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As an entrepreneur - and especially leading a medium-sized company - can you prepare for the future in a targeted manner? Which methods work and where do you succumb to classic thinking errors when planning for the future? This book shows how companies can develop viable future scenarios for their own market in order to remain successful and profitable in the future. Anyone who thought they were operating in a stable market and were prepared for crises was proven wrong by the Corona pandemic. But even less dramatic influences such as technological disruption, side attacks by competitors from outside the industry or end-of-life scenarios are massively changing the environment of companies and demand - at the latest now! - a rethink.In this completely revised 2nd edition, the author shows why early planning for the future can be decisive for success, why one should not rely on experience and intuition, and which mistakes should be avoided. In addition, he explains which tools can be used and put together to form a well-founded process with which future, but also crisis, management can be creatively planned.A useful guide for managing directors, executives, marketing managers and planners in medium-sized companies - with helpful tips, illustrative examples and an individually adaptable template for a future workshop.This book is a translation of the original German 2nd edition Zukunftsmanagement für den Mittelstand by Heino Hilbig, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

This open access book is geared towards providing insights and stimulating new thinking about the changing nature of services, service work and workers, and service experiences during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, particularly focusing on digital service technology. This book serves as a useful resource for business practitioners and academics in the areas of service and human resource management. Each chapter deals with specific current issues within these industries due to COVID-19 and issues that will come up post-pandemic. As COVID-19 is expected introduce novel methods to the service sector, such as untact service, telecommuting, alternative work arrangements, job crafting, and new work skills, digital technology is becoming more important than ever before. This books provides a range of examples and cases to elaborate on the effective application of digital service technology in order for businesses to stay relevant in the current climate.

The book analyzes the success factors of ecological and social brands and offers insights into the strategies of modern corporations, family businesses and social enterprises.

The book introduces the concept of encounter CONNECT-ED from the practice of working with the elderly to impart media skills and presents empirical data on the social participation and quality of life of the participants.

This book shows how the principles of Lean Management can be applied to project management and how some typical problems of project management can be solved by this. Along these principles, the author then elaborates typical current challenges of project management and shows how these challenges can be tackled through Lean Project Management.

Several key topics are explored including opportunities to develop more coherent and scalable approaches to govern biosecurity from a laboratory perspective up to the international scale and strategies to prevent potential health and environmental hazards posed by deliberate misuse of synthetic biology without stifling innovation.

The Venus Express spacecraft, which was launched in November 2005 and ceased activity in December 2014, has brought about a new wealth of data on Venus¿s atmosphere, surface, and space environment. Following the completion of this landmark mission, an overview of the current state of scientific understanding of Venus has been assembled into a single collection.The ten papers in this book, written by an international team of specialists, are the products of this effort. They review our knowledge of Venus¿s interior structure, surface composition, and atmosphere in terms of thermal structure, dynamics, composition, chemistry, clouds, aeronomy, and interaction with the solar wind. Additionally, they identify the questions and measurements that remain open for study in ongoing and future research and exploration efforts. The resulting volume is primarily intended for students and researchers of planetary science.This bookis a follow-up to the pioneering book Venus, published in 1983, and its successor volume Venus II, published in 1997, stood at their respective times as the most authoritative single-volume works available on the planet. Originally published in Space Science Reviews in the Topical Collection "Venus III"

1 Current research on human rights education globally.- 2 A review of human rights education in  higher education.- 3 Insights from students on human rights education in India, South Africa, Sweden and the United States.- 4 The state of HRE in higher education worldwide.- 5 Human rights education as a link to the counterbalance strategy of the Sanctuary Cities against federal immigration programs in the USA.- 6 The promises and challenges of human rights cities.- 7 HRE in the era of global aging: The human rights of older persons in contemporary Europe.- 8 Human rights as an instrument of social cohesion in South Asia.- 9 Evaluating research on human rights education globally.

Anliegen des Buches ist es, einer Psychotherapie mit Schmerzpatienten den Nimbus des Schwierigen und Belastenden zu nehmen. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele werden Aspekte therapeutischen Handelns diskutiert, die Betroffenen dabei helfen, sich selbst zu bejahen als Mensch, der wertvoll ist und bleibt, unabhängig davon, ob seine Schmerzen weniger, stärker oder gleich bleiben werden. Im Hinblick auf dieses Ziel werden therapeutische Grundhaltungen sowie konkrete Interventionen beschrieben, abgeleitet aus den Wünschen und Bedürfnissen schmerzkranker Menschen zum einen, aus Untersuchungsbefunden von Neurowissenschaften und Psychotherapieforschung zum anderen.

