Competing Solutions

Author : Joseph White
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015031767117

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Competing Solutions by Joseph White Pdf

"Health care costs too much and too many Americans go without it. While every other advanced industrial nation has virtually universal access to decent, affordable medical care, the United States has been stuck in massive conflict over how to provide this service to its citizens. Guaranteeing access to and controlling the costs of health care are extremely difficult and complex, fraught with risks and uncertainties. But can the nation afford not to address health care reform? Most Americans recognize that something must be done, yet agreeing on a cure for the nation's health care woes has proved to be exceedingly difficult." "Competing Solutions assesses the Clinton administration's proposals and several alternative plans. Joseph White examines the medical care systems of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom, revealing both the variety and the fundamental similarities of these systems. He shows how these countries have organized their financing and delivery of health care to achieve universal access and comparable quality care at much lower costs. He uses their experiences to explore the proper direction for American reform and to identify interesting alternatives."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Roger More
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317100423

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Marketing High Profit Product/Service Solutions by Roger More Pdf

Marketing High Profit Product/Service Solutions addresses one of the most exciting and growing strategic marketing opportunities facing product and service companies - ’bundling’. Many customers want bundled products and services which represent integrated solutions to their problems, rather than buying individual products and services piecemeal, and if you become that supplier it can transform a company. There are many outstanding examples: Magna International grew in several stages from a supplier of basic individual auto parts to a company manufacturing a product/service 'super-bundle'; ultimately sourcing and assembling the entire car itself. GE developed their business involving the supply of medical imaging machines to hospitals to become a 'super-bundler' of complete hospital radiological floor imaging operations planning, installation, and integration. IBM transformed their position as a supplier of individual hardware, software, and peripherals to companies into a product/service solution 'bundler' of increasing complexity, and finally into the 'super-bundle' of BPO (Business Process Outsourcing); representing an outsourced and complete integrated IT solution set for clients’ entire global operations. Roger More explores what was learned by these leading companies (amongst others) when they transformed their market strategies to become bundlers of complex integrated customer solutions. Over many years the author has developed and tested new concepts, maps and tools for use by a wide variety of managers in developing strategies for these bundled product/service solutions. His book now offers these maps and tools to all who invest in a copy.

Author : R. Preston McAfee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400828531

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Competitive Solutions by R. Preston McAfee Pdf

Competitive Solutions is an entertaining and wideranging introduction to successful business methods applied to a variety of real-world situations. Rejecting the one-size-fits-all premise that underlies so many guides to business strategy, Preston McAfee develops the intellectual tools and insights needed to confront many marketplace problems. Drawing on his broad experience as a consultant for major U.S. companies, as well as extensive research, McAfee emphasizes cooperation, pricing, litigation, and antitrust as vital to a firm's competitive posture--and focuses more attention on these elements than do most business strategy accounts. McAfee begins by considering strategy as successfully applied by America OnLine, an example that introduces many of the tools discussed in greater depth throughout the book. From here he moves to industry analysis: By examining the context for developing a strategy, he points out uses of positioning and differentiation that enable a firm to weaken price competition and deter rivals from stealing customers. McAfee's exploration of a product's life cycle proves an invaluable guide to positioning new technology in order to maximize the potential for future customers. In the centerpiece of the book, McAfee lays out a how-to manual for cooperation, providing tactics crucial for setting standards, lobbying the government, and fostering industry growth. Writing in a conversational manner, McAfee also addresses such deep topics as organizational design and employee compensation and incentives. More detailed discussions examine antitrust enforcement, which is an increasingly important constraint on strategy, as well as strategies for pricing, bidding, signaling, and bargaining. This book is a fascinating examination of modern business strategy and its application in many different settings. Students of business and economics--as well as executives and managers--will recognize Competitive Solutions as an indispensable resource as well as a definitive vision of the strategic firm: one in which each element of company strategy reinforces the other elements.

Author : Edward Kellogg Strong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Advertising
ISBN : UOM:39015021085074

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The Psychology of Selling and Advertising by Edward Kellogg Strong Pdf

Author : Madhusanka Liyanage,Andrei Gurtov,Mika Ylianttila
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118900284

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Software Defined Mobile Networks (SDMN) by Madhusanka Liyanage,Andrei Gurtov,Mika Ylianttila Pdf

This book describes the concept of a Software Defined Mobile Network (SDMN), which will impact the network architecture of current LTE (3GPP) networks. SDN will also open up new opportunities for traffic, resource and mobility management, as well as impose new challenges on network security. Therefore, the book addresses the main affected areas such as traffic, resource and mobility management, virtualized traffics transportation, network management, network security and techno economic concepts. Moreover, a complete introduction to SDN and SDMN concepts. Furthermore, the reader will be introduced to cutting-edge knowledge in areas such as network virtualization, as well as SDN concepts relevant to next generation mobile networks. Finally, by the end of the book the reader will be familiar with the feasibility and opportunities of SDMN concepts, and will be able to evaluate the limits of performance and scalability of these new technologies while applying them to mobile broadb and networks.

Author : Gerald E. Smith
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780529974

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Visionary Pricing by Gerald E. Smith Pdf

Presents the thinking from preeminent pricing thought leaders from North America, Europe, and Asia who originally came together many years ago to encourage the development of pricing. In this book, they assess the present and future destiny of pricing, pricing innovation, and pricing paradigms that are influencing the evolution of pricing.

