Fundamentally, a reengineering project should have, as its common objective, the delivery of a fully functional business/customer service. The reengineering project should be complementary to and supportive of business processes within the enterprise. The paper presents an overview of economic...

Fierce competition in a market increasingly crowded and frequent changes in consumer requirements are the main forces that will cause companies to change their current organization and management. One solution is to move to open architectures and virtual type, which requires addressing business...

The paper focuses on a modern prospective IT&C section which embeds tools for the simulation and assistance of managerial decision. The author studies aspects of this field by using the IT&C methods as management tools, these methods being Decision Support Systems (DSS), Business Intelligence...

The paper analysis the possibilities of using, a relative new technology, RFID, in commerce. The main features of this technology, the components of the system, the way the system functions and the stages of the implementing process are also presented. Another part of the paper is devoted to the...

The investments in informational and communicational technologies in the health field represent a for of investing in human capital because health and medical services will exceed the physician – patient relationship and the improvement of the physical and emotional condition of the...

Search engine marketing (SEM) is a generic term covering a variety of marketing techniques intended for attracting web traffic in search engines and directories. SEM is a popular tool since it has the potential of substantial gains with minimum investment. On the one side, most search engines...

In an IT system, a state is generally described by means of a cluster of state variables. The values assigned to these variables will allow the defining, in a univocal manner, a given state. Generally speaking, these variables describe the attributes of different objects (or facts, situations...

In the early days of computing, technology simply automated manual processes with greater efficiency. The new organizational context provides input into the data architecture and is the primary tool for the management and sharing of enterprise data. It enables architects, data modelers, and...

The business world is changing at a fast pace. The multinationals, the relocation of the production centers, the virtual integration trend of companies, the ubiquitous text, audio and video communication channels and devices, the overwhelming amounts of information, the power of the new...

A formalism and a corresponding notation for earned value analysis are presented. With compact, consistent, mnemonic notation, earned value calculations become more transparent and flexible, leading to insights about standard quantities and advances through new measures. As an example of the...