Finding, measuring and capturing market opportunities in emerging countries are critical tasks for multinational con- sumer goods companies. Central to these tasks is the need to collect and analyze income distribution data within a globally coherent framework and to move beyond income metrics...

This paper introduces a method for characterising the structure of a multi-sector information system and illustrates its application in formulating testable hypotheses and targeting information policy for improved system performance. This characterisation is accomplished by identifying...

E-commerce as an aggregation of activities concerning trading and rendering service to customers using internet is important for firms of all size to preserve competitiveness in global markets However, introduction of e-commerce means also introduction of new business models. To incorporate new...

E-learning has become a significant supportive cornerstone of the educational process at universities and in companies, where it is applied as supplementary education of the staff. At the Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration in Karvina, under completion of grant...

In this paper one presents and discuss the hybridation concept using some aspect that integrate it, as the physical architecture of automated systems (hardware), the information system that integrates that architecture and the working places design. Analyzed are also the inter-dependences of...

The Republic of Croatia is one of the transition countries that have abandoned planned economy and turned towards market-oriented economy. These new conditions of the market-oriented economy required normative adjustments in certain spheres of social and economic activity, resulting in the...

The Republic of Croatia belongs to the circle of transitional countries that has undertaken major efforts at the build-out of the information system. The development of telecommunications has been given a great importance because they represent one of the essential basis for the economical...

The book deals with theoretical concepts and ways of practical implementation of information sytems in companies. A successful information system project has to be based on the information strategy of the company. Taking the business strategy into consideration the information system value for...

This article gives an Introduction to a software named MINISIS which is a multipurpose information management system developed by International Developemnet Research Centre (IDRC). The applications of the software range from bibliographic databases to project information systems to germplasm...

This study seeks to develop a comprehensive methodology for assessing information system formation and performance. Our conceptual framework incorporates three complementary methods, which constitute the methodology developed. The first method proposes an approach to analyze the effects on the...