Companies with a superior understanding of the customer usage experience create offerings that promise greater value-in-use than similar competing offerings, which enables the most innovative companies in the world to outperform rivals. The Boston Consulting Group and BusinessWeek recently surveyed 1,070 senior managers in 63 countries in Asia, Europe and North America, and found that the under...

Securing wireless communication is a formidable task, something that many companies are rapidly learning the hard way. IP level solutions become extremely cumbersome when moving between networks and fail to provide many services necessary when acting in a fragmented wireless environment. By acting at the session level it is possible to create a powerful and flexible VPN capable of providing sta...

the current study aims to identify and examine the effect of market orientation, management innovation and technological innovation on organizational performance. the current research was conducted using descriptive- correlational methodology. the population of the current research included pharmaceutical companies throughout the country. using simplerandom sampling method and cochran formula, ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between a company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance its financial performance. This also investigates ESG market valuation. provides convincing empirical evidence that delivering superior pays off financially. Design/methodology/approach data scores 150 publicly traded companies listed in Standard Poor’s...

The health status of workers in small companies has been noted to be relatively poor, but no actual comparisons of groups of variously sized companies within the same region based on the same methodology have ever been conducted. We undertook this study to clarify differences in health status according to company size. The subjects comprised workers of a Japanese steel company and various subco...

Sales forecasting is a common topic in business. Our task is predicting a famous drug company daily sales for 1,115 stores located across Germany for six weeks in advance. Store sales are influenced by many factors. Our project aims to create a robust prediction model. Based on Gradient Boosting and Random Forest, our model performs well in this sales forecasting competition with resulting in r...

In November, 1963, a small private symposium met at Johns Hopkins Univers^ to explore what were the major problems in making safe and effective drugs avails. from both the academic and industrial fields were present. In addition, the gt?f. included economists, the president of a drug company, lawyers and an Eng'1^ social scientist (Professor Richard Titmuss). In the course of their deliberation...

I n global-health politics, cardiovascular disease is the elephant in the room—a massive problem that few want to acknowledge and even fewer want to tackle. In [a recent issue of] Lancet, Carlene Lawes and colleagues, on behalf of the International Society of Hypertension, estimate that bloodpressure-related diseases cause about half this burden, killing around 8 million people each year.1 Low-...

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