purpose: this paper has two main goals: first, to evaluate the position of geological survey of iran library through the assessment of internal (strengths and weaknesses) and external (opportunities and threats) environment; and then, provide solutions and strategies to help library managers and administrators to achieve their goals, missions and visions. methodology: among the existing models,...

Recent commentary has indicated that the strategic importance of IT may be waning. To explore this issue, we investigate CEOs’ perspectives on the strategic importance of IT over time by analyzing their Letters to Shareholders from corporate annual reports. We use text mining to examine a sample of 180 annual reports from Fortune 1000 companies in the commercial banking industry from the period...

Customer loyalty is one of the important approaches for retailers to improve competitive edge. Despite the importance of customer loyalty, some of the retail stores have lack on service quality, product quality, price strategy as well as customer satisfaction whereas needs a comprehensive work to explain how customers develop loyalty to a particular store. This study aims to evaluate the retail...

Knowledge forms an important asset in modern organisations. In order to gain and sustain competitive advantage knowledge has to be managed. One aspect of doing this is to build knowledge repositories. In this paper we extend the strategic knowledge management framework to betters suit the process of constructing knowledge repositories. The extended framework highlights, for example, the impact ...

This research reviewed the health IS (HIS) strategy of the New Zealand government and highlighted different gaps in this strategy, as raised by the different stakeholders involved in this strategy. In order to address such gaps, the government provided different Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for the successful implementation of the national HIS strategy. This research introduced the telemedic...

Since early 1990’s, Business Process Reengineering (BPR) has become a buzzword around the world. Of the BPR methods and models suggested, the majority has put much attention on redesigning processes at operational levels. Those who stress the importance of strategic process reengineering tend to emphasize that redesigning should be embarked and implemented at a broader scope (crossfunctional) i...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is currently considered a hot topic in the IT arena. It is described as a major enabling technology for automated contactless wireless data collection, and as an enabler for the real-time enterprise, a future vision for enterprise information systems. Little is known, however, about the perceived strategic importance of RFID among IT decision makers, curren...

Remanufacturing is a concept of strategic importance that enables a significant part of the value added to a product during its initial production to be retained. It is no longer acceptable to dispose continually of strategically important materials in landfill sites or waste the energy associated with their processing. Remanufacturing is the process by which used products and assemblies are re...

Partnerships have recently been advocated as the way to gain a 'competitive advantage' in many industries. Strategic behaviour of partners, each having his own objectives and information, is an important factor for the management in a partnership. In this paper, we discuss these elements and illustrate their importance for inventory management of spare parts. We present the case of an airline c...

This paper reviews the essence of effective governance and importance of a multi-sectoral approach in generating health systems response to HIV/AIDS. This comprehensive approach highlights the importance of integrating reproductive sexual health programs and HIV prevention services, including peer education, life skills, and Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT), for Prevention of Mother-to-Ch...