Decision Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Decision Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Editor: Information Resources Management Association
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: IGI Global
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ISBN: 978-1-5225-1837-2
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Decision Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a compendium of the latest academic material on the control, support, usage, and strategies for implementing efficient decision making systems across a variety of industries and fields.
Table of Contents
- Editor-in-Chief
- Associate Editors
- Editorial Advisory Board
- Preface
- Section 1: Fundamental Concepts and Theories
- Chapter 1: Architecture Leadership and Systems Thinking
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- CONNECTEDNESS AND COMPLEXITY: THE REALITY OF INFORMATION AGE
- EVOLUTION OF ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE AND CHALLENGES
- APPLYING SYSTEMS THINKING IN ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE AND GOVERNANCE
- CASE STUDY: PERSONALIZED MEDICINES – SYSTEMS THINKING AND ARCHITECTURE LEADERSHIP
- RESEARCH TOPIC: FRAGILITY OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 2: Interactive Data Visualization to Understand Data Better
- ABSTRACT
- 1. BACKGROUND
- 2. METHOD
- 3. CASE STUDIES
- 4. DISCUSSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 3: An Initial Examination into the Associative Nature of Systems Concepts
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- LITERATURE REVIEW
- METHODOLOGY
- FINDINGS
- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 4: Predictive Analytics
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. SIMPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS
- 2. MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS
- 3. POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION
- 4. LOGISTIC REGRESSION
- 5. DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS
- 6. MULTILEVEL MODELING
- FUTURE TRENDS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 5: The Meaning of System
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THE THREE WAVES OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE
- CAS AND CHESS AS COMPLEMENTING WAYS OF SYSTEMS THINKING
- THE MEANING OF CHESS: SOME FINDINGS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 6: Research Challenges in Big Data Analytics
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- LITERATURE REVIEW
- BIG DATA ARCHITECTURE
- BIG DATA CORE TECHNOLOGIES
- BIG DATA ANALYTICS
- RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN BIG DATA
- POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS TO BIG DATA CHALLENGES
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 7: Use Team Building to Make the Most of Your Public-Private Partnerships
- ABSTRACT
- BACKGROUND
- INCIDENT COMMAND WORK GROUPS
- EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER MANAGEMENT
- USING TEAM BUILDING TO ENHANCE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Section 2: Development and Design Methodologies
- Chapter 8: Designing Measures for Managing the Effectiveness for Integrated Service Delivery
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- LITERATURE REVIEW: PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT DESIGN AT SERVICE SYSTEM LEVEL
- EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION: CONTEXT AND METHODS OF RESEARCH
- RESULTS
- ANALYSIS OF FINDINGS
- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 9: Asset Management for Buildings within the Framework of Building Information Modeling Development
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BIM BACKGROUND
- ASSET MANAGEMENT FOR BUILDING AND FACILITIES
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 10: A Cognitive Analytics Management Framework (CAM-Part 1)
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THE SAMAS COGNITIVE FRAMEWORK
- COGNITIVE FRONTIER ANALYTIC FRAMEWORK CHARACTERISTICS
- SAMAS IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP
- THE COBRA FRAMEWORK
- SAMAS ANALYTICAL FRONTIER VALUATION FOR SMART DECISION MAKING
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- APPENDIX
- Chapter 11: Development of a Conceptual Framework for Performance Measurement of Pharmaceutical Supply Chain within Hospital
- ABSTRACT
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. METHODOLOGY
- 3. LITERATURE REVIEW
- 4. RESULTS
- 5. FURTHER RESEARCH
- 6. CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 12: Developing a Framework for the Visualisation of Learning Analytics in UK Higher Education
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- CURRENT ENVIRONMENT
- DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
- IMPLEMENTATION
- CONCLUSION
- FURTHER WORK
- CRITICAL EVALUATION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 13: Transdisciplinary Science and Technology and Service Systems
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- EXEMPLIFIED SERVICE SYSTEM: REGIONAL ENERGY AGGREGATION SERVICE
- SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO SOLVING PROBLEMS AND BUILDING NEW SYSTEMS
- SERVICE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
- PRELIMINARY DESIGN STUDY FOR AGGREGATION SERVICES BASED ON SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FRAMEWORK
- TRANSDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- CONCLUDING REMARKS
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 14: R&D Productivity in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- METHOD
- RESULTS
- DISCUSSION
- FURTHER RESEARCH
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 15: Determinants of the Design and Use of PMS in Portuguese Government Agencies
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT INITIATIVES IN THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT
- THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESES
- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- RESULTS
- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- APPENDIX
- Chapter 16: Adopting Balance Score Card in Higher Education
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- LITERATURE REVIEW
- WHAT IS THE BALANCED SCORECARD?
- PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTES
- PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT INDICATORS
- BALANCED SCORECARD AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
- DISCUSSION
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 17: Social Media Performance Measurement
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORETICAL BACKGROUND: SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
- SOCIAL MEDIA AND WORD-OF-MOUTH
- SOCIAL MEDIA AND CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT
- SOCIAL MEDIA PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
- SOCIAL ROLES AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
- SOCIAL MEDIA PERFORMANCE METRICS
- SOCIAL MEDIA PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF A MARKETING INFORMATION SYSTEM
- MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 18: Designing BioSim
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- MAIN
- KEY DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS IN BIOSIM FIRST-PERSON GAMES
- RULES OF PLAY: THE CASES OF BEESIM AND ANTSIM
- POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSFER
- CONCLUSION
- FUTURE RESEARCH
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 19: Complexity Theory and System Dynamics for Project Risk Management
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- SYSTEMS
- SYSTEM DYNAMICS
- PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT
- SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATION
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX: SYSTEM LABELS
- Chapter 20: Information Systems as the Key Enabler in Engineer-to-Order Supply Chain Management
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN MANUFACTURING
- INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN ETO SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
- SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 21: Stereo Vision-Based Object Matching, Detection, and Tracking
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- STEREO VISION-BASED OBJECT MATCHING
- STEREO VISION-BASED OBJECT DETECTION
- STEREO VISION-BASED OBJECT TRACKING
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 22: An Integrated Risk Management Framework
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK
- DEMONSTRATION CASE
- DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 23: Applying Agility and Living Service Systems Thinking to Enterprise Architecture
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- RESEARCH CONTEXT
- RESEARCH METHOD
- THEORETICAL BACKGORUND AND MODEL DEVLOPMENT
- THE ADAPTIVE ENTERPRISE SERVICE SYSTEM MODEL
- DISCUSSION
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 24: A Framework for Developing Management Intelligent Systems
- ABSTRACT
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. BACKGROUND
- 3. INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR MANAGEMENT
- 4. INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR MANAGEMENT DECISION MAKING
- 5. A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING MIS
- 6. A STRATEGIC MODEL FOR MANAGEMENT INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
- 7. THEORETICAL, MANAGERIAL AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
- 8. RELATED WORK AND LIMITATIONS
- 9. CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 25: Cultural Integration with Strategic Decision-Making Process in Determining Innovation Performance
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
- HYPOTHESIS DEVELOPMENT
- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- RESULTS
- DISCUSSION OF RESULTS
- LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE STUDIES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- Section 3: Tools and Technologies
- Chapter 26: The Impact of Balance Score Card Implementation on Supply Chain Firms
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND DATA COLLECTION
- LITERATURE REVIEW
- BSC IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 27: Data Visualization
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION
- BENEFITS OF VISUALIZATION
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 28: Quantification of Corporate Performance Using Fuzzy Analytic Network Process
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- LITERATURE REVIEW
- METHODOLOGY
- ANP BASED PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM: E-COMMERCE CASE
- DISCUSSION
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- APPENDIX
- Chapter 29: Technology-Driven Online Marketing Performance Measurement
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- EXTANT RESEARCH LIMITATIONS
- METHOD
