urban effete textures are multiple problems at conspectus skeletal, environmental, social and economic that encounter life of inhabitants with problem in this texture. according to the research, almost 90% of population in country exposed hazard of occurrence earthquake. in this face, by reason of problems, effete textures are over damage if the earthquake happened. nonetheless, to make provisi...

The advance of the information technology and e-business strategies made it possible for the (para)pharmaceutical industry in Greece to be organised in clusters in order to deal with the invasion of big international production companies. The paper presents a case study of the Greek (para)pharmaceutical industry and explores the reasons that led the links of this supply chain to align goals and...

The purpose of this paper is to map SWOT analysis to the problem familiar and knowledge familiar dimensions and meet the challenge of knowing little about the problem and lacking of related knowledge by integrating the peripheral vision. In the SWOT analysis from knowledge point of view, organizations can narrow the internal and external gap in order to retain competitive advantage and diminish...

A well-known technique in strategic planning is to gather and organize information regarding the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing the immediate and near future of an organization. This technique is usually called SWOT. Based on this information the organization must develop alternative plans and select the most convenient to its interests. It is assumed that previously to...

Generally scarce computational and memory resource availability is a well known problem for the IoT, whose intrinsic volatility makes complex applications unfeasible. Noteworthy efforts in overcoming unpredictability (particularly in case of large dimensions) are the ones integrating Knowledge Representation technologies to build the so-called Semantic Web of Things (SWoT). In spite of allowed ...

Purpose: The aim of this work is to describe the Portuguese health system and to provide a SWOT approach of its present situation. In this way, a clear and simplified picture of the health system can be offered and some strategies are proposed to improve the functioning of the health system. The methodology used is descriptive, based on a literature review structured by SWOT tools and the WHO d...

Because of the introduction of (regulated) market competition and self-regulation, strategy is becoming an important management field for health care organizations in many European countries. That is why health managers are introducing more and more strategic principles and tools. Especially the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)-analysis seems to be popular. However, hardly a...