38 articles for “Business Process Management”

Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordA Simulation of Mobile-Based Bank Teller Application for Managing Waiting Time of CustomersAhmed Sakr, Omar M. Elzeki, Hazem El-BakryIn business decision-making, the queuing system is one of the options employed to satisfy the demands of a particular service system for resource needs. The queuing theory has been used successfully by various business service industries. There are many types of queuing systems that can predict waiting times and queue lengths. The First In First Out (FIFO) algorithm works like … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 19, Issue 3 · 11 Feb 2023 · 6,162 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PROCESS INNOVATIONS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF OLIVE FARMSRiccardo Testa, Anna Maria Di Trapani, Filippo Sgroi, Salvatore TudiscaWithin a business enterprise, process innovations lead to reduced production costs and to increased profit margins. In this study, we shall examine an olive farm that operates in a perfectly competitive market that has introduced a process innovation so as to contain labour costs and therefore production costs. So, the paper aimed at comparing economic competitiveness of an olive farm … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 9 · 4 Jul 2014 · 7,167 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordINNOVATION MANAGEMENT IN BUSINESS AND A CROSS-SECTORAL EMPIRICAL STUDYErkut Altındağ, Polathan KüsbeciIn rapidly changing and developing world, the importance given for the concept of innovation appeared as an inevitable factor for the firms to obtain sustainable competitive advantage started to increase and has become an issue of a particular concern in agenda of company executives. The concept of innovation appears as a factor that should be discussed as a whole and … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 1 Apr 2014 · 6,989 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordIntegration Model of ISO 14001 with Lean PrinciplesA. L. Puvanasvaran, A. Perumal, Robert Kerk Swee Tian et al.Lean principles and ISO 14001 are key business process strategies which are employed by companies to enchance their manufacturing performance and business efficiencies. The primary objective of the paper is to provide a conceptual framework through an effective integration of these two systems for enhanced business efficiency and productivity. The research methodology applied in the context of this study is … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 12 · 14 Dec 2012 · 7,712 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordCorrelation Between Dispersion and Mean Toassess Healthcare Servicee FficiencyRamalingam ShanmugamMotivation for this research work started while helping a hospital administrator to assess whether patient oriented activity duration, X≥0 is reflecting the service’s efficiency? Higher value of the sample mean duration, X implies lesser productivity in the hospital and more healthcare cost. Likewise, larger value of sample dispersion, sx2 in the service durations is an indicator of lesser reliability and … …Current Research in Biostatistics, Vol. 2, Issue 2 · 30 Aug 2012 · 6,876 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordSpecifying Processes: Application to Electrical Power DistributionSabah Al-Fedaghi, Lina Al-SalehProblem statement: This study deals with the problem of how to specify processes. Many process specification methodologies have been determined to be incomplete; for example, ISO 9000:2005 defines process as transforming media inputs into outputs. Nevertheless, the author of the Quality Systems Handbook, declares that such a definition is incomplete because processes create results and not necessarily by transforming inputs. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 11 · 6 Sep 2011 · 6,664 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordFormalized Model of Stabile Reengineering Information System Functional Elements (Business Processes)Zahi A. Abu SarhanThe process of reengineering the functional elements of management information system must presented as stable, in which all the kernel functional components of the management information system should be saved. Problem statements: There is no formalized models for stabile reengineering for the functional structure (functional elements) for various information systems types, therefore the process of reengineering is not stabile and … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 5, Issue 12 · 31 Dec 2009 · 7,205 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordIntelligent Product based on Mobile Agent to Accelerate the New Product Development ProcessAbdelhak Boulaalam, El Habib Nfaoui, Omar El BeqqaliTo improve the ever-increasing demands products that are customized, all business activities performed along the product life cycle must be coordinated and efficiently managed along the extended enterprise. For this, enterprise had wanted to retain control over the whole product lifecycle especially when the product is in use/repair/recycling (End of Life phase). Although there have been many previous research works … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 9, Issue 7 · 17 Jun 2013 · 6,925 accessesView PDF Cite