Viel ist jüngst zu lesen von disruptiven Technologien, von Elektromobilität und von Wasserstoffstrategien. Wie der Weg dahin ausgesehen hat, was es bedeutet, eine disruptive Technologie zu etablieren und wie facettenreich die Widerstände sein können, das wissen die wenigsten. Die spannende Geschichte aus ihrer persönlichen Sicht und ihrer persönlichen Erfahrung heraus erzählen die beiden Autoren Werner Tillmetz und André Martin. Mit beeindruckenden Erlebnissen, stimulierenden Erfolgen und frustrierenden Rückschlägen schildern sie, wie die Entwicklung der Brennstoffzellentechnologie auch auf internationaler Ebene verlief. Sie zeigen am Fallbeispiel der Brennstoffzelle für die Elektromobilität, welche Erfolgsfaktoren für eine Basisinnovation gegeben sein müssen, wie andere Länder an eine Energiestrategie herangehen und was sich daraus lernen lässt. Anekdoten von Wegbegleitern runden das Bild auf unterhaltsame Weise ab. Das Buch eignet sich für technikinteressierte Laien ebenso wie für alle, die sich für Brennstoffzellen und Wasserstoff sowie das Thema Innovationen interessieren.Prof. Dr. Werner Tillmetz hat in angewandter Elektrochemie promoviert und treibt seit 1987 in unterschiedlichen Positionen und Unternehmen Brennstoffzellen, Wasserstoff und Batterien voran. Er wirkte in zahlreichen Gremien wie der Nationalen Plattform Elektromobilität mit, ist Mitglied im Beirat der Nationalen Organisation Wasserstoff und Brennstoffzellen und unterstützt internationale Unternehmen mit seiner Expertise.André Martin ist Diplomvolkswirt, war u.a. als Vorstand der Ballard Power Systems AG über 20 Jahre in Führungspositionen der Brennstoffzellenindustrie tätig, bereitete von 2007¿2009 die Joint Technology Initiative Brennstoffzellen und H2 in Brüssel vor und war bis 2020 Aufsichtsratsmitglied der Powercell, Schweden. Er war langjähriger Vorstand des Deutschen Wasserstoff- u. Brennstoffzellen-Verbands und ist gegenwärtig als freier Berater tätig.

The textbook looks at the German federal state from the perspective of the Lander. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition, Die deutschen Lander by Werner Reutter, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020.

This book critically assesses the current state of knowledge on new and important detection technologies, e.g. mass spectrometry, tandem mass spectrometry, biosensor detection and tissue imaging, in connection with toxic chemical and biological agents. In general, the main topics discussed concern the risks and consequences of chemical and biological agents for human health in general, with special emphasis on all biochemical and metabolic pathways including the reproductive system. The exposome, genetic risks and the environment, various health hazard agents, risk assessment, environmental assessment and preparedness, and analysis of sub-lethal effects at the molecular level are also discussed. In closing, the book provides comprehensive information on the diagnosis of exposure, and on health concerns related to toxic chemical and biological agents.

This book critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to cultural identity, set against the current backdrop of growing social stratification and unequal access to quality education. It addresses current discourses concerning globalisation, ideologies and the state, as well as approaches to constructing national, ethnic and religious identities in the global culture. It explores the ambivalent and problematic connections between the state, globalisation, the construction of cultural identity, and the nation-building process ¿ also in connection with history education and the history textbooks used in schools. The book also explores conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches applicable to research on the state, globalisation, nation-building and identity politics. Drawing on diverse paradigms, ranging from critical theory to globalisation, the book, by focusing on globalisation, ideology and cultural identity, critically examines recent research in history education and its impact of identity politics, as well as the most significant dimensions defining and contextualising the processes surrounding nation-building and identity politics globally. Given the need for a multiple perspective approach, the authors, who have diverse backgrounds and hail from different countries and regions, offer a wealth of insights, contributing to a more holistic understanding of the nexus between the nation-state and national identity.