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Ilayperuma, Tharaka. "Improving E-Business Design through Business Model Analysis." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-43754.
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To a rapidly increasing degree, traditional organizational structures evolve in large parts of the world towards online business using modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capabilities. For efficient applications of inter-organizational information systems, the alignment between business and ICT is a key factor. In this context, business analysis using business modelling can be regarded as a first step in designing economically sustainable e-business solutions. This thesis examines how business modeling can be used to improve e-business design. We examine how business stakeholder intentions and different objectives of business collaborations can be used to obtain an explorative business model that can be used as a basis for designing e-business solutions. The thesis proposes a set of artifacts for business modeling and e-service design. In regard to business modeling, we propose methods that consider internal aspects such as strategic intentions of actors and external aspects such as business collaborations among them. Considering stakeholder intentions, we introduce a method to design business models based on goal models. A set of templates for designing goal models and a set of transformation rules to obtain business models based on goal models are proposed. To further improve business models considering business collaborations, we suggest a classification of business transactions that considers underlying business objectives of business collaborations. Utilizing the suggested business transactions, we then propose a method to improve business modeling. Finally, we propose a method for designing e-services using business models. The methods suggested support business modelers as well as process and services designers in executing their tasks effectively. The methods have been assessed through applications in two cases.
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Panagiotidis, Petros. "Business systems purpose, analysis." Thesis, Aston University, 1998. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10706/.
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This thesis deals with the problematic of the business systems systemic purpose definition. The definition of the systemic purpose, which is regarded as the utmost expression of the system's purposefulness, is to be achieved by ensuring the participation of all the stakeholders, if possible, who affect or they are affected by the business system's operations. The nature of participation, defined as a process of the stakeholders' perceptual exchanges, is deemed to be problematic in itself due to the influence exerted upon it by organisational power, coercion and false consciousness. The main focus of the thesis then is to make aware and provide the stakeholders with an explicit philosophical pedestal and a set of principles upon which a meta- epistemological framework for the enquiry of the business system's purposeful behaviour is developed. In addition, the thesis focuses on the development of a methodology that can be used by the stakeholders to achieve self-knowledge through the critical and systemic examination of their normative presuppositions, about the business system, at both sociological as well as the psychological levels concurrently and the subsequent development of an organisational intrinsically motivated information system. According to the critical systems philosophy and principles, developed in this thesis, normative presuppositions define the stakeholders' perceptions about the purposeful behaviour of the business system they perceived as having a material, an informational and/or an emacipatory stake (human interest) in. The methodology will provide Information Systems that demonstrably improve coordination of organisational activities by enabling the development and maintenance of a single/multifaceted view of purpose throughout organisations.
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Thom, Torsten. "Mobile business : an analysis of the arising business potential." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50397.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The goal of this research report is to provide a comprehensive overview of the new business potential that arises from the convergence of two of the fastest growing industries worldwide, namely the Internet and mobile communications. Most experts agree that this emerging mobile business market has great revenue potential. However, the initial market development has generally been very disappointing, because most service providers have not found ways to satisfy customer needs in this young, dynamic market. Since academic sources and best practices are rare in this new business environment. this study attempts to offer the necessary background and a sound decision base for successfully mastering the inherent challenges in this area. It focuses on mobile services to private customers. While concentrating on Western Europe, it nevertheless follows a global approach, which makes its results applicable to other industrialised world regions. After the possibilities of the enabling technologies are explored, the m-business market is analysed and the mobile service spectrum comprehensively evaluated. Furthermore, the requirements for customer acceptance and a mass-market breakthrough are determined, enriched by up-to-date findings of the writer's own market research. Mobile network operators are clearly dominating the m-business market, and their general misuse of power prevents the creation of fertile ground for a compelling mobile service spectrum. The clearly leading Japanese mobile service market is proof of bow cooperation and concentration on core competencies can create conditions for a fast market take-off, that benefits not only all value chain players, but especially the operators. It is crucial for the creation of successful mobile business applications to avoid the significant weaknesses of enabling technologies. Instead, mobile service providers need to use the valueadded characteristics in an optimal way. To continue merely to transfer offerings of the stationary Internet to the mobile medium will surely not suffice, since this only makes the limitations of the mobile technologies much more evident. Thus, in order to minimise these insufficiencies, the value-added characteristics of mobile technologies need to be exploited as intensively as possible. This means delivering highly time- and location-specific services that are simple and personalised. Even without considering the greatly inhibiting international roaming barriers, this can be done optimally in home networks. This strongly supports a mobile service development on national level. Overall, the focus must be on delivering what customers want, when they want it, at a cost that represents real value to the customer.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel met hierdie navorsingsverslag is om 'n omvattende oorsig te verskaf van die nuwe sakepotensiaai wat ontstaan uit die sameloop van twee van die wereld se snelgroeiendste industriee, naamlik die Internet en mobiele kommunikasie. Die meeste deskundiges is dit eens dat hierdie ontluikende mobiele besigheidsmark enorme inkomste-potensiaal bied. Aanvanklike markontwikkeling was egter tot dusver oor die algemeen uiters teleurstellend omdat die meerderheid diensvoorsieners nog nie metodes gevind het om die behoeftes van kliente in hierdie jong, dinamiese mark voldoende aan te spreek rue. Aangesien akademiese bronne en beproefde gebruike in die nuwe sake-omgewing maar skraps is, trag hierdie studie om die nodige agtergrond en 'n soliede besluitnemingsbasis te bied sodat die inherente uitdagings op die terrein suksesvol onder die knie gekry kan word. Hierdie studie fokus op mobiele dienste aan private kliente. Hoewel daar op Wes-Europa gekonsentreer word, word nietemin 'n globale benadering gevolg wat meebring dat die studie se resultate ook op ander geindustrialiseerde wereldstreke toepaslik is. Nadat die moontlikhede van die hulp-tegnologiee uiteengesit is, word die m-besigheidsmark geanaliseer en die mobiele dienssprektrum volledig geevalueer. Vervolgens word die vereistes vir klientaanvaarding en 'n omvangryke mark-deurbraak vasgestel en dan verryk deur bevindinge uit die skrywer se eie marknavorsing tot nou toe. Klaarblyklik oorheers mobiele netwerk-operateurs die m-besigbeidsmark en hulle algemene misbruik van mag verhoed dat 'n vrugbare teelaarde vir 'n noodsaaklike mobiele diensspektrum ontstaan. Die duidelik leidende Japanse mobiele diensmark bewys hoe samewerking en klem op kernbevoegdhede toestande kan skep vir 'n snelle markopswaai, wat nie net alle waardekettingspelers nie, maar veral ook die operateurs bevoordeel. Dit is deurslaggewend vir die skep van geslaagde mobiele besigbeidstoepassings dat die veelseggende swakhede van hulp-tegnologiee vermy word. Mobiele diensvoorsieners moet eerder die waardetoegevoegde eienskappe op gunstige wyse aanwend. Om bloot voort te gaan met die oordrag van aanbiedinge van die statiese Internet na die mobiele medium sal sekerlik nie voldoende wees nie aangesien die beperkinge van die mobiele tegnologiee sodoende veel meer sigbaar gemaak word. Derhalwe is dit nodig om die waardetoegevoegde eienskappe van mobiele tegnologiee so intensief moontlik uit te buit ten einde hierdie gebreke te minimaliseer. Dit beteken dat persoonlike en ongekompliseerde dienste, wat hoogs tyd- en plek-gespesifiseerd is, voorsien moet word. Hierdie kan optimaal binne tuisnetwerke gedoen word sonder om eens die hoogs belemmerende internasionale swerfversperrings in ag te neem. 'n Mobiele diens-ontwikkeling op nasionale vlak word sterk hierdeur aanbeveel. In die geheel moet die fokus wees om aan kliente te verskaf wat hulle wil he, op 'n tydstip wanneer hulle dit verlang en teen koste wat absolute waarde aan hulle bied.
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Inada, Kenichiro. "Analysis of Japanese Software Business." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59244.
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Thesis (S.M. in System Design and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-96).
