After losing his five-year-old daughter to an inoperable brain tumor, Karthik Ganesh set out to understand the fundamental questions of life, death, and happiness.He found the answers he was looking for in the ancient Indian philosophy Vedanta, which originated in the Himalayas and has been explored by spiritual seekers for thousands of years. From its teachings, Ganesh has developed The Happiness Model. It is a beacon of hope not only for those who have experienced great loss but also for...

When outer success outpaces inner alignment,performance begins to drift.Most people are not failing.They are functioning.They meet expectations and perform well — yet something feels off. Pressure rises. Clarity fades. Fulfilment stays just out of reach.Fusion Code reveals a simple truth — performance does not come from effort alone. It comes from alignment.This book explores the two worlds e...

As manufacturing companies become global, excellence will be key to the survival of Indian manufacturing businesses. Despite India's good performance on the export front in recent years, India is being outperformed by its competitors. Indian manufacturing companies must compete with global companies and become world class organizations to be competitive.Organizational Culture and its Impact on Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing presents detailed insights into recent s...

This book offers a conceptual, theoretical, and empirical overview of the role of total quality management (TQM) in Indian higher education from the perspectives of the engineering faculty, students, and alumni. It identifies the critical dimensions to measure the performance of TQM.This volume conceptualizes the service quality of higher education, especially in engineering education, through empirical assessment of the services being provided to major stakeholders like the facult...

This book introduces the fundamental principles of understanding business requirements to apply enterprise resource planning (ERP) in order to meet business needs. The book also helps readers understand the usage of ERP for monitoring and controlling business processes, while providing practical oriented solutions to the design and implementation of ERP. Using the provided framework, a business can decide to provide more value at lower cost which increases its competitive advantage. This s...

Resource Allocation (RA) involves the distribution and utilization of available resources in the system. Because resource availability is usually scarce and expensive, it becomes important to find optimal solutions to such problems. Thus RA problems represent an important class of problems faced by mathematical programmers. This book focuses on development of models and heuristics for six new and complex sub-classes of RA problems in Supply Chain (SC) networks, focusing on bi-objectives, d...

Stock market manipulation is detrimental to traders and corporations, causes unnecessary price fluctuations, and only benefits financial criminals. The research presented here determines an appropriate model to help identify stocks witnessing activities that are indicative of potential manipulation through three separate but related studies.In Developing an Effective Model for Detecting Trade-Based Market Manipulation, classifiers based on three different techniques namely...

This book deals with complex variants of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) and Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) within the manufacturing and service industries. The objective is to develop heuristics for these supply chain problems in order to offer practical solutions to improve operational efficiency. These heuristics are evaluated using benchmark and derived data-sets. Case studies pertaining to logistics in different industries including textile machinery manufacturing and banking are als...

This book examines the modules/elements required before implementing knowledge management solutions in typical manufacturing and service industry. The objective is to develop a framework, design and model suitable for all requirements and a strategy to properly implement. Related case studies from organizations are included, with the results provided to use as a solution to problems experienced when implementing knowledge management in the industry.Implementing a knowledge manageme...

This book examines the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem (CLSP) in process industries. In almost all process industries, there are situations where products have short/long setup times, and the setup of the product and its subsequent production are carried over, across consecutive periods. The setup of a product is carried over across more than one successive period in the case of products having long setup times. A product having short setup has its setup time less than the capacity of the p...

This book offers an elaborate and empirical look at service quality of hospitals in the emerging market of India. The poor quality of service is a major issue in a large number of hospitals (particularly in government hospitals), which forces patients to opt for private hospitals that are generally much more expensive than government hospitals. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of service quality antecedents in Indian hospitals. It focuses on patient satisfaction and include...

Is AI merely another wave of hype that will fade into the background of organisational technology, or will it fundamentally redefine leadership, work, and human relevance? Will leaders embrace it so fully that human judgment is sidelined-or will fear-driven narratives of super-intelligent machines distract us from the real challenges already at hand?While definitive answers are still forming, one reality is clear - Artificial Intelligence is forcing governments, organisations, and s...