SmartOps Corporation: Forging Smart Alliances?

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Ronald T. Wilcox ◽  
Gerry Yemen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Software Industry ◽  
Enterprise Software ◽  
Significant Control ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Company

“After creating a market for his “new to the world” product and a significant partnership with the German-based SAP, Sridhar Tayur had an opportunity to take the partnership with SAP to another level by establishing a reseller arrangement, available to only a dozen or so of SAP's elite partners—widely considered in the enterprise software industry as a dream come true for technology entrepreneurs. Suitable for use in MBA, EMBA, and GEMBA programs, this case offers the opportunity to focus decision making on several key marketing and sales issues. Should Tayur sign a deal with SAP, thereby handing significant control of the messaging and positioning of SmartOps to a global giant? How reliant on SAP did he really want to get? Would signing the deal make losing control of his company more likely and alienate prospects who were not fans of SAP? What would not doing the deal mean for the relationship with SAP? Would SAP go down the reseller route with a competitor? What exactly was a good reseller contract, and was it possible for a company as small as SmartOps to make the agreement a win-win?”

scholarly journals The formation of the narrative and the performative in public communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. V. Gerasimov
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Generic Concept ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
British Philosopher ◽  
John Austin

Since the British philosopher John Austin, narratives and performatives have been con­sidered as opposite concepts covered by the generic concept of speech act. At the same time, these concepts were separated according to whether a narrative, inducement, a description, or an imperative was present in the text. Similar to the narrative, the performative is created under pressure from various external factors associated with the system of public communica­tions, to which the author is exposed, and a multitude of reasons that reflect in his or her mind external processes. All these factors and influences transmute in the course of text crea­tion; the viewer/reader consumes ready-made information, which invariably bears an imprint of the author's habitus. When creating a text, the author conveys his or her desires and ex­presses his or her attitude to the chosen problem. This study aims to answers two questions. Can a narrative have at its core an explicit manipulative basis or a hidden motive? Can the picture of the world, which develops, inter alia, under the influence of narratives, serve as a pattern for decision-making by the viewer/reader? It is necessary to this end to identify the relationship between the performative and the narrative (there are several types of these rela­tionships). To answer the above question, the genesis of narratives is considered, possible nar­rative–performative combinations analysed, and the effects of performatives on the formation of the intentional component of the narrative established. The findings suggest that each nar­rative contains at least one performative and that the narrative is based on the performative and contains a manipulative component.

Continuous Improvement Relationship to Risk Management

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J. Galli
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Competitive Market ◽  
Developing Strategy ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Company

In order for a company to economically survive, it needs to compete with a highly competitive market. The world is changing fast, adding different types of risks to companies. So, companies need to not only meet requirements but also exceed them. At the same time, companies are required to lower the level of risks they may encounter. As a result, continuous improvement and risk management should be key factors to insure company success. This study explores the relationship between the two concepts and gives examples where the interconnections between them exist. Also, the study explains the important key components of continuous improvement and the classifications of risk management. Finally, this article focuses on three aspects, managing complaints, developing strategy, and creating a suitable culture. These aspects are evaluated based on the relationship between continuous improvement and risk management.

scholarly journals Analisis Cost-Volume-Profit untuk Perencanaan Laba pada UD. Budi Luhur Demak

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Erawati Kartika ◽  
Puji Setya Sunarka
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sales Volume ◽  
Fixed Costs ◽  
Profit Analysis ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Company ◽  
Descriptive Method

Profit is one indicator in evaluating the performance of a company. To achieve the required profit, good profit planning is needed. Because with the existence of better profit planning, the company in controlling costs will be more directed. Cost-volume-profit analysis (cost-volume-profit) is a very necessary compilation of companies wanting to do profit planning and decision making related to the relationship between costs, sales volume and prices. The purpose of this study was to study how cost-volume-profit in 2015-2016 can be used for income in 2016 at UD. Budi Luhur Demak. The method used was descriptive method. The results of this study indicated that cost-volume-profit analysis from 2015-2016 at UD. Budi Luhur increased profits while sales volume decreased and fixed costs increased. Through this cost-volume-profit analysis, it can be predicted the minimum number of sales that must be achieved to obtain agreed profits in 2016. It is better if company management can apply cost-volume-profit analysis in the profitability.

scholarly journals New Managerial Paradigm: Manager–Stakeholder Instead of Manager–Employee

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-223
Author(s):  
Ovidiu Nicolescu ◽  
Ciprian Nicolescu
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
The World ◽  
Present Context ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Company

Abstract This paper aims to propose a change of the management paradigm by placing in the foreground the relationship between manager and stakeholder instead of the manager–subordinate relationship. The new managerial paradigm comes as a result of the wide-ranging mutations that have taken place in recent decades at the level of societies, economies and organizations around the world, which have forced the change of traditional managerial approaches. The work emphasizes why is necessary and possible to change the management paradigm in the present context, taking into consideration managerial and organizational arguments, that are based on observations, suggestions and recommendations of numerous specialists. Also, there are highlighted the quantitative and the qualitative differences between managerial paradigm focused on stakeholders and classical managerial paradigm of manager–employee, as well as the main advantages of a company stakeholder-based management system.

