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An independent generation company (GenCo) secures its future trading position by managing its portfolio among multiple trading options. Future returns of these trading options are not known during decision making and are traditionally estimated using probabilistic or fuzzy methods. Quantifying such uncertainty of market returns by conventional methods does not reflect the information gap existing...
The possibility of market power abuse in the systems with a high amount of flexible power sources (hydro units and energy storage) is believed to be very low. However, in practice strategic owners of these resources may limit the ramping rate whenever the price spikes occur. This is particularly relevant for the power systems with a high penetration of wind power, due to the high levels of uncertainty...
Non-practising entities, also known as NPEs, adopt lawsuits to collect authorization payments or/and settlement payments as their business models. Ascertaining which patent portfolio or patent layout and purchase strategy are suitable is an important topic of discussion for the NPEs who value operational performance. This study adopts the DigiTude company, an NPE, as the case study, exploring the...
Ancillary services play a major role in power systems security and stability. The transmission systems operators contract some of these services at minimum cost in competitive markets. This is the case of the secondary reserve market (SRM). Besides the day-ahead market (DAM) generating companies, aiming at maximize their profits, can increase their revenues by selling available capacity in the SRM...
This paper presents an analysis of the power purchase options for small-sized distributors in the Brazilian electricity sector. The analysis is based on the conditions provided for by industry legislation. Throughout the text, relevant topics are discussed to the understanding of the electricity market in Brazil, such as the current structure of the electricity sector, the Brazilian electrical system...
From among numerous opportunities, organizations must select the projects they decide to pursue. The consequences of poor decisions can be extremely expensive. This is why many methods and models for project portfolio selection have been developed. In this paper, we propose a project portfolio selection approach that combines a business strategy method with a scoring model. The proposed hybrid approach...
Long-term investors are interested in identifying the characteristics of companies that are likely to triple in value over the next five years, which equates to return of approximately 25 percent per year over the period. Such companies are known as compounders due to their high compounded rate of return. This paper reports on an analysis of corporate and market data undertaken with the goal of identifying...
The continuously increased aspiration level of customers and the growing saturation of the markets are the main drivers for the development of customer individual products. In this context, the determination which of the product components shall be individualized by the customer represents a major challenge for the product development. In order to meet these challenges, the “Design for Open Innovation...
In this article, it is presented a mathematical model for the additional financial value generated in software projects, as a function of the number of incremental deliveries during the project. Based on this model, it was presented the theoretical asymptotic limit, for infinite deliveries during the project. This practice is called Continuous Deployment (CD), already used by many companies such as...
Enterprises that approach uncertainty and risk in software development based on lean and agile methods [1] often do experience financial planning of projects as a restriction. Traditional budgeting and cost reporting is a system based on rigid frames, and it -- along with the process of project cost accounting -- burdens the lean and agile enterprise with unnecessary and counterproductive overhead...
Large blackouts are economically costly and socially disruptive, but in some cases can also be beneficial to investors in publicly-traded utilities. Large blackouts, particularly those that damage capital equipment, can increase future cash flows of utilities if replacement capital expenditures are permitted to be included in the rate base. The semi-strong version of stock-market efficiency suggests...
We adopt the classical Fama and French (1992) [E.F. Fama, K.R. French, The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns, The Journal of Finance, 47 (1992) 427 -- 465.] approach to investigate the effect of Beta, size, leverage, book value to market value (B/P), and earnings to price (E/P) ratio on the average monthly returns in the China Stock Market (CSM) from July 1998 to June 2011. The phenomenon of...
Management of investment basket and selecting assets is one of the problems of decision making in financial area. In the competitive business environment, in order to confront complex competitions in the market, financial institutes try to consider the best policy of investment basket that in turn leads to an increase in the output for the investors. The goal of this study is to develop a portfolio...
This paper studies the main reasons given for early termination of different types of New Product Development (NPD) projects. Early termination here means before reaching its objectives. Our case study, a large Brazilian chemical company, is a B2B operation with three types of NPD projects: line extension, new application and innovation. We found that they mostly replace decisions to kill projects...
This paper investigates if technology portfolio and patent litigation probability affect firms' short and long-term performances, which in past literature have mostly been associated with economic indicators or financial models. The patent data used in this paper are downloaded from the USPTO patent database and patent litigation probabilities are obtained from previous study. To measure firm performance,...
This study tries to figure out the strategy of patent acquisition against infringe litigation between rival companies of smartphone under dynamic competition. Patent citation network analysis is used to realize the difference of patent deployment and portfolios after patent acquisition between the leader Apple and the follower Samsung from the view of supplementary and complementary. Four patent indexes...
As cloud-computing technology becomes mature and accepted by the public, more players are joining the game, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It would be essential for SMEs to understand the cloud value network and where the battlefields are in the whole value network so that they can equip themselves strategically. In this research, we will analyse the technology evolution of...
Purpose: The objective of this research is to provide a step by step guide with a mix of tools for managers to align strategic objectives with the business unit project portfolio. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed model is applicable for business units and medium enterprises. It is a sequential model that gives a smooth transition from strategic vigilance to a selection of projects and programs...
It is important for companies to make decisions whether new technology is applied as a patent application or should be hidden as know-how to keep technical competitiveness. Companies are given exclusive right by patent granting. On the other hand, know-how is protected under the trade-secrets law. Companies are required to make strict secrecy management of know-how to have protection. However, it's...
This paper explores the mechanisms of actually and consciously using the outcomes of terminated projects at new projects that enter the pipeline. The case study was made at an R&D Center of a Brazilian Chemical company with B2B operations in many markets and countries. The authors analyzed a series of terminated projects linked to later projects to map the relations. The study found that the outcomes...
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