A major North Texas refiner was utilizing a patented desalting application technique, which incorporated the use of a demulsifier to both the wash water and the crude oil. The refiner felt the technique was both efficient and economical. Therefore, they believed it would be difficult for BJ Chemical Services to...
More and more companies are turning to data analysts and mathematical engineers to solve key business problems. Here’s a guide to the key players and the basic lexicon of their craft — operations research. Key Players Oracle: Oracle is one...
How one prominent academic, UC Berkeley's Lee W. Schruben, sees the evolution of operations research in the business world. BNET: What are the big unsolved problems for OR in practice today? Schruben: We have to realize that what we’re actually doing...
How five of the country's top CEOs maneuvered to reach the top and stay there. Steve Jobs CEO, Apple Political Style: The charismatic visionary Passion is Jobs’ greatest asset in motivating employees, negotiating deals, and cultivating a...
View Available Dates and Locations Effective decision makers are those rare individuals who are able to consistently identify and choose the best option among multiple alternatives. Their decisions are imaginative, reasoned, and defensible. In this course, you will be provided with the training and tools ...
The globalization of the international economy and the rapid rise of outsourcing have created a sharp rise in the demand for sharing and disseminating data securely. Software companies outsource the software testing function, which requires secure sharing of test data. Financial companies are increasingly outsourcing financial analysis and tax filing...
There are several techniques and tools that attempt to effectively represent different modeling perspectives according to business process modeling purpose and goals. One of widely used techniques for process modeling is process maps. The technique is based on flowcharts and one of its most important advantages, that are extremely important...
BPMN is generic enough to cater not only to BPM techniques for business automation, but also to more longstanding workflow techniques for the support of processes in which human input is required at key data entry and decision points. BPMN is not suitable, and cannot realistically be extended, to cover...
The risks involved in Information Technology Outsourcing has since long been known to affect business decisions of whether to outsource or not. This has lead to numerous research on topics such as: Understanding and Managing Outsourcing Risks, Methodologies to measure Outsourcing Risks, Risk Factors in Information Technology Outsourcing, Assessing the...
The starting point is to recognize that the graphical notation for process modelling known as BPMN is on the way to universal adoption. BPMN is generic enough to cater not only to BPM techniques for business automation, but also to more longstanding workflow techniques for the support of processes in...
To survive in competitive environments, companies must be able to deliver new products and services to the market. Creativity is a key element in this product development process. This paper is a case study of the use and application of a creative methodology and creativity techniques in six Norwegian SMEs...
Human Interaction Management HIM is a radical new business theory describing how we really work, and how we can be helped to work better. This paper introduces a key technique in HIM - an enhanced version of the long-established graphical notation known as Role Activity Diagramming RAD. The paper shows...
Business Process Redesign BPR is undertaken to achieve order-of-magnitude improvements over ?Old? form of the organisation. Practitioners in the academia and business world have developed a number of methodologies to support this competitive restructuring that forms the current focus of concern, many of which have not been successful. This paper...
Building computational models of real world systems usually requires the interaction of decision modules and simulation modules. Given different models and algorithms, the major hurdles in building a principled and robust system are model composibility and algorithm interoperability. This paper describes an approach to the composibility problem including initial results....
This white paper provides information on essential fraud control methods and services for businesses that accept orders and payments over the Internet. It was created by Javelin Strategy and Research, an objective third-party research firm, with the help of Wells Fargo's payments experts and builds on facts collected from merchants,...
The publisher explores new techniques for the use of cryptographic puzzles as a countermeasure to Denial-of-Service DoS attacks. The author propose simple new techniques that permit the outsourcing of puzzles - their distribution via a robust external service that is called as a bastion. Many servers can rely on puzzles...
One of the main problems with software engineering is due to the difficulties in evaluating and improving the software processes, especially in the light of the fact that reuse depends on a process which supports it. Generally used approaches to the evaluation and improvement of software processes are based on...
Testing effectiveness for a software product can be improved by testing all possible combinations or by automation, but both these techniques incur high cost and time. There are solutions in this area based on Six Sigma methodologies that provide approaches like Orthogonal Arrays OA. OA is derived from the Design...
With the increasing use of web services, many new challenges concerning data security are becoming critical. Data or applications can now be outsourced to powerful remote servers, which are able to provide services on behalf of the owners. Unfortunately, such hosts may not always be trustworthy. A one-server computationally private...
The difficulties of running credit portfolios have been only too apparent in recent years. It has been hard enough just to avoid the blowups, let alone make money or meet client-specified mandates. As a result, many investment managers are re-examining their credit investment process and risk control techniques. This article...
