The work of corporate finance professionals is information intensive. In spite of that the practices and motivations of their information preferences have been researched very little. The present study investigates perceived success and how it is related to corporate finance professionals' information source use behaviour based on a web survey of 92 Finnish corporate finance professionals. The ...

Information strategy is often relegated to an information technology element of corporate strategy, or worse, ignored in favour of IT operational planning. This research, conducted over a five-year period, stresses the correct framing of an information strategy and its implementation. The authors propose a framework that assists in the evaluation of such strategies, primarily those at higher ed...

NTT DOCOMO Technical Journal Vol. 12 No. 2 †1 Currently Strategic Marketing Department †2 Currently Corporate Strategy & Planning Department *1 Fixed-line backhaul link: Communication circuit for fixed-line interconnecting of equipment making up the mobile communications system such as switching stations and radio base stations. *2 Repeater: Physical layer relay equipment that amplifies downlin...

Success in the competition in the banking business is related to the development of core competencies, strategic alliances and long term strategic planning. Significant changes in the Brazilian financial sector have required banks to continually reinvent their business supported by adequate strategies and resource management. This paper, based on a survey of Brazilian banks, shows that the effe...

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...

Production planning and the development of manufacturing production scheduling are two important operational management tasks. The results of these tasks will strongly influence the development of corporate profits, as well as the efficiency of utilization of resources. Considering the production scheduling problems in production plans can effectively avoid conflicts between the specific implem...

Organizational commitment, senior management involvement, and team involvement are typically expected to have a positive impact on the achievement of strategic information systems planning (SISP) objectives. That is, more commitment and involvement should produce greater success. However, they might also have a quadratic impact, specifically an inverted-U relationship such that after they reach...

A well-developed strategic plan is merely an expensive report. It becomes a viable tool when it is placed in the hands of a manager competent to execute the plan. While the link between corporate strategic planning and management manpower planning seems obvious, a recent Business Week article suggests that companies are only now seriously trying to develop formal ties between the two systems. ̂ ...

The corporate competitive environment is being liberalized and globalized, therefore product life cycle is shortening. Markets are undertaking globalization and because of rapid changes in recent years, companies need to act more responsively to the market and customer demand as well as strengthen information exchange and communication systems in order to survive the highly competitive and spee...