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Spare Parts Inventory Control under System Availability Constraints
by Geert-Jan Houtum Bram KranenburgThis book focuses on the tactical planning level for spare parts management. It describes a series of multi-item inventory models and presents exact and heuristic optimization methods, including greedy heuristics that work well for real, life-sized problems. The intended audience consists of graduate students, starting scholars in the field of spare parts inventory control, and spare parts planning specialists in the industry. In individual chapters the authors consider topics including: a basic single-location model; single-location models with multiple machine types and/or machine groups; the multi-location model with lateral transshipments; the classical METRIC model and its generalization to multi-indenture systems; and a single-location model with an explicit modeling of the repair capacity for failed parts and the priorities that one can set there. Various chapters of the book are used in a master course at Eindhoven University of Technology and in a PhD course of the Graduate Program Operations Management and Logistics (a Dutch network that organizes PhD courses in the field of OM&L). The required pre-knowledge consists of probability theory and basic knowledge of Markov processes and queuing theory. End-of-chapter problems appear for all chapters, with some answers appearing in an appendix.
Sparen in öffentlichen Haushalten: Grundzüge einer Theorie mit zehn Beispielen für die Praxis und Fachdiskussion (essentials)
by Ingo Caspari Walter Reese-Schäfer Werner HaßenkampDie Autoren beschreiben in diesem Essential anhand von Beispielen Schwierigkeiten, die beim Sparen auftreten. Auf Basis der Systemtheorie des Soziologen N. Luhmann, die zu Grundzügen einer Soziologie des Sparens umgeformt wird, entstehen neue Einblicke, weil in Systemen (wie Wirtschaft oder Politik) gedacht wird und der einzelne Mensch außen vor bleibt. Die Aggregation der Erkenntnisse der Beispiele aus der Praxis mündet in einer Frage: Wie sollen die gesellschaftlichen Subsysteme um die beste Lösung streiten? Hier stößt das Analysewerkzeug Systemtheorie an seine Grenzen und die Theorie kommunikativer Vernunft von J. Habermas führt zu klaren Empfehlungen an die Praxis des Sparens. Zentrale zukünftige Herausforderungen werden abschließend benannt.
Sparen macht glücklich: Wer nicht spart, wann er kann, kann kein Geld ausgeben, wenn er das möchte.
by Tomas Pulido GalanIn seinem Buch "Sparen macht glücklich" ("Ahorra y sé feliz") gibt Tomás Pulido Galán, ein erfolgreicher Autor von Ratgebern, dem Leser 350 Tipps, wie man Geld sparen kann. Es zeigt die unterschiedlichsten Sparmöglichkeiten in vielen Bereichen auf: im Haushalt, bei Fahrzeugen, bei Banken und Versicherungen, bei Immobilien, in der Freizeit etc. Auch zusätzliche Verdienstmöglichkeiten wie z.B. Nebenjobs finden Erwähnung. Sein Buch über das Sparen ist bei Amazon.es in Spanien und Lateinamerika ein Bestseller.
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by John WinsorThe playing field for businesses is always changing. But one principle remains constant: individuals and companies that innovate will excel. In this groundbreaking guide, entrepreneur John Winsor presents 16 unique perspectives from trail-blazing innovators in companies of all sizes - creative directors, CEOs, brand managers, product developers, and others. Readers will learn how these stellar innovators built powerful brands and created the right environments to foster high levels of creativity. Following each interview, readers will discover a set of tools and recommendations to help them implement the innovator's ideas, including exercises, questions, and space to draw or write their thoughts. Throughout, Winsor weaves his essential premise: it takes more than one brilliant mind to allow innovation to occur. By the end, readers will understand why a true innovator is someone who makes connections with others and realizes the rewards.
