At first glance, there seems to be a broad understanding regarding business models. However, a more thorough analysis of existing resources paints a different picture. The term ‘business model’ often remains undefined and a consensus on the elements of business models is lacking. An analysis of various sources, such as electronic databases, conference proceedings, and EM – Electronic Markets it...

Computational intelligence business applications have been developed since the early days of computing and are now commonly found in many aspects of modern society. This paper briefly surveys historic applications of computational intelligence in different business contexts. In addition, it describes this type of application from a business point of view, where computational intelligence is use...

Hospitals will soon require antibiotic stewardship programs. Infectious diseases specialists must craft business plans to engage hospital leadership to fund such programs. In this article, we review key cost and revenue elements that should be covered in such plans. Society is placing increasing emphasis on the importance of antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs). New regulatory standards re...

This paper presents the development of a training tool that enhances and empowers trainees’ ability in developing business projects by preparing high-quality business plans. An ontology-based knowledge network was developed for the semantic representation of the business plans preparation procedure. The model can combine existing multimedia material with ontology constructs in order to build us...

Conceptual models of different aspects of an organization— business objectives, processes, rules, policies and objects—have been used for organizational design, analysis, planning, and knowledge management. Such models have also served as starting points for designing information systems and conducting business intelligence activities. This paper proposes the Tactical Business Intelligence Mode...

The aim of the study is developing a fuzzy decision model to select a student from an Engineering college who is eligible for All Round Excellence Award for the year 2004-05 by taking subjective judgments of decision makers into consideration. Here Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) approach and (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solutions (TOPSIS) methods are proposed....