Digital transformation is essential for modern enterprises striving to remain competitive in today’s fast-evolving markets. Achieving transformation requires more than technology; it demands coordinated changes to business processes, models, and culture. Program management is the organizational backbone that successfully drives digital transformation by integrating multiple initiatives under one cohesive strategy.Through a structured examination of the program management lifecycle ...

This book illustrates how the traditional practice of project management advances to handle the more complex problems inherent to strategic organizational transformation.Projects are a part of everyday life in an organization. Tools and procedures for project management are well understood and applied. However, the management of projects by an organization for substantial transformation is less certain in both practice and study. An awareness of how to manage incre...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"A Strange & Terrible Wonder" by James Bennett"The Sisters" by Ai Jiang (reprint)"The Fish's Wife" by Jorja Osha"The Dreadful and Specific Monster of Starosibirsk" by Kristina Ten (reprint)

Electric motors are the largest consumer of electric energy and they play a critical role in the growing market for electrification. Due to their simple construction, switched reluctance motors (SRMs) are exceptionally attractive for the industry to respond to the increasing demand for high-efficiency, high-performance, and low-cost electric motors with a more secure supply chain.Switched Reluctance Motor Drives: Fundamentals to Applications is a comprehensive textbook covering the...

Plant Centromere Biology is dedicated to plant centromere research. Chapters cover the structure of centromeres from several plant species including Arabidopsis thaliana, rice, maize, wheat and beet, while other sections cover several unique characteristics associated with plant centromeres, including classical and modern neocentromeres, centromere drive and centromere misdivision. Additional chapters are dedicated to epigenetic modification and evolution of plant centromeres, and...

The aim of the book is to present and discuss new methods, issues and challenges involved in geoinformatics’ contribution to making transportation more intelligent, efficient and human-friendly. It covers a wide range of topics related to transportation and geoinformatics. The themes are divided into four main sections: Transport modeling, Sensor data and services, Intelligent transport systems, and Transport planning and accessibility.

IT changes everyday’s life, especially in education and medicine. The goal of ITME 2013 is to further explore the theoretical and practical issues of IT in education and medicine. It also aims to foster new ideas and collaboration between researchers and practitioners.

In 1930, John Maynard Keynes spelt out a vision of the impending utopia. Work, he said, will become a thing of the past. ‘For the first time since creation,’ he predicted, ‘man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem — how to occupy the leisure which science…will have won for him.’So where did this vision of future past go? Like baco-foil suits and meals of protein pills, it proved to be a concept that withered on the vine. Instead of an excess of free time to be enjoyed...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Clara Madrigano and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"Fisheyes" by Ai Jiang"Nothing is Wasted" by Seán Padraic Birnie"Idolo" by James Bennett"A Game at Clearwater Lake" by Gillian Daniels

This collection of readings places side by side the principal doctrines of contracts, torts, unjust enrichment, and property in the cases of the United States, England, France, Germany and China. It presents code provisions, cases, and other legal materials that describe the law in force, and places each doctrine in its historical context to enable an understanding of the development of law as an ongoing process, in which the resolution of current issues depends upon how past issues were r...

The Halcyon Fairy Book is a delightful collection of wry and insightful comments on traditional fairy tales, originally presented in her blog, along with her first collection of fairy-tale inspired original work, Toad Words.

This updated version of its internationally popular predecessor provides and introductory problem-solved text for understanding fundamental concepts of electronic devices, their design, and their circuitry. Providing an interface with Pspice, the most widely used program in electronics, new key features include a new chapter presenting the basics of switched mode power supplies, thirty-one new examples, and twenty-three PS solved problems.