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Annex V - Energy Systems Integration Between Society and Industry Including Cogeneration Systems and Power Plants: This paper reports on Systematic and General Methods for Designing Integrated Production Systems, ranging from Individual Processes to Total Sites, with special emphasis on the Efficient Use of Energy and reducing Environmental Effects. The main objective was to develop generic methodologies for optimal use of industrial waste heat in industry...; Tags: Strategy, systems integration, storage system, industry, storage; Case studies
A Supply Chain Solution For Large Project Delivery: The paper identifies a number of basic logistics management issues that currently lack solutions in the project delivery chain. The basic challenge is related to tracking individual shipments and tracing their location in an environment where the business relationships continuously change. The difficulty to implement track and trace in a...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), RFID, supply chain, Inventory Management, logistics, agent, radio, environment, information technology, network; White papers 2006-09-19
Pacing Software Product Development: A Framework And Practical Implementation Guidelines: Managing software product development is challenging but doing it well can be extremely rewarding. Profits from duplicating a product to thousands or millions of customers can be both luring and elusive. In order to successfully manage software product development in small software product businesses in turbulent environments, a holistic approach...; Tags: Software, Software Product, Helsinki University, Tools & Techniques, Management; White papers 2006-09-18
WWW-System Use And Business Value In Project Networks: This multiple case study describes the usage and potential business value of www-systems in distributed engineering project DEP networks. The paper recognizes three different categories of www-system use: "Document sharing", where the system is used in centralized document management; "Collaboration", where the www-system is used actively in stakeholder collaboration; and...; Tags: Groupware, collaboration, document management, network; White papers 2006-08-08
Creating Favourable Conditions for Knowledge Society Through Knowledge Management, eGovernance and eLearning: This paper reviews the principal definitions of policy and activities - within the limits set in the title - at national, regional and organizational level. The perspectives are global, national and local. The message is that all these levels, in decision making as well as actions, have to be made...; Tags: Message, Knowledge, Helsinki University, Knowledge Management, Strategy, E-learning, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Data Management; White papers 2006-06-01

Reputation of Strategic Group as a Source of Competitive Advantage: Reputation has been long researched but there is still no one clear way to illustrate what reputation really is. This paper examines reputation from strategic group direction. The research of strategic groups was begun by Michael Porter when he was studying industry structures. A great deal of studies have introduced...; Tags: Strategy, competitive advantage, industry; White papers 2006-03-09
Knowledge Management in Network Organizations: It is argued that the basic economic resource in the 'New economy' is knowledge. The knowledge that a company is able to access from inside and outside the organization is often regarded as a sustainable source for its competitive advantage. A well functioning knowledge management system is crucial to achieve...; Tags: Strategy, Business intelligence, knowledge management, knowledge, knowledge management system, competitive advantage, network; White papers 2006-03-06
New Business Opportunities for Printed Media: Coated Paper for Coldset Printing: The results of this study showed that customer driven product differentiation process of a printing paper manufacturer requires new kind of testing tools. The traditional tools, which are largely based on laboratory scale testing are too slow and create a major problem and risk when scaling the findings to an...; Tags: Document management, printing, manufacturer, tool, industry; White papers 2005-11-11
The Effects of Direct and Indirect Foreign Venture Capital Ties on Exit Market Selection and Exit Modes: This paper examines cross-border M&A and foreign IPOs as exit routes for venture capitalists. Although an M&A or IPO may be driven by the venture capitalist's interest to exit from an investment, the selection and functioning of exit market has consequences also on the venture. Increased exit opportunities increase the...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, venture capital, M&A, IPO, investment, liquidity, valuation; White papers 2005-10-23
Modelling the Value Adding Attributes of Real Estate to the Wealth Maximization of the Firm: Firms develop strategies to help them achieve their primary goal of maximizing the wealth of the shareholders. These strategies should define the supporting role corporate real estate management plays; however current theory and practice do not adequately identify the direct and indirect methods by which corporate real estate management CREM...; Tags: real estate, corporate real estate, strategy, theory, shareholder; White papers 2005-10-11
