How Efficiency Changes The Game

Author : Ray Hodge
Publisher : Business Expert Press
ISBN 13 : 1637420455
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Efficiency Changes the Game written by Ray Hodge and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obtaining a competitive advantage in today’s business environment generally does not happen of its own accord. With the speed of global economic change, products to market, technology and customer preferences, organizations must light on their feet and be the drivers of change. Given that most businesses deal with the same buyers in defined markets who purchase similar products, gaining this competitive advantage is critical to both thriving and being leaders in their field. To do this, one must drive efficiencies throughout the entire organization while creating a significant point of difference. Yet, inefficiency continues to run rampant and can be found in the often-forgotten pockets of the organization, hampering efficacy at best, leading it out the door at worst. How Efficiency Changes the Game: Developing Lean Operations for Competitive Advantage provides an insightful process for the executive, manager, and business owner, enabling them to discover inefficiencies where least expected, highlighting both the nature of the primary issues and then how to subsequently correct them. This book will assist in developing lean operations in areas such as leadership, marketing, strategy and planning, sales, time management, workflows, finances, and people.

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Publisher : Academic Conferences and publishing limited
ISBN 13 : 1911218573
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ECGBL 2017 11th European Conference on Game-Based Learning written by and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fumihiko Ikuine
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811677433
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Efficiency and Creativity of Product Development written by Fumihiko Ikuine and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book that comprehensively describes the history of the game software industry in Japan. A major objective here is to identify the key determinants of the emergence of the business, the maturing of the market, and the changes brought about by innovations, based on the history of the Japanese industry. To date, similar books have focused only on particular topics of the game software industry, such as the success of Nintendo and Sony and the uniqueness of the Japanese industry. There are no books that interpret the development process of this industry from the point of view of innovation. To fully understand the business and derive insightful lessons from it, however, requires a careful and thorough examination of its development process. Currently, many companies aim to improve efficiency by using information and communications technology (ICT), but it is difficult to maintain a balance between the pursuit of efficiency and the encouragement of creativity. In the case of Japan’s game software industry, firms have pursued higher efficiency in product development to build competitive advantage, resulting in a low rate of radical innovation and causing the slow growth of the industry. In certain situations, the development activities that target the creation of new products may, in themselves, hinder the creation of truly new products. This book conceptualizes this phenomenon as a “development productivity dilemma” and clarifies the mechanisms behind it. The dilemma, like the productivity dilemma in the manufacturing industry, evokes a certain innovation pattern and prevents potential growth. Understanding the lessons from the game software business presented in this book, managers, researchers, and policymakers can gain insight into the mechanisms leading to industrial maturity and clues to avoid the development productivity dilemma.

Author : Tony J Saich
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811278482
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Change And Adaptive Efficiency: A Study Of China's Hukou System Evolution written by Tony J Saich and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, neo-institutionalists have posited that 'institutions matter'. However, they overlook one important issue: the ways institutions change also matters. Numerous academic studies have identified 'good' and 'bad' institutions, but little has been written about effective methods of transforming 'bad' institutions so that they enhance economic performance. To fill this gap, this book reframes the approach of neo-institutional economics to analyze institutions' role and evolution, focusing on the interaction between the household registration (hukou) system evolution and economic transformation.The authors apply an endogenous and dynamic perspective. First, the theory of endogenous institutional change illustrates how the drivers of hukou system evolution differ in the pre-reform and reform eras. Second, the theory of adaptive efficiency evaluates the evolution of the system's institutional efficiency. Finally, the authors were able to test the impact of the hukou reform on urban economic growth by examining local experimentation, helping explain the current 'stickiness' of the system.At the heart of hukou reform lies the question of how to deal with the link between hukou and welfare provision. This book will offer policymakers a better understanding of institutional change in dynamic economic contexts, helping them enhance economic performance.

