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The knowledge captured in business process models is essential to identify user requirements of the process aware information system to execute the processes. Frequently, relations between the models and requirements are either not established or only partially available. This results in increased effort, broken traceability, completeness and consistency problems for user requirements. We proposed...
This article describes the basic principles of the company operations and provides the survey of software systems that implement various methods of planning. The theoretical relationship between strategic and tactical planning in modern software systems is defined. A new conceptual framework for interaction between strategic and tactical planning through business processes is proposed.
Online gaming, a large market with hundreds of millions of active players, is still struggling to scale without risky investments in infrastructure. In this work, we propose a cloudbased platform to massivize online gaming—the challenges and opportunities of scaling on-demand, while paying only for what is used. We discuss the major aspects of cloud-based gaming, virtual-world management, game-data...
The cash balances of businesses have recently become one of the main topics of interest in the financial area. As a result of this interest, several studies and theories have been applied to this field, mainly to larger companies, and with a lesser application to the universe of small businesses. Portuguese business context is mainly composed by owner managed companies of the small businesses. The...
This paper presents an analysis of the FI4VDI project regarding Inova-Ria's participation, which particular goal is to develop an innovative prototype for a model of service provision using cloud computing in order to create an infrastructure suited to SMEs focused on the IT outsourcing business that would contribute to competitiveness.
How functional economy would be an environmental economy? And more particularly: What is the mode of endogenization of environmental issues in Functional Economy? This paper reveals the ambiguity of environmental issues integration in Functional Economy through discussion of three proposals: environment is consecutive to Functional Economy; environment is necessary to Functional Economy, and Functional...
Competitive facility location problems (CFLP) form a wide class of optimization problems. A new facility is to location and the market share captured by each facility depends on its distance to customers and its location costs. This paper proposes a new location problem of competitive facilities where the service capability of each facility is considered. The aggregation effects which could appear...
To provide personalized values centered around products, Product-Service Systems (PSS) are designed combining product elements and service elements in a tightly integrated manner. Through PSSs, manufacturing companies will achieve business innovation to strengthen their competitiveness in highly challenging market situations and to provide diversified values to consumers and customers. To design PSSs,...
Quality is a mainstream issue for Websites and Web-based systems. Analysts, designers and developers can choose from a variety of models and methods to design and evaluate quality Websites. However, our experience, both as users and professionals, is too often disappointing. Besides usability, the most known of the factors contributing to a Website's quality, there are a large numbers of other features...
For a long time, the research concerning returned products has focused on multiples issues. It was not until the early nineties that Reverse Logistics (RL) has captured the academic attention. RL commonly refers to the backward movement of materials in the supply chain. In order to cover all these aspects of RL we propose an integrated Decision Support System (DSS) which can ease products and shipping...
Based on the M&A (merger and acquisition) of Chinese listed companies from 2005 to 2010, this paper empirically studies the relationship between executive rewards and M&A. The M&A samples include types of stock ownership replacement and asset transactions, and they are divided into four sub-samples according to the majority stockholder's characteristics of acquiring companies and whether...
As Internet of Things (IoT) becomes a growing reality, more ubiquitous devices are embedded in our daily lives, serving us in a broad range of purposes in everyday life from: personal healthcare to home automation to tailored smart city services. These devices primarily collect data that is about or produced by people, be it street noise level of a neighbourhood, or the energy footprint of an individual's...
In this paper we report our experiences in designing DE3TO, a tool to support the decisions about the delivery and the deployment models in the process of adoption of a cloud based solution for enterprises. The tool leverages a simple questionnaire to enable a user who is in charge of the decision about the model of deployment and delivery of a cloud service, to receive a score for each of the models...
Agriculture is energy-intense, but also has a huge potential for generating energy directly at the point of use from renewables, e.g. biomass, photovoltaics and wind. In this paper, we investigate two models of collective arrangements among farmers in the federal state of Styria, Austria. These arrangements have the purpose to facilitate adoption of photovoltaics on farms. We contrast the two models...
Digital platforms are re-shaping organizations and markets. In particular, telecommunication companies are challenged to control digital platforms and to engage generative ecosystems. In order to provide a point of departure for future research, we conduct an explorative case study analysis to determine the state of the art of business models of telecommunication operators' developer platforms. The...
This paper introduces the concept of modularity in financial services, discusses how new value chains are created and addresses emerging opportunities for innovative business models in the digital economy. We argue that innovation occurred in the banking sector despite the lagging adoption of new operational practices but due to technology drive for new ways to provide services. Banking innovation...
The increasing industrial acceptance of cloud-based IT services has led to a paradigm shift in the development and operation of complex business applications. IT managers are incorporating cloud-based IT services as replacements and/or as enhancements for existing on-site solutions. This strategy leads to the concept of a federated business application, which consists of a variety of on-site and cloud-based...
The digital economy is often regarded as providing potential for new business models and services. While much has been written about digitization, the area of datafication within the context of service systems is much less explored. This paper attempts to highlight the implications of datafication on different types of service systems. Applying the characterization of the four types of customer inputs...
Taiwan's invoice system is unique in the world in the sense that every invoice must follow the same printed format specified by the government. In addition, an accompanying lottery-like mechanism is implemented to give prizes to some invoice holders periodically as an incentive for citizens to request invoices upon transaction. This allows government to audit business sales, and has proven quite effective...
There is a need to apply robust research findings in the appropriate management and organizational contexts related to analytics and intuitive thinking, and how to connect creativity and innovation with design. The purpose of this minitrack is to explore the challenges, issues and opportunities related to analytics and design-led innovations and management, from conceptualization to practical implementation.
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