Operational risk and outsourcing are two major topics on today's agenda of top executives, especially in the banking industry. This paper introduces a framework to classify operational risk in outsourcing in a way that generates quantifiable output for measurement purposes. The authors developed a matrix system that deploys a catalogue of sources of risk and a mutually exclusive yet exhaustive ...

In this paper, a data mining model to SMEs for detecting financial and operational risk indicators by data mining is presenting. The identification of the risk factors by clarifying the relationship between the variables defines the discovery of knowledge from the financial and operational variables. Automatic and estimation oriented information discovery process coincides the definition of dat...

Organizational alignment aims to align strategic, tactical and operational decision levels in a given organization. The traditional operational view, focused on processes, produces gaps between strategic and operational layers. As such, many tools and techniques were developed giving more focus on one of the layers failing to promote their integration. In our current research, we are trying to ...

Environmental performance assessments are often conducted using environmental indicators. Although these indicators provide a starting point for performance assessments, they do not provide guidelines that countries should follow to improve performance. This paper develops an enhanced Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model that provides a single summary measure of countries’ environmental perfor...

The efficiency of distribution systems is largely affected by the performances of distribution centres. The main objective of this paper is to develop and propose a DEA model for distribution centres efficiency measuring that can help managers in decision making and improving the efficiency. Due to numerous indicators that describe DCs operating, the main problem is indicators selection. In ord...

Recent studies have shown the value of mobile phone data to tackle problems related to economic development and humanitarian action. In this research, we assess the suitability of indicators derived from mobile phone data as a proxy for food security indicators. We compare the measures extracted from call detail records and airtime credit purchases to the results of a nationwide household surve...

The aim of this paper is to present some existing and several new indicators of performances useful to help the designer to "nd a good solution for morphology and choice of material handling systems in #exible manufacturing systems. Our purpose here is to focus on the evaluation of the pair morphology}material handling systems, studied concurrently due to their strong interdependence. As a resu...

working groups were then refined at a series of international meetings. The main elements of information required for each proposed indicator (characteristics, operational definition, possible sources of data, methodological issues, and availability) were summarised on a standard form. A web-site of all pertinent EUROCHIP information has been created (www.istitutotumori.mi.it/ project/eurochip/...

Abstract. Data-preparation and fitting for a comprehensive model of statewise household response to the 1990 census is described, using a methodology of successive logistic regressions for longitudinally defined response variables, including indicators of response by mail, and enumerator checkin within quantile intervals of enumerator operational time for the ARA containing the household. The e...

Composite indicators for ranking countries are more and more popular in a variety of economic and policy domains such as industrial competitiveness, sustainable development, globalisation and innovation. As a consequence, improvements in the way these indicators are constructed and used seem to be a very important research issue from both the theoretical and operational points of view. This pap...