Today, our society is surrounded by information system, computers, and software. It is no exaggeration to say that our daily life depends on software and its function. Accordingly, the business of software has made miraculous growth in the last two decades and is playing a significant role in various industries. In accordance with the growing business needs for effective software and information systems, various firms in various countries have entered the business of software seeking for prosperity. Some have succeeded, some have failed. What distinguishes these firms is its ability to manage and deliver quality products on demand, on time, at a low cost. To achieve such goal, software firms have thought out different methods and tools striving to establish its practice. Nevertheless, many software firms around the globe are struggling to satisfy its clients to achieve business success. With no exception, Japanese software firms are facing difficulties of managing software projects. While its ability to deliver high quality product is well acknowledged among software industry, its high cost structure and schedule delays are thought of as serious problems. Moreover, some of the transitions in the industry are forcing Japanese software firms to seek new opportunities. Therefore, it is important for Japanese software firms to establish more productive ways of developing software products and effective business strategies. Primal objective of this paper is to analyze the present conditions of Japanese software firms and to derive some recommendations which could enhance its current situation. It will also include the discussion of software development practices in US and India firms to better understand strength and weaknesses of Japanese firms and capture some important concepts which can be applied to improve current practice.
by Kenichiro Inada.
S.M.in System Design and Management
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Roháčková, Sabina. "Risk Analysis in Business Plan." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-15862.
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This paper aims to deliver insights into the field of structuring a business plan for start-up companies and implementing an efficient risk analysis in the course of business planning. In order to achieve this goal, this thesis challenges the theory with practice to equally reflect both perspectives. The theoretical part first reviews the literature dealing with business plan outlines and, then, presents the author's own systematic methodology to the risk analysis in business planning. The empirical part provides a real-life example of a structured business plan where the risk analysis concept designed by the author is applied. The conclusions from this paper are the following: The business plan outline is situational and cannot be standardized to one fixed pattern or framework. The risk analysis in a business plan increases its transparency and credibility and, therefore, it should be considered for its inherent part. The application of the risk analysis across the business plan shall follow a systematic approach, which is an adapted version of official risk management standards. In this paper, the author's own adapted framework of the risk analysis in the context of business planning is elaborated and applied to the real-life business plan.
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Westerlund, Per. "Business Intelligence: Multidimensional Data Analysis." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-138758.
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The relational database model is probably the most frequently used database model today. It has its strengths, but it doesn’t perform very well with complex queries and analysis of very large sets of data. As computers have grown more potent, resulting in the possibility to store very large data volumes, the need for efficient analysis and processing of such data sets has emerged. The concept of Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) was developed to meet this need. The main OLAP component is the data cube, which is a multidimensional database model that with various techniques has accomplished an incredible speed-up of analysing and processing large data sets. A concept that is advancing in modern computing industry is Business Intelligence (BI), which is fully dependent upon OLAP cubes. The term refers to a set of tools used for multidimensional data analysis, with the main purpose to facilitate decision making. This thesis looks into the concept of BI, focusing on the OLAP technology and date cubes. Two different approaches to cubes are examined and compared; Multidimensiona lOnline Analytical Processing (MOLAP) and Relational Online Analytical Processing (ROLAP). As a practical part of the thesis, a BI project was implemented for the consulting company Sogeti Sverige AB. The aim of the project was to implement a prototype for easy access to, and visualisation of their internal economical data. There was no easy way for the consultants to view their reported data, such as how many hours they have been working every week, so the prototype was intended to propose a possible method. Finally, a performance study was conducted, including a small scale experiment comparing the performance of ROLAP, MOLAP and querying against the data warehouse. The results of the experiment indicates that ROLAP is generally the better choice for data cubing.
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Kotzé, Irma. "An analysis of business–related factors on small businesses / Irma Kotzé." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4502.
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The study was based on the evaluation of specific business–related factors concerning small
businesses in the formal sector.
The purpose of this study was to gain a clear understanding of the current education level of
employees in the small business industry. Income and business related costs applicable to
small businesses and formal business support was also evaluated in terms of its availability
to small businesses. By means of investigation it was possible to conclude to what extent
small businesses contribute towards economic growth in South Africa. The South African
government is definitely aware of the important role which small businesses play in economic
growth and poverty reduction.
Small businesses were analysed to determine the education level of both employees and
business owners. The contribution which business owners made to training and development
of their employees was also investigated. The income over a period of five years were
analysed to determine the financial sustainability of the businesses. The impact of business
related costs and the global economic recession were also investigated to determine the
future sustainability of small businesses. The empirical research was conducted at a financial
institution in Klerksdorp to assess the contribution which small businesses made towards
economic growth and development.
Small businesses' contribution towards education and training must be reconsidered as
limited opportunities exist within small business for training. Small business owners cannot
afford to send their employees away to obtain training and mainly make use of on–the–job
training. SETAS must focus more on small businesses when it comes to training and
alternative training methods must be reconsidered. The implementation of complex labour
legislation and the minimum wages law make unskilled labour very expensive for small
business owners. This must be reconsidered as small businesses cannot afford to employ
additional employees. Formal business support available to small business owners were
perceived not to be marketed very well although the lack of internet access may contribute to
the limited knowledge in this regard. The South African government must reconsider its
strategy to utilize small businesses to create jobs and to develop skills.Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.
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DOMINGUES, FABIO DE MATOS. "BUSINESS MODELS: AN ANALYSIS OF IMPLEMENTATION AT PETROBRAS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSES DEPARTMENT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=20728@1.
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Em 2009, frente a mudanças no cenário internacional e aos impactos
gerados pela descoberta do pré-sal brasileiro no ano anterior, um novo
posicionamento estratégico foi desenhado para a Área de Negócio Internacional
da PETROBRAS. Esse novo posicionamento está fundamentado nos conceitos
de rentabilidade, integração e complementaridade com as atividades nacionais da
Companhia. Nesse sentido, para garantir um maior alinhamento estratégico e
uma maior integração e complementaridade em suas atividades, a Área de
Negócio Internacional passou a desenvolver Modelos de Negócios para cada um
de seus eixos de atuação. Os Modelos de Negócios são uma ferramenta que tem
como objetivo auxiliar no planejamento da Empresa, descrevendo a sua forma de
atuação pela definição/identificação de seus clientes, do valor que lhes é
entregue, da forma como esse valor é entregue e da quantificação dos custos e
benefícios esperados. O objetivo da presente dissertação é apresentar como esses
Modelos de Negócio estão sendo implementados e verificar se essa ferramenta
permite a análise das estratégias da Companhia. Para tanto, está sendo utilizada
como metodologia a pesquisa-ação, em que o autor é parte do projeto, envolvido
na sua realização e buscando gerar conhecimento sobre esse processo.In 2009, facing the changes in the international scenario and the impacts generated by the discovery of the Brazilian pre-salt in the previous year, a new strategic positioning was designed for the PETROBRAS International Business Area. This new positioning is grounded in the concepts of profitability, integration and complementarity with the company national activities. In this sense, to ensure a greater strategic alignment, integration and complementarity within its activities, the International Area started the development of Business Models for each of its axis of action. The Business Models are a tool that aims to assist in the planning of the company and describes the way the company operates through the definition / identification of its customers, the statement of the value that is delivered to them, the definition of the form in which this value is delivered and the quantification of the costs and benefits expected. The goal of this dissertation is to show how these Business Models are being implemented and to verify whether they are appropriate to analyze the strategies of the company. The methodology adopted was action research, in which the author is part of the project, and is involved both in its execution while develops knowledge.
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Gallagher, Robert B. "Analysis of the Small Business Administration 8(a) business development program." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/45857.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedThe objective of this project is to examine the current Small Business Administration 8(a) Business Development Program related to contracts awarded by the United States government. As a result of this project, the United States government will gain perspective on the utilization and effectiveness of the 8(a) program. The intent of the Small Business Administration 8(a) Business Development Program is to help socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses gain access to federal contracting opportunities. Government Accountability Office and Inspector General official reports suggest that the 8(a) program lacks management oversight and is susceptible to fraud, waste, and abuse. This research provides an analysis of contracts awarded under the 8(a) program by the Department of Defense in the United States from fiscal years 2008 through 2014. This research analyzes whether or not the 8(a) program’s industrial base is expanding and if the program is being abused by private industry. Further analysis of randomly selected contracts is conducted to analyze if the contracts were awarded to certified 8(a) contractors and identify if the program is being utilized as intended.
