unpredictable environments. Providing a basis for developing more effective risk management approaches, the book identifies shortcomings of contemporary approaches to risk management and specifies how to deal with the major risks we face today, illuminated by a variety of comprehensive global examples. It also provides valuable insights on these approaches for managers and leaders in general—including risk executives and chief risk officers—as well as advanced risk management students. End-of-chapter cases illustrate both good and bad risk management approaches as useful inspiration for reflective risk leaders.This book will be a hugely valuable resource for those studying or teaching risk management.

Mengenlösung: Emissionshandel

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In dieser Ausarbeitung zum Kurs Umweltökonomie soll das umweltpolitische Instrumentarium des Emissionshandels betrachtet werden. Nach einer kurzen Begriffsklärung und der anschließenden Darstellung von Funktionsweise und Ablauf soll die Frage geklärt werden, ob der Emissionshandel als Mengensteuerung eine geeignete Alternative zu der vom Ordnungsrecht geprägten Umweltpolitik sein kann.

Advances in Industrial & Labor Relations

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Volume 20 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains seven papers that deal with important aspects of employment relationships in a variety of industries, countries and research contexts. The first three papers, each of which analyzes the effects of an exogenous variable (e.g., fiscal adversity, globalization, and new technology, respectively) on labor-management relations, have specific industry/sector settings, namely, pubic schools (primary education), civil aviation and nursing homes (health care), respectively. The first and third of these papers are set in the U.S., the second in Britain. The next four papers, each of which analyzes the effects of enacted or contemplated legislation on specific aspects of labor-management relations and workplace dispute resolution, are set in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S., respectively. The research designs featured in these papers include quasi-experimental, case studies, interviews, surveys and simultaneous equation modeling.

Successful Business Plans

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A business plan is essential for any business, new or established. But where do you start? What do you need to include? Whether you need to raise finance, get senior management to support your plans, or simply want a roadmap for growth you need a successful business plan. We explain what to put in, what to leave out and how to structure it to be most effective. This book takes you step-by-step through how and why to write a business plan. It uses practical techniques and everyday examples to ensure your business plan gets the results you want; whether it’s start-up funding, strategic insight or a recovery plan. It’s written by expert authors, Michael Anderson & Jane Khedair, of Business Plan Services, in association with London Business School.This books will help you:- Persuade investors to back your business - Convince senior management to support your plans - Avoid common business plan mistakes - Adapt your business plan for different audiences

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