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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797864903321

Titolo

Sustaining competitive advantage via business intelligence, knowledge management, and system dynamics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mohammed Quaddus, Arch G. Woodside

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley : , : Emerald, , 2015

ISBN

1-78560-706-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (407 p.)

Collana

Advances in business marketing and purchasing, , 1069-0964 ; ; v. 22b

Altri autori (Persone)

QuaddusM. A

WoodsideArch G

Disciplina

658.4038

Soggetti

Business & Economics - Strategic Planning

Computers - Information Technology

Business strategy

Business & management

Economics, finance, business & management

Business intelligence

Knowledge management

Competition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Mohammed Quaddus, Arch Woodside -- Managing information and knowledge in service industries / Michael Preece -- Integrated supply chain model for sustainable manufacturing : a system dynamics approach / Mohammad Shamsuddoha.

Sommario/riassunto

The first chapter in this book examines the relationships between absorptive capacity and effective knowledge management through the analysis of quantitative data drawn from managers and employees in residential aged care organizations in Western Australia.  The author, Michael Preece, defines absorptive capacity as the ability of an organization to use prior knowledge to recognize the value of new knowledge from external sources, assimilate this new knowledge, and apply it to the benefit of the organization. He provides valuable training in how service organizations go about transforming new knowledge



into effective actionable business plans. The second chapter by Mohammad Shamsuddoha provides an application of system dynamics modelling in firms in the poultry industry in Bangladesh. This chapter offers deep knowledge of the "fifth discipline" and beyond. Shamsuddoha uses Vensim, a simulation-based software package, to build a simulation model with appropriate equations, formulae, and connectivity to replicate the real-life operation and outcome in a simulation environment. He also provides the in-depth knowledge necessary to learn to truly understand the fifth discipline.