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Business Value (business + value)
Selected AbstractsWise counsel: A trinity of perspectives on the business value of designDESIGN MANAGEMENT REVIEW, Issue 1 2002Martin Gierke Martin Gierke, James G. Hansen, and Raymond Turner are voices of experience, with distinctive backgrounds and insights. On the other hand, three similar themes can be found in the message each offers: design is a thoughtful, rational process; design should be integral to an organization's business strategy; and, in shaping positive perceptions and building customer loyalty, design contributes to the bottom line. [source] Increasing business value with landfill gas-to-energy projects: Regulations and requirements for stationary internal combustion enginesENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT, Issue 4 2009Mario G. Cora First page of article [source] Increasing business value with landfill gas-to-energy projects: Overview of air emissions and permitting regulationsENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2009Mario G. Cora First page of article [source] Increasing business value with landfill gas-to-energy projects: Environmental issues and implicationsENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT, Issue 2 2008Mario G. Cora First page of article [source] Increasing business value through proactive environmental management and complianceENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2008Mario G. Cora First page of article [source] Flexible design-planning of supply chain networksAICHE JOURNAL, Issue 7 2009José Miguel Laínez Abstract Nowadays market competition is essentially associated to supply chain (SC) improvement. Therefore, the locus of value creation has shifted to the chain network. The strategic decision of determining the optimal SC network structure plays a vital role in the later optimization of SC operations. This work focuses on the design and retrofit of SCs. Traditional approaches available in literature addressing this problem usually utilize as departing point a rigid predefined network structure which may restrict the opportunities of adding business value. Instead, a novel flexible formulation approach which translates a recipe representation to the SC environment is proposed to solve the challenging design-planning problem of SC networks. The resulting mixed integer linear programming model is aimed to achieve the best NPV as key performance metric. The potential of the presented approach is highlighted through illustrative examples of increasing complexity, where results of traditional rigid approaches and those offered by the flexible framework are compared. The implications of exploiting this potential flexibility to improve the SC performance are highlighted and are the subject of our further research work. © 2009 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 2009 [source] On the business value and technical challenges of adopting Web servicesJOURNAL OF SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND EVOLUTION: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, Issue 1-2 2004S. Tilley Abstract This paper provides a balanced perspective of the business value and technical challenges of adopting Web services. Technology adoption is a continual challenge for both tool developers and enterprise users. Web services are a prime example of an emerging technology that is fraught with adoption issues. Part of the problem is separating marketing hype from business reality. Web services are network-accessible interfaces to application functionality. They are built using Internet technologies such as XML and standard protocols such as SOAP. The adoption issues related to Web services are complex and multifaceted. For example, determining whether this technology is a fundamental advance, rather than something old under a new name, requires technical depth, business acumen, and considerable historical knowledge of past developments. A sample problem from the health care industry is used to illustrate some of the adoption issues. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] To prosper, organizational psychology should, expand the values of organizational psychology to match the quality of its ethics,JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, Issue 4 2008Joel Lefkowitz The values of organizational psychology are criticized as (a) having supplanted psychology's humanist tradition and societal responsibilities with corporate economic objectives; (b) being "scientistic" in perpetuating the notion of value-free science while ignoring that it is business values that largely drive our research and practice; (c) failing to include normative perspectives of what organizations ought to be like in moral terms; (d) having a pro-management bias; and (e) having allowed ourselves to be defined largely by technocratic competence, almost to the exclusion of considering desirable societal goods. Illustrations of some adverse consequences of these values are presented. It is suggested we expand our self-image to encompass a scientist,practitioner,humanist (S-P-H) model that includes consideration of different values, advocacy of employee rights and a normative characterization of how organizations ought to be,reflecting the broader societal responsibilities of a true profession. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] | ||||||||||