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Customer Perspective of Value for Innovative Products and Services
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Sabina Potra, Adrian Pugna, Romeo Negrea, Monica Izvercian Innovation 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 - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Knowledge Management Approach for Ergonomics Implementation within Organizations
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Maria – Elena Boatca, Anca Draghici, Nicoleta Carutasu The 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 imple...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Smart Services
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Stöhr Carsten, Janssen Monika, Niemann Jörg Industry 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 is reached where...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Knowledge Management – The Foundation for a Successful Business Process Management
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Daniel Paschek, Larisa Ivascu, Anca Draghici In 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 pro...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Value Chain Management Through Cloud-based Platforms
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Joanna Dehmer, Jörg Niemann The 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 - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Towards Innovation and Development in Ergonomic Design: Insights from a Literature Review
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Edwin Tytyk, Beata Mrugalska The 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 ergonomics...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Business Innovation Activity in Romania: The Main Trends and Weaknesses
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Mihaela Diaconu, Adrian Vilcu Innovation 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), which ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Management of Automotive Business Teams and Product Evolution
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Stephan Volker, Gabriela Prostean In 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 prod...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Knowledge Management – from its Inception to the Innovation Linkage
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Kristijan Breznik Knowledge management started to be perceived as a scientific discipline relatively recently. Since its beginnings in the 1990s, the interest for this research field has been constantly growing especially in the past two decades. However, it seems that the peak of interest has already passed. In this paper, we provided the review of the most important research documents that are related with this topic, all collected from the Web of Science. The most important scholars and journals in the field are identified ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A New Approach for Assessing Function-cost Correlation in Product Value Analysis
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Şerban Miclea, Adrian Pugna, Romeo Negrea, Sabina Potra The paper presents a new approach for product value analysis by combining a classical approach with a straightforward (intuitive) one and incorporating a new method of calculating (setting up) a statistical confidence interval in terms of functionality and cost. In this process, the value analysis team can observe the differences between the ideal and real function to cost ratio and easily set up a confidence interval avoiding negative effects on the overall product q...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Innovation - Corporate Performance Relationship in Emergent Countries
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Gabriela Lucia Sipos, Alin Ionescu Innovation has become a highly actual topic. The main goal of this study is to identify the existence of any possible impact of innovation on companies’ performances in the case of companies from 115 emergent countries, based on data provided by the World Bank. Thus, using the methodology of principal components analysis, we proposed two composite indexes: a multidimensional composite index measuring the corporate sector's innovation and another composite index measuring the companies’ p...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Multi-layered Functional Analysis for Smart Homes Design
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Dorin Popescu, Diana Rusu, Laura Bacali, Sorin Popescu The conception of smart homes exceeds the boundaries of a simple design process. It becomes mainly a managerial, multidisciplinary process in which added value depends on the measure in which these answer, in an adequate manner, to a set of requirements raised by a target group of users and stakeholders with specific needs. The paper proposes a methodology for functional analysis of smart living spaces that combines a multi-level approach for its structure with FAST (Fu...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Career Opportunities for PhD Graduates in the knowledge-based Economy: Case of Slovenia
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Valentina Jošt Lešer, Nada Trunk Širca, Valerij Dermol, Aleš Trunk Higher education institutions are recognized as key agents of creating knowledge society and knowledge-based economy. In this context, the preparation of doctoral students for careers in various sectors of society is a key task. Recently, the role of doctoral studies has changed significantly. Traditionally, they were treated as an entrance ticket for an academic career, but nowadays the importance of doctoral studies is recognized in various spheres of ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Soft Skills Development Needs and Methods in Micro-Companies of ICT Sector
This article calls for the inclusion of soft skills in the development of information and communication technology (ICT) sector's specialists in order to increase the competitiveness of ICT SME's. For a successful activity, ICT specialist needs two categories of skills: hard and soft skills. When talking about hard skills, we refer to direct technical knowledge. On the opposite, soft skills refer to communication, team work, creativity, problem solving and other personal skills. Experts agree that beside hard (technical) skills, soft (also called people-) skills are necessary. The research was based on an analysis of Europ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Time Perspective as a Predictor of Procrastination
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): E. Zabelina, Yu. Chestyunina, I. Trushina, E. Vedeneyeva The article presents the results of the study of time perspective as a predictor of procrastination. It shows how the test subjects with high procrastination rates are more pessimistic and negative about past events; they are less focused on future plans, goals, and prospects, and are convinced that their future is predetermined and cannot be influenced by individual actions. The discriminant analysis revealed negative attitude toward the past, fatalistic perception o...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research