Companies experience increasing pressure to reduce time to market while providing responsiveness to market. This forces companies to rethink their processes and organization in particular in product development. But often companies experience that process reengineering, organizational restructuring or high-end tools do not provide the expected results. This paper addresses why existing approach...

The apparel industry has, like most other industries quickly started using the Internet to gain improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of operations and marketing. In this report we briefly overview the developments of electronic commerce in apparel industry. We try to develop a framework for choosing the right technology and development options based on the business model and busines...

The paper presents a new Cloud platform designed to support basic web applications shared by small and medium companies. The platform guarantees secure access of multiple users and complete logical separation of computational and data resources related to different companies. A peculiar data fragmentation approach ensures a high-level of protection of the data stored in the Cloud. The platform ...

In contrast to a widely held belief that online and offline channels of click and mortar companies should be tightly integrated, this chapter proposes a taxonomy of four multi-channel strategies that show varying degrees of integration and mutual support of online and offline activities. Each of the four basic strategies is illustrated by an example from the grocery retail industry in order to ...

In recent decade, with advancements in telecommunications and information management systems technology and the increasing requirements of various sectors of the power industry for monitoring and controlling all of the network components (from production to consumption) power companies feel necessary to add intelligence to their grid as a scientific and practical solution to the utility industr...

This study aims to determine the effect of cash holding, profitability and financial leverage on firm value, especially in companies basic chemical industrial sectors. research is a quantitative with causal approach. The operational variables consist characteristics as independent value dependent variable. population Manufacturing Companies Basic Industry Chemical Sector Registered IDX 2018-202...

Cyanobacteria are an important source of natural products. In this article, we briefly review the responses of cyanobacteria to different stresses. Abiotic stresses (temperature, salt, heavy metals, metalloid and ultraviolet (UV) influence cell growth and metabolism in cyanobacteria. Salt stress is a major abiotic factor that decrease...

K en johnson of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and Myrl Weinberg of the National Health Council take issue with findings from our survey of drug company–sponsored patient assistance programs (PAPs).1 Our disagreement is partly the result of a healthy debate on how best to structure our health care system. More problematic are the commentaries’ mischaracterizations ...

As recent advances have been made in developing tools to fight tuberculosis (TB), there is also a trend towards increasing advocacy by the civil society for TB research and access. One recent successful effort to increase access to treatment options for TB involved a collaborative effort to identify the need for and barriers to the use of rifapentine (RPT) use in the United States. Survey respo...

Very little real therapeutic progress was made in 2015, while a large number of unsafe or poorly evaluated drugs were authorised. The exorbitant prices for some drugs endanger universal healthcare, sometimes obliging health professionals to choose riskier options for their patients. Health professionals, health authorities and drug companies are jointly responsible for guaranteeing access to qu...