The management of technology and innovation: a strategic approach

THE MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION: A STRATEGIC APPROACH explores the fundamental connections linking core business strategy, technology, and innovation. The book illustrates how these functions intertwine to play a central role in process layout, systems, structural design, and product development, as well as supporting an organization's overall success. An integrated approach and rea…

Concept-oriented research and development in information technology

This book thoroughly analyzes the relationships between concept, technology, and market—which are the main factors in shifting information technology research and development (R&D) to a new approach. It discusses unconventional methods and viewpoints of concept creation, technology innovation, and market cultivation. Featuring contributions from international experts and case studies from IBM…

Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology 2012 (IWAIT 2…

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Weapons of choice : the development of precision guided munitions

“A significant addition to the field, for there are not many books specifically devoted to PGMs and still fewer that attempt to relate that technology to military and national security strategy.”—David R. Mets, author of The Long Search for a Surgical Strike: Precision Munitions and the Revolution in Military Affairs

Strategic security management : a risk assessment guide for decision makers

Supports data driven security that is measurable, quantifiable and practical. This book provides a perspective on the risk assessment process. It explores the process of security analysis for decision making. It covers metric-based security resource allocation of countermeasures, including security procedures, personnel, and electronic measures.

Security first : for a muscular, moral foreign policy

What should American policies be toward liberated countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, or rogue states like North Korea and Iran? What must be done to protect America from nuclear terrorism? The author asserts that providing basic security must be the first priority in all foreign policy considerations, even ahead of efforts to democratize.

Deterrence : from Cold War to long war : lessons from six decades of Rand det…

Since its inception six decades ago, the RAND Corporation has been one of the key institutional homes for the study of deterrence. This book examines much of this research for lessons relevant to the current and future strategic environment. It is therefore part intellectual history and part policy recommendation, intended to encourage debate and discussion on how deterrence can best be incorpo…

Breaking the phalanx : a new design for landpower in the 21st century

This work proposes the reorganization of America's ground forces on the strategic, operational and tactical levels. Central to the proposal is the simple thesis that the U.S. Army must take control of its future by exploiting the emerging revolution in military affairs. The analysis argues that a new Army warfighting organization will not only be more deployable and effective in Joint operation…

Beyond security, ethics and violence : war against the other

"Anthony Burke offers an analysis of the historical roots of sovereignty and security, his critique of just war theory, and new essays on strategy, the concept of freedom and US exceptionalism. He pursues searching critical engagements with thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Hardt and Negri, Emmanuel Levinas, Carl von Clausewitz, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Michael Walzer, Michel Foucault and William …

New philosophy for new media

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xxvii, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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