scholarly journals Risk Management and Organizational Considerations for Enhancing Safety State Given the Continuous Technological Development Processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 257-262
Author(s):  
Valentin Marian IORDACHE ◽  
Sorin Eugen ZAHARIA ◽  
Casandra Venera PIETREANU
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
High Performance ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Organizational Management ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Risk Levels ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Development Processes

Decision-making processes within aeronautical organizations are becoming increasingly challenging not only because of social, economic or flight planning threats, but also because of the need to properly implement new technologies that may require different approaches to allow a high performance operational state in air transport. The paper outlines the organizational management improvements in the complex and dynamic operational environment and analyzes the decision-making processes related to different risk levels which require a strong commitment from organizational management in the context of operational objectives. The authors also analyze the implementation of new technologies that affect the processes carried out within the organization and propose ways to adapt organizational management in order to control safety processes. The authors also analyze the implementation of new technologies that the processes carried out within the organization and propose ways organizational management security processes.

Evolution of e-participation in Greek local government

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Constantina Costopoulou ◽  
Maria Ntaliani ◽  
Filotheos Ntalianis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Community ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Impact

Local governments are increasingly developing electronic participation initiatives, expecting citizen involvement in local community affairs. Our objective was to assess e-participation and the extent of its change in local government in Greece. Using content analysis for 325 Greek municipal websites, we assessed e-participation status in 2017 and 2018 and examined the impact of change between these years. The assessment regards two consecutive years since the adoption of digital technologies by municipalities has been rapid. The main findings show that Greek local governments have made significant small- to medium-scale changes, in order to engage citizens and local societies electronically. We conclude that the integration of advanced digital technologies in municipalities remains underdeveloped. We propose that Greek municipalities need to consider incorporating new technologies, such as mobile apps, social media and big data, as well as e-decision making processes, in order to eliminate those obstacles that hinder citizen engagement in local government. Moreover, the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the need for enhancing e-participation and policymakers’ coordination through advanced digital technologies.

Creating Superior Knowledge Discovery Solutions

2011 ◽  
pp. 795-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Knowledge Discovery ◽  
High Performance ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Competitive Edge

The information age has made information communication technology (ICT) a necessity for conducting business. This in turn has led to the exponential increase in the electronic capture of data and its storage in vast data warehouses. In order to respond quickly to fast changing markets, organizations must maximize these raw data and information resources. Specifically, they need to transform them into germane knowledge to aid superior decision-making (Wickramasinghe & von Lubitz, 2006). To do this effectively not only involves the analysis of the data and information but also requires the use of sophisticated tools to enable such analyses to occur. Knowledge discovery technologies represent a spectrum of new technologies that facilitate the analysis of data to find relationships from the data to finding reasons behind observable patterns (i.e., transform the data into relevant information and germane knowledge). Such new discoveries can have a profound impact on decision making in general and the designing of business strategies. With the massive increase in data being collected and the demands of a new breed of intelligent applications like customer relationship management, demand planning, and predictive forecasting, these knowledge discovery technologies are becoming competitive necessities for providing a high performance and feature rich intelligent application servers for intelligent enterprises. Knowledge management (KM) tools and technologies are the systems that integrate various legacy systems, databases, ERP systems, and data warehouse to help facilitate an organization’s knowledge discovery process. Integrating all of these with advanced decision support and online real time events enables an organization to understand customers better and devise business strategies accordingly. Creating a competitive edge is the goal of all organizations employing knowledge discovery for decision support (Thorne & Smith, 2000). The following provides a synopsis of the major tools and critical considerations required to enable an organization to successfully effect appropriate knowledge sharing, knowledge distribution, knowledge creation, as well as knowledge capture and codification processes and hence embrace effective knowledge management (KM) techniques and advanced knowledge discovery.

scholarly journals Electrifying Times: restructuring and decision-making in an automobile concern in the 21st century – The case of BMW Group

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-135
Author(s):  
Martin Haider
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
Line Production ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Framework Conditions ◽  
Electro Mobility

