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The thesis generally introduces the current characteristics of the business community and development situation of overseas community commercial, and analyses the functions and industry status of the business community, meanwhile, summarizes the current situation of the development and the motive power in community business. The development trend of community commercial was also studied. In addition,...
The global crisis had caused the decline of many financial institutions and had caused many problems in Brazil and abroad, which raises the question: how to increase profits at a time of crisis? In a decreasing consumption situation corporations must reducing energy costs to improve operating profit. Energy management is an important tool to solve this problem. In Brazil information about energy management...
Among the many challenges faced by businesses that maintain legacy software systems is the integration of those systems with external data sources, which are often other software systems developed and maintained by otherwise unrelated entities. Leveraging service oriented-architecture (SOA) provides a method by which the business value of a legacy system can be extended without the expensive alternative...
Even though the new and advanced technologies can provide benefits for business their wide adoption in industrial settings requires always clear evidences how, and under which conditions these technological advantages can be turn into business benefits. The economic, business and legal factors should not be underestimated but rather examined in detail together with the technological context. Based...
Aligning Business and Information Technologies strategies has been a subject studied for a long time. Despite all the efforts, achieving and sustaining Business-IT alignment remains a challenge requiring even more agility nowadays to keep up with the competition in a turbulent organizational environment. Past contributions are uncovered in this paper calling particular attention to the development...
The Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority (ADWEA) has played a pioneering role in developing an Outsourced IT Governance Framework for a large public sector company in the region. This paper presents a case study of the strategic intent of outsourcing IT operations and evolution of an optimal IT Governance Framework. This framework is fully aligned with the strategic plans of ADWEA Group and...
This paper examines the divide between Japanese and U.S. business communication strategies as it manifests in interpersonal interactions and offers solutions for improved cross-cultural discourse. Often, the divides that arise during exchanges between Japanese and American communicators are due to the misreading of cultural norms specific to each culture. The author calls out three fundamental components...
Fast development of information and communication technology enables the transformation from traditional supply chain to e-supply chain. In this ever-transforming environment, effectiveness and efficiency of e-supply chain depend on the coherence between characteristics of the environment and relationships among companies. In order to analysis the relationship management among companies in concert...
Catalog book is a common means for a manufacturer to demonstrate the description and related prices of its products for a time period, normally for a year. With the evolution of the business and new information technology, it is time to address the need of producing annual catalog books in different ways from traditionally printed versions in order to facilitate customer involvement in the product...
A successful Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) system lightly depends on how to design an accurate and efficient case retrieval mechanism. Brand extension is widely applied as a corporate strategy in the economic life. Some companies succeed in brand extension, some fail. So it is very important to study the case and theory of brand extension. Brand extension has its own background and reasons. Brand extension...
Technically, business process management (BPM) is a kind of new technology based on enterprise application integration and workflow. However, in business perspective, BPM is more than that. It can adapt the change outside and find out the solution through integrating legacy systems (including management systems) easily. BPM is based on an enterprise's strategy and has a set of operational theories...
Information technology has brought profound changes to global market competition and enterprise management mode. Essence of enterprise management informationization is development and application of information resources in their depth and scope. In recent years, Beijing CESoft Co., Ltd. had promoted designing tools and operating platform for Excel server information system, and have integrated electronic...
An integrated modeling approach for knowledge-intensive business processes with a high degree of human-to-human interactions is introduced, together with an appropriate modeling notation. It combines a well-known modeling notation for business processes with recognized existing models for process-oriented and community-oriented knowledge management. In addition this new approach reflects the various...
We studied how a middle-sized Finnish company employing agile methods governs its software product development. Through observations and interviews we followed the trace from strategic plans in the form of roadmaps to various backlogs and all the way to daily work. The governance roles, responsibilities and deliverables seemed to be in place on different organizational levels. However, closer inspection...
The paper analyzes the current situation of business environment and business intelligence systems framework at first, and studies the theoretics and methods about the business intelligence system. Analyzes the necessity of an automated negotiation method in the manufacturing resource management system (MRMS) based on the manufacture requirement and latency manufacturing resource state, order enterprise...
Governing business compliance with regulations, laws, best practices, contracts, and the like is not an easy task, and so far there are only limited software products available that help a company to express compliance rules and to analyze its compliance state. We argue that todaypsilas SOA-based way of implementing and conducting business (e.g., using Web services and business process engines) lends...
This article intends to put forward a new method based on information entropy and grey situation decision to choose third-party logistics (TPL) suppliers. Also, it establishes the evaluation index system of TPL suppliers selection; information entropy indicator is applied to determine the objective weight, and then chooses the best TPL supplier by using grey situation decision. The method provides...
ECLIPS is a European research project extending the state-of-the-art in supply chain management. The goal of the ECLIPS project is to establish a global cost reduction in the entire supply chain in an ingenious manner, while addressing the ongoing challenges within the industry. Nowadays companies are facing ever more complex supply chains, increased portfolio diversification and shortening product...
A series of extra large financial frauds and audit failure cases, represented by Enron and WorldCom, has attracted close attention of legislation on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. After the enactment of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (US-SOX) in the United States, similar law and regulations are also published in Japan (J-SOX). This paper will compare and contrast J-SOX...
When considering Web services' (WS) use for online business-to-business (B2B) collaboration between companies, security is a complicated and very topical issue. This is especially true with regard to reaching a level of security beyond the technological layer, that is supported and trusted by all businesses involved. With appreciation of this fact, our research draws from established development methodologies...
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