- CURRENT PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT PRACTICES IN AFFILIATE MARKETING
- DRIVERS OF CHANGE
- NATURE OF CHANGE
- THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS
- PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
- LIMITATIONS
- FUTURE RESEARCH AGENDA
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 30: The Role of Sustainable Performance Measurement System in Global Supply Chain
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM IN GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 31: Performance Measurement
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- MAIN FOCUS OF THE CHAPTER
- CATEGORIZATION OF KPIS FOR PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN RETAIL
- SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- 1. TRANSPORT OPTIMIZATION
- 2. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OPTIMIZATION
- 3. INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION
- 4. RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION
- 5. FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE FIRM
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 32: Static Text-Based Data Visualizations
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
- COMMON STATIC TEXT-BASED VISUALIZATIONS
- TEXT-BASED DATA VISUALIZATIONS LIST
- UNDERLYING DATA
- CLASSIC STRUCTURES
- CONCEPTUAL VISUALIZATIONS
- STATIC TEXT-BASED DATA VISUALIZATIONS
- GEOSPATIAL VISUALIZATION
- DYNAMISM AND CHANGES OVER TIME
- DISCUSSION
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 33: Information Quality Assessment for Asset Management Systems
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- ASSET MANAGEMENT
- SCOPE OF INFORMATION IN ASSET MANAGEMENT
- BASIS OF IQ ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK
- THE CASE STUDY
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 34: Systems Thinking to Improve E-Government Evaluation
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- E-GOVERNMENT
- DOMINANT E-GOVERNMENT EVALUATION MODELS: FEATURES AND CRITICISMS
- SYSTEMS THINKING FOR E-GOVERNMENT EVALUATION
- TAKING E-GOVERNMENT EVALUATION FORWARD: PROPOSED STRATEGIES
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 35: Leverage Healthcare Data Assets with Predictive Analytics
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- STUDY METHODOLOGY AND DESIGN
- SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- DISCUSSION AND FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 36: An Empirical Study of the Balanced Scorecard Model
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- LITERATURE REVIEW
- RESEARCH METHOD
- DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULTS
- FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS
- LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 37: 3rd Order Analytics Demand Planning
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- OUR APPROACH TO THE INTEGRATION OF BI AND PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
- THE CASE STUDY
- DEFINING OUR NOTION OF THE ORDERS OF ANALYTICS
- A CASE STUDY INTEGRATING 3 ORDER AND 2 ORDER ANALYTICS
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 38: Transformation Mechanisms in the Business Model/Business Process Interface
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
- THE TOP-DOWN (BM TO BP) INTERFACE
- THE BOTTOM-UP (BP TO BM) INTERFACE
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTION
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 39: Applying Balanced Scorecard in Non-Government Organizations
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- SPECIFICITY OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
- BASIC ELEMENTS OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
- PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
- BSC CHARACTERISTICS
- BALANCED SCORECARD FOR NGOs
- THE EXAMPLE OF THE SCORECARD STRATEGIC STUDY FOR NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 40: From “Don’t Ask, Just Trust” to “Trust Those Who are Accountable”
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THE FOCUS OF THE INQUIRY
- THE ADOPTION OF STATE OF THE ART MEASUREMENT SCIENCE
- MEASUREMENT IS GLOBAL BUT EVALUATION IS LOCAL
- THE VALIDITY OF THE TOOLS IN MEASURING QUALITY
- VARIATION IN THE DEFINITION OF VALIDITY
- A VALID MEASURE VS. A TRUSTWORTHY INTERPRETER
- A PARTIAL SOLUTION TO LACK OF EVIDENCE AND QUESTIONS ABOUT VALIDITY
- THE CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF THE PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT TOOL
- USEFULNESS OF THE TOOL TOWARD PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
- HOW DO WE APPROACH POLICY MAKERS WITH OUR MESSAGE TO IMPROVE THE EXISTING SYSTEM?
