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This research focuses on patent applications filled in Japan, in the business field of air conditioner for home use. In spite of the saturated Japanese market, only two companies, DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD and Panasonic Corporation, have been increasing domestic market share of air conditioner in recent years. In this study, we visualized technical purposes as a system diagram. We made a comparative...
The field of strategic technology management contains a number of practical tools to help align technology investment with business objectives and so support successful innovation. However the application of such tools is often seen by organizations as being difficult to configure, combine and also resource consuming to deploy. Thus, the research question is: can a light-weighted intuitive approach...
Since various objective functions should be considered for optimizing the portfolio, this study proposes a multi-objective genetic portfolio optimization approach with user's requests for deriving Pareto solutions. The two objective functions used in this study are return on investment and suitability of a portfolio. The suitability of a chromosome consists of a portfolio penalty and an investment...
E-portfolio benefits have been widely recognized in literature, although they are most commonly integrated for benefit in academic. This article discusses the benefits observed from integration, as well as the demand for improved portfolio developments, using a small range of peer-reviewed studies as supporting evidence. The discussion and analysis, after presenting the clear case for improvement,...
Stock Market Forecasting implies the use of a series of techniques that helps in determining the stock price evolution. The paper describes a multi-agent system that uses numerical, financial and economical data in order to evaluate the company's position on the market, profitability, performance, future expectations in the company's evolution. Determining the effect of political, governmental and...
Energy spot price is characterized by its high volatility and difficult prediction, representing a major risk for energy companies, especially those that rely on renewable generation. The typical approach employed by such companies to address their mid- and long-term optimal contracting strategy is to simulate a large set of paths for the uncertainty factors to characterize the probability distribution...
As customers and their needs provide all the benefits of the firms, market managers should not think of itself as producing goods or services but think of itself as buying customers. In order to make use of the basic financial concepts in commercial banks' enterprise customer portfolio management, this article contrasts the differences between customer assets and financial assets, and identifies the...
There exists the situation where a company may choose to invest the available capital in several large projects but may still leave a great amount of capital which is not enough for any other large project. To make full use of the available capital and get the maximum investment return, the company can not only invest in several large projects, but also make use of the remaining capital to invest...
Intuition suggests that a set of companies mentioned in the same news article are more likely to be related than unrelated. For instance, an article discussing a retailer would more probably mention its competitors or supply chain partners than mention other companies with no economic connection. Correspondingly, we consider using news article co-occurrences as a means to determine company relatedness...
This work presents a new approach to portfolio composition in the stock market. It incorporates a fundamental approach using financial ratios and technical indicators with a Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms to choose the portfolio composition with two objectives the return and the risk. Two different chromosomes are used for representing different investment models with real constraints equivalents...
In this article we introduce a new strategy for optimal diversification which combines elements of Diversified Risk Parity [1], [2] and Diversification Ratio [3], with emphasis on positive risk premiums. The Uncorrelated Positive Bets strategy involves the identification of reliable, independent sources of randomness and the quantification of their positive risk premium. We use principal component...
Software and hardware engineering in international project business has been subject to regionalization efforts for several years. We describe how such a regionalization is basically organized and performed in a multi-national company, mainly active in project business in various technical domains such as electrical substations, trains or power plants. Main accent is put on experience gathered from...
Selective outsourcing has been proven to be more likely to succeed in archiving efficiency targets. For application services outsourcing (ASO), selecting applications to outsource is critical for successful outsourcing. Thus, the implementation of application portfolio management (APM) is essential, in order to provide the necessary transparency throughout the entire life-cycle of an application....
In recent years, lots of portfolio analysis methods been proposed one after another. The investors care about how much money they can earn, and the companies need to know how much performance they gain. In this paper, a new stock portfolio construction strategy using Investment Satisfied Capability Index (ISCI) and Interactive Artificial Bee Colony (IABC) is proposed. Two-year daily Return on Investment...
Dynamic capabilities are meant to cope with environmental changes, and since the changes happen more often and speed to market is increasing, then the ability to identify corresponding capabilities quickly is becoming extremely important. This study investigates the agility aspect of capability development in a qualitative setting on the basis of four large information and communication technology...
Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) are two of the most widely used and important risk measures in financial risk management models. Because VaR and CVaR portfolio optimization models are often nonlinear and non-convex optimization models, traditional optimization methods usually can not get their global optimal solutions, instead, they often get a local optimal solution. In this...
In these recent years, the complexity of supply chain has been increasing with globalisation and as such, disruptions are happening more frequently with the impacts getting more severe. Thus, there is a growing need to deal with such risks arising from disruptions to the supply chain. The objective of this paper is to present a practical method for supply chain risk management using Value at Risk...
The current article exams the role of syndication in venture capital investments in distant potential companies. Using data from Chi next, we find supportive evidence that syndication pronouncedly improves the performance and exit probability of distant investments compared with standalone VC investments. Furthermore, our results show the power of syndication is still significant but seems to decrease...
Competitiveness of the graduates of engineering education programs is an important criterion in the evaluation of the quality of education acquired in the university. The high level of fundamental and professional competencies of a young engineer is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the successful employment at the modern labour market. During an interview with a university graduate the...
This paper empirically investigates the relation between fund size and its performance in UK equity market from 1998 to 2007. The main result is that large funds are found to outperform small funds. There is significant positive size effect for UK Smaller Companies sector and UK Equities Income sector. Macro-market environment tends to play an important role in determining size effect because significant...
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