20 The transportation sector generates a large percentage of local pollutants including hydrocarbons 21 (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), and oxides of nitrogen (NOx). Apart from 22 switching to alternative fuels, various green driving strategies that smooth traffic flow and reduce 23 congestion can be implemented to lower pollutant emissions and fuel consumption. In this paper,...

In today’s rapidly changing healthcare industry, U.S. hospitals and health systems are contending with tightening margins that conflict with an ever-expanding list of capital needs. Given competing demands on scarce capital resources, an organization’s long-term success and sustainability hinges on its ability to make smart strategic investment decisions today. The alignment of capital decision...

Control charting is synonymous with statistical process control (SPC). However, the traditional control chart assumption of data independence is often violated in process industries. This problem has been analyzed and necessary modifications to the widely used SPC tools have been suggested. The performances of the modified estimators and proposed control schemes have also been studied, through ...

The authors show how ethnography can provide multiple strategically important perspectives on behaviors of interest to marketing researchers. They first discuss the goals and four essential characteristics of ethnographic interpretation. Then they review the particular contributions to interpretation of several kinds of ethnographic observation and interview data. Next they discuss how interpre...

The growth of electronic commerce has created the need of automated bargaining agents for improving the efficiency of online transactions. From the perspective of customer relationship marketing (CRM), establishing and maintaining the best possible relationship with valuable customers is a good way to survive in the competitive global market. In order to retain valuable customers, high share cu...

Early attempts to formulate information systems (IS) strategies concentrated on the analytical task of deriving IS strategies from business plans. The limitations of the static plans that often resulted from these formal studies were, however, soon discovered. The critics suggested informal and incremental planning to ensure flexibility, creativity and strategic thinking to comprise emergent st...

The objective of this research was to identify how a specific methodology of strategy formulation for the Internet addresses the Business Model concept. We see the Business Model concept as a basis for understanding and exploiting the value creation potential generated by the Internet technological platform (ITP). The main possibilities that the ITP offers organizations are related to the reduc...

Business strategy formulation : theory, process, and the intellectual revolution / Anthony W. Ulwick. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Dedicated to my wife, Heather Lee, and our son, Anthony—my sources of love and inspiration.

With the increasing level of competition in many competitive environments, a body of research regards the ability to formulate and implement a formulated strategy as an equally important source of competitive advantage. The rate of change in both internal and external environments of manufacturing firms is increasing, which necessitates that increased attention be paid to strategic planning and...