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MOHAN, ANEESHA. "QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE : BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN THE BUDGETING PROCESS." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33520.
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Dorgelo, Eric G. "Strategic analysis of a software business /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2006. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/3698.
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Cook, Gina. "Analysis of the US Business Environment." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2006. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-115490.
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In the last five years, the US has experienced a significant number of unprecedented events, many of which will have long-term impact on its business environment. Given this fact and the rapid pace of change in the world today, there is a new imperative for understanding and managing these complex dynamics and associated emergent risks. This dissertation, therefore, focused on analyzing the current state of the US business environment; the analysis creates a basis for further examination of the various aspects of the studied problems. The author undertook a comprehensive environmental scan, using a broad set of information resources, in order to look at its present status and the factors affecting it as well as the perceived level of risk. During this process, the author also attempted to verify whether the current method of PEST analysis is still a relevant and useful tool given today's complex, intertwined and quickly evolving global business environment. The first chapter is devoted to the theoretical background of information seeking and environmental analysis as well as classifying international business risks. Chapter two takes a broad look at the US macro economy, including the following areas: Political, Legal, Economic, Socio-Cultural and Technological. Chapter three is a business application, and the bulk of its content is devoted to the specifics of the current US business environment; the perceived risks affecting it are also investigated. Final conclusions are drawn based on the research conducted.
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Töpperová, Alice. "Strategická analýza společnosti Business Media CZ, s.r.o." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-16804.
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The aim of this thesis is a strategic analysis of Business Media CZ s.r.o. The analysis reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the company and the opportunities and threats arising from the surroundings of the company. Based on the strategic analysis are identified competitive advantage and proposed strategic recommendations
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鄧沛權 and Pui-kuen Tang. "Business network: network marketing : analysis of network marketing using business network theories." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31268316.
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Tang, Pui-kuen. "Business network : network marketing : analysis of network marketing using business network theories /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18840127.
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NASCIMENTO, ROGERIO. "LOYALTY ANALYSIS IN IT CONSULTING SERVICES IN THE BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS MARKET." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=4230@1.
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Este trabalho tem como objetivo final identificar atributos
que determinam a fidelidade de empresas aos seus
fornecedores de serviços de consultoria em informática. O
estudo inicia com uma pesquisa bibliográfica sobre os
conceitos de serviços, qualidade, satisfação, fidelidade,
relacionamento, retenção, customer bonding e
características do mercado de consultoria. Em seguida, são
realizadas entrevistas com executivos de diversos segmentos
que serviram de base, junto com a pesquisa bibliográfica,
para a elaboração e aplicação de um questionário. Elaborou-
se um modelo de fidelidade utilizando as variáveis
independentes imagem, relacionamento com a equipe de
vendas, suporte, relacionamento com a equipe de
consultores, preço, serviço e barreiras de mudança e a
variável dependente fidelidade, resultante da aglutinação
das variáveis satisfação, recompra e recomendação.
A análise dos resultados da pesquisa mostrou que os
atributos imagem do fornecedor, relacionamento da equipe de
consultores, preço e serviço foram os mais importantes para
explicar a fidelidade. O estudo mostrou que 54% dos
clientes são fiéis, 19% como prisioneiros (fidelidade
espúria), 6% como acessíveis (fidelidade latente) e 21%
como de alto risco (ausência de fidelidade). Ele mostrou
também que o setor público apresenta menor fidelidade (25%)
em relação a outros setores.The purpose of this study is to identify the attributes that determine the customers loyalty to its IT consulting services suppliers. We started this study with a bibliographical research on the concepts of services, quality, satisfaction, loyalty, relationship, retention, customer bonding and characteristics of the IT consulting market. After that, it carried through interviews with executives from different segments. A survey was elaborated based on the bibliographical research and the interviews. A loyalty model was created using the independent variables brand, relationship with the sales team, support, relationship with the consultants team, price, service, switch barriers and the dependent loyalty variable, resultant of the agglutination of satisfaction, repurchases and recommendation. The research findings showed that the attributes brand, relationship of the consultants team, price and service had been most important to explain the loyalty. The findings showed that 54% of the customers are truly loyal, 19% as prisoners (spurious loyalty), 6% as accessible (latent loyalty) and 21% as of high risk (loyalty absence). It also showed that the public sector is less loyalty (25%) than other sectors.
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Grobler, Marthinus Petrus Johannes. "Green business and environmental issues: family versus non-family business." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1008058.
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The aim of the study was to understand whether family businesses and non-family business differ from one another regarding green business and environmental issues. Green business issues are of global importance for the continued existence of business within the world. Businesses do not exist in isolation but within the context of the environment within which they function. Business has an impact on the environment and the environment has an impact on business. Furthermore, family businesses constitute a large part of the world economy and estimates range from 60-90 percent of GDP contributed by family businesses. In the South African context family businesses also form a significant part of the business environment. A literature study was conducted. The study identified five factors and considered each of these factors in the study. The five factors are: Green Business; Values; Stewardship; Succession; and, Stakeholders. In addition to a literature, primary research was conducted and data were collected by means of a questionnaire that collected data on the factors identified as well as some biographical information, including race, age and the sectors in which the respondents operated. The study’s findings correspond with the literature study, although no clear difference was found between family business and non-family business relating to green business and environmental issues. Family businesses do however believe that they are stewards of the environment and need to care for the environment.
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Toth, Zsofia. "Attractiveness in business-to-business markets : conceptual development and empirical investigation." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/attractiveness-in-businesstobusiness-marketsconceptual-development-and-empirical-investigation(856a6f4a-1dfa-4256-8668-24dfc3b6bbd7).html.
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Attractiveness matters in business markets, because firms do not dedicate resources equally to all partners. Instead they invest more resources in partners with higher relational attractiveness. Firms need to become attractive in order to gain access to more resources or to be able to work with more skilled or reputable partners. This dissertation studies the construct of relational attractiveness of the customer (RAC), defined as the attractiveness of a business relationship with a particular customer in the eyes of the supplier. The research also investigates corporate online references (COR), because gaining powerful referrals is one of the driving forces behind creating attractiveness in business markets. The study is a three-stage research project drawing on an empirical investigation comprising two focus groups, 79 interviews, a survey of 107 suppliers and online referral data from 1002 companies. These studies investigate the conditions and configurations leading to high or low relational attractiveness, and the motivational conditions and structure of a specific corporate online referral network. Bearing in mind that attractiveness exists in the eyes of the beholder, Study I resolves the previously unclarified problem of how attractiveness can be achieved in different ways. Social Exchange Theory helps to identify conditions of RAC: Trust, Dependency, Financial, Non-Financial Rewards and Costs. In Study II conditions of Trust and Dependency are further developed into Relational Fit and the Comparison Level of Alternatives that address the mutuality and network perspectives of relationship development. The time perspective is introduced to the configurational analysis of RAC through the Maturity condition. As it is revealed in Study I and II, Nonfinancial Rewards are important in creating attractiveness and one of their essential forms is referrals that are addressed in more detail in Study III. This PhD research takes a configurational approach to attractiveness and explores different causal recipes in order to reach the same outcome. In order to investigate the relational complexity of attractiveness, fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) is applied throughout the three studies combined with some other methods, such as content analysis and Social Network Analysis (SNA). QCA is a data analytic strategy that combines within-case analysis and formalised cross-case studies in order to identify multiple configurations leading to the same outcome. Hence, QCA deals more efficiently with the equifinality of complex business problems compared with traditional data analysis methods. Equifinality means that there are various ways in the causal system of achieving the desired outcome. QCA is sufficient in handling methodological challenges such as multi-causality (an outcome of interest rarely has a single cause), interrelatedness (causes are usually not independent of one another) and asymmetry (a specific cause may have different effects on the outcome depending on the context). By challenging existing knowledge, the results show that there is no one best way to achieve relational attractiveness. It is achievable even if Trust and Financial Rewards are not present. Very high RAC was typically achieved in less mature relationships. During the initiation of referral relationships in the case of COR, the expected increase in the initiators` attractiveness in the eyes of potential future partners also plays a vital role. The generalizability of the findings has some limitations, especially regarding the qualitative study where the results are appropriate to falsify some theories (for example, the primary importance of Financial Rewards) but their impact is more related to theoretical development than to statistical generalizability.
