Financial consulting is a demanding task. Due to the complexity and fuzziness of customers’financial problems on the one hand and the amount of possible products that may be consideredto configure solutions to these problems on the other hand, an adequate DSS is essential. Amodel is presented...

At the beginning of the new millennium, the financialservices market is experiencing a fundamental shift. Moretransparent and global markets through new means ofcommunication on the one hand and better informed andmore demanding customers on the other hand have led toa dramatically intensified...

Especially in the Financial Services Sector we can see a strategic shift towards implementing CustomerRelationship Management (CRM) strategies. The basic assumption of this strategies is that customers who are lockedinto a stable relationship will be willing to pay premiums and by this generate...

In the paper a formal content model for the financial services industry as an example of one of the mostimportant eServices industries is presented. Generally, a financial services firm can provide its customers with agreat variety and quantity of self-produced and externally bought content....

In the paper a formal content model for the financialservices industry as an example of one of the most importanteServices industries is presented. Generally, afinancial services firm can provide its customers with agreat variety and quantity of self-produced and externallybought content....

Globalization of financial markets resultingfrom both IT (particularly internet standards) andincreasing homogeneity of regulation has stronglyaffected the environment, financial services companiesare operating in. Given these changes on the market,innovation is not a choice, but a necessity to...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify strategic options and challenges that arise when an industrial firm moves from providing smart service toward providing a platform. Design/methodology/approach: This conceptual study takes on a multidisciplinary research perspective that...

European telecommunication firms have spent billions of dollars in the last year to get a license for UMTS, a third generation standard for mobile phone net-works. Already in GSM networks today, congestion in transmission stations is com-mon...