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 41: Four Eras of CRM Selling
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- SALES 1.0: THE ERA OF PRODUCT TO SOLUTION SELLING (1980-1995)
- SALES 1.0: SALES SOFTWARE ERA SUMMARY
- SALES 2.0: THE ERA OF CUSTOMER INTIMACY (1995-2010)
- SALES 2.0: SALES SOFTWARE ERA
- SALES 2.0: SALES SOFTWARE ERA SUMMARY
- SALES 3.0: THE ERA OF SOCIAL CRM (2010-2013)
- SALES 3.0: SOCIAL CRM SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
- SALES 3.0: SUMMARY
- SALES 4.0: THE ERA OF SALES INSIGHTS: THE SCIENCE OF SELLING (2014-2018)
- THE SCIENCE OF SELLING: CRACKING THE SALES PERFORMANCE GAPS
- SALES 4.0: SALES SOFTWARE ERA SUMMARY
- RETHINKING THE PAST: STRIVING FOR SIMPLICITY
- LOOKING AHEAD
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 42: Improving Supply Chain Delivery Performance Using Lean Six Sigma
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- A GENERALIZED SIX SIGMA BASED SUPPLY CHAIN DELIVERY MODEL
- DISCUSSION
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 43: A Decision Model on Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Strategies
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AS A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION OF BUSINESSES
- RELEVANT MODELS AND GENERAL AREAS ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- A RECENT HISTORICAL OVERVIEW ON BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
- RECENT TRENDS AND TOOLS FOR BUSINESS CSR PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 44: Development of Key Performance Measures for Sustainable Manufacturing in Global SMEs
- ABSTRACT
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. LITERATURE REVIEW
- 3. PROPOSED KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- 4. PILOT STUDY
- 5. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE RESEARCH
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 45: A Conceptual Model for Measuring Reverse Logistics Performance in Automobile Industry
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- LITERATURE REVIEW
- REVERSE LOGISTICS IN AUTO INDUSTRY
- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- INTRODUCING THE CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF REVERSE LOGISTICS
- CONFIRMATORY OPERATIVE ANALYSIS OF MEASUREMENT MODEL
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 46: Business Excellence Strategies for SME Sustainability in India
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- SMEs AND EXCELLENCE MODELS
- SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 47: 3D Modeling for Environmental Informatics
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- PARAMETRIC POSE MANIFOLD
- EXPERIMENTS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 48: Infusing Yourself into the Backstory
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- HISTORICAL APPROACH TO CASE STUDY RESEARCH
- MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE TO CASE STUDY RESEARCH
- CONCLUSION: THE SOLUTION IN SEARCH OF A PROBLEM
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 49: An Information System Framework and Prototype for Collaboration and Standardization in Chinese Liquor Production
- ABSTRACT
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. LITERATURE REVIEW
- 3. LIQUOR PRODUCTION PROCESSES
- 5. SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION: ABC GROUP AS A CASE
- 6. DISCUSSIONS
- 7. CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 50: Performance Measurement Systems and Firms’ Characteristics
- ABSTRACT
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
- 3. RESEARCH METHOD
- 4. ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
- 5. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX: SAMPLE OF THE RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
- Chapter 51: Fuzzy Adaptive Controller for Uncertain Multivariable Nonlinear Systems with Both Sector Nonlinearities and Dead-Zones
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- PROBLEM STATEMENT AND PRELIMINARIES
- DESIGN OF FUZZY ADAPTIVE CONTROLLERS
- DISCUSSION
- SIMULATION RESULTS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Section 4: Utilization and Applications
- Chapter 52: Interactive Data Visualization Techniques Applied to Healthcare Decision Making
- ABSTRACT
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. LITERATURE REVIEW
- 3. CASE STUDIES
- 4. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 53: Performance Measurement Perceptions in Romanian Higher Education
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- INSIGHTS FROM THE LITERATURE REGARDING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
- METHODOLOGY AND DESIGN
- RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
- CONCLUSION
- CONTRIBUTION
- FUTURE RESEARCH
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- APPENDIX
- Chapter 54: Performance Measurement System in Banking Services in India
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
- LITERATURE REVIEW
- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN BANKING SERVICES
