Moving Forward with Electronic Content Procurement

Moving Forward

.......Having reached the end of my second term as editor in chief, the time has come for Micro to move forward to the next phase of its evolution. I am delighted to announce that Dr. Erik Altman from IBM Research is the new Micro EIC. Erik is an accomplished and highly respected industry architect and researcher who has held numerous leadership positions within the computing community. He has ...

Moving forward.

Electronic Procurement: Dealing with Supplier Adoption

I Acknowledgments I would like to thank all the people that helped me in this project: Thank you to Professor Bráulio Alturas for their guidance and exceptional support. To my company PT-SI for all their openness and contribution during the master. To Ana for their support, patience and dissertation review. To Tiago for his suggestions and for providing me other points of view especially in the...

Commodity Procurement with Demand Forecast and Forward Price Updates

Commodities, ranging from natural gas to memory chips, can be procured both by trading on the date in spot markets and in advance in forward markets. Transaction costs, such as brokerage fees, are typically higher in spot markets than in forward markets. Moreover, the forecast of a firm’s commodity requirement (demand) for a given future date typically changes in an uncertain fashion over time....

Moving forward with randomized controlled trials.

A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is the most powerful tool for determining the cause-effect relationship between an intervention and an outcome. RCTs typically include random allocation to intervention and control groups, a blinding plan for trialists, assessors and/or participants, identical treatment groups except for the experimental ingredients, and an intent-to-treat analysis. RCTs are ...