Introverted employees are often not visible. Yet they have the same potential as extroverted employees. These employees are often not promoted because they are not visible. In times of a shortage of qualified employees, this represents a huge untapped potential. Furthermore, as a manager, you are responsible for ensuring equal treatment for all employees and promoting diversity within the company. Do you sometimes ask yourself one or more of these questions? Do you think introverted employees are not ready for a leadership role? Do introverts have different career plans? How do you approach talented employees and show them development paths? What do you need to be aware of when managing and communicating with introverted employees? How do you create a workplace where an introverted employee can reach their full potential? This book will help you find answers to these questions and gives you important tips on how to maximize the potential of introverted employees.

Innovate your business by incorporating design thinking Organizations that can innovate have an advantage over competitors who stick to old processes, models, and products. Design Thinking For Dummies walks would-be intrapreneurs through the steps of incorporating design thinking principles into their organizations. Written by a recognized expert in the field of design thinking, the book guides readers through the steps of adapting to a design thinking culture, identifying customer problems, creating and testing solutions, and making innovation an ongoing process. The book covers the crucial and central topics in design thinking, including: Adopting a design thinking mindset Building creative environments Facilitating design thinking workshops Working through the design thinking cycle Implementing your solutions And many more Design Thinking For Dummies is a great starting place for people joining design-oriented teams and organizations, as well as small businesses and start-ups seeking to take advantage of the same methods and techniques that large firms have used to grow and succeed.

New business models are supposed to provide answers to never-asked questions about problems that everyone is waiting for solutions to. This book is for founders and managers who may deal with innovations of business models directly or indirectly. You will find countless tips, recommendations, checklists and methods in this book on how to identify, analyze, develop, change and manage new business models.

Embedded microprocessor systems are affecting our daily lives at a fast pace, mostly unrecognised by the general public. Most of us are aware of the part they are playing in increasing business efficiency through office applications such as personal computers, printers and copiers. Only a few people, however, fully appreciate the growing role of embedded systems in telecommunications and industrial environments, or even in everyday products like cars and home appliances. The challenge to engineers and managers is not only highlighted by the sheer size of the market, ' 1.5 billion microcontrollers and microprocessors are produced every year ' but also by the accelerating innovation in embedded systems towards higher complexity in hardware, software and tools as well as towards higher performance and lower consumption. To maintain competitiveness in this demanding environment, an optimum mix of innovation, time to market and system cost is required. Choosing the right options and strategies for products and companies is crucial and rarely obvious. In this book the editors have, therefore, skilfully brought together more than fifty contributions from some of the leading authorities in embedded systems. The papers are conveniently grouped in four sections.

Tragwerke in Holzleimbau gehören zu den visuell faszinierendsten Arten, weite Räume zu überspannen. Die Einsatzmöglichkeiten sind bautypologisch vielfältig und reichen von Dachkonstruktionen über Hallen bis hin zu Brücken. Die eleganten, schlanken Konstruktionen werden heute immer häufiger für ästhetisch anspruchsvolle Bauaufgaben eingesetzt. Bei bestimmten Aufgaben wie etwa Thermalbädern ist Holz durch seine hohe Beständigkeit anderen Materialien überlegen. Weiterhin bietet es die Vorteile eines ökologisch verträglichen, klimaschonenden Baustoffs. Insgesamt gesehen hat die rasche technologische Innovation auf diesem Gebiet im Laufe des Jahrhunderts viele Bauten entstehen lassen, die heute ein eindrucksvolles Zeugnis von den Möglichkeiten des Materials Holz geben. Dieses Buch zeigt das Spektrum dieser Technologie anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen aus Deutschland, der Schweiz, den Niederlanden, Skandinavien, Frankreich sowie Nord- und Südamerika.

This book is a comprehensive introduction into Organic Computing (OC), presenting systematically the current state-of-the-art in OC. It starts with motivating examples of self-organising, self-adaptive and emergent systems, derives their common characteristics and explains the fundamental ideas for a formal characterisation of such systems. Special emphasis is given to a quantitative treatment of concepts like self-organisation, emergence, autonomy, robustness, and adaptivity. The book shows practical examples of architectures for OC systems and their applications in traffic control, grid computing, sensor networks, robotics, and smart camera systems. The extension of single OC systems into collective systems consisting of social agents based on concepts like trust and reputation is explained. OC makes heavy use of learning and optimisation technologies; a compact overview of these technologies and related approaches to self-organising systems is provided. So far, OC literature has been published with the researcher in mind. Although the existing books have tried to follow a didactical concept, they remain basically collections of scientific papers. A comprehensive and systematic account of the OC ideas, methods, and achievements in the form of a textbook which lends itself to the newcomer in this field has been missing so far. The targeted reader of this book is the master student in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering - or any other newcomer to the field of Organic Computing with some technical or Computer Science background. Readers can seek access to OC ideas from different perspectives: OC can be viewed (1) as a „philosophy“ of adaptive and self-organising - life-like - technical systems, (2) as an approach to a more quantitative and formal understanding of such systems, and finally (3) a construction method for the practitioner who wants to build such systems. In this book, we first try to convey to the reader a feeling of the special character of natural and technical self-organising and adaptive systems through a large number of illustrative examples. Then we discuss quantitative aspects of such forms of organisation, and finally we turn to methods of how to build such systems for practical applications.