In the current conditions of a volatile economic environment, the ability to use an intelligent way the information that allows agricultural companies to cope with the challenges that they are facing regarding the current economic environment, represents the solution to strengthen their position...

Business intelligence (BI) refers to computer-based techniques used in spotting, digging-out, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes. BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business...

Micro-credits, which would allow, to a large degree, for the solution of the problems of numerous impoverished people (excluded from the system) and thus for the reduction of unemployment, are insufficiently developed. This is a real paradox, as facts show that it works. In the case of...

In the current conditions of a volatile economic environment, the ability to use an intelligent way the information that allows agricultural companies to cope with the challenges that they are facing regarding the current economic environment, represents the solution to strengthen their position...

In this article, a theory-driven approach for managing the alignment process between business and IT by making high-quality IT investment decisions is developed. The aim is to increase the understanding of the dimensions of the alignment problem and to offer some support in solving it. The...

“Crowdsourcing” is currently one of the most discussed key words among IS and innovation researchers. The major question for both research and business is how to find and lever the enormous potential of the “collective brain” to broaden the scope of “open R&D”. Thus, Communities for...

Tangible User Interfaces are of increasing interest in research and are beginning to showtheir potential for practical applications. Due to the differences from Virtual Reality systemsand traditional WIMP interaction via monitor, mouse and keyboard, established designknowledge from these areas...

Clinical pathways describe treatment processes within a hospital. They can be used as process models, which can be controlled by implemented workflow models in information systems. This enables (semi-) automated processes, and they are therefore high potential for an improved quality management...

The main objective of this report is to describe a decision-support system for dynamic retailpricing and promotion planning. Our weekly demand model incorporates price, referenceprice effects, seasonality, article availability information, features and discounts. Building onprevious research, we...