Author : Marco Iansiti,Karim R. Lakhani
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633697638

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Competing in the Age of AI by Marco Iansiti,Karim R. Lakhani Pdf

"a provocative new book" — The New York Times AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. Now with a new preface that explores how the coronavirus crisis compelled organizations such as Massachusetts General Hospital, Verizon, and IKEA to transform themselves with remarkable speed, Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. From Airbnb to Ant Financial, Microsoft to Amazon, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional processes, allow massive scope increase, enabling companies to straddle industry boundaries, and create powerful opportunities for learning—to drive ever more accurate, complex, and sophisticated predictions. When traditional operating constraints are removed, strategy becomes a whole new game, one whose rules and likely outcomes this book will make clear. Iansiti and Lakhani: Present a framework for rethinking business and operating models Explain how "collisions" between AI-driven/digital and traditional/analog firms are reshaping competition, altering the structure of our economy, and forcing traditional companies to rearchitect their operating models Explain the opportunities and risks created by digital firms Describe the new challenges and responsibilities for the leaders of both digital and traditional firms Packed with examples—including many from the most powerful and innovative global, AI-driven competitors—and based on research in hundreds of firms across many sectors, this is your essential guide for rethinking how your firm competes and operates in the era of AI.

Author : Anna Nagurney,Dong Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319254517

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Competing on Supply Chain Quality by Anna Nagurney,Dong Li Pdf

This book lays the foundations for quality modeling and analysis in the context of supply chains through a synthesis of the economics, operations management, as well as operations research/management science literature on quality. The reality of today's supply chain networks, given their global reach from sourcing locations to points of demand, is further challenged by such issues as the growth in outsourcing as well as the information asymmetry associated with what producers know about the quality of their products and what consumers know. Although much of the related literature has focused on the micro aspects of supply chain networks, considering two or three decision-makers, it is essential to capture the scale of supply chain networks in a holistic manner that occurs in practice in order to be able to evaluate and analyze the competition and the impacts on supply chain quality in a quantifiable manner. This volume provides an overview of the fundamental methodologies utilized in this book, including optimization theory, game theory, variational inequality theory, and projected dynamical systems theory. It then focuses on major issues in today's supply chains with respect to quality, beginning with information asymmetry, followed by product differentiation and branding, the outsourcing of production, from components to final products, to quality in freight service provision. The book is filled with numerous real-life examples in order to emphasize the generality and pragmatism of the models and tools. The novelty of the framework lies in a network economics perspective through which the authors identify the underlying network structure of the various supply chains, coupled with the behavior of the decision-makers, ranging from suppliers and manufacturers to freight service providers. What is meant by quality is rigorously defined and quantified. The authors explore the underlying dynamics associated with the competitive processes along with the equilibrium solutions. As appropriate, the supply chain decision-makers compete in terms of quantity and quality, or in price and quality. The relevance of the various models that are developed to specific industrial sectors, including pharmaceuticals and high technology products, is clearly made. Qualitative analyses are provided, along with effective, and, easy to implement, computational procedures. Finally, the impacts of policy interventions, in the form of minimum quality standards, and their ramifications, in terms of product prices, quality levels, as well as profits are explored. The book is filled with many network figures, graphs, and tables with data.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Information Gatekeepers Inc
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781568511856

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FTTP: Still the Big News in 2006 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Chess
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU09207201

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The International Chess Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anil Sethi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031538940

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From Startup to Unicorn by Anil Sethi Pdf

Author : James W. Haefner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461541196

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Modeling Biological Systems by James W. Haefner Pdf

This book is intended as a text for a first course on creating and analyzing computer simulation models of biological systems. The expected audience for this book are students wishing to use dynamic models to interpret real data mueh as they would use standard statistical techniques. It is meant to provide both the essential principles as well as the details and equa tions applicable to a few particular systems and subdisciplines. Biological systems, however, encompass a vast, diverse array of topics and problems. This book discusses only a select number of these that I have found to be useful and interesting to biologists just beginning their appreciation of computer simulation. The examples chosen span classical mathematical models of well-studied systems to state-of-the-art topics such as cellular automata and artificial life. I have stressed the relationship between the models and the biology over mathematical analysis in order to give the reader a sense that mathematical models really are useful to biologists. In this light, I have sought examples that address fundamental and, I think, interesting biological questions. Almost all of the models are directly COIIl pared to quantitative data to provide at least a partial demonstration that some biological models can accurately predict.

Author : Allan James,Jonathan Leather
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110882933

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Second-Language Speech by Allan James,Jonathan Leather Pdf

Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.

Author : Lucila de Almeida,Josephine van Zeben
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781802205879

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Law in the EU's Circular Energy System by Lucila de Almeida,Josephine van Zeben Pdf

Adopting a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, this expertly crafted book comprehensively maps out the complex multi-jurisdictional legal landscape pertaining to the EU’s circular energy system. Offering in-depth critical analysis, it identifies several areas of law and policy that require further scholarly inquiry to ensure the creation of an effective policy framework which can facilitate the move from a linear to a circular energy system.

Author : G. Valle,F. Gardin,N. Cercone
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780444597403

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Computational Intelligence, III by G. Valle,F. Gardin,N. Cercone Pdf

In recent years AI has been experiencing a deep internal debate on the appropriateness of the symbolic-based paradigm and all of its consequences. While various symbolic representation schemes, as well as their integration, have been proposed, their limitations have continuously pushed researchers for improved versions or entirely new ones. New viewpoints such as the complex dynamic-based approach with neural nets can be regarded simply as new problem solving techniques with specific properties. Under this perspective, what seems to be important is the ability to combine heterogeneous representation and problem-solving techniques. Research on heterogeneous, intelligent systems goes hand in hand with research on specific problem solving methods and paradigms, therefore representing their conceptual and practical glueing element. The papers contained in this proceedings are just one instance of such awareness activity in the international scientific community.