Business Analytics indicates the practices and competencies for exploration and introspection of business performance to make purposive, intuitive, and expedient business decisions. Business analytics involves a plethora of analysis around business data to draw information that could be used by...

The main aim of this chapter is to explain what considered as managerial tools and techniques for decision making in the area of management accounting and how they developed and evolved over the time. This chapter is intended to help us document the innovation, evolution and the adoption of a...

This paper proposes a decision support (DS) framework that incorporates weather-related factors for the purpose of estimating the duration of projects. Inclement weather can have a serious effect on construction projects, particularly with regard to duration and costs. The weather has an impact...

This study concerns the development of decision support systems, UTASTAR method, with a Visual Basic for Application (VBA) programming environment in Excel spreadsheets. UTASTAR is a linear regression method for analyzing the respondent's preferences, while the VBA programming language is the...

An outsourcing IT project management model has been developed. The proposed model features taking into account the specifics of project management processes at outsourcing IT companies in terms of the uncertainty of the external and internal environment of their operation. The model is based on...

Strategic planning in a corporate environment is often based on experience and intuition, although internal data is usually available and can be a valuable source of information. Predicting merger & acquisition (M&A) events is at the heart of strategic management, yet not sufficiently motivated...

Ethiopia has the largest livestock population of any country in Africa. Agriculture in Ethiopia is the foundation of the country’s economy, accounting for half of gross domestic product (GDP), 80% of exports and 85% of total employment. Livestock is an important and integral component of...

The article presents technical solutions for the design of automated information systems that allow automating the management of municipal programs. Description of technical solutions is the content of the approach to the design of software equipment used in making managerial decisions by the...

Studies have been carried out and methods have been proposed to increase the competitiveness of IT companies by improving the quality of their state analysis taking into account stochastic indicators. Growth conditions may provide mergers and acquisitions (M&A). One of the important components...