At present, it is projected that about 4 zettabytes (or 10** 21 bytes) of digital data are being
generated per year by everything from underground physics experiments to retail …

The subject of study of this article is the metaphor of «business ecosystem» that extends the
descriptive possibilities of organizations interacting with each other. Based on the study the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the gap between definition and practical
aspects of production efficiency in mass customization (MC). The paper summarizes all …

In comparison to the rapid adoption and growth of mobile technologies worldwide, mobile
payment services are being adopted at a slower pace than anticipated. One of the …

The outputs or products of an economy can be divided into services products and goods
products (due to manufacturing, construction, agriculture and mining). To date, the services …

Based on the information processing theory, this study proposes that organizational flatness
is an antecedence to the mass customization capability and the supply chain planning and …

POLCA is a material control system designed for make-to-order or engineer-to-order
companies. These firms have to cope with a high variety of customised products, and strong …

Manufacturing and services constitute two of the five sectors of every country's economy;
depending on the maturity of the economy, they are—in terms of employment—typically the …

Healthcare is indeed a complex service system, one requiring the technobiology approach
of systems engineering to underpin its development as an integrated and adaptive system …

Several important application areas that will dominate systems, man, and cybernetic (SMC)
efforts for at least the next decade, together with the methods that will require further …