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Carl, Walter John III. "The (interactional) business of doing business: a rhetorical discursive action analysis of an e-commerce business opportunity." Diss., University of Iowa, 2001. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/190.
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This thesis focused on presentations of an e-commerce business opportunity to people interested in a multilevel marketing business. Participation in a multilevel marketing organization can be described as a legitimate business activity where individuals can earn a living while enjoying the benefits of independence, autonomy, and being part of a business team. A second, equally plausible way to describe the business is as a get-rich-quick or pyramid scheme in which individuals learn techniques of persuasion and how to exploit personal relationships in order to maximize profit. Given these alternative descriptions, the primary research question for this project concerned the identity problems managed by current business owners as they built up the first kind of description of the business while simultaneously undermining the second.
A series of business plan presentations and training sessions of a multilevel marketing organization were audio and video-tape recorded in the United Kingdom and the United States and transcribed. These meetings were analyzed by means of a rhetorical discursive action approach. This perspective is informed by principles of conversation analysis (i.e., how participants accomplish social actions through talk on a turn-by-turn basis), rhetorical concerns (i.e., how versions of the world are built up and undermined in relation to alternative, rival versions), and fact construction (i.e., how descriptions of events are formulated to be true, objective, and disinterested).
The analysis demonstrated that various conversational practices were used to construct the e-commerce business as legitimate and as a vehicle to fulfill the audience members' dreams and goals, while countering the notion that the business involved processes of selling, persuasion, or convincing. Some of the devices used to accomplish this effect included managing informality of the meetings, positioning the audience as intelligent, reflective people who would not fall prey to a sales pitch, and showing how business techniques grew out of a larger ethic of personal relationships and connections.
The study concluded with a discussion of the importance of analyzing actual interaction; training and pedagogical implications; future avenues of study; and ethical, political, and critical implications raised by this thesis.
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Entezarghofran, Yashar. "SME business analysis. : A railway case study." Thesis, KTH, Industriell produktion, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-141018.
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The purpose of this thesis is to study and investigate one department of a SME -active intechnical documentation at railway industry-on the challenges of applying and implementing some strategic management tools on its organization. To understand these challenges, a business planning process has been designed, implemented and documented during the thesis. This process has given the author the ability to answer the research question based on limited experience from this especial case study. However finding of this thesis can be an initial step to study the issue deeper with a group of different case studies to reach general findings. The result from this study provided some starting points to research about reasons why SMEs have such high risks of failure in the initial years of their establishment. On this especial case study, challenges were about two main issue. 1. The process of using strategic management tools were not rather a simple collection of strategic information but a complicated process of defining, answering and deciding serious strategic questions. 2. Lack of an independent organization inside the SME company in which the only responsibility is to ensure that strategies are being implemented on all levels. This can bean extra burden on the executive management team since they are dealing with everyday tasks related to everyday operations and could damage the task of ensuring that strategy is being fully implemented. The thesis act as an initial investigation and further investigations must be applied on big diverse groups of case studies to reach to general finding which can be applied and benefited by industry.
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To, Trung Thanh. "Business cycle analysis for ASEAN-5 countries." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522051.
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Cornes, Jeffrey B., Jon C. Sego, and David H. Ryan. "Business case analysis of comprehensive maritime awareness." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/10062.
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MBA Professional ReportThis research project develops a business case analysis model to evaluate the costs and benefits of utilizing the Comprehensive Maritime Awareness (CMA) system within the DoD. The business case analysis model was developed to conduct a detailed evaluation of the economic costs and benefits associated with CMA. The initial hypothesis favored CMA as a superior alternative to the existing system, Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA). Throughout the course of the research, this opinion was solidified and supported based on a series of factors. These factors are expressed and outlined in the observations, conclusions and recommendations.
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Bowden, Dion Eldred. "Predicting business cycle regimes using discriminant analysis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51885.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The assumption underlying this study is that the regime of the economy imparts certain characteristics to the business cycle indicators and that by using a discriminant analysis it would be possible to gain information from the various indicators as to the state of activity in the economy. A discriminant analysis was developed on an Excel spreadsheet. The Schwartz Information Criterion, SIC, was calculated for the models. This value compares how closely the model follows the true data generating process. The discriminant analysis was performed using all the variables or indicators applicable to the model in question. Using a linear programming algorithm the variables were removed from the model in order to maximise the SIC value for the model. The result was a variable set that maximised the information about the regime of the economy available from the various economic indicators. The models' performance was evaluated for post sample performance in a test data set. Five models were developed. They were: • the coincident logistic model; • the one period ahead logistic CLI (composite leading indicator) model; • the one period ahead logistic component model; • the three period ahead logistic CLI model; and • the three period ahead logistic component model. All the models produced meaningful results in the estimation data set for the United States economy. In the test data set only the coincident logistic model was found to give a clear signal of the regime switch. All models applied to the US data showed activity around all the regime switches. Two of the models did not produce useful results when applied to South African economic data. For this reason the one and two period ahead logistic component models were not used. The remaining three models gave clear signals of regime switches for all regime switches in the estimation and the test data set. The best overall model as far as SIC value was the one period ahead logistic CLI model applied to the South African data. The highest SIC for a model applied to the United States data is the logistic coincident model. The models were also evaluated on the number of wrong classifications. The best model in this regard is the coincident logistic model and one period ahead logistic CLI model applied to the United States data. The most accurate model for the South African data was the one-month ahead logistic CLI model in the estimation data set and the logistic coincident model in the test data set. The models were more decisive in the South African data than in the United States data set having a much lower region of uncertainty. Taking into consideration the greater decisiveness in conjunction with accuracy the models performed better with the South African data. The discriminant analysis generates a probability of expansion, which is used in conjunction with a classification rule based on observed frequencies in the estimation data set. A plot of the probability of expansion calculated by the models versus the true data generating process reveals that the models provide meaningful information as to the regime of the economy. The models tend to lag the true data generating process but do show activity around the regime switches. The models when applied to the United States data show good correlation with the true data generating process over the estimation data set but not as good over the test data set. The models perform better when applied to South African data when evaluated graphically. The models when applied to the South African data give good clear signals over all regime switches in all data sets. Indications of regime switches in the estimation data set were clearer than in the test data set. The use of a discriminant analysis for regime classification has been proven to be effective. This method should be used in conjunction with other methods to evaluate business cycle regimes. Useful information is extracted as regards the state of the economy from the various economic indicators. For this reason discriminant analysis of business cycles can be used as an additional tool for the evaluation of business cycle regimes.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die onderliggende aanname van hierdie studie is dat die ekonomiese stelsel sekere eienskappe aan die sakesiklus verleen, en dat 'n diskriminant ontleding dit moontlik maak om inligting te verkry uit die verskeie aanwysers oor die stand van ekonomiese aktiwiteite. 