Establishing Inventory Transparency to Temporary Storage Locations - A Case From the Mobile Telecommunications Industry: Efficient logistics control demands for transparency to inventory in the whole distribution network. However, current Information Technology IT solutions do not support creating inventory transparency to temporary storage locations, which poses severe problems for supply chain management in project-oriented industries. This paper presents how inventory transparency can be built with...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), supply chain, SCM, storage, logistics, mobile, information technology, industry, network; White papers 2005-09-29
Information-Sharing in Supply Chains - Five Proposals on How to Proceed: Sharing information is regarded as one of the most effective ways of improving supply chain performance. Benefiting from visibility requires the efficient use of real demand and market trend information and sharing it with the suppliers. The current state of visibility in the demand-supply network of an original equipment manufacturing...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), supply chain, supplier, network; White papers 2005-07-28
Selecting the Right Planning Approach for a Product: The increase in complexity of market, channel and supply networks makes supply chain planning more intricate. Despite substantial resources being used, planning results are often not reliable or consistent enough to ensure cost efficiency and adequate customer service. This paper deals with how a case company set out to improve...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), supply chain, customer service; White papers 2005-06-17
The Impact Of Referents On Entrepreneurship: The foundation of this paper is the assumption that social constructionism offers a fruitful theoretical perspective within which growth phenomena of small companies in information intensive industries can be understood. The perspective helps us to understand where the growth oriented mindset that guides the managers of entrepreneurial companies originates from....; Tags: theory, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial, analysis, industry, software; White papers 2005-04-29
Creating Competitive Advantage With End-of-Use Products: Environmental legislation and heightened consumer awareness have forced companies to take responsibility of the entire life cycle of their products. Taking back products can however also be profitable from an economic perspective. This paper discusses how taking back end-of-use products can enhance competitive advantage through increasing value and productivity. Combining...; Tags: competitive advantage; White papers 2005-04-18
The Product Centric Approach: A Solution to Supply Network Information Management Problems?: The management of single-item level information has grown to be one of the greatest challenges of supply network management. The main reasons for this are the increasing product customisation and increasingly complex supply networks. Product customisation adds to the quantity and specificity of product-related information. Current mainstream solutions, based on...; Tags: NETWORKING, product information, network management, network, database; White papers 2005-02-07
Material Delivery Problems In Construction Projects: A Possible Solution: Emerging project management methods for construction projects generate new kinds of challenges for the delivery process of materials. The rationale of such methods is to create short-term schedules, based on a constraint analysis of resources, for project tasks. This approach has two requirements for material deliveries: transparency of material availability...; Tags: logistics, project management, supply chain; White papers 2005-02-07
Legal Metadata, Open Content Distribution and Collecting Societies: This paper describes the economic impact of legal metadata and open content in information society. The paper also analyses the challenges that individual digital open licensing poses to collecting societies. The paper first defines open content and the meaning of legal metadata. It then concentrates to the economics of open...; Tags: Helsinki University, Society, Metadata; White papers 2004-12-16
Analysis Of The Constraint Proposal Method For Two-Party Negotiations: In the constraint proposal method a mediator locates points at which the two decision makers have joint tangent hyperplanes. We give conditions under which these points are Pareto optimal and we prove that under these conditions the mediator's problem has a solution, when the number of issues in the negotiation...; Tags: negotiation, adjustment, analysis; White papers 2004-12-07
Managing End-Of-Use Products: Managing end-of-use products is becoming increasing challenging as environmental legislation tightens, leasing concepts become more popular and environmental awareness grows. However according to anecdotal evidence if end-of-use products are managed effectively they can be a source of competitive advantage. The aim of this thesis is to develop a framework to...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), supply chain, leasing, competitive advantage; White papers 2004-11-22