Managing the information systems in the industrial domain

Energy Saving by Blockchaining Maintenance

“…To overcome these problems, people have taken option to information and communication technologies for different purposes and processes in maintenance such as decision making among others (Campos, 2009;Campos, 2016). Lately, the blockchain technology has emerged into the area to support the above mentioned technological aspects, like data/information transfer, integration, etc., which in its turn has the potential to diminish even further the costs that are related to maintenance.…”

Conceptual Framework for Modeling the Agile Marketing Capability

“…According to the resource-based view (Wade & Hulland, 2004), ITCs are competitive resources to develop higher-quality IT products and services, achieve superior performance and market value (Saunders & Brynjolfsson, 2016), and improve decision-making process through information flows (Campos, 2016). As a combination of multiple elements like internal and external human resources, software applications, etc.…”

“…ITCs functions may be synthesized as: outsourcing relationships (Han et al, 2008), to improve inter-firm relationships, reduce costs, access to skilled people etc. (Cheng et al, 2009;Zhao et al, 2017;Saraf et al, 2007) and achieve superior market knowledge and value (Han et al, 2011); innovation, since they facilitate the development of NPD projects particularly in turbulent environments, where it is necessary to be flexible in responding to market changes, and adapting to new market requirements (Devece et al, 2017;Lu et al, 2011); e-maintenance (Campos, 2016), which concerns the usage of technologies for organizational purposes, to improve firm's competitive positioning (Doherty & Terry, 2009) in the marketplace.…”

“…Innovation activity for new products and services to fit new market conditions (Lu et al, 2011), driven by the use of IT tools for marketing (Alford & Page, 2015), fosters firms' competitive positioning (Doherty & Terry, 2009) and e-maintenance (Campos, 2016), that is, the exploitation of technology to perform more efficient collaboration, cooperation and learning processes. The combination between innovation and emaintenance-competitive positioning, determines the second function of agile marketing capabilities: the ongoing innovation for competitiveness function.…”

Tools for Sharing and Transferring Information in the Field of Logistics

“…A person communicational behavior varies depending on circumstances and the purpose of how and with whom it communicates and how the communication develops. Looking at the model examples, it is easy to see that the shape and course of communication is influenced by a number of factors[17,18]: the degree of non-formal and formal communication, alignment of mutual relationships and social roles,  context,  the number of participants and the degree of monologues or dialogues,  the way of communication, readiness for speech and possibility of feedback. All these types of communication, however, have one thing in common: they occur among living people as their interaction (of course, with a postponed reaction regarding the correspondence).…”