Institutional methodic support of state development programs as strategic planningт tools

Strategic Management and Universities ’ Institutional Development

Strategic Software Development: Productivity Comparisons of General Development Programs

Productivity has been one of the major concerns with the increasingly high cost of software development. Choosing the right development language with high productivity is one approach to reduce development costs. Working on the large database with 4106 projects ever developed, we found the factors significant to productivity. After the removal of the effects of other factors on productivity, we...

Mutual Support: CAC Programs and Institutional Improvement in Undergraduate Education

Writing-and communication-across-the-curriculum programs often develop as independent initiatives focused on improving students' writing and/or speaking by incorporating these activities into coursework and helping teachers to use them more effectively in their instruction. 1 However, there is now much anecdotal evidence of the conditions that work against the cultivation of cross-curricular pr...

Prediction Markets as institutional forecasting support systems

An attractive feature of Prediction Markets (PMs, also called information markets or virtual stock markets) is that they provide economic incentives for informants to share unique information, i.e., information that no other informants possess. This feature and the broad availability of the Internet have lead to applications of prediction markets in a number of fields. Most reported application...

Systematic Strategic Decision Support for Innovation Development

Development projects for radical innovations are typically long in duration and, therefore, surrounded by a high level of technological, market, organizational and resource uncertainties. Various techniques have been developed in order to manage the uncertainties due to unpredictable future and to support managers in their strategic decision making during the innovation development process. Typ...