In a global and interconnected economy, decision makers often need to consider information from various domains. A tourism destination manager, for example, has to correlate tourist behavior with financial and environmental indicators to allocate funds for strategic long-term investments. Statistical data underpins a broad range of such cross-domain decision tasks. A variety of statistical data...

Major changes in competitive behaviour, recent dynamics in capital markets, and fundamental changes in regulatory requirements (Solvency II for European Union member countries) have placed increasing challenges on management strategy in insurance companies. Management is faced with a complex decision-making and strategic task of allocating and managing capital resources efficiently. This requir...

Quality has been hailed by software engineers as the solution to many of the most urgent challenges facing our industry in the 1990s, ranging from technical concerns – such as safety and reliability – to strategic concerns – such as market share, customer satisfaction, and economic profit. Today, our industry is adopting the ISO 9000 quality framework with the same enthusiasm we showed for Tota...

Reading manually annual and quarterly reports helps financial analysts and decision makers to judge companies’ financial performance. Professionals infer from a report not only the current financial performance and strategic outlook of a company but also its prospective financial performance. They have insightful methods to find some intuitive indications of the future financial performance of ...

strategic planning defines the formal decision of a company for its future. like all organizations, health care sectors need to prepare their strategic planning and act according to it. unesco chair in health edu­cation as a leader health sector, describes the course and steps for preparing its strategic planning based on swot analysis technique.

Increasingly, business analytics is seen to provide the possibilities for businesses to effectively support strategic decision-making, thereby to become a source of strategic business value. However, little research exists regarding the mechanism through which business analytics supports strategic decisionmaking and ultimately organisational performance. This paper draws upon literature on IT a...