Effects of Cross-border Merger and Acquisition on the Operational Risk of US and Canadian Companies

2020 ◽  
pp. 097215091989509
Author(s):  
Bruno Lopes de Paula ◽  
Daiana Paula Pimenta ◽  
Ricardo Limongi França Coelho ◽  
Jaluza Maria Lima Silva Borsatto ◽  
Rafael Manoel de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Mergers And Acquisitions ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Operational Risk ◽  
Merger And Acquisition ◽  
Emerging Countries ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

The integration of the world economies is responsible for an increase in the number of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), together with the growing participation of companies from emerging countries in this type of investment. However, the area studies focus their analyses on the determinants, antecedents and profitability of the companies, leaving the effects of this type of business on the operational risk of the companies involved as a gap to be explored. To fill it, we used panel data regressions to identify the relationship between cross-border M&A and the operational risk of companies. The results indicate that acquiring companies based in emerging economies are the ones that suffer the most significant impacts on this type of business. As the implication, this study serves as a basis for the decision-making of the managers of the acquiring companies, being able to identify the risks of this activity and the ways of preventing them.

scholarly journals Providing expert scientific advice on the Antarctic environment

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.W.H. Walton
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Scientific Advice ◽  
Politics And Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Antarctic Treaty ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Antarctic Environment

It is hard to divorce most human activities, including science, completely from politics. Politics is about perceived certainty whilst science is about doubt – they make strange bedfellows. Politicians detest probabilities whilst scientists abhor the absolute. Nowhere is the relationship between politics and science more publicly developed than in the Antarctic Treaty System. In the only continent devoted to peace and science it might be supposed that, after more than thirty years, the role of science would be both more robust and more pivotal in decision-making than elsewhere in the world. So it appears at present but will it remain so?

Perception from Action

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-82
Author(s):  
György Buzsáki
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sensory Input ◽  
Perception And Action ◽  
Physiological Mechanism ◽  
Corollary Discharge ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Brain

The outside-in framework inevitably poses the question: What comes between perception and action? The homunculus with its decision-making power produces unavoidable logical consequences from the separation of perception from action. I promote the alternative view that things and events in the world can acquire meaning only through brain-initiated actions. In this process, the brain builds a simplified, customized model of the world by encoding the relationships of events to each other. I introduce the concept of “corollary discharge,” the main physiological mechanism that grounds the sensory input to make it an experience. This is a comparator mechanism that allows the brain to examine the relationship between a true change in the sensory input and a change due to self-initiated movement of the sensors.

Decision-making under Risk: Evidence from the Hindi Movie Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soham Ghosh ◽  
Abhishek Paul ◽  
Megha Sharma ◽  
Sumanta Basu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Movie Industry ◽  
Decision Making Under Risk ◽  
Input And Output ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Despite being the largest producer of movies in the world, Bollywood—the Hindi movie industry—is underresearched. In this article, we first identify the factors that make this industry unique in such a way that research conducted in the context of any other film industry may not be applicable in Bollywood. Using a mix of primary and secondary data, we provide insights into the relationship between various input and output variables. We also identify the major determinants of the satellite right price of a movie and statistically show why the current determinants are far from optimal. We also propose better factors for determining the satellite right price.

Continuous Improvement Relationship to Risk Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 697-712
Author(s):  
Brian J. Galli
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Competitive Market ◽  
Developing Strategy ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Company

In order for a company to economically survive, it needs to compete with a highly competitive market. The world is changing fast, adding different types of risks to companies. So, companies need to not only meet requirements but also exceed them. At the same time, companies are required to lower the level of risks they may encounter. As a result, continuous improvement and risk management should be key factors to insure company success. This study explores the relationship between the two concepts and gives examples where the interconnections between them exist. Also, the study explains the important key components of continuous improvement and the classifications of risk management. Finally, this article focuses on three aspects, managing complaints, developing strategy, and creating a suitable culture. These aspects are evaluated based on the relationship between continuous improvement and risk management.

scholarly journals Steven Blockmans and Sophia Russack (eds.): Representative Democracy in the EU: Recovering Legitimacy.

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
Vanessa Horler
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
National Level ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
Parliamentary Democracy ◽  
National Parliaments ◽  
Member States ◽  
The World ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Eu

Representative democracy is beset by a crisis of legitimacy across the world, but in Europe this crisis is compounded by the inadequacy of national governments to address citizens’ frustrations and to achieve transnational unity on common issues. How representative are national parliaments in their decision-making on EU matters? This volume investigates the relationship between the democratic institutions of the member states and those of the EU. With a focus on polity rather than policy, it looks at voting and decision-shaping mechanisms in selected member states, in particular the ‘Europeanisation’ of representative democracy at national level. It also assesses the state of parliamentary democracy at the EU level. Expert analysts share their insights into the changing nature of our political eco-systems and the (dis)connections within and between them.

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