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While the majority of companies fail to get success of their strategy, with our company, we have to deal with obstacles. In this paper, we present our company by focusing on: - Our strength and success keys. - our belief to the necessity of research to achieve our main objective: Always must be innovative and has willingness to be at the forefront of technology. We outline the main lines of our research...
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...
Requirements such as integrated view of the customer or global business process integration make enterprise wide management of master data a prerequisite for achieving business goals. The master data application architecture, as a part of enterprise master data management, plays a critical role in enterprises. Choosing the right master data application architecture is a controversial subject in many...
Due to the rise of MOOC-like courses available from third-party providers, the services universities offer students have the potential to become unbundled. Yet the possible impacts of these changes are not well understood. Few university stakeholders can articulate the actual value students receive from a university education, aside from instruction in their chosen field. How universities are doing...
The strategic value of knowledge lies in its effective transfer from those who have it to those who need it through a process of knowledge exchange. Organizations invest significant resources in communities of practice, knowledge repositories, and other initiatives to support knowledge exchange, yet, these initiatives do not always succeed. The purpose of this research-in-progress paper is to present...
Recent surveys show that 42% of Agile projects are successful. While this is three times better than traditional projects, 49% of Agile projects are late or over budget and 9% are total failures. There is a better way to help Agile teams to implement Scrum. At the 2013 Scrum PLoP Conference held in Tisvildeleje, Denmark thought leaders in the Agile community reviewed a set of Scrum Patterns that together...
We examined 200 salespeople's blogs using netnography method. Drawing on social learning theory and real salespeople's blogs, we illustrate how and why sales people can learn by using blogging, both reading and writing. For example, blogging, writing and reading blogs, can keep salespeople networked with their peers within and across industries and help salespeople learn a greater variety of things...
This paper is about a framework that would facilitate economic progress in some of the poorest communities in the Philippines. Top corporations operating in the country can extend their social responsibility initiatives and at the same time get tax credits for worthy endeavors. The idea is for big businesses to adopt communities and make them progressive members of the nation. An adopted community...
The aim of the article is to analyse the status of Sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility in the area of the European Union. The article shows the development of the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility. There is highlighted the enterprise potential to address current social and environmental issues and achieve a competitive advantage. Sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility reflects...
Recently, real money trading (RMT) by gold farming groups (GFGs) in online games has increased. In particular, GFGs in massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) illegally gather and distribute virtual goods and sell them for real money. The previous methods for GFG detection have focused on the user's behavior analysis, but they could detect only gold farmers, not whole GFGs. In this...
Design refers today to many different aspects, such as product, interior, communication, brand, service and so on. It is possible to provide a coherent perception of a whole environment, designing all the aspects so that they can communicate coherent values and univocal interpretation. This is possible by making the design driven by principles starting from metaphoric models of the mission of a company,...
This study seeks to explore new ways in which firms are involving customers in the development of new products, using on-line tools. These internet enabled methods allow companies to ‘design with’ their customers. Based on literature, this paper explores different ways in which firms can ‘design with’ their customer and introduces a conceptual matrix to position these alternative strategies. Three...
For staying competitive in times of shorter product life cycles, increasing technology complexity and rising efforts for technology development, inter- as well as intra-organizational technology transfer is once again gaining importance. In the past decade, the spreading of the Internet, faster Internet connections and more and more powerful web technologies — especially social software — paved a...
Electric power trading has been adopted in many countries. In this paper, we focus on community-based electricity markets to reduce a demand of electric power and ensure an balancing supply of energy for renewable energy. The community can be defined as a domestic group of individual homes. We assume a community has a larger battery that can be shared by individual homes. In the real world, community-based...
This paper outlines an improved Apriori algorithm that suits coal mine hidden danger data. Then preprocess the data according to the characteristics of safety hidden danger data of coal mine workplaces, including data import and extraction. Put this algorithm embedded in a coal mine hidden danger investigation system. After this is coal mine hidden danger data association rules mining based on the...
DEVER RESEARCH has developed analytical and prospective tools based on the latest research outcomes to decipher, analyze and highlight relationships, environment and strategic opportunities for actors and stakeholders of the electric mobility and energy industry. The aim of this paper is to present the first results of an on-going research related to the impact of smart grid development on the Utility/Energy...
The professional qualifications are the attributes obtained by an individual to the development or improvement of skills in order to perform their tasks in the best way. Its main goal is the incorporation of theoretical knowledge, technical and operational services to the production of goods and services, through educational processes developed in several instances (schools, unions, companies, associations)...
Earnings management has always been one of the main means to polish performance reports of listed companies. As most interests' stakeholders' understanding of the company is from the financial report, the earnings management motivation from managers will exist for them to affect decision-making of stakeholders in listed companies. This paper, considering the participation of stakeholders, and the...
A temporal network consists of a time series of interaction events, each of which is defined by a triplet composed of the indices of two nodes and the time of the event. Mapping a temporal network to a more tractable static network is often useful. A mapping method was recently proposed on the basis of the so-called transfer entropy (G. V. Steeg and A. Galstyan, in Proc. the 21st Int. Conf. WWW, p...
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