'n Diskriminant ontleding is op 'n Excel-sigblad ontwerp. Die Schwartz Informasie Kriterium (SIK) is vir die modelle bereken. Hierdie waarde dui aan hoe getrou die model die ware datagenereringsproses volg. Die diskriminant ontleding is gedoen deur gebruik te maak van al die veranderlikes of aanwysers wat van toepassing is op die betrokke model. Die veranderlikes is uit die model verwyder deur die gebruik van 'n lineêre programmerings algoritme, ten einde die SIK-waarde van die model te maksimaliseer. Die resultaat was 'n stel veranderlikes wat inligting via die verskeie ekonomiese aanwysers oor die beskikbare ekonomiese stelsel maksimaliseer het. Die model is vir buite-steekproef prestasie in 'n toetsdatastel evalueer. Die volgende vyf modelle is ontwikkel: • samevallende logistiese model • een periode vooruit logistiese saamgestelde leidende aanwysers (SLA)- model • een periode vooruit logistiese komponentmodel • drie periode vooruit logistiese SLA-model • drie periode vooruit logistiese komponentmodel. Al die modelle het betekenisvolle resultate in die steekproefdata vir die ekonomie van die VSA gelewer. In die toetsdatastel het slegs die samevallende logistiese model 'n duidelike aanduiding van regime-verandering gegee. Alle modelle wat op die VSA data toegepas is, het aktiwiteite rondom al die regime-veranderings aangetoon. Twee van die modelle wat op Suid-Afrikaanse data toegepas is, het nie bruikbare resultate opgelewer nie, en om hierdie rede is die een en twee periodes vooruit logistiese komponentmodelle nie gebruik nie. Die oorblywende drie modelle het duidelike aanduidings van regime-veranderings vir alle regime-veranderings aangetoon in die steekproefdata en die toetsdatastel. Die beste oorkoepelende model in terme van SIK-waarde was die een periode vooruit logistiese SLA-model wat op Suid-Afrikaanse data toegepas is. Die grootste SIK-waarde vir 'n model wat op VSA-data toegepas is, is vir die samevallende logistiese model. Modelle is ook evalueer in terme van die foutiewe klassifikasies. Die beste model in hierdie verband is die samevallende logistiese model en die een periode vooruit logistiese SLA-model wat op VSA-data toegepas is. Die mees akkurate model vir Suid-Afrikaanse data was die een maand vooruit logistiese SLA-model in die steekproef datastel en die samevallende logistiese model in die toetsdatastel. Die modelle was meer beslissend in die Suid-Afrikaanse data as in die VSA-datastel, omdat die Suid-Afrikaanse data 'n baie kleiner onsekerheidsgebied openbaar het. Gegewe die groter beslistheid tesame met akkuraatheid, het die modelle beter presteer met Suid-Afrikaanse data. Die diskriminant ontleding skep 'n opswaaiwaarskynlikheid, wat saam met 'n klassifikasiereël, gebaseer op die waargenome frekwensies in die steekproefdata, gebruik word. 'n Stip van die opswaaiwaarskynlikhede, bereken volgens die modelle versus die ware datagenereringsproses, dui daarop dat die modelle betekenisvolle inligting oor die ekonomiese stelsel bied. Die modelle neig om die ware datagenereringsproses te volg, maar toon tog beweging rondom regime-veranderings. Die modelle het goeie korrelasie met die ware datagenereringsproses oor die steekproefdatastel getoon op die VSA-data, maar nie juis goeie korrelasie oor die toetsdatastel nie. Die modelle presteer beter wanneer dit op Suid-Afrikaanse data toegepas word, en gee goeie, duidelike tekens oor alle regime-veranderings in alle datastelle. Aanduidings van regime-veranderings in die steekproefdatastel was duideliker as in die toetsdatastel. 'n Diskriminant ontleding vir stelselklassifikasie het effektief geblyk te wees. Hierdie metode behoort saam met ander metodes gebruik te word om sakesiklusstelsels te evalueer. Nuttige inligting word uit die verskillende ekonomiese aanwysers verkry oor die stand van die ekonomie. Juis om hierdie rede kan 'n diskriminant ontleding van sakesiklusse as bykomende instrument gebruik word om sakesiklusse te evalueer.
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Mise, Emi. "Time series decompostion and business cycle analysis." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.247129.
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Cizek, Christopher J. "Shipboard LED lighting a business case analysis." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Dec/09Dec%5FCizek.pdf.
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Thesis (Master of Business Administration)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009.Thesis Advisors: Dew, Nicholas ; Mutty, John. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 26, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: LED lighting, solid state lighting, business case analysis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-83). Also available in print.
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Sarferaz, Samad. "Essays on business cycle analysis and demography." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16151.
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Diese Arbeit besteht aus vier Essays, die empirische und methodische Beiträge zur Messung von Konjunkturzyklen und deren Zusammenhänge zu demographischen Variablen liefern. Der erste Essay analysiert unter Zuhilfenahme eines Bayesianischen Dynamischen Faktormodelles die Volatilität des US-amerikanischen Konjunkturzyklus seit 1867. In dem Essay wird gezeigt, dass die Volatilität in der Periode vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg und nachdem Zweiten Weltkrieg niedriger war als in der Zwischenkriegszeit. Eine geringere Volatilität für die Periode nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg im Vergleich zu der Periode vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg kann nicht bestätigt werden. Der zweite Essay hebt die Bayesianischen Eigenschaften bezüglich dynamischer Faktormodelle hervor. Der Essay zeigt, dass die ganze Analyse hindurch - im Gegensatz zu klassischen Ansätzen - keine Annahmen an die Persistenz der Zeitreihen getroffen werden muss. Des Weiteren wird veranschaulicht, wie im Bayesianischen Rahmen die Anzahl der Faktoren bestimmt werden kann. Der dritte Essay entwickelt einen neuen Ansatz, um altersspezifische Sterblichkeitsraten zu modellieren. Kovariate werden mit einbezogen und ihre Dynamik wird gemeinsam mit der von latenten Variablen, die allen Alterklassen zugrunde liegen, modelliert. Die Resultate bestätigen, dass makroökonomische Variablen Prognosekraft für die Sterblichkeit beinhalten. Im vierten Essay werden makroökonomischen Zeitreihen zusammen mit altersspezifischen Sterblichkeitsraten einer strukturellen Analyse unterzogen. Es wird gezeigt, dass sich die Sterblichkeit von jungen Erwachsenen in Abhängigkeit von Konjunkturzyklen deutlich von den der anderen Alterklassen unterscheidet. Daher sollte in solchen Analysen, um Scheinkorrelation vorzubeugen, zwischen den einzelnen Altersklassen differenziert werden.The thesis consists of four essays, which make empirical and methodological contributions to the fields of business cycle analysis and demography. The first essay presents insights on U.S. business cycle volatility since 1867 derived from a Bayesian dynamic factor model. The essay finds that volatility increased in the interwar periods, which is reversed after World War II. While evidence can be generated of postwar moderation relative to pre-1914, this evidence is not robust to structural change, implemented by time-varying factor loadings. The second essay scrutinizes Bayesian features in dynamic index models. The essay shows that large-scale datasets can be used in levels throughout the whole analysis, without any pre-assumption on the persistence. Furthermore, the essay shows how to determine the number of factors accurately by computing the Bayes factor. The third essay presents a new way to model age-specific mortality rates. Covariates are incorporated and their dynamics are jointly modeled with the latent variables underlying mortality of all age classes. In contrast to the literature, a similar development of adjacent age groups is assured, allowing for consistent forecasts. The essay demonstrates that time series of covariates contain predictive power for age-specific rates. Furthermore, it is observed that in particular parameter uncertainty is important for long-run forecasts, implicating that ignoring parameter uncertainty might yield misleadingly precise predictions. In the fourth essay the model developed in the third essay is utilized to conduct a structural analysis of macroeconomic fluctuations and age-specific mortality rates. The results reveal that the mortality of young adults, concerning business cycles, noticeably differ from the rest of the population. This implies that differentiating closely between particular age classes, might be important in order to avoid spurious results.
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Reddy, Karnegari Keshav, Karnam Vikram SaiPrasad, and Gayasuddin Shaik. "An analysis of business through social media." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Handels- och IT-högskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17306.
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In recent years social media has become ubiquitous and necessary for social networking and content sharing. Social media reached a stage where its impact is being felt by larger organizations that exist today. It has become necessary for the organizations to re-examine their existing business processes and formulate new business processes to compete in the globalized markets. In our paper we are going to deal with issues like how the social media affect the business processes and why they are affecting the business processes in contemporary organizations. The success of a business depends on effective implementation of its business processes. So these business processes when being designed several factors are being taken into consideration. Social media facilitates for the conjecture of a mixture of people from different domains for sharing of content, it serves as an important and indispensable factor in defining business processes.Program: Magisterutbildning i informatik
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Zhang, Daguang 1972. "China logistics review and business opportunity analysis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28522.
