a varity of policy making models have been put forward in different era. although in real world each one of these models have a color and crystallized and an effect of each one could be traced in policy making . it is endeavored with the consideration of complexity of business environment and its various performers & players involved to present a conceptual model of policy making in order to im...

the advent of new information technology has radically changed the end-user computing environment over the past decade. to enhance their management decision-making capability, many organizations have made significant investments in business intelligence (bi) systems. in order to achieve increased and sustainable business results, organizations need to use suitable strategy to engage personnel. ...

Do Business Cycles Have Long-Term Impact for Particular Cohorts? Will the current employment crisis produce lost generations with permanently lower labour market attachment? Taking an explicit cohort perspective and based on Danish data we do not find strong persistence in employment rates at the cohort level. Younger workers tend to be more exposed to business cycle fluctuations than older wor...

As part of process redesign initiatives, substantial time is spent on the systematic description and analysis of the as-is process. By contrast, to-be scenarios are often generated in a less rigorous way. Only one or a few workshops are organized for this purpose, which rely on the use of techniques that are susceptible to bias and incompleteness, e.g. brainstorming. In this paper, we evaluate ...

In this study, 308 small business executives were interviewed and asked to identify the single most important thing they had learned about managing the use of information technology (IT) in their ®rms. The most common response was staying current/ keeping up with changing IT. The training/education of end users, the ability to get information quickly, and accurate data were also given as things...

In today's business environment in which coordination and adaptation with constant changes are the only ways of survival, real-time monitoring of activities and making the decisions accordingly are necessary. Since performance measurement cannot be managed independent of business processes, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) systems should monitor performance metrics based on business processes...

Inter-firm collaboration has become a common feature of the developing international economy. Firms as well as the nations have more relationships with each other. Even relatively closed economies or industries are becoming more open, Australia and China are examples of this case. The benefits generated from collaboration and the motivations to form collaboration are investigated by some resear...

Market research, in business markets and elsewhcrc, is performed to provide information about the market. The low level of research expenditures in business markets reflects both the low quality of information available and the difficulty involved in evaluating the quality and value of that information. This paper treats three methods for addressing industrial marketing research problems: Decom...

The focus of architectural reasoning methods is on the technical design issues. The relation with the business context is discussed: the business itself, people aspects and process and organizational aspects. The goal is to define architecting methods, which can be customized to the business needs, with minimal assumptions about people, process and organization. The operational stakeholders and...