Florian Hummel

AI Unleashed examines the ways in which AI technology and other cutting-edge digital innovations are rapidly reshaping and transforming industries across the globe, and how businesses navigating this digital revolution are increasingly recognizing the potential of AI to drive growth, enhance efficiency, and secure a long-term sustainable competitive advantage. The book dives into a range of pioneering AI applications, such as automated decision-making (ADM), virtual factories, large language models (LLMs), natural language processing (NLP), Big Data analytics, digital twins, and blockchain technology, that are fundamentally changing how industries operate. By exploring these transformative tools, the book provides both theoretical insights and practical, real-world case studies, demonstrating how companies can successfully implement these technologies to spearhead their digital transformation. From optimizing manufacturing processes with AI-powered virtual factories to harnessing blockchain for secure, transparent transactions, each chapter presents actionable strategies and success stories that showcase how organizations can position themselves as digital leaders. This book doesn't just highlight technological innovations; it also offers a roadmap for companies seeking to embrace digital transformation. It presents comprehensive proposals for integrating these technologies into existing business models, addressing challenges, and fostering an environment of continuous innovation. Through these practical examples, readers will gain a clear understanding of how to lead a successful digital transformation journey, ensuring their business thrives in the era of rapid technological advancement.

Neurodiversity in Organisations closes a gap between practice and theory on the topic of neurodiversity in the world of work. Over the course of this book, the various forms of neurodiversity are described, as well as the ways in which employees and managers must successfully operate within their presence. The neurodiversity paradigm is a framework for understanding human brain function that considers the diversity within sensory processing, motor abilities, social comfort, cognition, and focus as neurobiological differences. Most will be familiar with many of its manifestations, including autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and dyslexia, but in the modern world, the challenges diversity poses for traditional corporate management is critically underdiscussed — not only from the perspective of employees but also for managers. Surveys outline that between 15 and 20% of employees are neurodivergent. A resource like this book is essential for providing professionals and academics with a holistic and practical approach to the coincidence of leadership and neurodiversity, answering the critical question of how leaders should manage neurodivergent and neurotypical employees to achieve excellence and outperformance. Inclusive leadership is an absolute necessity for any organisation seeking to achieve a competitive advantage across all business functions.

Dieses Buch vermittelt praxisrelevantes Wissen, wie Unternehmen und Organisationen langfristig Wettbewerbsvorteile durch ESG, SDG und CSR erreichen können. Es richtet sich an Mitarbeiter in den Bereichen Qualität, Entwicklung, Einkauf, Logistik, Marketing und Vertrieb, die in der Wertschöpfungskette direkt oder indirekt an der betrieblichen Leistungserstellung tätig sind. Lehrende und Studierende erhalten durch Praxisbeispiele und Definitionen ein gutes Verständnis für erfolgreiches Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement.

Use this book to improve your negotiation strategiesIf you want to position yourself advantageously in your company in the long term, you have to master negotiation strategies. Gain a decisive advantage over your business partners and learn everything about successful negotiation with this book. The authors provide a valuable overview of concrete negotiation situations in industry and business and show ways to achieve successful negotiation breakthroughs. Their book systematically and logically brings together the following aspects:Negotiation preparation Conducting negotiationsNegotiation psychologySuccess in negotiationsIn addition to the structured approach in a six-phase model, the authors also explain in a practical and clear manner all the psychological and non-verbal tools that lead to a successful negotiation conclusion. The authors have many years of profound international management experience and provide helpful recommendations on how to effectively take intercultural elements into account in negotiations. The contents of the book at a glanceLearn to negotiate successfully and acquire in-depth knowledge in the following areas: Negotiation conceptsNegotiation management and preparationBest-in-class negotiationsAppropriate tools and tactics in negotiationsAnalysis techniques of non-verbal communicationNegotiations in an international contextNegotiations in the face of financial difficulties and the threat of insolvencyNegotiations in complex projects. Who should read this book on successful negotiations? With its structured approach, the book is particularly recommended for employees in development, quality management, purchasing, production, marketing and sales. But also project managers, executives and entrepreneurs who repeatedly have to negotiate customers or suppliers about performance features of products and services will benefit from this book, because here they learn the negotiation techniques with which they can convince in important discussions. The symbiosis of theory and practice also makes this work suitable for use in higher education and provides professors, teaching staff and students in an international context with an overview of the subject. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Erfolgreiche Verhandlungen by Marc Helmold, Florian Hummel and Tracy Dathe published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature in 2019. 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.

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie es vom KMU bis zum größeren Konzern gelingt, nicht nur Nachhaltigkeitsaspekte in nationalen oder internationalen Geschäftstransaktionen zu berücksichtigen, sondern daraus langfristige Wettbewerbsvorteile zu generieren. Neben ausgewählten Theorien, Konzepten und Modellen, widmet es sich der zentralen Frage, wie Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) innerhalb der Wertschöpfungskette erfolgreich eingesetzt werden kann. Wertvolle Handlungsempfehlungen verknüpfen praktische und theoretische Erfahrungen der fünf Autoren im nationalen und internationalen Umfeld. Neben vielen Praxisbeispielen innerhalb der Primärfunktionen Beschaffung, Produktion, Absatz und Sekundärfunktionen wie Personal, Finanzen oder Buchführung werden spannende CSR-Innovationen vorgestellt. Die Lektüre schärft das Verständnis für nachhaltiges Verhalten im Geschäftsverkehr, gerade auch durch Kenntnis möglicher Stolperfallen im internationalen Geschäft.