The aim of this paper is to capture the changed location decision-making processes and location factors of the automotive industry, resulting from the current challenges brought by electro mobility. From the Taylorist assembly-line production system in the “Fordism” era to the just-in-time focused manufacturing of the Japanese carmakers during “post-Fordism” and at the turn of the millennium with global production and new technologies in the digital age, location analysis has changed massively over time. The same is to be expected for the fourth revolution in the industry. For this reason, the decision-making process of a major German car manufacturer is analysed in a field study conducted over a two-year period. Based on this, a decision process that takes the new framework conditions into account is modelled. The relevant location factors are then examined in a survey of the relevant departments in the BMW Group. Due to the changed production requirements in the course of the electrification, the uncertainty in the technological change and the unstable political trading conditions, the factors: network suitability, risk exposure, optimal sunk cost usage and sustainability play central roles. Before the latest economic crisis, the industry was focused on exploiting opportunities and expanding the production network. This tendency now seems to be transformed by a volatile technological future and by cost pressure. This means that ‘sustainability’ is increasingly important in automobile industry decision-making, but in specific ways.

scholarly journals Formation of the System for Monitoring the Efficiency of Regional Tourist-Recreational Services

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Rubtsova
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Functional Model ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Information Base ◽  
Regional Tourism ◽  
Regional Area ◽  
Recreational Services ◽  
Decision Making Processes

The system for monitoring the efficiency of regional tourist and recreational services in Russia has not fully been formed yet; it is rather fragmented and represents only accounting and analytical parts. At the same time, monitoring the effectiveness of regional tourism and recreation sector is necessary to improve management and decision-making processes by the coordinating structures. It can also be used as a tool to monitor implementation of the programs and strategies for the development of regional tourist industries. The article presents a unique adaptive-functional model of the system for monitoring the effectiveness of regional tourist and recreational services and defines the structural elements and the information base. The proposed monitoring system is based on the use of methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of tourism activities which involves evaluating the effectiveness of three aspects: social, economic and networking in the regional area of tourist and recreational services.

IoT for Hospitality Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 1388-1408
Author(s):  
Asim Sinan Yuksel ◽  
Ibrahim Arda Cankaya ◽  
Sadi Fuat Cankaya
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Creating and updating meal tags, printing them on small-sized papers raise the costs, cause workload and affect the service quality negatively at the hotels with all-you-can-eat buffet system. Over the last few years, we have seen that many hotels started to make use of tablets to improve the service quality, decrease the costs, provide customers ability to order foods, make reservations, manage their rooms, etc. Going paperless and including more features by adopting new technologies increase the quality of service, help customer's and staff's decision-making processes more effective, improve customer and service personnel experience. In this chapter, authors designed and developed a flexible, cost effective, easy-to-use, customer-friendly and staff oriented paperless buffet management system for the restaurants that have all-you-can-eat buffet. Through this system, they aimed to achieve enhanced customer service, increased efficiency and customer satisfaction; save time, paper and printing costs; provide environmental benefits and efficient buffet management.

Using KMS as a Tool to Improve Decision Making Process

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rawan Khasawneh ◽  
Emad Abu-Shanab
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Sustained Competitive Advantage ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Right ◽  
Future Work

Knowledge plays a central role in the decision making process, and it provides a better foundation for managers to make high quality decisions. On the other hand, having the right knowledge at the right time to make the right decision is becoming a competitive weapon utilized by organizations to achieve sustained competitive advantage and other strategic goals. Based on that, it is important for organizations to manage their knowledge (organization intellectual asset) in a more effective and efficient way in order to gain such benefits. This chapter explores knowledge management and decision-making processes and its general concepts, reviews several conceptual frameworks of knowledge management that affect the decision making process proposed in the literature, and demonstrates several knowledge-management practices in software development processes. Conclusions and proposed future work are stated at the end of the chapter.

scholarly journals The Birth of the CrowdLaw Movement: Tech-Based Citizen Participation, Legitimacy and the Quality of Lawmaking