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Bremberg, Dennis, and Sina Soltaniah. "Business analysis of Company A's maintenance organisation." Thesis, KTH, Industriell produktion, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-232508.
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Existing high voltage direct current (HVDC) stations have an estimated life-cycle of 30 to 40 years.During this time, operations will be subjected to varying disturbances, including spare partobsolescence, new cyber-security requirements, unforeseen failures as well as planned and forcedoutages. Until recently, HVDC station owners have managed maintenance themselves in accordanceto their own experience and the documentation provided at project delivery. Lately, increasingcustomer interest in life-cycle cost, service agreements and novel maintenance practices have creatednew business opportunities such as long-term full-service agreements (FSAs), call-centre support, carepackages, and more.This master thesis strives to map Company A’s current state to assess how prerequisites formaintenance are created during greenfield1 projects. Prerequisites for maintenance include manyaspects, including HVDC station design, maintenance planning, documentation, education, safety andother aspects governing conditions for effective maintenance. The purpose is to answer how CompanyA may organize responsibilities during pre-tender, tendering, project execution, warranty and servicecommitments to ensure that prerequisites for maintenance of HVDC systems are duly considered andoptimised according to the customer’s long-term expectations and satisfaction.Qualitative data was collected through 17 semi-structured interviews across different functions withinCompany A’s organisation. Also, a cross-sectional survey, combining open and closed questions aimedat the maintenance situation of HVDC stations where Company A has FSAs, was conducted. The resultconstitutes of a current state description based on the interviews. The ensuing discussion providesrecommendations based on the established needs, as well as insights provided through literature.Conclusively, a maintenance engineering function is proposed to address task ambiguity,organisational deficiencies, and create a process for formalisation of experience, maintenancedevelopment, and continuous improvement of the maintenance process. Specific recommendationsinclude the introduction of a new customer information channel called Incidents, where operators ofHVDC stations may communicate design-flaws, suggestions on improvements and other issues that donot naturally fall within the equipment failure record (EFR) and disturbance outage report (DOR)category. Also, the maintenance activities listed in the maintenance activity list (MAL) (provided to thecustomer at project delivery) may be refined by clustering maintenance activities, to ensure that themaintenance time is minimised and not treated as a sequential list (which affects planned outagefrequency and scheduled outage time). The survey was inconclusive due to a low response rate.En högspänd likströmsstation (HVDC-station) har en uppskattad livslängd på 30 till 40 år, under vilkenden utsätts för olika typer av driftsstörningar, exempelvis reservdelsobsolescens, nyacybersäkerhetskrav, oförutsedda haverier såväl som planerade och oplanerade strömavbrott. Framtills nyligen har ägare av HVDC-stationer egenhändigt underhållit sina anläggningar utifrån tidigareackumulerad erfarenhet och den dokumentation som inkluderats vid projektleverans. På senare tidhar dock kundintresset för livscykelkostnader, serviceavtal och moderna underhållstekniker skapat nyaaffärsmöjligheter för HVDC-leverantörer i form av långsiktiga serviceavtal.Det här mastersarbetet avser kartlägga Company A:s nuläge för att utvärdera hur förutsättningar förunderhåll skapas under ett nyanskaffningsprojekt. Förutsättningar för underhåll inkluderar ett flertalaspekter som sammantaget styr effektiviteten i stationsunderhållet, däribland stationsdesign,underhållsplanering, dokumentation, utbildning och säkerhet. Arbetets syfte är att besvara hurCompany A kan organisera underhållsansvaret under offerering, projektexekvering, garanti ochserviceåtaganden för att säkerställa att förutsättningar för underhåll av HVDC system är tillbörligtbeaktade och optimerade utifrån kundens långsiktiga förväntningar.Genom en intervjuserie bestående av 17 semistrukturerade intervjuer med olika funktioner inomCompany A insamlades kvalitativa data. Därutöver granskades interna processer och databaservartefter en enkätundersökning genomfördes. Undersökningen var baserad på både öppna och slutnafrågor och avsåg utröna underhållssituationen för HVDC-stationer där Company A har ett omfattandeoch långsiktigt serviceåtagande (FSA). Resultatet består av en nulägesbeskrivning utifrån det insamladeinformationsunderlaget. Den efterkommande diskussionen föreslår rekommendationer utifrånidentifierade behov och insikter hämtade ur litteraturen.Slutligen föreslås en underhållsteknisk funktion för att adressera tvetydighet i befintligaarbetsuppgifter, organisatoriska brister, samt en process för formaliserandet av erfarenheter,underhållsutveckling, och förutsättningar för kontinuerlig förbättring av underhållsprocessen.Specifika rekommendationer inkluderar introduktionen av en ny (kundstyrd) informationskanal(Incidents) genom vilken operatörer av HVDC-stationer kan kommunicera designbrister, förslag påförbättringsåtgärder och andra händelser som normalt inte faller inom de befintliga equipment failurerecord (EFR) och disturbance outage report (DOR) kategorierna. Vidare föreslås attunderhållsaktiviteterna listade i underhållsaktivitetslistan (MAL), som tillfaller kund vidprojektleverans, bör ”klumpas”. Detta bör resultera i en minskning av rekommenderad underhållstidoch säkerställa att aktiviteter som kan ske parallellt inte sker sekventiellt, vilket i sin tur påverkar bådedriftstoppsfrekvens och varaktighet. Avslutningsvis kan det konstateras att enkätundersökningen varin-konklusiv på grund av låg svarsfrekvens.
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Hausman, Jeffrey. "A Business Analysis of: Prescott-Ellen, Inc." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1111087186.
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Baleia, Bruno Alexandre Pimenta. "Business model typologies : review and critical analysis." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10975.
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Mestrado em Gestão e Estratégia IndustrialEsta dissertação apresenta uma análise crítica das principais tipologias de modelos de negócios encontrados na literatura. Para realizar tal análise, foi realizada uma revisão de literatura que funciona de duas maneiras: oferecer ao leitor a informação fundamental sobre modelos de negócios e, ao mesmo tempo, para orientar a análise das tipologias. Três vertentes principais da literatura (denominadas neste trabalho como a Tríade dos Modelos de Negócio) foram identificadas na revisão da literatura: E-business; Estratégia e Inovação. Em cada área foram identificadas diferentes tipologias utilizadas pelos académicos. Em seguida foi esclarecido quais poderiam ser suas contribuições e fraquezas, e, finalmente, foi sugerido um possível caminho para futuras pesquisas. Em conclusão, constatamos que é difícil construir uma tipologia exclusiva com a literatura atual, porque parece haver pouca fertilização cruzada entre as três áreas.
This dissertation provides a critical analysis of the main typologies on business models found in the literature. In order to achieve such analysis, we conducted a literature review that works in two ways: offer the reader a background about business models and, at the same time, to guide the analysis of typologies. Three main streams of literature (named in this work as the Business Model Triad) were identified in literature review: E-business; Strategy; and Innovation. In each area were identified different typologies used by scholars. Then, it was clarified what could be their contributions and weaknesses, and finally it was suggested a possible path for future research. In conclusion, we found that is hard to construct a unique typology with the current literature, because there seems to be little cross-fertilisation amongst all three streams.
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Shani, Najah Turki. "Multivariate analysis and survival analysis with application to company failure." Thesis, Bangor University, 1991. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/multivariate-analysis-and-survival-analysis-with-application-to-company-failure(a031bf91-13bc-4367-b4fc-e240ab54a73b).html.