- PMS IN BANKING SERVICES: FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 55: Predictive Analytics in Operations Management
- ABSTRACT
- PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
- TYPE
- PREDICTION IN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
- RELATED WORK
- ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES
- MAPREDUCE
- REGRESSION TECHNIQUES
- MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES
- CASE STUDY
- RECENT RESEARCHES
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 56: The Role of Business Analytics in Performance Management
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- ROLE OF BUSINESS ANALYTICS IN PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
- OVERVIEW OF PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 57: Application of Geographical Information System and Interactive Data Visualization in Healthcare Decision Making
- ABSTRACT
- 1. BACKGROUND
- 2. METHOD
- 3. CASE STUDIES
- 4. CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 58: Visualizing the Bug Distribution Information Available in Software Bug Repositories
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- VISUAL ANALYTICS AND VISUAL DATA MINING
- SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES
- SOFTWARE BUG AS DATA
- SOFTWARE BUG STATES
- SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES MINING
- VISUAL DATA ANALYSIS OF SOFTWARE BUG REPOSITORIES
- VISUALIZATION PROCESS
- IMPLEMENTATION
- SOME VISUALIZATIONS ILLUSTRATIONS
- APPLICATIONS OF VISUALIZING THE SOFTWARE BUG REPOSITORIES
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 59: Visual Data Mining for Collaborative Filtering
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 60: Price Determination in Public Offering and Evaluation Methods
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING AND PROS AND CONS FOR COMPANIES
- PUBLIC OFFERING PERIOD
- PUBLIC OFFERING METHODS
- PRICE DETERMINATION IN PUBLIC OFFERING AND METHODS OF EVALUATION
- PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT MODELS IN BUSINESSES
- PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT MODELS
- BALANCED SCORECARD: BSC
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 61: Key Performance Indicators for the Organized Farm Products Retailing in India
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- DATABASE AND METHODOLOGY
- CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATION, AND LIMITATIONS
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 62: Risk-Centric Performance Measurement
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
- FINDING SOLUTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 63: Object Classification and Tracking in Real Time
- ABSTRACT
- 1. OBJECT DETECTION
- 2. FEATURE EXTRACTION AND REPRESENTATION
- 3. SUPERVISED LEARNING BASED DETECTION/ SEGMENTATION (CLASSIFICATION)
- 4. OBJECT TRACKING
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 64: Radicalization and Recruitment
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- TERRORISM
- SYSTEMS THINKING
- ACTOR NETWORK THEORY
- DISCUSSION
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 65: Visual Analytics for Crime Analysis and Decision Support
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- VISUAL ANALYTICS
- VISUALIZATION TOOLS
- VISUALIZATIONS AND HUMAN PERCEPTION
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 66: Big Data Virtualization and Visualization
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- SIGNIFICANCE OF BIG DATA AND APPLICATIONS
- BIG DATA VIRTUALIZATION AND VISUALIZATION
- SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- BIG DATA CHALLENGES IN DIVERSE DOMAINS
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 67: Building and Analyzing of Enterprise Network
- ABSTRACT
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. RELATED WORK
- 3. ENTERPRISE NETWORK MODEL
- 4. ENTERPRISE NETWORK: BUILD THE FOUNDATION OF SOCIAL BUSINESS
- 5. DISCOVER THE STRUCTURE OF EN: ON THE CASE OF CASN
- 6. EGO NETWORK ANALYSIS
- 7. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 68: Big Data Analytics in Mobile and Cloud Computing Environments
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- SIX Vs AND BIG DATA PROCESSING WORKFLOW
- MOBILE COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND BIG DATA
- BIG DATA ANALYTICS
- BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN MOBILE AND CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEMS
- APPLICATION AREAS AND OPEN RESEARCH ISSUES
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 69: Optimization of Crime Scene Reconstruction Based on Bloodstain Patterns and Machine Learning Techniques
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND: BASIC TERMINOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION
- MAIN FOCUS OF THE CHAPTER: INTERPRETATION OF BLOODSTAIN PATTERNS: A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH
- ISSUES: CRIME SCENE RECONSTRUCTION-HOW EFFECTIVE ARE BLOODSTAIN PATTERNS?
