Innovations in e-health can significantly enhance healthcare accessibility, efficiency, and patient safety.

8 out of the 10 most valuable companies are built on platform business models – such as Amazon, Alibaba, Apple and Google. Given their ubiquity, traditional companies can no longer ignore platform models so this book is their practical and comprehensive guide to leveraging the power of platforms in your organisation.

Address real-world organisational challenges by applying the principles of Service Operations Management Service Operations Management, 6th edition provides an understanding of how service performance can be improved in organisations. It features tools and techniques throughout, along with examples from a wide variety of international businesses.

International Economics, 18e combines rigorous economic analysis with attention to the issues of economic policy that are alive and important today in this field. Written in a concise and readable format, Pugel uses economic terminology when enhancing the analysis so that the reader can build their understanding of global economic developments and evaluate proposals for changes in economic policies. The text is informed by current events and includes the latest in applied international resear...

Competitive success depends on learning, but most people, including professionals in leadership positions, are not very good at it. This book shows how companies that focus on continuously improving their managers' and employees' reasoning patterns can improve employee problem-solving and therefore increase success.

Many shops have simplified their production control by using card-based systems such as kanban and Constant Work-in-Process (ConWIP). Although these systems provide a simple and highly effective visual approach for controlling manufacturing and service operations, all too many shops struggle with failed implementations or achieve results that fall below expectations. These outcomes can be attributed to a poor fit between the actual control problem and the solution applied.

This book takes a d...

The fourth European edition of Microeconomics and Behaviour builds on its core analytical foundations, and embeds them in accessible and engaging real-world examples to demonstrate the relationship between economic thinking and analysis and human behaviour. By blending theory with practical application, students are encouraged to think like economists and critically assess the technical tools of microeconomics and to find more interesting and innovative ways of applying them, ultimately devel...

This book provides a wide-ranging guide to the complex, multidisciplinary area of coaching, exploring coaching theories and approaches, genres and settings, and professional issues.

Grasp the fundamentals of Human Resource Management with this engaging and accessible text, ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students.