Search Results - subject:"Resource allocation."

Promoting requirement identification quality : Enhancing the human interaction dimension

Al‐Karaghouli, W.; Alshawi, S.; Fitzgerald, G. - In: Journal of Enterprise Information Management 18 (2005) 2, pp. 256-267

Purpose – Reflects on experiences when traditional IT approaches were used to design large IT systems and ended in failure. Design/methodology/approach – The requirements‐gathering process is usually a very complex affair and can represent a major obstacle to successful system development....

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From breakthrough to value creation : Mastering profitable discovery

McKinnon, Robert; Gowland, Chris; Worzel, Ken - In: Strategy & Leadership 33 (2005) 3, pp. 17-23

Purpose – This article introduces a three‐part approach to improving the results of discovery programs. Design/methodology/approach – The authors studied successful R&D programs to determine the right elements of a process for discovery‐based innovation that improved the commercial focus...

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HOW DOES STRATEGY PROCESS INFLUENCE STRATEGY CONTENT? ANTECEDENTS OF CONSISTENCY BETWEEN RESOURCE ALLOCATION DECISIONS AND CORPORATE STRATEGY

Richter, Ansgar; Schmidt, Sascha L. - In: Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) 57 (2005) 4, pp. 332-350

-making processes as antecedents of consistency between corporate strategy concept and individual resource allocation decisions. Our … using data on 493 resource allocation decisions, and applying maximum likelihood ordered logit estimation. Our results … indicate that factors specific to individual resource allocation decisions are far more important for their consistency with …

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Scalability and robustness of a network resource allocation system using market-based agents

Haque, Nadim; Jennings, Nicholas; Moreau, Luc - In: Netnomics 7 (2005) 2, pp. 69-96

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Importance-performance analysis of UK and US bank customer perceptions of service delivery technologies

Joseph, Mathew; Allbright, David; Stone, George; … - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 1 (2005) 1, pp. 66-88

Importance-performance analysis is utilised to compare the perceptions held by bank customers regarding selected service delivery technologies (SDTs) such as automated teller machines (ATMs), telephone banking and internet banking. Bank patrons in the United Kingdom and the United States are...

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Pupil Achievement, School Resources and Family Background

Hægeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

. We find clear evidence of compensating resource allocation and teacher sorting as well as relative setting of marks. …

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Allocating a Promotion Budget between Advertising and Sales Contest Prizes: An Integrated Marketing Communications Perspective

Murthy, Pushkar; Mantrala, Murali - In: Marketing Letters 16 (2005) 1, pp. 19-35

This paper develops and analyzes a normative model for allocating a fixed, short-term promotion budget between product advertising and prizes of a rank-order sales contest for a homogeneous sales force when sales are driven by both personal selling effort and advertising. The model provides...

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Production with an assembly line process

Neill, Jon - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 14 (2005) 3, pp. 173-187

serves to further explicate the role of management in allocating resources, and the effect of technical progress on resource … allocation and market structure. …

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Priority setting in hospitals: Fairness, inclusiveness, and the problem of institutional power differences

Gibson, Jennifer L.; Martin, Douglas K.; Singer, Peter A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 61 (2005) 11, pp. 2355-2362

Priority setting tends to take place in health care settings that are hierarchical and politically complex. Fair processes, as defined for example by Daniels' and Sabin's accountability for reasonableness framework, have been identified as essential for securing socially acceptable priority...

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The Development of A County Level Index Of Well-Being

Bobbitt, Linda; Green, Sheridan; Candura, Leanne; … - In: Social Indicators Research 73 (2005) 1, pp. 19-42

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