Sukriti is part of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) HiTech Center of Excellence, leading the IoT and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) initiatives and solutions for the high tech industry. She has over 20 years of industry experience in the design, development and validation of embedded systems, applied to a variety of domains including industrial automation, consumer electronics, automotive electron...

Sales in a new market generally follow a hockey-stick pattern: after commercialization, sales are very low for some time before there is a dramatic “takeoff” in growth. Reported sales takeoffs across products vary widely from a few years to several decades. Prior research identifies new firm entry or price declines as key factors that relate to the timing of a sales takeoff in new markets. Howe...

This research paper discusses a manufacturing support system which supports not only maintenance services but also consulting services for manufacturing systems consisting of multi-vendor machine tools. In order to do this system enables inter-enterprise collaboration between engineering companies and machine tool vendors. The system is called "After-Sales Support Interenterprise collaboration ...

nowadays, managing the relations between customers is a fundamental necessity in activities leading to the promotion in the chain of an organization. in fact, customers satisfaction and quality of services are considered as the vital issues in most industries and services. after-sales services will also become more important in near future in iran and the survival of domestic automobile industr...

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We are grateful to Tim Miller of Net Media Resources (webmergers.com) for generously providing us with the data on mergers of Internet companies. We thank Sunil Kumar, Rick Lambert and Anu Ramanathan of Amazon.com for many helpful discussions and suggestions. Abstract We find that web traffic is relevant for explaining market values and stock returns of pure Internet companies after controlling...

E-business is viewed as a transformative technology that may affect supply chain coordination, reduce transaction costs, facilitate international sales, and enable new organizational structures. While Canadian figures indicate online sales account for less than 1% of total operating revenue, growth rates are high, with a 40% increase in online sales in 2003. (Statistics Canada, 2004). Given thi...

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sales on economic growth. The analysis is conducted by sectors: primary, manufacturing and services. M&A sales are disaggregated by sectors and also into domestic and cross-border M&A sales. The group of the OECD countries is examined. After applying a Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator, which control...

Current CBR applications for sales support in electronic commerce are limited to fixed, unchangeable products. In order to support sales support for configurable products, customization of base products must be supported as well. For this purpose, an interactive operator-based transformational adaptation approach from CBR can be applied and realized as a flexible clientserver architecture for b...