Environmental requirements for furniture industry: the case study of Brazilian Southeast industry

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 1013-1029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila Santos Doubek Lopes ◽  
Patrícia Silva de Azevedo
Author(s):  
A. Toit

This chapter explains how to translate an organization’s strategic aims into key intelligence needs (KINs) and how to prioritize and categorize the needs. It argues that an essential aspect for any competitive intelligence (CI) professional is to gain the confidence of management to determine what information about the environment should be collected in order to produce intelligence. Furthermore the author hope that understanding how to determine a set of KINs as derived from an organization’s vision, mission, and strategic objectives and how to break down KINs into general and specific KINs will assist CI professionals to understand what their internal customers want to know about, need to know about and should know about and why, when they need to know it, and who needs to know it by identifying KINs. The application of KINs in a practical situation is illustrated in a case study of a South African company in the furniture industry.


2015 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 308-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.R. Iritani ◽  
D.A.L. Silva ◽  
Y.M.B. Saavedra ◽  
P.F.F. Grael ◽  
A.R. Ometto

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 320-326
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Midor ◽  
Aleksandra Kuzior ◽  
Grażyna Płaza ◽  
Michał Molenda ◽  
Dariusz Krawczyk

Abstract A city based on the sustainable development priorities, friendly to its residents, combines human activity, technology challenges, and environmental requirements. The implementation of the idea of smart city should be discussed with regard to specific areas of activity. In order to identify the way of perceiving the activity conducted under this concept, a survey was carried out among employees of the City Office in Zabrze. The cognitive, competence and informational scope was verified. It was found that the overwhelming majority of officials (79%) are convinced that smart city principles are being implemented. The survey participants also provided specific examples of smart-city initiatives undertaken in the city, and a significant part of the respondents (64%) assigned their professional tasks to them. Moreover, three out of four surveyed officials in Zabrze declared that they know the tools supporting the smart urban development. The results presented in the article constitute pilot studies aimed at understanding the extent to which the Smart City idea is known by local government administration employees. In addition, these results serve as a tool for the authorities of Zabrze to disseminate knowledge about smart city among employees of the city hall.


2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 863-874
Author(s):  
António Pires ◽  
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Paulo Ávila ◽  
Goran Putnik ◽  
Leonilde Varela ◽  
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