The South African Facilities Management (FM) industry has seen increased operational strategy complexity from single-site contractors providing basic janitorial services to highly integrated and bundled FM service providers.  Despite these major changes, very little research has been conducted on evaluating the effectiveness of FM in innovating, integrating and aligning business strategies to a...

The individualization and customization of products is one the most important trends for industrial companies. New technologies like additive manufacturing (e. g. 3D-printing) are enablers for the further development of this trend. Companies offering production systems for those technologies are more and more required to embed Industrial Product Service Systems (IPSS) to assert theirselves on t...

Philip Shapira is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. Jan Youtie is a Senior Research Associate at Georgia Tech’s Economic Development Institute. Overview This paper examines the experience of the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Alliance (GMEA) in implementing an evaluation of its industrial extension services. As part of the U.S. Manufacturing...

One of the most common styles of business today is electronic business, since it is considered as a principal mean for financial transactions among advanced countries. In view of the fact that due to the evolution of human knowledge and the increase of expectations following that, traditional marketing in electronic business cannot meet current generation’s needs, in order to survive, organizat...

Prior to adopting Electronic Commerce (E-Comm), organisations need to assess its real business value and compare it to the costs of the associated investments. The intangible nature of most E-Comm benefits may render the development of a business case very difficult in practice. In this paper, we present a case study of E-Comm investment evaluation. Computer-based models of the business process...

IT management focuses on planning and developing new IT solutions. The importance of production (operation, support, maintenance) and further development of existing solutions is often neglected, although these tasks are responsible for the majority of today’s IT costs. The paper presents the results of a survey of the life cycle costs of 30 IT application systems. Within the survey, the distri...

Prior to adopting Electronic Commerce (E-Comm), organisations need to assess its real business value and compare it to the costs of the associated investments. The intangible nature of most E-Comm benefits may render the development of a business case very difficult in practice. In this paper, we present a case study of E-Comm investment evaluation. Computer-based models of the business process...


 The financial aspect of the feasibility study is crucial because it covers all company profits. Understanding itself means that functioned in overall evaluation company. Therefore, this very and requires accuracy testing its business. There are 7 aspects need to be known, namely: for investment costs, sources funds obtained, project balances profit loss statements, ratios assess company'...