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This thesis offers an explanation of the statistical modelling of corporate financial indicators in the context where the life of a company is terminated. Whilst it is natural for companies to fail or close down, an excess of failure causes a reduction in the activity of the economy as a whole. Therefore, studies on business failure identification leading to models which may provide early warnings of impending financial crisis may make some contribution to improving economic welfare. This study considers a number of bankruptcy prediction models such as multiple discriminant analysis and logit, and then introduces survival analysis as a means of modelling corporate failure. Then, with a data set of UK companies which failed, or were taken over, or were still operating when the information was collected, we provide estimates of failure probabilities as a function of survival time, and we specify the significance of financial characteristics which are covariates of survival. Three innovative statistical methods are introduced. First, a likelihood solution is provided to the problem of takeovers and mergers in order to incorporate such events into the dichotomous outcome of failure and survival. Second, we move away from the more conventional matched pairs sampling framework to one that reflects the prior probabilities of failure and construct a sample of observations which are randomly censored, using stratified sampling to reflect the structure of the group of failed companies. The third innovation concerns the specification of survival models, which relate the hazard function to the length of survival time and to a set of financial ratios as predictors. These models also provide estimates of the rate of failure and of the parameters of the survival function. The overall adequacy of these models has been assessed using residual analysis and it has been found that the Weibull regression model fitted the data better than other parametric models. The proportional hazard model also fitted the data adequately and appears to provide a promising approach to the prediction of financial distress. Finally, the empirical analysis reported in this thesis suggests that survival models have lower classification error than discriminant and logit models.
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Baur, Andreas. "Crowdsourced formal verification: a business case analysis toward a human-centered business model." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/45811.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedThe DARPA project Crowd Sourced Formal Verification (CSFV) tries to investigate whether offering free games via the Internet that translate player’s actions into program annotations helps to overcome the challenges of the expensive and time-consuming formal verification of software by human experts. This business case analysis evaluates the results of the CSFV-project phase 1. Based on data of the games, the author identifies three problems of the current CSFV approach. The author concludes, in accordance with the Gartner Hype Cycle Research Methodology, that the technology currently is not sufficiently mature to justify a financial investment, but that the cutting-edge approach may reach the plateau of productivity within two to five years, due to parallel maturation of some technologies. The author argues that a human-centered approach is necessary to transform the customer base in order to mitigate the identified deficiencies and to leverage crowdsourced formal verification as a sustainable business. He first explains the concepts relevant in the context of crowdsourced formal verification and the technologies having impact on it. He then identifies the current issues and existing obstacles in the current technology. Based on future trends and visions in the respective fields of technology, and the needs and motivations of people, he proposes a human-centered business model that may foster the implementation of crowdsourced formal verification of software in organizations that depend on security-critical and safety-critical software.
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Смоленніков, Денис Олегович, Денис Олегович Смоленников, Denys Olehovych Smolennikov, and D. D. Guzenko. "Еvaluation of the business using multiple analysis technique." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2014. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/38578.
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Multiples analysis is a financial modeling method of assigning a value to assets or to a business. Market multiples analysis is also referred to as direct comparison analysis or comparable companies analysis. Used as an alternative approach to a discounted cash flow valuation, a market multiples analysis uses comparable companies to devise valuations. The basic idea is that companies with similar characteristics should trade at similar multiples, all other things being equal.
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Slaninková, Michaela. "Business Intelligence jako nástroj analýzy dat." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-378340.
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The diploma thesis focuses on the usage of Business Intelligence for the analysis of the provided employee data. It describes the process of creating dashboards in the chosen Business Intelligence tools, compares them based on the defined criteria and chooses the most suitable tool. The diploma thesis also contains a description of an implementation process of the created solution and an economic evaluation including costs and benefits.
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Kim, Won-Joong. "An analysis of insurance distribution systems." Connect to resource, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1264614857.
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GAMMOH, DIALA. "ENTERPRISE BUSINESS ALIGNMENT USING QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT, MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS AND BUSINESS MODELING TOOLS." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3012.
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This dissertation proposes two novel ideas to enhance the business strategy alignment to customer needs. The proposed business alignment clock is a new illustration to the relationships between customer requirements, business strategies, capabilities and processes. To line up the clock and reach the needed alignment for the enterprise, a proposed clock mechanism is introduced. The mechanism integrates the Enterprise Business Architecture (EBA) with the House of Quality (HoQ). The relationship matrix inside the body of the house is defined using multivariate data analysis techniques to accurately measure the strength of the relationships rather than defining them subjectively. A statistical tool, multivariate data analysis, can be used to overcome the ambiguity in quantifying the relationships in the house of quality matrix. The framework is proposed in the basic conceptual model context of the EBA showing different levels of the enterprise architecture; the goals, the capabilities and the value stream architecture components. In the proposed framework, the goals and the capabilities are inputs to two houses of quality, in which the alignment between customer needs and business goals, and the alignment between business goals and capabilities are checked in the first house and the second house, respectively. The alignment between the business capabilities and the architecture components (workflows, events and environment) is checked in a third HoQ using the performance indicators of the value stream architecture components, which may result in infrastructure expansion, software development or process improvement to reach the needed alignment by the enterprise. The value of the model was demonstrated using the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) process at the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems department at the University of Central Florida. The assessment of ABET criteria involves an evaluation of the extent to which the program outcomes are being achieved and results in decisions and actions to improve the Industrial Engineering program at the University of Central Florida. The proposed framework increases the accuracy of measuring the extent to which the program learning outcomes have been achieved at the department. The process of continuous alignment between the educational objectives and customer needs becomes more vital by the rapid change of customer requirements that are obtained from both internal and external constituents (students, faculty, alumni, and employers in the first place).Ph.D.
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
Engineering and Computer Science
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VENKATESH, UMA DEVI. "QUALTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE : BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR IBM WITH SMARTER SELF-SERVICE ANALYTICS." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33524.
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Neterda, Karel. "Business Plan." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-193791.
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The objective of the diploma thesis is aimed at business plan for real estate agency. Theoretical part of the thesis focuses on basic definitions regarding new company establishment. As follows: business laws, legal form of companies, business grants and structure of the business plan. Practical part describes a business plan for real estate agency and evaluate the business environment and current competition through these methods: Porter Five Force Model, SWOT -- and PEST analyses. Further, these partial components of the business plan are scrutinized - an array of services for customers, human resources, marketing and financial planning. Evaluation of project feasibility is based on analysis results.
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Gorshteyn, Grigoriy. "Soul-idarity Tree: Business Plan and Market Analysis." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/540.
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This thesis details the business plan and market analysis for Soul-idarity Tree, a not-for-profit organization. Soul-idarity Tree’s mission is to encourage spiritual growth, mental health, and personal development by opening Soul-idarity Branches across college and university campuses across the United States.
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Bachoo, Avsharn. "A business analysis methodology." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/4536.
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Synopsis
Business analysis is defined as the process in which business needs are identified and solutions
proposed. This process is regarded as one of the most important parts of systems development
because no other part is more difficult to rectify later. However, current business analysis
methodologies are inadequate because they are at a too high level and only address portions of
the complete business analysis process. In particular, the lack of clear objectives, relevance and
outcomes of the phases make business analysis methodologies inadequate. Moreover, activities,
techniques and tools not mapped to those phases are also problematic.
The aim of this research was to develop a business analysis methodology for business analysts
in the South African financial services environment. The intentions were to identify the phases,
as well as objectives, relevance and outcomes for each of these phases. Furthermore, this
research intended to identify appropriate activities, techniques and tools to address the objectives
of each phase of a methodology.
This was done by presenting a literature review of previous research relating to business analysis
methodologies. For information gathering, 45 participants (comprising of business analysts,
project managers, IS managers and CIOs) contributed to this research, 22 of whom were
interviewed individually while 23 participated in focus group interviews. The data from each of
these methods was analysed independently and did not influence or feed into any of the other
methods. Once the individual interviews and focus group interviews had been transcribed,
content analysis and analysis within and between interviews (Merriam, 1998; Strauss, 1987) was
used to analyse the information gathered independently.
The phases of a business analysis methodology identified by the research are the:
• feasibility phase;
• business case phase;
• analysis and design phase; and
• post-implementation evaluation phase.
Objectives, relevance and outcomes of these phases were also identified. In addition, activities,
techniques and tools were mapped to each of these phases.
