The rapid innovation and globalization have created huge opportunities and enormous options for customers and companies. Obviously, competition pressures have increased production and sourcing on a ...worldwide basis, leading to a major increase in the number of items produced. The report attempts to figure out the demand for real - time business intelligence in supply chain analytics. The paper presents the methodology and approach, along with an analysis and argument of benefits in addition to obstacles in BI. The paper concentrates on the need to revisit The standard BI idea that combines and consolidates information in a company to assist businesses that are service oriented and searching for retention and customer loyalty. BI strategy is critical to a company's competitive advantage, so improving the effectiveness and efficiency of supply chain analytics. The originality or value of this paper improves understanding of the issues that involve using BI devices in supply chains.
The global fiberglass-composite market is expanding tremendously due to its extensive applications in the construction and automotive sector. The progress in low-medium income developing countries is ...slow. This study explores an exclusive hybrid model of SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis and Fuzzy extended PIPRECIA (pivot pairwise relative criteria importance assessment) to evaluate the strategies for sustainable development of fiberglass composites industry in Pakistan as a representative of low-medium developing countries. SWOT analysis is employed for examining the factors and sub-factors which have been extracted from a real-time industrial survey. While internal and external factors are also critically established to formulate a TOWS matrix comprising nine proposed strategies. Later the preferences as proposed by experts are evaluated by Fuzzy extended PIPRECIA i.e., a MCDM (multi-criteria decision making) model. Finally, SWOT factors, sub-factors and strategic choices are orderly ranked and presented. The results of the study reveal that development of a suitable environment to attract investors for the advancement and growth of the local fiber composites manufacturing industry (WO2 i.e., 0.175) is a most desirable and highly prioritized strategic choice. While maximizing environmental research to reduce environmental impact and better management of resources (WT2 i.e., 0.076) is the least favorable. The application of this exclusively developed MCDM model will provide an insight to the policy makers and assistive in strategic management and sustainable development of composite industry in developing countries. While this model can also be effective for other complex planning and decision-making processes.
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Business analysis is core to the information systems (IS) discipline. Historically, those performing business analysis held the "Business Analyst" job title; however, in recent years evidence ...suggests that business analysis is now a job responsibility diffused across a wide variety of roles. It is vital that the IS community understand more about the diffusion of responsibility for business analysis across a variety of organizational roles. This research seeks to provide such an understanding by analyzing job postings referencing business analysis responsibilities. Over 231,000 unique job postings were analyzed to identify the most common job titles associated with business analysis, the hard and soft skills associated with them, and how the job titles compared in terms of skill requirements. The study provides insights to support both academia and industry in understanding business analysis as it relates to IT job titles and roles.
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The primary objectives of Graphs, Dioïds and Semirings: New Models and Algorithms are to emphasize the deep relations existing between the semiring and dioïd structures with graphs and their ...combinatorial properties, while demonstrating the modeling and problem-solving capability and flexibility of these structures. In addition the book provides an extensive overview of the mathematical properties employed by "nonclassical" algebraic structures, which either extend usual algebra (i.e., semirings), or correspond to a new branch of algebra (i.e., dioïds), apart from the classical structures of groups, rings, and fields.
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The business potential of polymer solar cells is reviewed and the market opportunities analyzed on the basis of the currently reported and projected performance and manufacturing cost of polymer ...solar cells. Possible new market areas are identified and described. An overview of the present patent and intellectual property situation is also given and a patent map of polymer solar cells is drawn in a European context. It is found that the business potential of polymer solar cells is large when taking the projections for future performance into account while the currently available performance and manufacturing cost leaves little room for competition on the thin film photovoltaic market. However, polymer solar cells do enable the competitive manufacture of low cost niche products and is viewed as financially viable in its currently available form in a large volume approximation. Finally, it is found that the polymer solar cell technology is very poorly protected in Europe with the central patents being valid in only France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Several countries with a large potential for PV such as Portugal and Greece are completely open and have apparently no relevant patents. This is viewed as a great advantage for the possible commercialization of polymer solar cells in a European setting as the competition for the market will be based on the manufacturing performance rather than domination by a few patent stakeholders.