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by Patricia LeavyProfessor Peyton Wilde has an enviable life teaching sociology at an idyllic liberal arts college--yet she is troubled by a sense of fading inspiration. One day an invitation arrives. Peyton has been selected to attend a luxurious all-expense-paid seminar in Iceland, where participants, billed as some of the greatest thinkers in the world, will be charged with answering one perplexing question. Meeting her diverse teammates--two neuroscientists, a philosopher, a dance teacher, a collage artist, and a farmer--Peyton wonders what she could ever have to contribute. The ensuing journey of discovery will transform the characters' work, their biases, and themselves. This suspenseful novel shows that the answers you seek can be found in the most unlikely places. It can be read for pleasure, is a great choice for book clubs, and can be used as unique and inspiring reading in qualitative research and other courses in education, sociology, social work, psychology, and communication.
Spark & Hustle
by Tory JohnsonYOUR PASSION. YOUR PURPOSE. YOUR PROFIT. Some people are willing to spend their lives working for someone else. Not you. You're ready to start your own business--or grow your existing business into something bigger. You're ready to take control of your life, your finances, your future. Tory Johnson helps you make it happen. Based on her phenomenally successful "Spark & Hustle" workshops, Tory breaks down the basics, and helps you create a plan for success, including Exploring your motivations to profit from your passion How to nail a one-page business plan to launch your idea with clarity and confidence Finding the money to get going, perfecting your revenue and pricing Making social media (and other free tools) profitable for you Mastering sales without cringing at the thought of asking for money Detailed strategies for every aspect of your start-up and tactics to hustle for ongoing small business success
Spark Innovation Through Empathic Design
by Dorothy Leonard Jeffrey F. RayportAlmost all companies today compete to some degree on the basis of continuous innovation. And many turn to customers for information to guide that innovation. The problem is that customers' ability to guide new product and service development is limited by their experience and by their ability to imagine and describe possible innovations. How can companies identify needs that customers themselves may not recognize? A set of techniques Harvard Business School Professors Dorothy Leonard and Jeffrey Rayport call empathic design can help resolve those dilemmas. Its basic principle is observation--watching customers use products or services. But the critical twist is that such observation is conducted in the customer's own environment--in the context of normal, everyday routines. In such a context, the company is privy to a host of information that is not accessible through other observation--oriented research methods such as focus groups or usability laboratories. This article explores a new way for companies to spark innovation--a new way for them to identify consumer needs, and thus design successful new products to meet those needs. The techniques of empathic design--effectively gathering, analyzing, and applying information gleaned from observation-are familiar to top engineering/design firms and a few forward-thinking manufacturers, but are not common practice.
Spark Therapeutics: Pioneering Gene Therapy
by Robert F. Higgins"It was fall 2014 and Jeff Marrazzo, the co-founder and CEO of Spark Therapeutics, a pioneering gene therapy startup, sat down at his desk in Philadelphia to finish preparing for his board meeting starting in an hour. It was hard to imagine that more than a year had already passed since Spark had formally spun out of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The company had taken with it much of the intellectual property and talent that CHOP had developed in the exciting new field of gene therapy under the leadership of accomplished clinician researcher Dr. Katherine A. (Kathy) High. High was now serving as co-founder, President, and Chief Scientific Officer of Spark"
Spark for Python Developers
by Amit NandiA concise guide to implementing Spark Big Data analytics for Python developers, and building a real-time and insightful trend tracker data intensive app About This Book * Set up real-time streaming and batch data intensive infrastructure using Spark and Python * Deliver insightful visualizations in a web app using Spark (PySpark) * Inject live data using Spark Streaming with real-time events Who This Book Is For This book is for data scientists and software developers with a focus on Python who want to work with the Spark engine, and it will also benefit Enterprise Architects. All you need to have is a good background of Python and an inclination to work with Spark. What You Will Learn * Create a Python development environment powered by Spark (PySpark), Blaze, and Bookeh * Build a real-time trend tracker data intensive app * Visualize the trends and insights gained from data using Bookeh * Generate insights from data using machine learning through Spark MLLIB * Juggle with data using Blaze * Create training data sets and train the Machine Learning models * Test the machine learning models on test datasets * Deploy the machine learning algorithms and models and scale it for real-time events In Detail Looking for a cluster computing system that provides high-level APIs? Apache Spark is your answer--an open source, fast, and general purpose cluster computing system. Spark's multi-stage memory primitives provide performance up to 100 times faster than Hadoop, and it is also well-suited for machine learning algorithms. Are you a Python developer inclined to work with Spark engine? If so, this book will be your companion as you create data-intensive app using Spark as a processing engine, Python visualization libraries, and web frameworks such as Flask. To begin with, you will learn the most effective way to install the Python development environment powered by Spark, Blaze, and Bookeh. You will then find out how to connect with data stores such as MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Hadoop. You'll expand your skills throughout, getting familiarized with the various data sources (Github, Twitter, Meetup, and Blogs), their data structures, and solutions to effectively tackle complexities. You'll explore datasets using iPython Notebook and will discover how to optimize the data models and pipeline. Finally, you'll get to know how to create training datasets and train the machine learning models. By the end of the book, you will have created a real-time and insightful trend tracker data-intensive app with Spark. Style and approach This is a comprehensive guide packed with easy-to-follow examples that will take your skills to the next level and will get you up and running with Spark.
