Practitioners often are confused by theories that offer ambiguous prescriptions for designing the institutional forms or governance structures in which business activities are conducted. Unclear prescriptions for organizing tasks within the main governance alternatives leave key design decisions...

Formal planning can yield many benefits for all types of companies but many companies are experiencing difficulties with marketing planning. It has been recognized that expert systems would bring benefits to companies by helping them make better strategic plans, but the development of expert...

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a simple decision‐making tool to deal with complex, unstructured and multi‐attribute problems. Selection of the most suitable production planning system (push or pull systems) requires the development of a tool to address quantitative and qualitative...

In this paper, the authors elaborate the notion of a hybrid factory: factories in which some production capacity is dedicated to process‐oriented manufacturing, and some is dedicated to product‐oriented manufacturing. We present the results of a field study of one such factory and, using it...

An intelligent hybrid system, called GloStra (developed by the author), for developing global marketing strategy and associated Internet marketing strategy is reported in this paper. The hybrid system is built to integrate the strengths of expert systems, fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks...

Explores the potential of a hybrid intelligent system in supporting marketing strategy development. First, a hybrid intelligent system for developing marketing strategy, called MarStra (developed by the author), is outlined. Then discusses the real‐world tests of MarStra with marketing...

A hybrid approach for integrating group Delphi, fuzzy logic and expert systems for developing marketing strategies is proposed in this paper. Within this approach, the group Delphi method is employed to help groups of managers undertake SWOT analysis. Fuzzy logic is applied to fuzzify the...

Healthcare providers and payers are increasingly turning to Big Data and analytics, to help them understand their patients and the context of their illnesses in more detail. Industry leaders are exploring/using Big Data to reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve patient care. The next...

To satisfy ABET's continuous improvement criterion, an instructor, teaching a course suggests, at the end of the course, an improvement plan to be implemented when the same course is taught next time. Preparation of such a course improvement plan may be mandatory if a pre-specified target level...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how to make powered‐wheelchair driving easier using simple expert systems to interpret joystick and ultrasonic sensor data. The expert systems interpret shaky joystick movement and identify potentially hazardous situations and then...