Seaports are an integral component of the marine transportation system; one that provides the vital link between producers and consumers, importers and exporters and military logisticians and deployed forces. Ports are often a leading catalyst and engine for regional economic growth and...

The strategic planning serves a variety of purposes in organizations, and it can be properly considered vital for the competitive and also rapidly shifting atmosphere and because of innovation in a scope of paradigm. The word "strategy" is conceptually neutral and carries a high potential to be...

The article examines the nature, role and place of the concept of business enterprise architecture and its relationship with strategic management of modern company. Based on in-depth critical analysis of the leading views on business architecture, the author gives his definition of business...

Senior managers formulate strategy to maximize shareholder value; supply chain planners run optimization models to minimize costs. Combining scenario planning with supply-chain planning achieves the best of both worlds, which leads to long-term competitive advantage

This paper proposes a knowledge-based customer-centric strategic model to respond to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) in the supply chain management (SCM) context. The proposed model strives to leverage knowledge-based distinctive core competencies...

"Die traditionelle Budgetsteuerung ist überholt und verursacht mehr Schaden als Nutzen. Die klassische Budgetsteuerung ist zu zeitaufwändig, zu unflexibel, zu bürokratisch und verhindert heute die Nutzung des vollen Potentials eines Unternehmens". [Daum, H./2006]. Trotz dieser These findet...