In the global economy, knowledge has become a key asset in organizations; thus, Knowledge Management (KM) has emerged as a major issue that managers must deal with. However, implementing KM is becoming more complicated. Practitioners must assess complex and confusing situations, initiate KM, identify the causal relationships between problems, make appropriate decisions, and guarantee that the r...

During the three decades of research and practice, the image of Strategic Information Systems Planning has changed considerably. Flexibility, creativity, strategic thinking, and sharing of knowledge are seen as the new ways to both formulate and realize strategy. IT governance has provided a more flexible concept to discuss managerial efforts to align IT with business. But maybe the most import...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been proposed in recent literature as an emerging solution approach to large, dynamic, and complex real world multi-criteria decision making problems, such as the strategic planning of organizational resources and the justification of new manufacturing technology. This paper presents an application of the AHP in firms' long-term overall performance evalu...

Strategic decision-making process is a crucial part of strategy formulation and implementation. However, most inquiries into strategic decision-making process use quantitative methods. Even if there have been calls for more qualitative method for decision-making research, most researchers still predominantly use quantitative method as a main tool to find the results. This paper is aimed to chal...

In this research effort an ODSS was developed to support strategic planning and decision making of an industrial company. The financial strategies of a growing firm were of greatest interest. It is highlighted that an industrial company has several internal and external strategies to finance the required funds, working capital as well as production fixed capacity. We emphasize that the financia...

Abstract The purpose of this study is to consider an international facility location problem under uncertainty and present an integrated model for strategic and operational planning. The paper offers two methodologies for the location selection decision. First the extended VIKOR method for decision making problem with interval numbers is presented as a methodology for strategic evaluation of po...

introduction: human skills, knowledge and efficiency are important factors in the success of organizations and community health centers which have a critical role in total quality management (tqm) as a management system. knowledge is necessary as a source for the organizations survival. on the other hand, in order for implementation of knowledge management, there is a need for a relatively long...

This paper proposes an augmented learning model from a neuroscience perspective. This model contains brain activity data of the orbitofrontal cortex as a predictive variable of human strategic behavior. A Bayesian 3-layer perceptron, which shows the complex relationship between decision factors, was adopted to describe the learning behavior. However, the model's complexity creates the possibili...

Value is often perceived differently by the proponents of new information technologies and those who allocate resources and define priorities. Such differences often become a roadblock to meeting true business needs. Project justifications regularly rely on calculated cost savings, which rarely measure the full benefit of new technologies. In fact, if cost savings provide a complete picture, th...

This study reports a recent survey of the current state of quality management implementation and practices in China with reference to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) criteria. Comparisons are made between firms in three different stages of the development of a quality system: firms that focus on inspection, statistical quality control, and total quality management. The resul...