Spark: How Old-Fashioned Values Drive a Twenty-First-Century Corporation: Lessons from Lincoln Electric's U
by Frank KollerWhile factories across the Midwest shutter their doors, Cleveland-based manufacturer Lincoln Electric has thrived for more than a century. In addition to being profitable and technologically innovative, through good times and bad, the company has fulfilled its unique promise of "guaranteed continuous employment. ” Workers are viewed as assets-not liabilities. Through flexible hours and job assignments, as well as a merit-based bonus system, Lincoln Electric’s employment policies have proven healthy for the company’s bottom line its employees and its shareholders. In Spark, veteran journalist Frank Koller tells the story of how this unusual and profitable Fortune 1000 multinational company challenges the conventional wisdom shaping modern management’s view of the workplace. Through insightful storytelling and extensive interviews with executives, workers, and leading business thinkers, Koller uses the Lincoln Electric example to illustrate how job security can inspire powerful growth and prosperity in our communities.
Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success
by Sean Lynch Angie Morgan Courtney LynchFrom the team behind the corporate leadership consulting firm Lead Star??—??three leadership experts with military backgrounds??—??comes the New York Times bestseller Spark, “a myth-destroying book that will make you rethink both the theory and practice of leadership” (Daniel H. Pink).Leadership is not about job titles??—??it’s about action and behavior. “Sparks” are the doers, thinkers, innovators, and key influencers who are catalysts for personal and organizational change. But these extraordinary individuals aren’t defined by the place they hold on an organizational chart??—??they are defined by their actions, commitment, and will. Leadership experts Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch, and Sean Lynch show how you can become a Spark by cultivating seven key leadership behaviors. Grounded in the latest research on leadership development, this fresh, accessible road map is packed with real-world stories from inside companies like Facebook, Google, and Boston Scientific, and from the authors’ own high-stakes, challenging experiences serving in the US Armed Forces. With Spark as a blueprint, anyone can become a catalyst for change, and any organization can identify and develop Sparks.Featuring a Foreword by Frederick W. Smith, founder, chairman and CEO of FedEx
Spark: Take Your Business From Struggle to Significance
by David A. Hilton Alexander HiltonHave you ever dreamed of running your own business? Or are you running your own business and wondering how to grow it to the next level? If so, "Spark" was written especially for you. "Spark" will pull you out of the details and enable you to see the business journey from a higher perspective---a perspective that shows you where you are in the journey of the business. You will see that the challenges are just that: challenges, not insurmountable problems."Spark" tells the story of the journey that gets you from here to there. From an idea to execution. It points out, in context, the lessons that everyone who wants to be successful in business must learn. Using the information in this book, you can learn and grow in the comfort of your living room where there is no cost to changing your mind or making a mistake."Spark" is a combination of a fast-paced novel with powerful, impactful and eminently executable business lessons. It is rare to find a business book that is this enjoyable to read while being power packed full of knowledge.Our hero, Jack, is about to learn all the lessons of business the hard way so that you don&’t have to.
