delay in implementation and delivery of projects of general contractors working in oil, gas and petrochemical projects, together with their law profits, are the main reasons for writing this paper. it has been tried in t6he article to present an actual and applied method of decision making to determine strategic goals, strategic planning and its relation with the standards of project management...

Project portfolio configuration (PPC) is an important approach to maintain the sustainable 12 development of enterprises and achieve organizations’ strategy. However, the synergetic efficacy 13 of PPC which determines the degree of the project's strategic objectives achieved is a fuzzy problem 14 and hard to be measured. To solve this problem, this paper takes the data envelopment analysis 15 (...

Innovations in the mobile payments industry provide potentially profitable investment opportunities for banks. Nonetheless, significant uncertainties are associated with decision-making for this IT investment context, regarding future market conditions, technology standards, and consumer and merchant responses, especially their willingness to adopt. As a result, traditional capital budgeting ap...

The National Education Association has been exploring what President Bob Chase calls New Unionism as a means to increase professionalism for teachers at all levels and improve the quality of the education teachers provide. This is a concept with particular relevance of higher education. Higher education faculty and staff are “managed professionals,” as I’ve noted elsewhere,1 and need a public p...

It is understandable that people ask how the current financial crisis could happen. As the market actors appear irrational, it is also understandable that people—lay people and experts alike—believe that psychological factors play a decisive role. Is there evidence for such a role, and what is the evidence? This monograph reviews, evaluates, and discusses research—primarily psychological resear...

Agility is increasingly being seen as a prerequisite for continued competitiveness in the changing global marketplace. However, many of the technological and organizational changes required in making the migration to agility are radical and strategic in nature. Attempting to justify many of these pervasive changes is difficult using currently available techniques, especially those which focus s...

To date, typical process modeling approaches put a strong emphasis on describing behavioral aspects of business operations. However, they often neglect value-related information. Yet, such information is of key importance to strategic decisionmaking, for instance in the context of process improvement or business engineering. In this paper we propose a valueoriented approach to business process ...

After-sales services bundled to products, respectively integrated Product-Service-Systems, have gained financial and strategic importance in manufacturing companies. Not considered as core competence in the beginning, the structures for delivering ASFS have grown over years, becoming more complex and less transparent. As industry still lacks tools and methods for ASFS network design and plannin...

This paper introduces a research framework to identify barriers from a remanufacturing supply chain perspective including strategic (governmental) and operational dimensions. Using responses from expert practitioners in a truck engine remanufacturer in China, a grey-based Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method is applied to examine the cause-effect relationships among ...