- SOLUTION
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 70: Integrated Traffic Management Using Data from Traffic, Asset Conditions, Energy and Emissions
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND: PROPOSED STRUCTURE AND ELEMENTS OF A (FUTURE) TMS
- CORE FUNCTIONS OF A FUTURE TMS
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVE
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 71: Current and Future Trends in Human Resources Analytics Adoption
- ABSTRACT
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. ANALYTICS IN HUMAN RESOURCES
- 3. ROLE OF HR ANALYTICS IN CREATING BUSINESS VALUE
- 4. USE OF HR ANALYTICS IN US ORGANIZATIONS
- 5. PROJECTIONS OF THE FUTURE USE OF HR ANALYTICS
- 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 72: Nonprofit Fundraising Transformation through Analytics
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS
- FINDINGS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 73: Cognitive Processes and Traits Related to Graphic Comprehension
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORIES OF COGNITION RELATED TO GRAPHIC COMPREHENSION
- INDIVIDUAL TRAITS THAT INTERACT WITH GRAPHIC COMPREHENSION
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 74: The Role of Social Capital in Higher Education Institutions
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- MAIN FOCUS OF THE CHAPTER
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 75: Integrating Sustainable Design and Systems Thinking throughout an Engineering Curriculum
- ABSTRACT
- ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND
- SETTING THE STAGE
- CASE DESCRIPTION
- CURRENT CHALLENGES FACING THE ORGANIZATION
- SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- AKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 76: An Empirical Investigation of Extensible Information Sharing in Supply Chains
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- INFORMATION SHARING
- GEOPS
- RESEARCH METHOD
- RESULTS
- DISCUSSION
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Section 5: Organizational and Social Implications
- Chapter 77: Strategic Information Systems and Business Outcomes
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THE MODEL
- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- RESEARCH RESULTS
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 78: Assessing Organisational KM Performance Based on the Criteria of Total Quality Management
- ABSTRACT
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. CONTEXT OF PM SYSTEMS
- 3. NEEDS OF MEASURING KM PERFORMANCE IN ORGANISATIONS
- 4. KM/PM ENABLERS AND TQM PHILOSOPHIES
- 5. INTEGRATING TQM PRINCIPLES INTO KM PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
- 6. A TRIAL EVALUATION OF THE IKM MODEL
- 7. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE WORK
- 8. CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 79: Determinants for the Goodness of Performance Measurement Systems
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- MAIN FOCUS OF THE CHAPTER
- SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 80: Advancing Performance Measurement of Smart City
- ABSTRACT
- SMART CITY: ICT-ENABLED URBAN GOVERNANCE SYSTEM
- MEASURING SMART CITY PERFORMANCE: COMPARING CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 81: Supply Chain Performance Measurement and Organizational Alignment
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- SURVEY, ANALYZE, AND SYNTHESIZE
- OPERATIONAL METRIC ALIGNMENT AND GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK
- REPORTING AND DASHBOARDS: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PERSPECTIVE
- CONCLUSION AND FURTHER RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 82: Governing the Public Sector E-Performance
- ABSTRACT
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. E-PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SECTOR
- 3. E-GOVERNMENT POLICIES IN EUROPE OVER TIME
- 4. THE ITALIAN E-GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES IN ITALY OVER TIME
- 5. THE PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM IN ITALY
- 6. THE RESULTS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REFORM AT THE MINISTRIES
- 7. CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 83: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Review of Regression Analysis for Predictive Analytics
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- (I) SIMPLE (BIVARIATE) REGRESSION ANALYSIS
- (II) MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 84: Best Practices for Culturally Sensitive Data Visualizations
