Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) represent a powerful strategic instrument increasingly applied in today’s business environment. Besides juridical, financial, and organizational challenges, it is crucial to rapidly integrate the existing application landscapes in order to capitalize the aspired synergies. Literature documents four commonly agreed strategies: ‘best-of-breed’, ‘absorption’, ‘co-exi...

A model of orthographic processing is described that postulates read-out from different information dimensions, determined by variable response criteria set on these dimensions. Performance in a perceptual identification task is simulated as the percentage of trials on which a noisy criterion set on the dimension of single word detector activity is reached. Two additional criteria set on the di...

Large software companies have to plan their project portfolio to maximize potential portfolio return and strategic alignment, while balancing various preferences, and considering limited resources. Project portfolio managers need methods and tools to find a good solution for complex project portfolios and multiobjective target criteria efficiently. However, software project portfolios are chall...

0309-1708/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.02.009 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 407 823 2317; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (K. Mad Lund). 1 Tel.: +1 530 752 5671; fax: +1 530 752 7872. Game theory provides a useful framework for studying Multi-Criteria Decision Making problems. This paper suggests modeling Multi-Criteria Decision Making probl...

As the outsourcing industry matures, there is a growing recognition that a more holistic evaluation of outsourcing performance is required. The parameters and the criteria for evaluation would change in a long-term strategic oriented outsourcing partnership. This paper attempts to examine how performance measures used by customers change during a long-term partnership. It is an exploratory stud...

The river ranking problem is a strategic issue and has significant impact on the efficiency of a river system. On the other hand, the river ranking among many alternatives presents a multi criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. Hence fuzzy set theory can be applied. Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy process (FAHP) technique is used to rank alternatives to find the efficient use of the river system. Fu...

Strategic management is momentous for organizational success and competitive advantage in an increasingly turbulent business environment. Balanced scorecard (BSC) is a framework for evaluating strategic management performance which translates strategy into action via various sets of performance measurement indicators. The main objective of this research is to develop a new fuzzy group MultiCrit...

This report addresses issues of quality in the context of management decision aids. It proposes rules for high quality management support procedures using these aids, and presents criteria for more effective implementation of these decision aids into the strategic management of science and technology. Two illustrative examples of quality in the context of management decision aids are presented....

This paper analyzes the goals, the organizational structures and processes, and the investment criteria that underlie venture strategies in Germany today, using a sample of 20 corporate venture capital organizations (CVCs). The performance of these CVCs is examined and the data are compared with those generated by studies on German independent venture capital organizations (VCs) as well as with...

We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in medicine and related subjects. This mechanism consists of three admission procedures that are administered sequentially. While these procedures differ with respect to the criteria applied ( final grades from school, waiting time etc.), two of them make use of priority matching. In p...