plants. We find that adopting these management practices had three main effects. First, it raised average productivity by 11 …% through improved quality and efficiency and reduced inventory. Second, it increased decentralization of decision making, as … better information flow enabled owners to delegate more decisions to middle managers. Third, it increased the use of …

New Economy is characterized by a strong IT development, leading to a knowledge society. The EU set out the basic rules … public and private business. Union will act in favor of factors of globalization, increasing thus the degree of globalization …

The electronic markets hypothesis (EMH) predicts that the intense intrusion of information technology (IT) into the … market system has a strong influence on the degree of market coordination. As transaction costs go down due to inexpensive IT … apparent inverse relationship between IT-driven distribution and production within hierarchies, the end results reveal that …

Informatics and logistics have much in common in regard to other business processes in an organization, especially …, frameworks, standards and other guidelines with its theoretical bases adapted to IT. Years ago, the Val IT framework was … developed by the international non-profit organization ISACA for managing investments, and it complements the well-known and …

Manufacturing software modules are essential part of any large ERP IT product. However, in most practical cases, the … process efficiency. KolibriMFG is a stand alone collection of program modules but it is designed and can be used in … professional or later Microsoft operating systems. It can work in LAN, WAN or VPN. In this paper we present details on generic …

through four sectors (high-speed trains, aeronautics, clean energy, IT) and discuss its potential impact on the world industry. …

. In capacity, information technology considerably surpasses the current learning technology. Supported by Internet it …

The present paper aims to identify some of the weaknesses in the IT area that have contributed to the current financial … crisis. At the same time, the crisis impact over the IT&C industry is analysed. Some case studies are introduced: credit risk …. Therefore, the IT&C is presented from two opposite perspectives: a factor that contributed to the on-going economic turmoil and …