Spark: The Insight to Growing Brands
by Paddy RangappaSpark addresses the important issue of growing bands in an increasingly competitive, crowded market place. Written by an expert in marketing, here is a book that demystifies the esoteric subject of brand-building. Spark achieves this by providing a practical framework. It handholds the reader through the various stages of brand-building—how to generate an insight to address a specific business challenge; how to construct a full business plan around it; and how to leverage such a plan for revenue growth. Rich in case-studies of successful global brands like Dove, McDonald’s and Vicks VapoRub, and replete with brainstorming tips and catchy acronyms for developing successful brand campaigns with ad agencies, Spark offers a lifeline to the professional committed to building and nurturing a powerful brand.
Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive
by Jonathan FieldsDiscover your unique imprint for work that makes you come alive, fills you with meaning, joy, purpose, and possibility, then spend the rest of your life doing it.We&’re all born with a certain &“imprint&” for work that makes us come alive. This is your "Sparketype®," your DNA-level driver of work that lets you know, deep down, you&’re doing what you&’re here to do. Work that motivates you, fills you with purpose and, fully-expressed in a healthy way, becomes a main-line to meaning, flow, performance, and joy. Put another way, work that &“sparks&” you.Drawing upon years of research, experimentation, more than 25-million data-points generated by over half-a-million people, hundreds of deep-dive conversations with luminaries from science to art to industry and wellbeing. Award-winning author, serial wellness-industry founder, and host of the top-ranked Good Life Project®, Jonathan Fields, and his team at Spark Endeavors, developed the Sparketype imprints and methodology that is the basis of this book.SPARKED takes you deep into the world of the Sparketypes, revealing an entirely new depth of insights about what makes you come alive in work life, along with what empties you out and trips you up, so you can avoid those life-drains. You&’ll discover tons of case studies, stories, and real-world applications, creating a comprehensive guide to help you discover what you are meant to do and how to get started.This book will help you:Discover, with far more depth, what sparks you, what drains you, where you stumble and come alive, so you can reclaim a sense of direction, control, and purpose;Understand the &“real&” reasons certain experiences, jobs, and roles leave you empty and know how to make things better, without having to endure big disruptive changes;Learn from real-world, relatable stories, case-studies, and data-driven insightsIdentify the action steps to begin immediately transforming the way you work and live.
Sparking Creativity: How Play and Humor Fuel Innovation and Design
by Barry KudrowitzBlending popular culture and design theory, framed by a decade of scholarly research, this book highlights how play and humor fuel innovation. Now, more than ever, we are in need of creative solutions to global problems, but creative skills and abilities decline over time without intervention and practice. Sparking Creativity provides empirically supported methods for embracing the often-trivialized domains of play and humor to increase our creativity. It shows that topical examples, such as Seinfeld's humor, the Apples to Apples board game, and the Adventure Time cartoon series, are more closely related to innovation than you might first think. The book is organized into five main parts, each containing short, engaging subsections and informative, playful, and colorful illustrations to demonstrate concepts. Written in a humorous and accessible style, this book is aimed toward creative-minded entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, industry leaders, parents, educators, and students. It encourages a playful approach throughout a design process to produce truly innovative solutions.
Sparking Success: Why Every Leader Needs to Develop a Creative Mindset
by Adam KinglDiscover the spark of innovation that will transform your leadership through Sparking Success.Studies show that 80% of us are increasingly pressured to be productive rather than creative at work. Sparking Success uncovers the importance of creativity as a tool for innovation and demonstrates how it can be a driving factor for success. In order to adapt to fast-moving trends and disruptions in the modern business landscape, you need to spark your creative outlook.In this book, Adam Kingl profiles the business leaders who are redefining themselves as creative pioneers. From media powerhouses such as Pixar and Disney to major manufacturers such as Bosch and Panasonic, this book shows the universal importance of creativity for business leaders across the world. Each of the chapters poses a challenge or opportunity that will help you tap into an innovative mindset, before offering fascinating insights from leaders across the creative industries. Discover how you can become a dynamic, creative and empathetic leader by Sparking Success.