Author : Symeon Christodoulou
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1315386895
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction: ECPPM 2016 written by Symeon Christodoulou and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction 2016 collects the papers presented at the 11th European Conference on Product & Process Modelling (ECPPM 2016, Cyprus, 7-9 September 2016), The contributions cover complementary thematic areas that hold great promise for the advancement of research and technological development in the modelling of complex engineering systems, encompassing a substantial number of high quality contributions on a large spectrum of topics pertaining to ICT deployment instances in AEC/FM, including: • Information and Knowledge Management • Construction Management • Description Logics and Ontology Application in AEC • Risk Management • 5D/nD Modelling, Simulation and Augmented Reality • Infrastructure Condition Assessment • Standardization of Data Structures • Regulatory and Legal Aspects • Multi-Model and distributed Data Management • System Identification • Industrialized Production, Smart Products and Services • Interoperability • Smart Cities • Sustainable Buildings and Urban Environments • Collaboration and Teamwork • BIM Implementation and Deployment • Building Performance Simulation • Intelligent Catalogues and Services

Author : Fereidoon P. Sioshansi
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123978874
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy Efficiency written by Fereidoon P. Sioshansi and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy Efficiency: Towards the End of Demand Growth is a detailed guide to new energy efficiency technologies and policy frameworks affecting the profitability of efficiency projects. The contributions drawn together by F.P. Sioshansi feature insights from recognized thought leaders, detailed examinations of evolving technologies, and practical case studies yielding best practices for project planners, implementers and financiers. This volume challenges the "more is better" paradigm in energy production, examining efficiency technologies and measurement across the supply chain. Comparative financial analysis of efficiency vs. increased generation Case studies from four continents highlight the examples of successful technologies and projects Explains how existing and developing regulatory frameworks impact cost and implementation

Author : Robert Nystrom
Publisher : Genever Benning
ISBN 13 : 0990582914
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Programming Patterns written by Robert Nystrom and published by Genever Benning. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest challenge facing many game programmers is completing their game. Most game projects fizzle out, overwhelmed by the complexity of their own code. Game Programming Patterns tackles that exact problem. Based on years of experience in shipped AAA titles, this book collects proven patterns to untangle and optimize your game, organized as independent recipes so you can pick just the patterns you need. You will learn how to write a robust game loop, how to organize your entities using components, and take advantage of the CPUs cache to improve your performance. You'll dive deep into how scripting engines encode behavior, how quadtrees and other spatial partitions optimize your engine, and how other classic design patterns can be used in games.

Author : Zhenying Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811503796
Total Pages : 871 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Principle of Trading Economics written by Zhenying Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to establishing a completely new concept within economics referred to as "trading economics" which is a reconstructed economic system in theory that seeks perfect harmony between micro and macro elements in a structured way, hence making the economic theory a rigorous system supported by internal logical continuity. Representing a revolution of the existing theoretical framework, trading economics has changed the logic of mainstream economics. Specifically, it deduces the "macro whole" from the "micro individuals", and it introduces a systematic and comprehensive analysis approach. It stresses that within an interconnected world, the interaction between trading agents is the fundamental driving force behind the operation, development and evolution of the economic system.

Author : Jane McGonigal
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101475498
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reality Is Broken written by Jane McGonigal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “McGonigal is a clear, methodical writer, and her ideas are well argued. Assertions are backed by countless psychological studies.” —The Boston Globe “Powerful and provocative . . . McGonigal makes a persuasive case that games have a lot to teach us about how to make our lives, and the world, better.” —San Jose Mercury News “Jane McGonigal's insights have the elegant, compact, deadly simplicity of plutonium, and the same explosive force.” —Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother A visionary game designer reveals how we can harness the power of games to boost global happiness. With 174 million gamers in the United States alone, we now live in a world where every generation will be a gamer generation. But why, Jane McGonigal asks, should games be used for escapist entertainment alone? In this groundbreaking book, she shows how we can leverage the power of games to fix what is wrong with the real world-from social problems like depression and obesity to global issues like poverty and climate change-and introduces us to cutting-edge games that are already changing the business, education, and nonprofit worlds. Written for gamers and non-gamers alike, Reality Is Broken shows that the future will belong to those who can understand, design, and play games. Jane McGonigal is also the author of SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient.

Author : Julian Caldecott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351865234
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aid Performance and Climate Change written by Julian Caldecott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables and boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Core evaluation criteria -- 3 Keeping human development going -- 4 Technological mitigation -- 5 Ecological mitigation -- 6 Adaptation by preserving resilience and diversity -- 7 Evaluating partnerships -- 8 Evaluating transformations -- 9 Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Evaluations of aid performance used as main sources in this book -- Appendix 2: Glossary, acronyms, and abbreviations -- Index.