It has become very important for advanced organisat ions to make the best use of information gathered from various document sources inside companies and from external sources like the Internet. There are three stages in the information life cycle: fin ding, organising and sharing. Many technologies hav e been developed for the finding stage. On the other hand, there is a lack of efficient techn...

The analyst and consultancy company Gartner has developed several diagrams that have become widely used graphic forms and standard tools for evaluation and decision making support in organizations. This case study presents their most famous diagrams, the Magic Quadrant and the Hype Cycle. The magic quadrant is a matrix that synthesizes information about vendors and service providers, while the ...

This paper integrates competitive pricing and network design problems for the short life cycle products. The pricing problem determines selling prices of the products for different life cycle phases in a competitive market, as well as acquisition management of returned products. Besides, the selling and acquisition prices are related to the distance between distribution centers and customers. T...

A cooperation enterprises network is defined as a group of companies which interact among themselves to exchange competences, therefore, a series of necessities from companies, which would be important in a manufacturing company, and also be in the cooperation network. Through organizational modeling, the manager has a greater view and quicker understanding of the company, which allows the inte...

Disclosure of the NSA’s PRISM program demonstrated that Internet companies have become prime targets of government surveillance. But what role do companies themselves play in putting users’ privacy at risk? By comparing the changes in the privacy policies of ten companies—the nine in PRISM plus Twitter—I seek to understand how users’ privacy shifted. Specifically, I study how company practices ...

Abstract Purpose The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the environmental impact and financial cost repairing surgical scissors. Methods We used life cycle assessment (LCA) analysis estimate impacts functional unit one use a reusable scissor (manufactured in Germany UK), three baseline scenarios were compared: no repair, onsite (hospital), offsite (external contract) repair. This ‘...

Recently, immigration and its socio-economic aspects have been in the centre of European Union leaders’ agenda. In this paper, we apply National Transfer Accounts (NTA) methodology to calculate complete set NTA results for immigrants natives five EU countries. We find that due lower labour income, which cannot be offset by consumption, experience a shorter independence period much aggregate lif...

The maintenance of transport vehicles represents an important aspect of the operating costs of a TPL (local public transport) company. This work analizes the programmed and corrective maintenance procedures of a recent tram fleet. Starting from machine shop’s data, after a careful technical and economic analysis, a set of two models has been developed in order to forecast and point out time and...

The article analyses the induction process of technological innovations that consider economic, social and environmental concerns throughout the supply chain, in accordance with the proposals of sustainable development. Specifically, it examines the role of focal companies as innovation inductors for their supply chains. The article presents a debate with regards to innovation, sustainability a...