Business Intelligence (BI) can assist in agricultural enterprises to strengthen their production potential and technical effi ciency due to its eff ective support to the managerial, analytical, planning, and decision-making activities of managers and specialists. However, the state of the BI in the Czech Republic is not still completely understood. In this context, this paper aims at the evaluation of the current state of the art of the BI among small Czech farms. Th e focus of the re search was put on the evaluation of both the state of the BI, and the relevant business information systems and software for agriculture. Th ere was a survey among 135 agricultural entrepreneurs from various regions in the Czech Republic. Th e survey results are presented by the descriptive statistics and frequency tables. Th ere is an examination of the relationship between the agricultural enterprise structure and the use of the BI. Dependencies among the examined characteristics were sought by the means of the analysis of qualitative variables. With 95% probability, it could be claimed that the type of production, the size of farmed land, the number of employees and the level of fi nancial subsidies have no signifi cant impact on using the BI, the expert and analytical systems in agricultural enterprises.
Enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) and satisfaction of mobile phone user are major concerns of a service provider. In order to manage network efficiently and to provide enhanced end -to -end Quality of Experience (QoE), operator is expected to measure and analyze QoS from various perspectives and at different relevant points of network. The scope of this paper is measurement and statistically analysis of QoS of mobile networks from end user perspective in Afghanistan. The study is based on primary data collected on random basis from 1,515 mobile phone users of five cellular operators. The paper furthermore proposes adequate technical solutions to mobile operators in order to address existing challenges in the area of QoS and to remain competitive in the market. Based on the result of processed data, considering geographical locations, population and telecom regulations of the government, authors recommend deployment of small cells (SCs), increasing number of regular performance tests, optimal placement of base stations, increasing number of carriers, and high order sectorization as proposed technical solutions. KeywordsQuality of service, quality of experience, quality of service parameters, mobile network, end user, data measurement, statistical analysis, Afghanistan.
Rural areas in Europe are at risk due to depopulation, failing generation renewal, and a multitude of influences ranging from market-based, regulatory, to societal and climate changes. As a result, current rural policy is no longer keeping pace with these changes. We propose an advanced rural policy development framework in order to deliver more accurate foresight for rural regions, contributing to new and enhanced policy interventions. The proposed framework combines new quantitative and qualitative epistemological approaches, previously unused unstructured data with traditional research information, grassroot perspective with expert knowledge, current situation analysis with forward looking activities. We argue that by using the proposed methods, policy teams will be able to enhance the effectiveness of their policy making processes, while rural stakeholders will be given the opportunity to become valuable policy influencers and solution co-creators. The ability to quickly experiment and understand the impact of a variety of policy solutions will result in saved time and costs. The framework is part of an ongoing experimental verification and testing in twelve pilot regions across Europe and Israel.
RYSOVÁ HANA, KUBATA KAREL, TYRYCHTR JAN, ULMAN MILOŠ, ŠMEJKALOVÁ MARTINA, VOSTROVSKÝ VÁCLAV: Evaluation of electronic public services in agriculture in the Czech Republic. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013, LXI, No. 2, pp. 473-479 The goals of the paper are to analyze the uptake and to evaluate the quality of electronic public services among Czech agricultural enterprises. A sample of 119 entrepreneurs in the agriculture from diff erent regions in the Czech Republic was chosen. This research is based on the application of scientifi c analysis, synthesis and deduction. Descriptive statistics were calculated from the data obtained in the questionnaire survey. There were fi een diff erent electronic services examined in the survey. Respondents made a plain ordinal-scaled evaluation of all used services in terms of the frequency of use, usefulness, importance and quality. Working hypotheses about dependencies among rates of use of particular services and fi ve factors (plant production, animal raising, hectares of land, number of employees, subsidies) were examined with regression analysis. Eleven statistically signifi cant dependencies were proved between the number of hectares and electronic services, which means that with growing number of hectares of land the rate of use of particular electronic services increases. Electronic services provided at eAGRI Portal run by Czech Ministry of Agriculture were utilized the most among agricultural enterprises (each by more than 50 %) and electronic mail (79 %). eAGRI Portal services were assessed the best in terms of importance, usefulness and quality. Farmers and agricultural businesses in the Czech Republic are currently not obliged by any law to use any electronic service, and they can still opt for traditional paper mail or personal visit. eGovernment, agriculture, Czech Republic, electronic public services, evaluation of quality, eAGRI Portal According to the study developed for the European Commission (Capgemini et al., 2010), there are eight major electronic public services that must be monitored and measured such as: social contribution for employees, corporate tax, valueadded tax, submission of data to the statistical offi ce, custom declaration, registration of a new company, public procurement, and environment-related permits.Czech authorities off er several more specifi c online services for entrepreneurs than the EC study settles such as: Information system of data boxes that is compulsory for public authorities and corporates do deliver offi cial electronic documents towards offi cial bodies, and Czech POINT which is a network of one-stop places to submit or retrieve output from diff erent public registries. In 2009, 44 % of respondents claimed that they used at least once the Czech POINT service, and 64 % used data box to receive a digital message from a public authority and only 28 % used the data box to send a message to an authority (CZSO, 2011a). There are also services such as electronic communicatio...
AULOVÁ RENATA, RUMÁNKOVÁ LENKA, ULMAN MILOŠ: Determinants of the result of economic activity of agricultural businesses of legal entities in the Czech Republic. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013, LXI, No. 4, pp. 849-859 Address
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