Business and biodiversity—a mutually profitable partnership

A profitable multicast business model

Multicast is an efficient paradigm for transmitting data from a sender to a group of receivers. Multicast incurs lower network bandwidth and end–system costs than broadcast to all receivers or multiple unicasts to individual receivers. One of the main impediments in wide scale deployment of multicast is lack of a good business model. Any technology needs a good business model to succeed. Each o...

Life insurance: mortality trends and profitable business.

As we approach the millennium, it is worth asking some fundamental questions involving the life insurance industry. Perhaps the most fundamental of questions remains our year by year mortality projections and how the dual observations of an upward trend in life expectation and an increasingly sophisticated diagnostic and treatment strategy will interplay in the balance of determining a fair pre...

Pain and patient experience: a business partnership.

Investigating the Effect of Social Business Characteristics on Trust and Willingness to Partnership

Objective Social business is a sub-category of electronic business that seeks social, innovative and cooperative approaches within online markets and also uses social media to attract social partnership and cooperation of such network users to support online purchasing and services. Trust is considered as an effective factor leading to successful social business. Because of the growing populari...

Intelligent profitable customers segmentation system based on business intelligence tools

For the success of CRM, it is important to target the most profitable customers of a company. Many CRM researches have been performed to calculate customer profitability and develop a comprehensive model of it. Most of them, however, had some limitations and accordingly the customer segmentation based on the customer profitability model is still underutilized. This paper aims at providing an ea...