“Big data” has become a commonly used term to describe large-scale and complex data sets which are difficult to manage and analyze using standard data management methodologies. With applications across sectors and fields of study, the implementation and possible uses of big data are limitless. Effective Big Data Management and Opportunities for Implementation explores emerging research on the ever-growing field of big data and facilitates further knowledge development on methods for handling and interpreting large data sets. Providing multi-disciplinary perspectives fueled by international research, this publication is designed for use by data analysts, IT professionals, researchers, and graduate-level students interested in learning about the latest trends and concepts in big data.

The industrial internet is a new and upcoming technology that is changing the practices of organizations and corporations everywhere. Through research and application, opportunities can arise from implementing these new systems and devices. The Internet of Things in the Modern Business Environment is an essential reference source for the latest scholarly research on varying aspects of the interworking of smart devices within a business setting and explores the impact of these devices on company operations and models. Featuring extensive coverage on a broad range of topics such as supply chain management, information sharing, and data analytics, this publication is ideally designed for researchers, managers, and students seeking current research on the expansion of technology in commerce.

En este libro se analiza la gesti�n de riesgos desde el punto de vista de la protecci�n de los activos e ingresos de las organizaciones empresariales, y se analizan tambi�n los aspectos relativos a la direcci�n de empresas que operan con m�todos cient�ficos sobre gesti�n de riesgos. En particular, se presentan las diferentes metodolog�as de gesti�n integral de riesgos, detallando tanto los modelos financieros m�s avanzados como aquellos otros utilizados tradicionalmente en el sector asegurador para tarificar y calcular provisiones de solvencia y requerimientos de capital. Asimismo, se desarrollan las cuestiones m�s importantes a tener en cuenta al implantar sistemas de cuantificaci�n del capital de solvencia, en particular: el proceso de recopilaci�n de datos, la clasificaci�n de eventos para obtener datos consistentes y homog�neos, o las cuestiones pr�cticas del proceso metodol�gico de la cuantificaci�n del riesgo, especialmente del riesgo operacional. Uno de los objetivos centrales de esta obra consiste en facilitar a los directivos su tarea de gesti�n del riesgo, rentabilidad y crecimiento de las actividades empresariales.Este es un libro dirigido a los profesionales y directivos interesados por el �rea financiera y aseguradora, gerentes de riesgos, acad�micos e investigadores, especialistas de control interno y gesti�n de riesgos, en donde se explican y desarrollan los aspectos m�s importantes de la gesti�n de riesgos operacionales de las entidades aseguradoras y de su solvencia. Por extensi�n, el libro tambi�n puede ser utilizado por todos los que deseen conocer los mecanismos que est�n detr�s de la gesti�n y control de riesgos en la empresa (estudiantes de grado y de posgrado) y del proceso de su cuantificaci�n en forma de capital.Esta publicaci�n es el fruto de un trabajo de colaboraci�n y recopilaci�n de publicaciones cient�ficas de los autores durante m�s de tres a�os de investigaci�n entre el Departamento de Econom�a Financiera y Contabilidad III, de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, y el Departamento de Financiaci�n e Investigaci�n de Mercados, de la Universidad Aut�noma de Madrid.

This book disentangles the issues in connection with the advancement of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and its interface with health policy. It highlights the factors that should shape its progress in the near future. Interdisciplinary and critical views from a number of professionals are put together in a prescient order to cast some light and make recommendations as to the next steps HTA should take to be fit for purpose. A wealth of documents dealing with HTA have been published over the last three decades. HTA allegedly is one of the bedrocks of regulation and medical decision making. However, counter vailing visions contend that geographical variations in the role that HTA is actually playing within countries pinpoints specific room for improvement. Given our social preferences, cherry-picking HTA’s features and successes over the last decades moves it away from its possibility frontier. Some of the most noteworthy hindrances that HTA faces, in several countries, to making headway towards its consolidation as an efficient tool for regulation and decision making are as follows: insufficient resources, delays in assessment, inadequate priority setting, regulatory capture, public distrust, actual influence on regulatory decisions, the need for strengthening international cooperation and harmony, the lack of sound and consistent assessments of diagnostic tests, medical devices and surgical innovations and limited dissemination. Time has come for HTA to take a renewed stand. There is a pressing need to submit HTA to in-depth critical scrutiny.

Recoge: 1. Introduction-2. Summary of recommendations-3. Standars for crisis prevention-4. Banks and capital flows-5. Bailing in the private sector-6. What won't work-7. What the IMF should do (and what we should do about the IMF).

This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.