In recent years organizations have been faced with increasingly demanding business environments pushed by factors like market globalization, need for product and service innovation and product life cycle reduction and with new information technologies changes and opportunitiessuch as the Component-off-the-shelf paradigm, the telecommunications improvement or the Enterprise Systems off-the-shelf...

This paper discusses the need for Supply Chain Business Intelligence and driving forces for its adoption, and presents BI development life cycle along with quality success factors. Also, Internet-based supply chain BI model that enables many-to-many, loosely-coupled information exchange for collaborative business analysis and decision making is described. Finally, the main elements of the devel...

ion, mappings between adjacent layers, and an implementation of this hierarchy using information technology-level execution elements. This approach is applied to the assay development phase of the drug discovery process. First, a business operations model is built by identifying the business artifacts, developing models for the life cycles of these artifacts, and then creating a comprehensive m...

A modelling framework is proposed in which the real time informational context of decision-making is properly reflected. Comparisons are drawn with ‘standard’ estimated models that incorrectly omit market-informed insights on future macroeconomic conditions and inappropriately incorporate information that was not available at the time. An analysis of quarterly US data 1968q4-2006q1 shows that n...

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This paper deals with the existence of a common European growth cycle and its identification. Based on the analysis of some descriptive statistics in the time and frequency domain there is clear evidence of comovement in output growth among European countries. Univariate Markov switching autoregressions (MS-AR) are used for individual countries in order to detect changes in the mean growth rate...

We develop a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model with a continuum of different industries, each comprising a finite number of strategic price-setting firms. Each industry coordinates on profit-maximizing markups taking as given the strategic behavior of all other industries. The strategic behavior of all firms jointly determines the level of aggregate consumption in each state, which in...

Services are an increasingly important part of modern economies. They are provided by service processes that are an important subtype of business processes. Therefore, the life cycle used for business processes may also be applied to service processes. However, the properties of service processes and the services provided require to extend the lifecycle of service processes. Therefore, the prop...