This paper describes using a decision corridor approach to improve the exercise of strategic judgment under conditions of uncertainty. The method is a composite of concepts and tools principally borrowed from three analytical families futures, transition management and strategic management While the approach as used does not challenge current business concepts or radically contribute to their r...

Technology selection is a decision making area of major concern to today’s manager. Technologies can create or destroy profits and have the ability to create new industries and transform or destroy existing ones. The dynamics of global business have changed the shape of organisational strategies. Now the focus is on a network rather than a single unit. This change has also affected the technolo...

A strategic approach to how small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) use their marketing networks during a time of change in their operating context is the focus of this article. SME networking is analysed using the structural, relational and usage dimensions associated with network frameworks. Specifically, the paper examines marketing network processes (MNPs) that are investigated through th...

One of the challenges of the design process is to develop a strategy that enables designers to gain insight from practice-based research that can be used to carry the development of a project forward to its realisation. In this paper we draw on the theory of strategic argumentation as a way to reason about and plan the manner in which design products should function in a particular set of circu...

Preparation and negotiation of innovative and future projects can be characterized as a strategic-type decision situation, involving many uncertainties and an unpredictable environment. We will focus in this paper on the bidding process. It includes cooperative and strategic decisions. Our approach for bidding process knowledge capitalization is aimed at information management in project-orient...

The separated electromagnetic responses RL(q, ω) and RT (q, ω) for inclusive electron scattering off nuclei are studied within a functional scheme.