This book demonstrates that innovative ideas are systematically constructed in the creative space spanned by the dimensions of systems thinking and knowledge management. Readers will be introduced to this proposition in the final chapter, after learning about the key innovation theories, design...

Part 1. Various Applications of S&G -- Chapter 1. Introducing Arrival City Game for Neighborhood Diversity -- Chapter 2. Designing a Human Computation Game for Enhancing Early-Phase Movie Box Office Prediction -- Chapter 3. Hallucifear: Educational Game about Drug Addiction -- Chapter 4. A...

Part I. Religiosity, Spirituality, and Business -- Chapter 1. Corporate Society, the Foundation of Order, and “Quaker Codes” -- Chapter 2. Management of Miracles and Pilgrimage: A Comparative Study of Votive Offering in Europe and Japan -- Chapter 3. Spiritual Leadership: Background, Theory...

Chapter 1: Transformations of Services -- Chapter 2: Human-centric service co-innovation in public services from a practice-based perspective: a case of elderly care -- Chapter 3: Systems perspectives on the interaction between human and technological resources -- Chapter 4: HUMAN-CENTERED...

This book presents a general conceptual framework to translate principles of system science and engineering to service design. Services are co-created immaterial, heterogeneous, and perishable state changes. A service system includes the intended benefit to the customer and the structure and...

This book expands the foundations of general systems theory to enable progress beyond the rich heuristic practices available today. It establishes a foundational framework for the development of scientific transdisciplinary systems principles and shows how these can amplify the potential of...

This book offers a service science perspective on platform orchestration and on collaborative consumption, providing an overview of research topics related to service dominant logic in multi-sided markets. The chapters give an international and multi-disciplinary overview of the current topics...

This is the first book to introduce the major quantitative tools in risk management taking financial investments and logistics planning as the background: optimization and stochastic programming. Contained here are the fundamentals of portfolio selection theory from the point of view of risk...

This book presents emerging work in the co-evolving fields of design-led systemics, referred to as systemic design to distinguish it from the engineering and hard science epistemologies of system design or systems engineering. There are significant societal forces and organizational demands...