competitiveness is considered as a key criterion for assessing the success of countries, industries and companies. world economic forum defines competitiveness as the set of institutions, policies and factors that determine the level of productivity. moreover, competitiveness can be defined as acquisition more market share, greater profitability and long-term stability and growth of these indic...

Software companies have a difficulty on applying a software process to varied software development domains. this paper suggested a commonality and variability analysis method for software process tailoring that can build software process that will be applied for certain software project by reusing software process asset constructed by software organizations. If software companies apply a softwa...

Required) Over the past years Brazil has done significant investments in software process improvement. Among them, the long term MPS.BR program focuses on improving the software process quality of Brazilian companies. This paper describes the successful software process improvement (SPI) initiative that is being developed in Brazil, called the MPS.BR program, including its software process impr...

In this research, we present a hierarchical Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology for competitiveness analysis. This methodology takes into account the heterogeneity of the decision making units (DMUs) as well as the diversity of the comparison criteria. We propose to homogenize the DMUs by grouping them hierarchically, which permits a better identification and definition of the criteria ...

This paper presents the results from a pilot study in which the consequences of outsourcing manufacturing on companies’ competence and their ability to develop lasting competitiveness are discussed. Based on a literature study and five case studies the analysis shows that outsourcing of manufacturing engenders a dilemma for many engineering companies, regarding the balance between learning from...

The problem of carbon emissions in transportation is an increasing concern, and consumers need to be encouraged towards green modes travel achieve low-carbon travel. To compete with non-green companies, companies have considered implementing expensive efforts attract consumers. Decisions on prices, the maintain their competitiveness, role governmental subsidies promoting must thoroughly investi...

Due to increasing globalization, businesses are managing global supply chains. Information technology and the internet have introduced new market opportunities. Increases in productivity and increasing cost pressures from global competition have introduced just-in-time manufacturing and assembly. The trucking industry, which moves over three-quarters of the country’s freight, has had to adapt t...

Currently, the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries are moving through a period of unparalleled change. Major multinational pharmaceutical companies are restructuring, consolidating, merging and more importantly critically assessing their competitiveness to ensure constant growth in an ever-more demanding market where the cost of developing novel products is continuously increasing. The pha...