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Strategic information modelling - the development of an executive support system for contract bidding adjudication decisions

Couzens, Alan C.; Skitmore, Martin; Thorpe, Antony - 1993

This paper describes a structured methodology for modelling the information requirements of contracting firms' tender adjudication decisions. The method adopted is based on the techniques of information strategy planning and critical success factor analysis used in the development of executive...

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An Executive Support System for contract bidding decisions

Couzens, Alan; Skitmore, Martin; Thorpe, Antony - 1993

It is widely contended that since any one particular project contributes a relatively significant part of a construction firms turnover, the bidding decision on any one project will ultimately have a significant effect on the firms long term performance. It is also generally accepted that the...

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Multi- stakeholder assessment of critical success factors: Insights from the world’s fastest SAP R/3 implementation

Sedera, Darshana; Dey, Sharmistha - 2006

Organizations invest substantial resources in Enterprise Systems (ES) expecting positive outcomes for the organization and its functions. Implementing an ES is a lengthy and costly undertaking, with general upheaval for many of the organizations. Many organizations therefore are seriously...

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Implementing a six sigma initiative in financial service companies

Leyer, Michael; Chakraborty, Ayon - 2011

In a world of intense competition, Six Sigma is considered to be an important management philosophy, supporting organisations in their efforts to obtain satisfied customers. As financial service organisations have been slow to adopt Six Sigma, issues concerning its implementation are of major...

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Means of achieving Business Process Management success factors

Bandara, Wasana; Alibabaei, Ahmad; Aghdasi, Mohammad - 2009

Business Process Management (BPM) in recent years has become a highest priority area for most organizations. Since this concept is multidisciplinary, success in this endeavour requires considering different factors. A number of studies have been conducted to identify these factors; however, most...

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Challenges and influential factors in ERP adoption and implementation

Al-Fawaz, K; Eldabi, T; Naseer, A - 2010

The adoption and implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is a challenging and expensive task that not only requires rigorous efforts but also demands to have a detailed analysis of such factors that are critical to the adoption or implementation of ERP systems. Many efforts...

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Critical success factors for multidisciplinary engineering projects

Koutsikouri, Dina; Dainty, Andrew R.J.; Austin, Simon A. - 2006

Project success is an attractive idea but what factors lead to success remains an areaof conjecture. In the project management literature the success has often beendefined in terms of better control of timescales, budgets and resource planning. Yetthese are impoverished terms for conceptualising...

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Services marketing in the hospitality economy: An exploratory study

Kitsios, Fotis C. - 2006

Meeting the challenges of an unstable and unsettled environment is not easy. The recentimpacts on the hospitality services economy of changing technology, mergers of institutions,increasingly demanding consumers and increased competition have created an atmosphere ofvolatility and rapid change....

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Choice of Economic Strategies by Food Complex Enterprises in Conditions of Market Uncertainties

Yermolova, Olga; Kireyeva, Natalia; Fisenko, Natalja - 2006

of diversification and integration as a means to reduce the external risks and uncertainties and overcome the negative … effects from implementing the diversification strategy was made for a number of food companies to find out that the risks get … critical risks to that of minimum risks bears both positive and negative consequences. One the one hand, these are lower …

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Strategic Interactions, Risks and Coordination Costs in Food Marketing Channels: The Mediating Role of Futures Markets

Kuwornu, John K.M.; Kuiper, W. Erno; Pennings, Joost M.E.; … - 2006

We examine the interaction of marketing channel members and the influence of these interactions on incentives, coordination costs, and risk allocation strategies in a food marketing channel. For this purpose we specify a three-stage principal-agent marketing channel model involving producers,...

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