The incessant search of improvement of productivity and competitiveness business indices is a fundamental issue addressed by production management processes. It is broadly accepted that one way of improving these indices is to increase the integration between management processes. This integration could be based on business process modelling contents that are being expanded to different industr...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors affecting the success of lean implementation in Thai logistics companies. Data was collected from the logistic companies implemented lean. Questionnaire survey was used to collect the data. Factor analysis and multiple regression analysis were conducted to understand the relationship between these factors and lean implementation success. The r...

Business networking for the purpose of becoming globally more competitive seems to form the very basis of strategic decisions in many companies today. The concept of ``network company'' has recently been the subject of many studies in the literature, perhaps mostly due to its world wide practice among more successful companies. Yet, there is no model-based formal treatment of the concept per se...

Software companies encourage and further the use of collaborative tools and skills at the work place in pursuit of the benefits of their use: they improve communication, productivity and efficiency, and competitiveness. Besides, undergraduate and graduate software engineering computing curricula recommend subjects related to effective cooperative working and group learning. In order to align in...

This article discusses the recent development of offshoring in the software industry in Japan. Following interviews with several Japanese ICT companies, we reveal the present status and problems of offshoring software development, which cannot be recognized from its macro data. Japanese firms must expand offshoring because of increasing competition within Japan, although offshoring creates an o...

Mass customization is related to increasing the balance between needs of companies that are focused on customers conditions production flexibility and efficiency. Product adjustment according customer can increase company's competitiveness. However, special processes adjustments time consuming cost inefficient. Parametric product modeling a fairly popular technique for dealing with this problem...

State tax revenues in most countries started to decrease during the recession. Government of Latvia decided to compensate the decline by increasing rates of several taxes including excise tax on strong alcohol. The total increase in 2009 constituted 42% and the rate increased from 896€ to 1 266€ for 100l of absolute alcohol. Since then this has had a negative impact on consumption volumes and t...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are present in almost all fields of human activity. The expansion of their use should be balanced by the results of the studies on the negative effects on the environment. The relationship between these technologies and the environment is relatively new. The application of environmental criteria is commonly referred to as green ICT or green compu...