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Nakamura, Chikako, and 中村千佳子. "SOFTBANK Business Model Analysis." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p82dqw.
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碩士國立臺中科技大學
應用日語系日本市場暨商務策略碩士班
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This paper will clarify the business model targeting a successful company called Softbank. Softbank has attracted the attention of many people during the domestic recession because the company has made a remarkable growth (about 3 trillion yen), ranking among the top 10 with in the domestic market capitalization, as of June 2011. Once a mere venture company, it surpassed Panasonic and Sony, playing a lead role in 30 years. What is the strength of Softbank? Does the Softbank growth imply the transformation of a Japanese-style management? I would like to collect data and study the business model to indicate ways for management of Japanese and Taiwanese companies for the upcoming future.
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Mahroof, Kamran, Olga Matthias, and Zahid I. Hussain. "Business Intelligence." 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/16263.
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LIU, KUAN-YI, and 劉寬義. "Business analysis of bus transportation." Thesis, 1992. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51054122646435532884.
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Chen, Gan-Yi, and 陳甘益. "Manufacturing Business Intrgration of Analysis." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88234182764782521242.
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Abstract Both manufacturing and business industries are always trying to maximize their economic value upon the limited resource and therefore it leads to the merge of the industrial automation and informization. After the industrial automation and informization revolution, from the inventory control to merchandise on shelves, manufacturers certainly make more effective usage of their resource and businesses understand their customers’ need. However, manufacturing automation is mostly focused on the “back-end” supply of products including the capacity increase and production time reduction, while business informization is centered on the “front-end” market. In theory, to make the whole supply chain from suppliers to manufactures to customers and vice versa more well and just-in-time informed, incorporation of manufacturing automation and business infomaization, named as manufacturing business integration (MBI), can make both industries resource efficient and well-planned. The aim of this thesis is to probe into the efficiency of each stage of MBI from the economic model’s view in terms of the price, quantity need, and profit. To maximize the profit for both manufacturers and businesses, we point out that manufacturers can take more advantage from MBI than businesses do as well as MBI is not appropriate for all manufacturers.
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Ho, Yen-Yi, and 何彥毅. "Telehealthcare Industry Business Model Analysis." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99780833052359612103.
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THESIS ABSTRACT SENIOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY NAME：Yen Yi Ho MONTH/YEAR：MARCH, 2007 ADVISER：Dr. Chang-Sung Yu TITLE：Telehealthcare Industry Business Model Analysis The main purpose of this study is to investigate, within the telehealthcare industry business model ,on the aging society and birthrate decrease condition. How to build up the telehealthcare industry business model in Taiwan? We can set up the platform ,the policy of regulation, internet service of platform, the really healthcare service chain, medical device provider, and medical electronic IC design must to have a complete charge business model. Who will pay money for telehealthcare service is the key successful factor in building up telehealthcare industry business model in Taiwan.This is the most important conclusion of the study.
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Wang, Hsing Hua, and 王興華. "Taiwan POS Business Model Analysis." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7gtr55.
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Point of sale (POS) is the place where a retail transaction is completed. It is the point at which a customer makes a payment to a merchant in exchange for goods or services. At the point of sale the merchant would use any of a range of possible methods to calculate the amount owing - from the ancient Chinese abacus to the modern calculater. POS products are derived from the ancient commercial transaction with different computing functions. The merchant will usually provide hardware and options for use by the customer to make payment - such as POS terminal. The POS can be customized by the retail industry as different industries have different needs. The modern point of sale will also include advanced functionalities to cater to different verticals, such as inventory, CRM, financials, warehousing, and so on, all built into the POS software. A few decades ago, the invention of the Electronic Cash Register, which contributed to the technology industry and gradually developed a new product - endpoints style cash register (Point of Sales) in 90s. Taiwan POS industry trend with the vigorous development of technology industry in recent years, which constructs a special industrial market supply chain. The POS related hardware and peripherals, most of them designed by Taiwan manufacturers but using different brands selling in the international market. Taiwan's technology industry has a significant contribution to the global information industry in an unreplaceable position. Although the Taiwan IT industry bred a special large and suitable environment for the POS industry development in supply chain, due to the local market is narrow, as well as the international marketing capacity is obviously insufficient, resulting in Taiwan's information industry sinking to the low margin OEM working ethnic groups. This thesis discourses on the current situation of Taiwan’s industrial computer applications, the main business model with the POS industry in Taiwan; and elaborates the difference of the POS products, and factors how Taiwan POS manufacturers can be successful. The further exposition is to analyze Taiwan POS industry business model by comparison from three completely different business model (1)OEM / ODM, (2)Private Label (3)Own Brand. The main theme of research is to analyze the difference among business models, and the formation of the enterprise's core competitiveness, significant differences between business strategy and organizational structure. In chapter four, based on personal working experience form three different POS enterprise business, I use case interviews to observe and analyze the different operating modes for case study. This essay illustrates these three different business models by their business strategy, and the major operating issues encountered today. With using the SWOT analysis method to parse the “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats” of the three companies internal as well as external level, to reveal both of advantages and disadvantages. The next step is using Michael • Porter's five forces analysis method, proposed recommendations for Taiwan POS business paradigm shift. As to the final chapter, based on over 10 years of personal practical experience in Taiwan POS industry, I boldly propose the development of a new trend in global POS products, insights and ideas to come up with innovative, covering the trend of the future development of POS hardware and software for the future development innovative application. Meanwhile, to explore the insights for the trend of POS channel – a new service mode. My expectation for the thesis is to provide professional advice and substance feasible approaches, so to reduce the risks of operating the POS companies management for the industrial development in Taiwan. I look forward to seeing that the future POS research can actually be confirmed in Taiwan's POS industry future development.
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紀茹芬. "An analysis in KTV business." Thesis, 1992. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11031939267867902775.
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TENG, CHIN-YU, and 鄧金昱. "Business Aviation Industry Policy Analysis." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32008569055601766366.
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In response to the growing transportation demands that stimulated by increasing tendency of global business environment, on July 18 of 2007 the Civil Aviation Law was amended and henceforth liberalization of both general aviation business and private aircraft operation to the public embarked. Since then, several applicants have been granted for entering business charter operation. In recent years, to cope with the numerous cross-strait economic and trade activities, prohibition of non-profit private operation was first rescinded. Nevertheless, in light of enhancing convenience and efficiency further, it is expected that direct business charter flights across Taiwan Strait will furnish huge potential benefits further. Therefore it has been repeatedly introduced into meeting agenda of cross-strait air transport work conferences. So far, mainland China has yet agreed profit business flights between both sides; just states that revising on relevant Regulations still proceeds whereas broadening the permission of operations will only be considered upon that all regulatory revisions are completed. For the time-being, operators in general aviation located in both Taiwan and mainland China are zealously endeavored in expanding business operations between both sides. It is assertive that following the considerable demand on business and charter flights will gradually push release of the barricade provided regulatory amendment is well-prepared. Based on this situation, this study first induces four dimensions-regulations, quality management, market demand and environment (among them, forty sub-indexes are also established), as to evaluate the inter-relationship among various industrial policies regarding business operations in general aviation that defined by the administrative agencies. Some questionnaire sheets are thus developed. Furthering that, these questionaire sheets are filled-out by numbers from Department Navigation and Aviation, MOTC, CAA, aerospace companies and also other industry experts. Sieving on the provided database then follows. As the consequence, 12 key indexes have been identified. By end of this study, DEMATEL (decision-making laboratory analysis method) combined with ANP (DEMATEL-based ANP) method is implemented to locate the relative weightiness of above-mentioned 12 key indexes. The results grasp the mutual influence relationships among industrial policies that impact business aviation. According to the outcome of this study, uncertainty of cross-strait policy is the most crucial environmental factor that negatively influencing intent of quality management and regulatory revision on business aviation. This phenomena, on the other hand, will reduce the demand in the end. This result can serve as the reference information for government agency when defining industry policy; and also for airline industry or potential entrants that interested in business aviation for feasibility evaluation.
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王英茂. "Business retirememt and annuity analysis." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47386200401574924506.
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