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victòria Alsina ◽  
José Luis Martí
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Exact Role ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Public Decision ◽  
Public Decision Making

Abstract One of the most urgent debates of our time is about the exact role that new technologies can and should play in our societies and particularly in our public decision-making processes. This paper is a first attempt to introduce the idea of CrowdLaw, defined as online public participation leveraging new technologies to tap into diverse sources of information, judgments and expertise at each stage of the law and policymaking cycle to improve the quality as well as the legitimacy of the resulting laws and policies. First, we explain why CrowdLaw differs from many previous forms of political participation. Second,we reproduce and explain the CrowdLaw Manifesto that the rising CrowdLaw community has elaborated to foster such approaches around the world. Lastly, we introduce some preliminary considerations on the notions of justice, legitimacy and quality of lawmaking and public decision-making, which are central to the idea of CrowdLaw.

scholarly journals Impact of Industry 4.0 on decision-making in an operational context

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 500-514
Author(s):  
F. Rosin ◽  
P. Forget ◽  
S. Lamouri ◽  
R. Pellerin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Process Improvements ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Operational Systems ◽  
Decision Making Processes

The implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies suggests significant impacts on production systems productivity and decision-making process improvements. However, many manufacturers have difficulty determining to what extent these various technologies can reinforce the autonomy of teams and operational systems. This article addresses this issue by proposing a model describing different types of autonomy and the contribution of 4.0 technologies in the various steps of the decision-making processes. The model was confronted with a set of application cases from the literature. It emerges that new technologies' improvements are significant from a decision-making point of view and may eventually favor implementing new modes of autonomy. Decision-makers can rely on the proposed model to better understand the opportunities linked to the fusion of cybernetic, physical, and social spaces made possible by Industry 4.0.

scholarly journals AGRICULTURE 4.0

Quaestum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
João Guilherme Araujo Schimidt ◽  
Isabela Romanha de Alcantara ◽  
Carlos Eduardo de Freitas Vian ◽  
Guilherme Belardo
Keyword(s):  
Technology Diffusion ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Concept Development ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Successful Case

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has stimulated the development of new technologies and techniques that are changing the global production system. The objective of this paper is to analyze the stream of innovation of Agriculture 4.0, such as its origin, features and consequences. Agriculture 4.0 is a digital model of agricultural production guided by high-performance manufacturing and is a result of a long historical process of technological development. The innovation in the agricultural sector in Brazil is essential to the maintenance of its competitiveness. However, the 4.0 concept of production is still a challenge the country needs to overcome. Agtech startups are working as a solution for technology diffusion. The Piracicaba Valley Agtech, in the state of São Paulo, is a successful case of Agriculture 4.0 concept development.

scholarly journals Training, development, and innovation - For a poetics of deviation

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Idália Sá-Chaves
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
System Thinking ◽  
Human Values ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Training Development ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Competencies Development ◽  
Innovation And Development

Considering, as main reference, Donald Schön’s proposal (1983, 1987) on reflective professionals’ training, and on action competencies development adjusted to solving problems in dynamic and uncertain contexts and volatile circumstances, we intend, in this letter, to resume the reflection on system thinking, considering that its singular design, by the non-standard nature that characterizes it, constitutes the foundation of innovation and development processes. Taking into account the difficulties that resistance to change necessarily brings to the training processes, we also reconvene, on the thread of history, the concept of deviation, by means of an epistemic and (multi)referential examination of the importance of divergence, in its contours, contributions and boundaries, as a vital way to refresh and reinvent perceptions, knowledge and meanings. We highlight the possibility of choice within decision-making processes, understanding it not only as a means to escape from mimetic repetition, but also as an outlet to the uncertain, the unpredictable, and the novel. That is, we intend to reflect on the nature of the creative act as poiesis, in its deep and seductive relation with the creator’s emancipation, the ethics underlying a compromise with human values, the aesthetics of adventure, and the appeal of the open work.

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