Improving tilapia biosecurity through a value chain approach

Supply chain value creation methodology under BSC approach

The objective of this paper is proposing a developed balanced scorecard approach to measure supply chain performance with the aim of creating more value in manufacturing and business operations. The most important metrics have been selected based on experts’ opinion acquired by in-depth interviews focused on creating more value for stakeholders. Using factor analysis method, a survey research h...

Conceptualizing Communications Security: a Value Chain Approach

Cybersecurity has become a top priority for policymakers these days, but as the engineering saying goes: “if you don’t know what you want, it’s hard to do it right.” This paper finds considerable shortcomings in current conceptual and legal frameworks for communications security policymaking. The misleading concept of cybersecurity incorporates a wide range of social issues under its umbrella, ...

applying value engineering through fuzzy madm approach to improving project performance

one of the most effective tools for decline cost and time, quality improvement and consequently project performance enhancement especially in construction projects, is value engineering. there are linguistic judgments in many cases of value engineering studies in construction projects such as interior design, mechanical installations design, and etc. therefore multiple attribute decision-making...

Biosecurity –its added value to Embryo Transfer

Background: Both in vivo derived (IVD) and in vitro produced (IVP) embryos in cattle have been transferred worldwide for many decades with great success. Among the many reasons for this to occur, one concerns the Biosecurity issues which if managed adequately may add a significant value to this Embryo Transfer (ET) technology. There are a number of conditions for this to be the case. Review: Th...

Biosecurity: Moving toward a Comprehensive Approach