This paper aims to summarize, propose, and discuss existing or emerging strategies shift towards a circular economy of materials. To clarify the landscape practices, new spectrum is proposed, from product-based strategies, where entire products go through several life cycles without being reprocessed, material-based approaches, extracting, recycling, reprocessing materials waste flow. As refill...

There are many examples of information systems which are claimed to have created and sustained competitive advantage, allowed beneficial collaboration or simply ensured the continued survival of the organisations which used them These systems are often referred to as being 'strategic'. This paper argues that many of the examples of strategic information systems as reported in the literature are...

Teaching a mathematics course to first year computing undergraduates is difficult because the class is large and it includes a wide range of ability and interest. It is even more difficult if the students adopt a strategic approach to their studies. We describe an attempt to counter these difficulties by the introduction of small group tutorials. The tutorial activities, which are characterized...

We propose a novel experimental method that disentangles strategicallyand non-strategicallymotivated behavior. We apply it to an indefinitely-repeated prisoner’s dilemma game to observe simultaneously how the same individual behaves in situations with future interaction and in situations with no future interaction, while controlling for expectations. This method allows us to determine the exten...

Strategic Information Systems outsourcing refers to the long term outsourcing of systems with a major transformational impact on the client’s business strategy. Such outsourcing arrangements mitigate risks through closely aligned client and vendor business/IT operational processes and shared strategic vision. Strategic outsourcing arrangements rely on both contractual and relational governance ...

This paper develops the concept of “strategic design”, the design implications of the interactions of a product with the whole user system, and relates it to other aspects of design. It describes some examples of poor strategic design that occur frequently, and some cases where effective strategic design has been important in the large-scale impact of an ambitious educational innovation. From t...

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...