Strategic change, infused with new data, perspectives and concepts may change the inherent meaning of the central tenets in an existing strategy. It taps into the cognitive aspects of a journey where language, in verbal and written form, aids in the process of communicating, understanding and...

Kürzere Produktlebenszyklen zwingen Unternehmen dazu notwendige Produktionssysteme in immer kürzeren Abständen neu zu planen oder anzupassen. Grundlegende Entscheidungen über den Aufbau des Produktionssystems werden bereits in der Konzipierungsphase festgelegt. Anhand des vorliegenden...

This paper describes a method and system for quantifying the variances in the semantics and syntax of electronic transactions exchanged between business counterparties. ContextMetrics enables (a) dynamic transformations of outbound and inbound transactions needed to effect...

The adoption of social networks has introduced a new set of components for the e-commerce environment. Fisher (Fisher, 2010) divides these components into six categories. In this article, we try to identify and discuss the different dimensions and items for each stage of the procurement process...

One potential disadvantage of social tagging systems is that due to the lack of a centralized vocabulary users may never manage to reach a consensus on the description of the entities (e.g., books, user or songs) in the system. Yet, previous research has provided interesting evidence that the...

Network and graph model is a good alternative to analyze huge collective textual data for the ability to reduce the dimensionality of the data. Texts can be seen as syntactic and semantic network among words and phrases seen as concepts. The model is implemented to observe the proposals of...