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Management of Automotive Business Teams and Product Evolution
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Stephan Volker, Gabriela ProsteanAbstractIn general, Risk-Assessments or discussions about sustainable development of a product have mostly a pure technical focus, in order to secure the factors of time, cost, quality, functionality and market acceptance. This paper will review the significance that at the start of the project life cycle, it is of vital importance to also consider the maintainability or evolution of the initial product-mission in order to secure the success of the product. Planned evolution and maintenance of a pr...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Business Innovation Activity in Romania: The Main Trends and Weaknesses
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Mihaela Diaconu, Adrian VilcuAbstractInnovation is vital for each country's economic growth. This paper comprises an analysis of the main indicators that characterize innovation activity in Romanian firms. Improving our knowledge of firms’ activities in aspects associated with their behavior related to innovation is important for monitoring the strengths and weaknesses of the national innovation systems. Our study on Romanian firms is based entirely on the published data by Eurostat (the Commission Innovation Survey - CIS), whic...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Towards Innovation and Development in Ergonomic Design: Insights from a Literature Review
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Edwin Tytyk, Beata MrugalskaAbstractThe paper examines the characteristics of changes that are intentionally introduced by humans into their living environment. It shows that technical and organizational changes without taking into account human factors criteria - and thus also ergonomic criteria - are the source of many losses. Moreover, the paper contains a discussion of the sequence of actions that lead to relevant changes in the existing reality. It also illustrates innovative engineering applications in the field of ergonomi...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Value Chain Management Through Cloud-based Platforms
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Joanna Dehmer, Jörg NiemannAbstractThe transformation of traditional value chain processes towards a digital value chain management enables companies to sustainably establish and retain a competitive market position. Digitisation offers the opportunity to design and operate expansive process chains with efficient process operations via co-operative platforms. Increased customer loyalty („lock-in”) via integrated measures at the front-end raises utilization and planning certainty for the technological recovery systems. (Source...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Knowledge Management – The Foundation for a Successful Business Process Management
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Daniel Paschek, Larisa Ivascu, Anca DraghiciAbstractIn today's dynamic business environment, organizations need up-to-date knowledge to execute their business in the best way. Through the ongoing digitalization and linked communities, companies and businesses, changing parameters as well as varying business framework conditions must be analyzed fast as possible to optimize the processes and gain the best direction for the own company. Therefore, organization use Business Process Management (BPM) to model and manage the existing pr...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Smart Services
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Stöhr Carsten, Janssen Monika, Niemann Jörg, Reich BenediktAbstractIndustry 4.0, Smart Products, Smart Data – But what do we make out of it now? In the past years, intelligent systems and products were developed. They are connected to each other and react rapidly to specific situations. Thus, they produce a huge amount of data. In order to collect those data, a software is provided which visualizes it. Beyond that, a software which is able to analyze the data in order to improve performances and systems exists. Today the point...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Knowledge Management Approach for Ergonomics Implementation within Organizations
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Maria – Elena Boatca, Anca Draghici, Nicoleta CarutasuAbstractThe current economic and social environment suffered major changes in the last years, mainly driven by technological and cultural innovations and trends. One of the most interesting changes is the development of knowledge management (KM) and its increasing diffusions in all economic sectors. There is no activity that can be performed without some type of knowledge transfer, irrespective of whether it is tacit or explicit. At the same time, every organization must impl...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Customer Perspective of Value for Innovative Products and Services
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Sabina Potra, Adrian Pugna, Romeo Negrea, Monica IzvercianAbstractInnovation is an important competitive advantage for market success. Faster, cheaper, better are the keywords of the current competitive environment. For this to occur, products and services need to address customer needs in such a way as to fulfil what they expect but in the same time delight them through unexpected and attractive features. The theory of attractive quality uses the Kano methodology, a value components model, when thinking about product features in ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Management of fusions between Romanian universities, a proposed framework
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Nicolae Aurelian Bibu, Adriana (ILIE) IsacAbstractIn the current globalised academic world, merger between universities has emerged as a way to increase their competitiveness in the last decades. This paper aims to develop a framework for successfully managing mergers as a way to increase the international competitiveness of Romanian universities. Several cases of mergers between universities around the world were analyzed and presented. Consequently, successful practices of merger actions were detached and interpreted in the cont...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Management Of Stakeholders In Arab Israeli Junior High School
This study examined the impact of the stakeholder management model on diverse stakeholders’ satisfaction variables and the organizational culture of three schools: A’ in which the stakeholder management model was assimilated; B’, a school which experiments with the model for three years; and C’, a school which has not adopted the model.The leading premise for this study was that schools today operate in complex and competitive reality; thus, if they want to flourish and excel to be competitive in their field, they ought to constantly improve the educational process, the services they provide, and their relations wi...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Correlations between Student‘s online Activity on the Virtual Campus and the Exam Results
This study case raises awareness upon finding more efficient communication tools/ways between students, teachers and administrative staff. (Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Managers’ Opinion About Recognizing Neoliberalism in Education in Slovenia
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Aleš Trunk, Anica Novak Trunk, Andreja Barle LakotaAbstractIn this paper, we presented how schools perceive the introduction of the free market and market mechanisms through deregulation policies and privatisation schemes. We also discussed the consequences and traps of the free market. The research presents how education personnel see changes in education; and how managers versus other school workers understand the free market and what their attitude is towards public education. There are many different perspectives on the posit...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Improving Higher Education (Institutions) with the Matrix of Managerial and Financial Objectives
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Dušan LesjakAbstractThe purpose of this work is to confirm theoretical findings in the field of management of higher education (institutions) and contribute with our own findings on the elements, mechanisms and instruments that affect the quality and effectiveness of managing and organizing higher education at the national and institutional level, and thus contribute to a more efficient and effective higher education. This work will also clarify interdisciplinary connections between various segments of the above mentioned managem...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Managing the Implementation Process of Educational System Reform in Israel
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Manal Isbanionly, Doina Danaiata, Luminita HurbeanAbstractThe reform based on meaningful learning is a change process which entered in the education system in Israel. Like complex change processes in large systems and organizations, organizational change success depends on internal and external processes and factors. The connection between external stakeholders and internal stakeholders is two-way and is even more emphasized when one talks about change (Mintzberg & Westly, 1992), as on one hand, external stakeholders can initiate ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Applying Gamification for Mindset Changing in Automotive Software Project Management
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Catalin - Virgil Briciu, Ioan FilipAbstractChanging technologies, where development time for a new work product must be decreased with each year due to a higher customer competition, also leads to a change in mindset in the way in which product development is currently done. Gamification models are one of this “game-changing” strategies that was considered suitable to also be implemented in the automotive software product development topic, but not only in this area. This paper describes the current situation in adopting on la...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research