Global competitive pressures shape an enterprise’s focus on strategic management systems, and in particular the Balanced Scorecard; this shift suggests that global companies adopt a handful of management best practices, most of which originate in the West. Divergence factors such as national culture, leadership styles and human resource management practices underscore the trend towards converge...

Defining strategic position of the organizations within the industry environment is one of the basic and most important phases of strategic planning to which extent that one of the fundamental schools of strategic planning is the strategic positioning school. In today’s knowledge-based economy and dynamic environment, it is essential for universities as the centers of education, knowledge creat...

As competition for market space continues to increase worldwide and the information technology (IT) budget of many organizations these days comprises hundreds of projects running concurrently across different business functions, decision making units and geographical locations, selecting IT projects for investment has become a challenge in itself, not to mention the need to maximize the benefit...

The article introduces a new methodology of temporal influence measurement (seasonal oscillations, temporal patterns) for behavioural scoring development purposes. The paper shows how significant temporal variables can be recognised and then integrated into the behavioural scoring models in order to improve model performance. Behavioural scoring models are integral parts of the Basel II standar...

Although there is no analytical framework for assessing the organizational benefits of ERP systems, several researchers have indicated that the balanced scorecard (BSC) approach may be an appropriate technique for evaluating the performance of ERP systems. This paper fills this gap in the literature by providing a balanced-scorecard based framework for valuing the strategic contributions of an ...

In contemporary global and dynamically developing environment there is a need of the strategic planning fundamental. It is complicated, but at the same time important process from the point of view of continual keeping of competitive advantage. The aim of the paper is formulation of strategic goals for the needs of the small enterprises. There will be used Balanced Scorecard as a balanced syste...