Bøger af Christian Jacob

To react agile and quick to unforeseeable events: This provides Objectives & Key Results (OKR). And not only in management, but also for all employees throughout the company. In this book, we explain why agility and OKR is the perfect way to achieve corporate goals flexibly and quickly, while involving every employee. Why a Google Video was the perfect impulse for millions of companies and yet is one of the biggest threats. And why the national soccer team could still benefit a lot from OKR! From the theoretical basics to practical application tips, this comprehensive work provides you with the experience of nine years of OKR consulting and over 4,500 OKR master trainings to implement the first steps towards OKR in your company.die.agilen GmbH is the organizational consultancy for agility, innovation and transformation. With competence, innovation and passion we create the structural conditions for agile digital organizations. Holistically, systemically, individually and geared to the entire company. With more than 600 customer projects (including Ströer, Edeka and Pro7Sat1), die.agilen is a pioneer, pacesetter and one of the most experienced providers in Europe, as well as market leader in Germany.

Your immune system is unique. It is in many waysas complex as your brain,but itisnotcentredinonelocation,likethebrain.Itisnotasingleorgan-itconsists ofmanydi?erentcelltypes,diversemethods ofintercellularcommunication,and many di?erent organs. Its functionality is blurred throughout you-we can't extract the immune system, or point to where it begins and ends. The immune system is not separablefrom the system it protects. It has integrallinks to every organ of our bodies. Thishasradicalimplicationsforthe?eldofArti?cialImmuneSystems(AIS), that we are only now beginning to comprehend. One of the ?rst insights is that modelling the immune system, or developing any kind of immune algorithm, is di?cult. The immune system is one aspect of biology that we ?nd di?cult to apply simple reductionist explanations to. We can very successfully extract s- processes of the whole and create immune algorithms based on those processes. But we are always aware that we are missing the whole story. This is leading to more holistic views of immune algorithm development: theoretical analyses of how the sub-components contribute to the whole, and identi?cation of missing elements. Arti?cial immune systems are now beginning to incorporate ideas of innate as well as adaptive immunity, more complex intercellular communication mechanisms, endocrine and neural interfaces, concepts of tissue and broader ideas of organism and environment. SoperhapsthemostexcitingimplicationforthefutureofAISisthatthese- searchersareontheforefrontofunconventionalcomputing-mergingthe bou- aries between biology and traditional computation to achieve new emergent, embodied and distributed processing capabilities.

A novel work in the history of cartography, this book argues that maps are as much about thinking as seeing, as much about the art of persuasion as the science of geography. It is innovative in its philosophical motivation and its interdisciplinary approach to looking at and writing about maps.

Christian Jacob presents a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeus's Sophists at Dinner (ca. 200 ce), a text long mined merely for its testimonies to lost classical poets. Connecting the world of Hellenistic erudition with its legacy among Hellenized Romans, Jacob helps the reader navigate the many intersecting paths in this enormous work.