Managing Innovation And New Product Development: Concepts And Cases


Book Description

Innovation is the key to success in any business, and is the only way to surpass competition. An innovative concept can lead to the development of a new product. This comprehensive book explains how an innovative idea or a concept, if executed properly, can create the best product in the market. The book presents a framework for a new product development, laying emphasis on generic concepts and processes, which are useful and profitable for small and large organizations including the multinationals. The book highlights the innovation theories that are helping service sector companies to prosper and excel in their fields. It also provides a mathematical formula for students to calculate sales-estimation of first-time-sales of a new product. The Ten Case Studies on real-life products from the Indian market enrich the text and enable students to fully understand innovative techniques that help increase the potential and market value of an established product.




Value Added Tax


Book Description

This book integrates legal, economic, and administrative materials about value added tax. Its principal purpose is to provide comprehensive teaching tools - laws, cases, analytical exercises, and questions drawn from the experience of countries and organizations from all areas of the world. It also serves as a resource for tax practitioners and government officials that must grapple with issues under their VAT or their prospective VAT. The comparative presentation of this volume offers an analysis of policy issues relating to tax structure and tax base as well as insights into how cases arising out of VAT disputes have been resolved. The authors have expanded the coverage to include new VAT related developments in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. A chapter on financial services has been added as well as an analysis of significant new cases.










Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey


Book Description

Scientific notes and summaries of investigations in geology, hydrology, and related fields.