The visionary concept of zero waste advocates a systematic process of designing out waste and recovering resources from waste. A strategic zero waste framework (ZWF) is essential for developing and executing systematic waste management activities to achieve the overarching goals. This study identifies the key principles for the development of a strategic ZWF based on a waste experts’ survey ana...

Nowadays cloud services and complex cyber–physical systems gradually find their way into practice. As a result the need for end–to–end software quality management across platform and organizational boundaries has become paramount. One solution proposed by the software engineering community is the use of integrated model repositories for interchanging, interlinking and analyzing software enginee...

Nowadays, collaborative product development has become a strategic necessity to develop high quality products at low cost and with quick response time to market demand. Past decades have seen significant advances to collaborative product development. However, Enterprises are still confronted with some problems. Firstly, the research in strategic level of collaborative product development is lac...

Strategic management of global information systems (IS) is increasingly important for the multinational investment banking industry that had originally utilized information networks crossing national borders for profit making purposes. Significant changes have occurred to the scope of strategic management of IS in modern organizations following major restructuring of the global business environ...

diabetic self-management is important for controlling the diabetes complications and promoting health-related quality of life in these patients. the objective of this study was to examine a hypothetical model regarding influences of sociostructural determinants, collaborative decision-making and patient's beliefs system on diabetes self-management.in a cross-sectional descriptive study from dec...

This paper describes collaborative commerce (c-commerce); it essentially combines ecommerce, knowledge management and collaboration to carry out transactions and other activities within and across organizations. We first discuss the building blocks for c-commerce. Then, we describe models and federated architectures for c-commerce. Next we analyze the strategic role of knowledge management for ...

The strategic management represents current direction of management. It is applied in all types of enterprises, including small and medium sized ones. Using principles of process management within SMEs has its limitations caused mainly by size of the enterprise and the related focus on operational management. Other specificities are function accumulation, informal leadership, preference for ora...

In the highly competitive and rapidly changing global marketplace, independent organizations and enterprises often come together and form a temporary alignment of virtual enterprise in a supply chain to better provide products or service. As firms adopt the systems approach implicit in supply chain management, they must manage the quality from both internal process control and external control ...

This report addresses issues of quality in the context of management decision aids. It proposes rules for high quality management support procedures using these aids, and presents criteria for more effective implementation of these decision aids into the strategic management of science and technology. Two illustrative examples of quality in the context of management decision aids are presented....