Sparse Modeling: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (Chapman & Hall/CRC Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition)
by Irina Rish Genady GrabarnikSparse models are particularly useful in scientific applications, such as biomarker discovery in genetic or neuroimaging data, where the interpretability of a predictive model is essential. Sparsity can also dramatically improve the cost efficiency of signal processing.Sparse Modeling: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications provides an introduction t
Sparse Optimization Theory and Methods
by Yun-Bin ZhaoSeeking sparse solutions of underdetermined linear systems is required in many areas of engineering and science such as signal and image processing. The efficient sparse representation becomes central in various big or high-dimensional data processing, yielding fruitful theoretical and realistic results in these fields. The mathematical optimization plays a fundamentally important role in the development of these results and acts as the mainstream numerical algorithms for the sparsity-seeking problems arising from big-data processing, compressed sensing, statistical learning, computer vision, and so on. This has attracted the interest of many researchers at the interface of engineering, mathematics and computer science. Sparse Optimization Theory and Methods presents the state of the art in theory and algorithms for signal recovery under the sparsity assumption. The up-to-date uniqueness conditions for the sparsest solution of underdertemined linear systems are described. The results for sparse signal recovery under the matrix property called range space property (RSP) are introduced, which is a deep and mild condition for the sparse signal to be recovered by convex optimization methods. This framework is generalized to 1-bit compressed sensing, leading to a novel sign recovery theory in this area. Two efficient sparsity-seeking algorithms, reweighted l1-minimization in primal space and the algorithm based on complementary slackness property, are presented. The theoretical efficiency of these algorithms is rigorously analysed in this book. Under the RSP assumption, the author also provides a novel and unified stability analysis for several popular optimization methods for sparse signal recovery, including l1-mininization, Dantzig selector and LASSO. This book incorporates recent development and the author’s latest research in the field that have not appeared in other books.
SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants (A)
by Daniel Fisher Benjamin C. Esty E. Scott MayfieldAs of 12/31/21, Amazon held $22 billion of equity and warrants in related companies. In fact, it often requests a free grant of warrants when it enters into a new commercial agreement with a supplier. Over the past 20 years, Amazon has gotten warrants in almost 20 publicly traded companies and more than 75 private companies; in a few instances, it has gotten multiple grants from a single company. Combined, Amazon held $3.4 billion of warrants as of year-end 2021. This case explores one of the recent transactions in which Amazon requested warrants as part of signing a new commercial agreement with SpartanNash Company, the fifth largest food distributor in the United States. In September 2020, shortly before Tony Sarsam became CEO of SpartanNash, Amazon proposed a new 2-part agreement. The first part involved a revision to the existing commercial agreement that governed distribution of grocery items from suppliers to Amazon warehouses. The second part involved a free grant of "at-the-money" warrants to buy up to 15% of SpartanNash's shares. The warrants would vest over seven years based on Amazon's cumulative purchases from SpartanNash up to a total of $8 billion. Compared to Amazon's current spending of approximately $400 million per year, this proposal represented a significant opportunity for SpartanNash to grow with one of America's largest and fastest-growing retailers. But that opportunity came at a cost (giving Amazon warrants). Should Sarsam accept the proposal, reject it, or try to renegotiate aspects? More generally, students must assess whether this was an example of a powerful buyer exerting market power over a smaller supplier, or was it an example of a new dynamic partnership that would align interests and share gains through common ownership. In other words, was Amazon's proposal coercive, collaborative, or both?
SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants (B)
by Daniel Fisher Benjamin C. Esty E. Scott MayfieldUnbeknownst to most people, Amazon currently holds $10 billion of equity and warrants in related companies. In fact, it often requests a free grant of warrants when it enters into a new commercial agreement with a supplier. Over the past 20 years, Amazon has gotten warrants in at least 13 publicly traded companies and more than 75 private companies. As of January 2022, Amazon's current holdings of warrants was worth almost $4 billion. This case explores one of the recent deals in which Amazon requested warrants as part of a new commercial agreement. In September 2020, shortly before Tony Sarsam became CEO of SpartanNash Company, the fifth largest food distributor in the United States, Amazon presented the company with a 2-part proposal. The first part involved a revision to the existing commercial agreement that governed distribution of food from suppliers to Amazon warehouses. The second part involved a free grant of "at-the-money" warrants to buy up to 15% of SpartanNash's shares. The warrants would vest over seven years based on Amazon's cumulative purchases from SpartanNash up to a total of $8 billion. Compared to Amazon's current spending of $400 million per year, this proposal represented a significant opportunity for SpartanNash to grow with one of America's largest and fastest-growing retailers. Should Sarsam accept the proposal, reject it, or try to renegotiate aspects? More generally, was this an example of a powerful buyer exerting market power over a supplier, or was it an example of a new kind of dynamic partnership that would align interests the medium to longer term through ownership stakes? "
Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture
by Nishat Awan Tatjana Schneider Jeremy TillThis book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future. Particularly pertinent in the current economic climate, this book offers the reader new approaches to architectural practice in a changing world. It makes essential reading for any architect, aspiring or practicing.
Spatial Computing: An AI-Driven Business Revolution
by Irena Cronin Cathy HacklThe next phase of the internet—multimodal, vision-enabled AI that will transform society Written by Irena Cronin, renowned consultant in the immersive space, and Cathy Hackl, globally recognized tech & gaming executive, futurist, and speaker, Spatial Computing: An AI-Driven Business Revolution reveals exclusive insider knowledge of what's happening today in the convergence of AI and spatial computing. Spatial Computing is an evolving 3D-centric form of computing that uses AI, Computer Vision, and extended reality to blend virtual experiences into the physical world, breaking free from screens into everything you can see, experience, and know. Spatial Computing: An AI-Driven Business Revolution includes coverage of: The new paradigm of human-to-human and human-computer interaction, enhancing how we visualize, simulate, and interact with data in physical and virtual locations Navigating the world alongside robots, drones, cars, virtual assistants, and beyond—without the limitation of just one technology or device Insights, tools and illustrative use cases that enable businesses to harness the convergence of AI and spatial computing today and in the decade to come via both hardware and software The impact of spatial computing is just starting to be felt. Spatial Computing: An AI-Driven Business Revolution is a must-have resource for business leaders who wish to fully understand this new form of revolutionary, evolutionary technology that is expected to be even more impactful than personal computing and mobile computing.
Spatial Data Analysis: Models, Methods and Techniques
by Jinfeng Wang Manfred M. FischerThe availability of spatial databases and widespread use of geographic information systems has stimulated increasing interest in the analysis and modelling of spatial data. Spatial data analysis focuses on detecting patterns, and on exploring and modelling relationships between them in order to understand the processes responsible for their emergence. In this way, the role of space is emphasised , and our understanding of the working and representation of space, spatial patterns, and processes is enhanced. In applied research, the recognition of the spatial dimension often yields different and more meaningful results and helps to avoid erroneous conclusions. This book aims to provide an introduction into spatial data analysis to graduates interested in applied statistical research. The text has been structured from a data-driven rather than a theory-based perspective, and focuses on those models, methods and techniques which are both accessible and of practical use for graduate students. Exploratory techniques as well as more formal model-based approaches are presented, and both area data and origin-destination flow data are considered.
Spatial Decision Support Systems: Principles and Practices
by Ramanathan Sugumaran John DegrooteThis book provides a comprehensive examination of the various aspects of SDSS evolution, components, architecture, and implementation. Integrating research from a variety of disciplines, it supplies a complete overview of SDSS technologies and their application. This groundbreaking reference provides thorough coverage of the roots of SDSS. It explains the core principles of SDSS, how to use them in various decision making contexts, and how to design and develop them using readily available enabling technologies and commercial tools.