IT LONG TAIL STRATEGY FOR SOFTWARE PACKAGE COMPANY

The Long - Tail Strategy for IT Outsourcing

Long-tail Longitudinal Modeling of Insurance Company Expenses

The insurance industry is known to have high operating expenses in the financial services sector. Insurers, investors and regulators are interested in models to understand the behavior of expenses. However, the current practice ignores skewness, occasional negative values as well as their temporal dependence. Addressing these three features, this paper develops a longitudinal model of insurance...

Shelf space strategy in long-tail markets

The Internet is known to have had a powerful impact on on-line retailer strategies in markets characterised by long-tail distribution of sales [1]. Such retailers can exploit the long tail of the market, since they are effectively without physical limit on the number of choices on offer. Here we examine two extensions of this phenomenon. First, we introduce turnover into the long-tail distribut...

Knowledge, learning and IT support in a small software company

The literature in the field of knowledge management shows a certain preoccupation with information technology (IT) and technical solutions while it reflects a limited view of organisational knowledge. The practice of knowledge management is commonly degraded to implementation of new IT based systems, neglecting important organisational aspects, in particular, human and social issues. This paper...

Is Medical Application Software a New Strategy for Oncologists?