During a two year period DELTA has performed 46 Innovation Checks in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) with great success. In addition to reported benefits experienced by the companies, the Innovation Checks have given us extensive knowledge of the companies' difficulties in having success with innovation in relation to the following 5 topics: Product, Processes, Production, eBusiness (u...

The managers and constituents of nonprofits are increasingly concerned about measuring and managing organizational performance. Financial measures alone, or even supplemented with a collection of ad hoc nonfinancial measures, are not sufficient to motivate and evaluate mission accomplishments. This article describes the adaptation of a new performance measurement and management approach, the Ba...

The established competitive generic business strategy model continues to be the dominant paradigm, despite the rapidly changing internal and external environments that companies face today. This article evaluates other strategy-related elements identified in current business research and determines if an expanded model can be applied to companies that have become more knowledge-based organizati...

Detailed case study material illustrates why the performance of two British national champions (British Airways and British Telecom respectively) was superior to that of their German counterparts (Lufthansa and Deutsche Telekom): beyond just the effects of privatisation, both the airline and telecommunications industries have been characterised by substantial technological and market change whi...

Hinting is an important tutoring tactic in one-on-one tutoring, used when the tutor needs to respond to an unexpected answer from the student. To issue a follow-up hint that is pedagogically helpful and conversationally smooth, the tutor needs to suit the hinting strategy to the student’s need while making the strategy fit the high level tutoring plan and the tutoring context. This paper descri...

The modeling approach used by most organizations to do strategic wood supply analysis usually pays little attention to the location issues that are important to the supply chain. This paper raises questions about the conventional approach and suggests that the strategic linear programming models should contain much more spatial and market information. We point out that there is much more flexib...

The current study investigated the role of the central executive and the phonological loop in arithmetic strategies to solve simple addition problems (Experiment 1) and simple subtraction problems (Experiment 2). The choice/no-choice method was used to investigate strategy execution and strategy selection independently. The central executive was involved in both retrieval and procedural strateg...

Information Technology (IT) capability is believed to encourage and facilitate service innovation. In addition, since effective competitive strategy is particularly important for service firms, it is imperative to align their service innovation strategy with their business strategy to achieve better firm performance. Many service innovation studies have been performed on the influence of IT cap...

Although, the notion of trust has been considered as a primitive for establishing relationships among nodes in ad-hoc networks, syntax and metrics of trust are not well defined. This paper studies computing of trust in ad-hoc networks and makes the following three contributions. Firstly, the notion of trust is formalized in terms of predict functions and strategy functions. Namely, the notion o...

We explore the mechanism design problem for lung exchange and its implementation in practice. We prove that determining whether there exists a nontrivial solution of the lung exchange problem is NPcomplete. We propose a mechanism that is individually rational, strategy-proof and maximizes exchange size. To implement this mechanism in practice, we propose an algorithm based on Integer Linear Pro...