In order to gain a competitive advantage and to ensure long term resilience for firms, many industries now rely on innovativeness. Thus, managers have to regularly make strategic decisions pertaining to the identification of adequate resources and competencies (external partners or internal department/ divisions) that can incite innovation. In such contexts, collaboration, which is carried out ...

Decision making inside a company is usually performed by means of decision support tools at three different levels (strategic, tactical and operational) according to the working horizon. Unfortunately, the consequences of any decision at the strategic level are propagated to the tactical and even the operational levels. In order to support highly efficient flexibility while avoiding infrastruct...

Today’s rapidly changing global political climate is significantly impacting the military strategies of Free World countries. Important decisions are being made regarding each country’s defense and military equipment needs. Regardless of these ongoing political changes, however, the threat of nuclear weaponry use remains a viable possibility. As long as a first-strike capability exists, radiati...

A multi-product model for the design of global supply chains with reverse flows is proposed. Two levels of decisions are considered, one strategic and one tactical. The first is modelled through a macro perspective of time where the determination of the network structure and flows is accomplished. At tactical level, a micro perspective of time is considered, where production planning and invent...

This paper examines the importance of tactical and strategic information sharing between supply chain partners. Through a transaction cost economics theoretical lens, we hypothesize that greater tactical and strategic information sharing volumes are associated with greater survival of supply chain relationships. We also hypothesize that a greater ratio of strategic to tactical information shari...

The goal of this paper is to propose a process to manage risks in globally distributed software development environments. We propose a process integration, aiming to reflect in the operational level all information and decisions taken in the strategic and tactical levels. The operational level is defined as the project risk management process, and the strategic and tactical levels are defined a...

s of the presentations, can be found at the following site: http://webpages.ull.es/users/saderyl/Coral.htm. The SADERYL project is based on a global understanding of the logistics chain and its requirements for an efficient management. The decision problems arising in the integrated management of the logistics chain can be classified as strategic, tactical, and operational problems. Within the ...