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Automatic milking systems (AMS) have the potential to increase dairy farm productivity and profitability; however, adoption rates, particularly in pasture-based systems, have been lower than ...expected. The objectives of this study were to compare the physical and economic performance of pasture-based AMS with conventional milking systems (CMS) and to identify gaps for improving AMS productivity and profitability. We used data from 14 AMS and 100 CMS located in the main Australian dairy regions and collected over 3 yr (2015–2016, 2016–2017, 2017–2018). Farms within similar regions and herd sizes were compared. Results showed that all the main physical performance indicators evaluated such as milk production per cow, milk production per hectare, pasture grazed per hectare, or milk solids per full-time equivalent were similar between systems. The AMS farms had higher overhead costs such as depreciation and repairs and maintenance; however, no differences in total labor costs were observed between systems. Profitability, measured as earnings before interest and tax, operating profit margin, and return on total assets, was not significantly different between AMS and CMS. Opportunities for improving pasture utilization, labor efficiency, and robot utilization in AMS farms were identified. Improving efficiency in these areas could improve productivity and profitability of these systems, and therefore increase the interest of this technology.
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The paper analyzes the business and the potential for improving the business of a small processing company through the McKinsey 7S model. The first part of the paper presents an overview of the ...literature in this area. The methodology is presented in the second part of the paper. In the third part of the work, all points of the 7S model (strategy, structure, systems, shared values, management style, employees, skills) were analyzed. At the end, a conclusion was given with suggestions for improvement. The work shows that the McKinsey7S model can be applied in all types of companies and provides an overview of the current situation with an insight into critical points that need to be improved.
We examined and analyzed indicators of the financial management situation of water utilities. We have selected two indicators from each of the three perspectives of "people, goods, and money," which ...are generally considered to be important in the management of a business. We also looked at two more indicators for water receiving from the water supply, which was suggested to have an impact on the maintenance and management system in a previous study. The results show that the business condition worsens as the number of the water supply population decreases, and that many of the smaller utilities are unable to fully cover their expenses from water charges alone. In addition, it was found that larger utilities are more likely to reduce fixed assets and utilize outsourced staff to improve operational efficiency, while there is a significant variability among smaller utilities in their current status. In addition, the utilities that have implemented wide-area expansion and public-private partnerships have increased their business efficiency by increasing the ratio of contracted staff, and in particular, the utilities that have implemented wide-area expansion have seen a significant decrease in the ratio of water received, suggesting that although the objectives of the initial measures are reflected in the indicators, the management situation has not yet been significantly improved.
It is well known that in the Croatian economy very little attention is paid to business analysis and business risk management. Also, incompetence and inadequate expertise of top management, as well ...as superficial and insufficiently professional supervision of business by companies' owners, continuously generate problems with liquidity, over-indebtedness, and losses within Croatian companies. Failure to (timely) address these problems is in essence the cause of a large number of bankruptcies and liquidations of business entities, which ultimately produces serious problems for the Croatian economy in general. In this paper, business analysis and the analysis of business risks of the Uljanik d.d. group. during the period from 2016. to 2017. will be evaluated in order to determine the creditworthiness of the company at that time, respectively before the announcement of the company's bankruptcy in 2019. This paper will try to determine whether the difficulties in business could be promptly identified and whether the company's management structure in the mentioned period could react faster and more decisively based on the assessment of the company's creditworthiness and the knowledge gained during the analysis. The optimal choice of financial and qualitative indicators was used in the evaluation of creditworthiness by which it is possible to make a more reliable assessment of creditworthiness taking into account internal and external factors that affect the company's operations. In the used credit score model, the final credit rating is determined by synthesis and common use of financial and qualitative indicators and provides comprehensive and credible information about the business entity and its business risks and in that way allows the correct business decisions to be taken on time.
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