1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459743303321

Autore

Jenster Per V

Titolo

Market intelligence [[electronic resource] ] : building strategic insight / / Per V. Jenster & Klaus Solberg Søilen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Frederiksberg, Denmark], : Copenhagen Business School Press

Portland, OR, : International Specialized Book Services [distributor], 2009

ISBN

87-630-9953-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SøilenKlaus Solberg

Disciplina

658.4/72

Soggetti

Marketing - Decision making

Marketing - Management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Market Intelligence""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""CHAPTER 1 Converging Foundations of Intelligence Analysis""; ""It Depends how you Look at It""; ""Focus of the Analysis""; ""Decisional “Altitude�""; ""Decisional Scope""; ""Customer/Market Scope""; ""Product and Technological Scope""; ""Network Definition""; ""Temporal Dimension""; ""Competitive Battlefield""; ""Academic Perspectives""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER 2 Strategies for a Competitive Advantage""; ""Seeking a Competitive Advantage""; ""The Organization�s Strategic Options""

""It is not all about Aggression""""Deterrence""; ""Attack Strategies""; ""Defensive Strategies""; ""REFERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 3 Industry Analysis: Key to Understanding the Competitive Situation""; ""The Importance of Industry Analysis""; ""The Concepts of Industry Analysis""; ""Factors which Influence the Competitive Position""; ""Competitors in the Industry""; ""Buyers (the converse of these factors apply to suppliers)""; ""Entry Barriers""; ""Exit Barriers""; ""Substitutes""; ""Influencers""; ""The Industry and the Macro or External Business Environment""; ""The Life Cycle and the Industry""

""What is the “Industry�?""""Industry Analysis in Practice""; ""Making Sense of a Mass of Information""; ""The Outline Diagrams"";



""Mapping Strategic Groups""; ""Taking a Dynamic View""; ""REFERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 4 Company Analysis: Assessing Competitive Fitness""; ""Introduction""; ""The Company Analysis""; ""How to Perform a Company Analysis""; ""Why Perform the Company Analysis""; ""Preparing a Strategic Plan""; ""Review of the Strategic Situation""; ""Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As)""; ""Divestments""; ""Analysis of Synergies""; ""REFERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 5 Intelligence Analysis""

""The Need for a Method""""What do we want from Competitor Analysis?""; ""Developing Competitor Profiles""; ""Marketing Diagrams""; ""Portfolio Analysis""; ""Sources of Customer Value: The Value Chain""; ""Benchmarking""; ""Competitor Newsletters""; ""Using Critical Success Factors in Planning""; ""Information Focused on Factors Influencing Strategic Success""; ""An Overview of the Design Process""; ""Designing a Strategic Information System""; ""Step 1: Structure the Design Process""; ""Step 2: Determine the Elements Influencing Success""; ""Step 3: Develop or Review the Strategic Plan""

""Step 4: Identify CSFs""""Step 5: Determine who is Responsible""; ""Step 6: Select Strategic Performance Indicators""; ""Step 7: Development of Reporting Procedures""; ""Step 8: Implement System and Initiate System Use""; ""Step 9: Establish Evaluation Procedures""; ""Conclusion""; ""RERERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 6 Building an Effective Business Intelligence System: Technology and Organizational Structure""; ""Strong Growth in BI Software Market""; ""Integrated Business Intelligence Systems""; ""Real Time Business Intelligence Systems""; ""Organizational Models of Intelligence""

""1. The Special Department Model of Intelligence""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451681503321

Autore

Rupp George

Titolo

Globalization challenged [[electronic resource] ] : conviction, conflict, community / / George Rupp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-283-00812-2

9786613008121

0-231-51135-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 p.)

Collana

University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures

Altri autori (Persone)

BhagwatiJagdish

ProudfootWayne

WaldronJeremy

Disciplina

305.8009/0511

Soggetti

Cultural pluralism

Globalization - Social aspects

Globalization - Religious aspects

Social conflict

Communities

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (Sociology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Conviction in an age of globalization -- Local conflict, global migration -- Globalization and the challenge of inclusive community -- Jagdish Bhagwati : arguing for pluralism -- Jeremy Waldron, secularism and the limits of community -- Wayne Proudfoot : religious convictions and global justice -- Another look at conflict, community, and conviction.

Sommario/riassunto

In Globalization Challenged, George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. According to Rupp, the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive without denying the validity of particular commitments. While he acknowledges the threat of "resurgent fundamentalism," Rupp also criticizes secularists who fail to



recognize or acknowledge the role of religion and its ideological equivalents in influencing public policy. All views, he asserts, are subject to comparative appraisal. The challenge is to develop ways to evaluate different approaches responsibly, leading to a greater understanding of one's own convictions as well as the positions of others.Rupp reinforces his critical and theoretical analysis with dramatic accounts of recent events in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan-places where the International Rescue Committee operates. He then addresses the role of globalization in fueling instability worldwide. Inadequately regulated privatization has compromised health care, education, and social programs in many countries, whereas an inclusive community would encourage a more equitable distribution of resources.Essays by Jagdish Bhagwati, Jeremy Waldron, and Wayne Proudfoot expand Rupp's arguments, and in a final chapter Rupp responds to the issues they raise. Essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand the roots of today's geopolitical tensions, Globalization Challenged asks that we shed our complacency, recognize the legitimate role of conviction, and take actions to shape a more just and inclusive society.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910139486703321

Autore

Schiestel Roland

Titolo

Modeling and simulation of turbulent flows [[electronic resource] /] / Roland Schiestel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : ISTE

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2008

ISBN

1-282-16480-5

9786612164804

0-470-61084-0

0-470-39346-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (751 p.)

Collana

ISTE ; ; v.4

Disciplina

532.0527015118

532/.0527015118

Soggetti

Turbulence - Mathematical models

Fluid dynamics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Modeling and Simulation of Turbulent Flows; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Fundamentals in Statistical Modeling: Basic Physical Concepts; 1.1. The nature of turbulence; 1.2. The various approaches to turbulence; 1.3. Homogenous and isotropic turbulence (HIT); 1.4. Kolmogorov hypotheses and the local isotropy theory; 1.5. One point closures; 1.6. Functional description of turbulence; 1.7. Turbulent diffusion and Lagrangian description; 1.8. Two-dimensional turbulence; Chapter 2. Turbulence Transport Equations for an Incompressible Fluid

2.1. General transport equations2.2. Equations specific to the main types of turbulent flows; Chapter 3. Mathematical Tools; 3.1. Tensors; 3.2. Euclidian space in curvilinear coordinates, tensor fields; 3.3. Orthogonal curvilinear coordinates; 3.4. Conformal transformation; 3.5. Invariants; 3.6. Representation of tensorial functions; 3.7. Fourier transform in the fluctuating field; 3.8. Wavelet transform; Chapter 4. Methodology for One Point Closures; 4.1. Order of magnitude estimate



of terms in the turbulence transport equations

4.2. Application to the momentum equations, and the k and ε equations4.3. Derivation of closure hypotheses; 4.4. The formalist approach: Lumley's invariant modeling; 4.5. Examples of application; 4.6. Realizability problem; 4.7. Objectivity and material indifference; 4.8. Diffusive correlations; 4.9. Probability densities and stochastic models; 4.10. Intermittency; 4.11. Practicing with the development tools; Chapter 5. Homogenous Anisotropic Turbulence; 5.1. The Craya equation; 5.2. One-dimensional spectral properties in homogenous turbulent shear flows

5.3. Rapid part of pressure correlations in the rapid distortion of isotropic turbulence5.4. Spectral models; 5.5. Turbulence associated to a passive scalar; 5.6. One point correlation equations in HAT; 5.7. Examples of anisotropic homogenous turbulent flows; 5.8. Rapid distortion theory for an homogenous turbulent flow; 5.9. Additional information on linear solutions; 5.10. Interdependency between differing closure levels: the spectral integral approach; Chapter 6. Modeling of the Reynolds Stress Transport Equations; 6.1. The Reynolds stress transport equations and their trace

6.2. Modeling viscous dissipation terms6.3. Modeling turbulent diffusion terms; 6.4. Pressure-strain correlations; 6.5. Determination of numerical constants; 6.6. The realizability of the basic models; Chapter 7. Turbulence Scales; 7.1. The turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate equation; 7.2. Modeling of diffusive terms; 7.3. Modeling of source and sink terms; 7.4. Determination of numerical constants; 7.5. Corrective changes introduced on the dissipation equation; 7.6. Reconsidering the ε equation: an asymptotic behavior with finite energy?; 7.7. Tensorial volumes

7.8. Case of generation of turbulence injected at a fixed wavenumber

Sommario/riassunto

This title provides the fundamental bases for developing turbulence models on rational grounds. The main different methods of approach are considered, ranging from statistical modelling at various degrees of complexity to numerical simulations of turbulence. Each of these various methods has its own specific performances and limitations, which appear to be complementary rather than competitive. After a discussion of the basic concepts, mathematical tools and methods for closure, the book considers second order closure models. Emphasis is placed upon this approach because it embodies potentials