Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Industries - Service

This book examines the changing business and economic environment for postal services in Lithuania and the upcoming challenges for this industry. Postal services continue to play a central part in the development of national economies. However, the economic and social role of postal services has changed rapidly and fundamentally over the last two decades. In most industrialized countries, paper-based communications are in serious decline, while the demand for parcel delivery services is rising steadily with the continuing development of e-commerce, just-in-time production techniques, and...

Penni McLean-Conner, in her book Profiles, shares the stories of eight all-star chief customer officers who have demonstrated success in creating a customer-focused culture, developing a team dedicated to customers and providing valued customer facing products and services. These CCOs are focused on their customers and their employees. They actively develop their team and love celebrating success. This must-read for aspiring customer service leaders also tells the stories of the CCOs' career paths and offers a lens into their visions for serving customers now and into the future.

Healthcare transformation requires us to continually look at new and better ways to manage insights both within and outside the organization today. Increasingly, the ability to glean and operationalize new insights efficiently as a byproduct of an organization s day-to-day operations is becoming vital to hospitals and health systems ability to survive and prosper. One of the long-standing challenges in healthcare informatics has been the ability to deal with the sheer variety and volume of disparate healthcare data and the increasing need to derive veracity and value out of it....

Advances in health information technology (health IT) have the potential to improve the quality of healthcare, to increase the availability of health information for treatment, and to implement safeguards that cannot be applied easily or cost-effectively to paper-based health records. However, the digitization of health information is also raising new privacy

risks and concerns. Sensitive health information in digital form is more easily aggregated, used, and shared. In addition, the rising cost of healthcare and the search for efficiency may create incentives to use the...

Translating research into practice involves creating interventions that are relevant to improving the lives of a target population. Community engaged research has emerged as an evidence-based approach to better address the complex issues that affect the health of marginalized populations.

Written by leading community-engaged researchers across disciplines, each chapter covers a different topic with comprehensive guides for start-to-finish planning and execution. The book provides a training curriculum that supports a common vision among stakeholders as well as a survey of methods...

The arts sector is of vital importance to the global economy and students involved in the visual arts are increasingly required to gain an understanding of the business side of the arts world. This textbook introduces the field of arts management with a focus on visual arts.

With coverage of key arenas such as auctions, museums and art fairs, the author includes examples from for-profit and non-profit enterprises. Key topics introduced include curation, venue management, marketing, cultural heritage compliance, taxation, and conservation.

This unique textbook,...

The arts sector is of vital importance to the global economy and students involved in the visual arts are increasingly required to gain an understanding of the business side of the arts world. This textbook introduces the field of arts management with a focus on visual arts.

With coverage of key arenas such as auctions, museums and art fairs, the author includes examples from for-profit and non-profit enterprises. Key topics introduced include curation, venue management, marketing, cultural heritage compliance, taxation, and conservation.

This unique textbook,...