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THE LITERATURE
- RECOMMENDED BEST PRACTICES
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 85: Performance Evaluation in Higher Education by Return on Investments Approach
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- HIGHER EDUCATION IN MENA COUNTRIES
- MENA: EDUCATION SECTOR REFORMS
- RECOMMENDATIONS AND DISCUSSION
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 86: Performance Measurement in Public Networks
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND: PUBLIC NETWORKS AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS
- METHODOLOGY
- A PMS MODEL FOR PUBLIC NETWORKS
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS: THE ROLE OF WEB 3.0
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 87: Approaches towards Measuring Success in Public Elementary Schools
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- THE NATURE OF SUCCESS IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
- SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS
- SCHOOL EFFICIENCY
- SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
- SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY
- SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- SOLUTIONS
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 88: Suggestions for Achieving Balance between Corporate Dataveillance and Employee Privacy Concerns
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- LITERATURE REVIEW
- PROPOSED GOVERNANCE FOR DATAVEILLANCE ACTIVITIES
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 89: Big Data in Social Media Environment
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THE BIG DATA
- COMMON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
- MAJOR SECTORS WHICH DEPLOY BIG DATA
- SOCIAL MEDIA: A BIG DATA INFLECTION POINT
- TYPES OF BIG DATA ANALYTICS
- TOOLS AND DATABASES USED IN BIG DATA ANALYTICS
- ANALYTICS SWEET SPOTS
- ANALYTICS QUAGMIRES
- ANALYTICS MATURITY
- CASE STUDIES
- DYNAMICS AND LIMITATIONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA BIG DATA
- SOCIAL MEDIA’S BIG DATA FUTURE
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 90: We Can Trust without Data, But We Are Accountable Only through Measurement
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THE FOCUS OF THE INQUIRY
- THE ADOPTION OF STATE OF THE ART MEASUREMENT SCIENCE
- MEASUREMENT IS GLOBAL BUT EVALUATION IS LOCAL
- THE VALIDITY OF THE TOOLS IN MEASURING QUALITY
- VARIATION IN THE DEFINITION OF VALIDITY
- A VALID MEASURE VERSUS A TRUSTWORTHY INTERPRETER
- A PARTIAL SOLUTION TO LACK OF EVIDENCE AND QUESTIONS ABOUT VALIDITY
- THE CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF THE PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT TOOL
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 91: Soft Systems Model (SSM)
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF SSM
- DESCRIPTION OF SSM
- SSM IN LIS
- LIMITATION OF SSM
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 92: Social Media and Big Data
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- HARNESSING BIG DATA
- BIG DATA AND TRADITIONAL ANALYTICS
- BIG DATA TECHNOLOGIES
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 93: Introducing Healthcare System Change Strategies to Policy Makers in the Open Society and Digital Environment
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- CASE PROJECT 1: CEEQNET (CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE QUALITY NETWORK) UNIFIED CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN SURVEILLANCE/MONITORING SYSTEM FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY INDICATORS
- NRC (NATIONAL REFERENCE CENTER) OF THE PROJECT AND CZECH REPUBLIC
- CASE PROJECT 2: JOINT DEVELOPMENT OF CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES AND QUALITY INDICATORS AS A TOOL FOR QUALITY OF CARE IMPROVEMENT
- CASE PROJECT 3: STRENGTHENING SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN-SERVICE TRAINING CAPACITY OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH IN TURKEY (EUROPEAID/119528/C/SV/TR)
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 94: Benchmarking Competitiveness of Top 100 U.S. Universities
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- METHODOLOGY
- RESULTS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- APPENDIX: EFFICIENCY SCORES FOR THE TOP 100 UNIVERSITIES LISTED BY US NEWS
- Chapter 95: Applications of Web Usage Mining across Industries
- ABSTRACT
