The Role of Culture in Business Intelligence

Author(s):  
Jore Park ◽  
Wylci Fables ◽  
Kevin R. Parker ◽  
Philip S. Nitse

Global business intelligence will struggle to live up to its potential if it fails to take into account, and accurately interpret, cultural differences. This paper supports this assertion by considering the concept of culture, explaining its importance in the business intelligence process, especially in foreign markets, and demonstrating that attention to culture is currently inadequate in most international business intelligence efforts. Without a tool capable of modeling social interaction in disparate cultures, BI efforts will under perform when extended to the global arena. The Cultural Simulation Modeler is examined as a means of enhancing essential cultural awareness. The core components of the modeler are explained, as are the limitations of automated information gathering and analysis systems.

2011 ◽  
pp. 1933-1947
Author(s):  
Jore Park ◽  
Wylci Fables ◽  
Kevin R. Parker ◽  
Philip S. Nitse

Global business intelligence will struggle to live up to its potential if it fails to take into account, and accurately interpret, cultural differences. This paper supports this assertion by considering the concept of culture, explaining its importance in the business intelligence process, especially in foreign markets, and demonstrating that attention to culture is currently inadequate in most international business intelligence efforts. Without a tool capable of modeling social interaction in disparate cultures, BI efforts will under perform when extended to the global arena. The Cultural Simulation Modeler is examined as a means of enhancing essential cultural awareness. The core components of the modeler are explained, as are the limitations of automated information gathering and analysis systems.


2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jore Park ◽  
Wylci Fables ◽  
Kevin R. Parker ◽  
Philip S. Nitse

Global business intelligence will struggle to live up to its potential if it fails to take into account, and accurately interpret, cultural differences. This paper supports this assertion by considering the concept of culture, explaining its importance in the business intelligence process, especially in foreign markets, and demonstrating that attention to culture is currently inadequate in most international business intelligence efforts. Without a tool capable of modeling social interaction in disparate cultures, BI efforts will under perform when extended to the global arena. The Cultural Simulation Modeler is examined as a means of enhancing essential cultural awareness. The core components of the modeler are explained, as are the limitations of automated information gathering and analysis systems.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 477-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea K.H. Stavoe ◽  
Erika L.F. Holzbaur

Autophagy is the major cellular pathway to degrade dysfunctional organelles and protein aggregates. Autophagy is particularly important in neurons, which are terminally differentiated cells that must last the lifetime of the organism. There are both constitutive and stress-induced pathways for autophagy in neurons, which catalyze the turnover of aged or damaged mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, other cellular organelles, and aggregated proteins. These pathways are required in neurodevelopment as well as in the maintenance of neuronal homeostasis. Here we review the core components of the pathway for autophagosome biogenesis, as well as the cell biology of bulk and selective autophagy in neurons. Finally, we discuss the role of autophagy in neuronal development, homeostasis, and aging and the links between deficits in autophagy and neurodegeneration.


Author(s):  
S. Maguire

The main aim of this chapter is to identify the important role of business intelligence in today’s global business environment and to reveal organizations’ understanding of business intelligence and how they plan to use it for gaining competitive advantage. Increases in business volatility and competitive pressures have led to organizations throughout the world facing unprecedented challenges to remain competitive and striving to achieve a position of competitive advantage. The importance of business intelligence (BI) to their continued success should not be underestimated. With BI, companies can quickly identify market opportunities and take advantage of them in a fast and effective manner. The aim of this chapter is to identify the important role of BI and to understand and describe its applications in areas such as corporate performance management, customer relationship management and supply chain management. The study was conducted in two companies that use BI in their daily operations. Data were collected through questionnaires, personal interviews, and observations. The study identified that external data sources are becoming increasingly important in the information equation as the external business environment can define an organization’s success or failure by their ability to effectively disseminate this plethora of potential intelligence.


2020 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 02001
Author(s):  
Yuliia Lazarenko ◽  
Olga Garafonova ◽  
Vyktoriia Marhasova ◽  
Nataliia Tkalenko ◽  
Svetlana Grigashkina

The paper is aimed to provide a deeper understanding of the core components of the local innovation ecosystem in the mining industry, including the role of the main actors related to the development and commercialization of innovation in the sector, such as mining operators, technology suppliers and service providers, research and development institutions, local communities, governments and policymakers. As a result of the study, a set of recommendations is presented which focused on the strategic directions that should be taken into consideration in order to develop an effective and efficient local innovation ecosystem and enhance the level and quality of innovation in the industry.


2021 ◽  
pp. e021028
Author(s):  
Lilia V. Moiseenko ◽  
Natalia F. Mikheeva

The present study is important since precedent phenomena, transmitting both traditional and newly created cultural values, are more widely represented in the mass media language. The paper suggests a cognitive approach aimed at identifying the role of knowledge (linguistic, non-linguistic, individual) in forming the precedent unit meaning, being the primary object of research in cognitive science. Examples of universal precedent names (Napoleon, Cinderella, Don Quixote, Adam) suggest that they store culturally valued (thematized) and implicit knowledge shared by communicants. Studying the binary structures (designator/designatum) of a concept defines the development dynamics of the precedent name’s meaning, relevant changes in structure of the core components of meaning, desemantization of the precedent name. Different Russian and Spanish interpretations show that prevailing content varies, and the language meaning of an invariant of universal precedent names reflects not the reality as such but the cognitive structures of a linguistic identity of a particular society.


Author(s):  
Manuel Denner

In Jason Inch’s TED talk on Future Globalization is advising that companies need to understand their consumer base in a rapidly changing global business environment. It is clear for everybody that globalization plays one role in this change; however, there are a few variables that are forming the term of globalization, such as mass migration, geopolitical orientation, the Internet and its way of easing communication. Knowledge about cultural differences is a crucial thing and even more important than it was ever before. Therefore corporations are obliged to also take economic and political variables into account if they want to target t heir respective audience. Moreover, Inch says that companies should be ensured that cultural understanding needs to be trained as well as languages, knowledge about religion, values and “most importantly” about the culinary delights in a given country. Nowadays, it is about transcreating and not about translating when it comes to doing business on an international basis. “Transcreating” is important because of the fact that we are now living in an interconnected world where only translating would not be effective, you have to make things understandable for everybody. Inch also stipulates that cultural awareness is determining success or failure in today’s world. People should build bridges by having that kind of knowledge and not being afraid and run away be cause they have a lack in intercultural communication. In my opinion, Inch is right in what he is saying; everybody nowadays needs to have intercultural knowledge to drive business forward. It is not only a good asset to have intercultural knowledge; it is a necessity to have it.


2019 ◽  
pp. 121-143
Author(s):  
Riccardo Resciniti ◽  
Federica De Vanna

The rise of e-commerce has brought considerable changes to the relationship between firms and consumers, especially within international business. Hence, understanding the use of such means for entering foreign markets has become critical for companies. However, the research on this issue is new and so it is important to evaluate what has been studied in the past. In this study, we conduct a systematic review of e-commerce and internationalisation studies to explicate how firms use e-commerce to enter new markets and to export. The studies are classified by theories and methods used in the literature. Moreover, we draw upon the internationalisation decision process (antecedents-modalities-consequences) to propose an integrative framework for understanding the role of e-commerce in internationalisation


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