Implementing IT Business Strategy in the Construction Industry

Implementing IT Business Strategy in the Construction Industry
Author: Hua, Goh Bee
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2013-06-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 146664186X

Technology development has provided fundamental benefits of speed, precision, and convenience to common business strategies; providing not only a means for functional integration, but also an opportunity to enhance competitive capability of a business firm. Implementing IT Business Strategy in the Construction Industry brings together topics on understanding business strategy and competitive advantage, as well as essential benefits of concepts and technologies for improving efficiency of the construction industry. This reference source is directed toward researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, undergraduate, and postgraduate students, in order to gain insights into the complex workings of the traditional construction industry and the concepts and tools used to facilitate a strategically IT enabled industry.

Business Strategies for Electrical Infrastructure Engineering: Capital Project Implementation

Business Strategies for Electrical Infrastructure Engineering: Capital Project Implementation
Author: Wilson, Reginald
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466628405

With the principles of business strategies in mind, the analysis of cost containment plans, project risk evaluation, and the wide-range of quality planning techniques is essential for the integration of renewable generation and capital-intense endeavors in the current electrical infrastructure. Business Strategies for Electrical Infrastructure Engineering: Capital Project Implementation brings together research on informed-decision making within the strategic planning sphere of system integration. By highlighting social responsibility and environmental issues, this book is essential for technologically-literate executives, engineers, application analysts and many more interested in high-impact process evaluation.

Frontiers of Business, Management and Economics

Frontiers of Business, Management and Economics
Author: Mehran Nejati
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2013-06-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 161233265X

This edited book is a compilation of research studies conducted in the areas of business, management and economics. These cutting-edge articles will be of interest to researchers, academics, and business managers.

Collaborative Airport Capital Planning Handbook

Collaborative Airport Capital Planning Handbook
Author: Laurie Cullen
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2011
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309213231

"Provides guidance to those in the airport community who have responsibility for, and stake in, developing, financing, managing, and overseeing an airport capital plan and the individual projects included in it. The handbook provides clear guidance on who should perform each task in the collaborative planning process. It also defines and describes the different ways in which we communicate to ensure effective exchange between internal and external stakeholders"--

Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition

Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition
Author: Eugenio Arbizzani
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1027
Release: 2023-06-29
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3031295153

This open access book addresses the pressing need for sustainability in urban development and the use of technology, with cities to serve as the main stage for strategies that seek to meet the targets and the cross-sector priorities indicated in the EU’s Next Generation program, all in pursuit of a solid recovery on the part of the European economy, along lines of ecological transition, digitalization, competitiveness, training, and inclusion to overcome social, territorial, and gender differences. The international study encounter is meant to promote visions shared by architectural technology and other disciplines, which, though they may appear to differ, are closely interconnected, with the aim of achieving an open, interdisciplinary integration capable of proposing concrete projects regarding topics held to be of strategic importance to the future of the built environment. These are identified to draw up evolving scenarios of architecture and cities suited to reflection, at various levels, on innovative models of process and product.

2020 International Conference on Data Processing Techniques and Applications for Cyber-Physical Systems

2020 International Conference on Data Processing Techniques and Applications for Cyber-Physical Systems
Author: Chuanchao Huang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1669
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811617260

This book covers cutting-edge and advanced research on data processing techniques and applications for cyber-physical systems, gathering the proceedings of the International Conference on Data Processing Techniques and Applications for Cyber-Physical Systems (DPTA 2020), held in Laibin City, Guangxi Province, China, on December 11–12, 2020. It examines a wide range of topics, including distributed processing for sensor data in CPS networks; approximate reasoning and pattern recognition for CPS networks; data platforms for efficient integration with CPS networks; machine learning algorithms for CPS networks; and data security and privacy in CPS networks. Outlining promising future research directions, the book offers a valuable resource for students, researchers, and professionals alike, while also providing a useful reference guide for newcomers to the field.