- WEB MINING
- PROCESS OF WEB USAGE MINING
- SOURCES AND TYPES OF DATA
- APPLICATIONS OF WEB USAGE MINING
- RELATED WORKS
- CONCLUSION AND FUTURE RESEARCH
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 96: Effect of Necessary Factors for Deploying E-Business Models on Business Performance and Supply Chain Performance in Auto Industry
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- LITERATURE REVIEW
- BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
- SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE
- RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 97: Exploring the Process of Adaption of Employee Creativity
- ABSTRACT
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. THE ANTECEDENTS OF EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY
- 3. THE NK MODEL
- 4. METHOD
- 5. SIMULATION RESULTS
- 6. DISCUSSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX
- Chapter 98: How to Engrain a Big Data Mindset into Our Managers’ DNA
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BIG DATA, BIG CHANGE, BIG SKILL SHORTAGE
- PRESENTATION OF THE ‘BIG DATA BETTER DECISIONS’ WORKSHOP
- LESSONS LEARNT AND BIG DATA INSIGHTS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 99: Using Soft Systems Ideas within Virtual Teams
- ABSTRACT
- 1. INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE
- 2. BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE REVIEW
- 3. THE FIELD RESEARCH
- 4. RESEARCH APPROACH: ACTION RESEARCH
- 5. THE APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY METHOD (AIM) AND PEArL
- 6. PREPARING FOR THE STUDY
- 7. CONDUCTING THE STUDY
- 8. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
- 9. CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Section 6: Critical Issues and Challenges
- Chapter 100: How to Measure Performance in Cooperatives?
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- METHODOLOGY
- MEASURING EXCELLENCE IN CO-OPERATIVES: FIRST RESULTS
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 101: Systems Thinking about Severe Storms in Social Studies Education
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND
- SETTING THE STAGE
- CASE DESCRIPTION
- FINDINGS
- CURRENT CHALLENGES FACING THE ORGANIZATION
- SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- CONCLUSION
- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 102: The Systems Forum
- ABSTRACT
- SESSION ONE - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ORIGINS OF THE IDEA FOR THE SYSTEMS FORUM
- INTRODUCTION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 103: Analyzing the IS 2010 Model Curriculum for Evidence of the Systems Approach
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- THE SYSTEMS APPROACH
- THE IMPORTANCE OF CONNECTING WITH STAKEHOLDERS
- METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS
- DISCUSSION OF RESULTS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX
- Chapter 104: Enterprise Architecture’s Identity Crisis
- ABSTRACT
- ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE AS A MATURING DISCIPLINE
- FORMATIVE YEARS
- ADOLESCENCE
- TOWARDS MATURITY
- REFERENCES
- Section 7: Emerging Trends
- Chapter 105: A New Approach to Supply Chain Performance Measurement
- ABSTRACT
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. BACKGROUND
- 3. PROPOSED CONCEPTUAL MODEL
- 4. METHODOLOGY
- 5. RESULTS
- 6. FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
- 7. CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL READING
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 106: New Visual Literacies and Competencies for Education and the Workplace
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- CURRENT ISSUES IN THE FIELD RAISED BY THESE STUDIES
- IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EDUCATION, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (GLOBAL AND LOCAL), SOCIAL PRACTICE, AND POLICY
- GAPS IN THE EXTANT RESEARCH AND DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 107: Emerging Market Sovereign Debts as a Means for Profit Maximization and Portfolio Diversification
- ABSTRACT
- ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND
- METHODOLOGY
- CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- FUTURE TRENDS
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 108: A New Framework for Industrial Benchmarking
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- METHODOLOGY
- PROPOSED FRAMEWORK
- CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
- REFERENCES
- KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS