Open Source Software (OSS) is a strategic asset for organisations thanks to its short time-to-market, the opportunity for a reduced development effort and total cost of ownership, and its customization capabilities. OSS-based solutions include projects that are developed and co-evolve within the same organisation, OSS communities, companies, and regulatory bodies, forming an articulated strateg...

at the aim of explaining the rights of health care recipients and upgrading ethical observance in the field of treatment-the most important field of health care-, the patient's rights charter was declared by ministry of health and medical education to all medical universities in september 2009. this paper provides a report of strategic planning for implementation of patient's rights charter and...

Assessment of strategic R&D projects is in essence a multiple-attribute decision analysis (MADA) problem. In such problems, qualitative information with subjective judgments of ambiguity is often provided by people together with quantitative data that may be imprecise or incomplete. A few approaches can be used to deal with such quantitative and qualitative MADA problems under uncertainty, such...

Measuring knowledge related performance in organizations usually is conceptualized on the basis of a strategic resp. top down-approach of KM measurement. Unfortunately, such a strategic approach has some important disadvantages: (1) It is difficult to get commitment from senior managers regarding the investment into strategic KM projects; (2) Due to the complexity of the organizational system i...

It is extremely important to make a scientific evaluation on enterprise’s strategic capability. Focusing on the power supply enterprise, this paper designs a “five-force” mode composed by strategic capabilities and advances a complete strategic capability evaluation system. In addition, this paper proves the system’s feasibility and practicability by case study. To sum up, this paper provides w...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects are considered to be expensive, time-consuming, difficult to manage, and extremely risky. ERP projects are risky from strategic, operational, technical and organisational perspectives. Risks and critical success factors of ERP projects have been widely studied, and the management of risks is a key to a successful ERP project. Generic risk analyses hav...

Strategic IS alignment has typically been explored from the perspective of the individual business organization. For many organizations however effective strategic information systems alignment does not stop at the boundaries of the business, but rather extends to strategic stakeholder groups in the external environment. This paper, consequently, attempts to develop a theoretical framework that...

Small-scale pilot projects have demonstrated that integrated population, health and environment approaches can address the needs and rights of vulnerable communities. However, these and other types of health and development projects have rarely gone on to influence larger policy and programme development. ExpandNet, a network of health professionals working on scaling up, argues this is because...

This paper describes an expert system (ES) based decision support system (DSS), which aids the user to select feasible projects among a strategic portfolio supplied by a dynamic simulator (DS). The ES incorporates the ALTMAN model for predicting financial distress. This model is utilized for aiding the user to find the most feasible values for the financialeconomic parameters, managing the proj...