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In the face of intensifying global competition, especially from the USA and Japan, but not forgetting the emerging markets or BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India and China (Paliwoda, S. 2006), Finland has recognised the pressing need to advance its competitiveness in a number of key industries. Through the adoption of a sophisticated triple helix-based National Cluster Programme, the conditions have been...
Colombia has survived a war for over half century, confrontation of civil society, guerrilla, paramilitary and our armed forces causing death and pain. Today we are close of achieving a peace agreement. USA President Barack Obama, The UN Office, The Catholic Church Pope Francisco and many other Governments and Organizations have expressed great support to our agreement. However, no serious studies...
The study dwelled on how to develop an implementation procedure for design for environment (DFE) management program. A ferrous foundry manufacturing organization was the subject of comprehensive assessment and recommendations in this research. The main thrust of this work was to develop theory on how DFE could be comprehensively and consistently managed in daily business situation of product development...
This paper describes the development and analysis of a numerical alternative taxonomy of integrative technologies. Based on this research's purpose, four clusters are identified, as follows: communication and organization integration improvement, negative integration improvement, positive integration improvement, and manufacturing process standardization improvement. The taxonomy approach was the...
In order to improve the overall performance of Shanghai port, this paper proposes a systematic evaluation model to assess the competitiveness of Shanghai Port with 25 input indicators and 6 output indicators. The proposed evaluation model reduces the dimensions of the indices by Factor Analysis, and uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to validate the data from 2008 to 2013. By implementing...
This paper, on the basis of the existing literature, proposes a new allocation method combining MW-Mile method with post stamp method for transmission cost allocation of multi-terminal transmission line, which can follow the principles of allocating by utilization and balance the payments. Besides, the methodologies of economic comparisons of coal transportation and power transmission have been expanded...
This work considers the fuzzy computing based approach applied to the construction of an intellectual information system for decision support. An algorithm is presented for calculation of an integral hierarchical value of the company's competitiveness on the basis of linguistic assessment of components that characterize such business aspects as the price level, the quality of products and services,...
The using of open data to improve transparency and public participation in the national development has become an issue in Indonesia. The public, including Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can use the open data provided by the government and other related institutions in order to increase their profits and benefits. The SMEs in fish farming and processing are also trying to use open data in order...
As a high-tech industry, the development of the Internet of Things industry plays an important role in the industrial transformation and upgrading of a country. In light of the six elements of the “Diamond Model”, this paper constructs an indicator system to assess the competitiveness of the Internet of Things industry. Using a comprehensive evaluation method which combines Gray Relational Analysis...
University students, especially those who take advanced courses and work simultaneously usually have problems on arriving on time to class. Some days there is a low level of participation in discussions and some students complete their assignments a few days before the due date. These students use technology frequently, and it is tough for them to log onto the boring and complicated virtual campus...
On the basis of modern logistics theory and researches in logistics industry of competitiveness connotation and characteristic by other scholars, this paper lists six indexes of modern evaluation system of logistical Industry Competitiveness: logistics requirement, supply capacity of logistic, logistic infrastructure and talents of logistic. Also, this paper draws a practical study of comparison of...
The main objective of this research is to find out the economic impact of adopting green practices to the supply chains of manufacturing companies in Sri Lanka and the competitiveness gained through it. Greening the supply chain is looked at from three perspectives in this research namely, greening the inbound function, greening the production function and greening the outbound function where the...
In this paper we have approached the competitive intelligence within a management perspective. We have studied the case of a public Algerian company “Mobilis”, in order to highlight its assets and constraints to the implementation of competitive intelligence's practices. Actually, our national companies performing in both the public and the private sectors must regenerate their strategic management...
We face the process of High Quality Accreditation in two ways: one involving large amount of information (big data), including issues as: self evaluation, high quality, statistics, indicators, surveys, field work (process engineering), during several periods of time. The other one is related to information contained about High Quality: which involved the development of an intelligent architecture...
This paper construct the theoretical framework of development strategy for the tourism consulting companies by analyzing the related theory and tourism development trend, through the field survey of related tourism consulting companies in Beijing city, research into the influence factors and the relationship between various factors about the competitive strength of Beijing tourism consulting companies...
Service Supply Chain (SSC) have seen considerable attention in the business circles and academia. However, little focused on Service Integrator (SI), especially the research results about SI competitiveness and its influencing factors in the context of SSC has not yet appeared. This paper study the formation mechanism of Service Integrator competitiveness (SIC) under the perspective of SSC and its...
Taken 37 bio-pharmaceutical companies on SME board in China, this papers constructs a growth evaluation indicator system for these companies by operating income growth rate, net profits, sales net profit, returns on total asset, ROE, debt to equity, current ratio, working capital ratio, turnover of current asset, and turnover of total asset. By way of factor analysis, this empirical analysis on the...
We present a simulation model based on the Nash equilibrium for the analysis of the auction based day ahead electricity generation market. Starting from the empirical data distributions of the market clearing price and the energy demand registered by the supervisory authority, the model allows evaluating the market competitiveness and preventing anticompetitive actions by participants. It also represents...
As competition increases and becomes even more globalised, manufacturing companies continue to search for new value creation business strategies. Traditional value creation approaches often disconnect producers from customers at the point of sale. Design innovation has the capacity to encompass product and service contexts of offerings increasing the opportunity to sell, promoting sustainability and...
Globalization, customer orientation, and the rapid development of information technology and communication are some of the factors that determine the new economy in which information and knowledge have grown to become strategic resources and response to this situation, we propose the need to create and sustain competitive advantage as a result of a new approach to address the new challenges in the...
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