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Business rule
About: Business rule is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11193 publications have been published within this topic receiving 270568 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, a description of some aspects of business networks and relationships and highlights the questions that they pose for practitioners are discussed. But the authors suggest that an understanding of these questions require an appreciation of a number of paradoxes that are intrinsic to the nature of business network and draw out their managerial implications.
1,507 citations
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20 Jan 2003TL;DR: The Essentials of Business Research Methods as discussed by the authors provides a straightforward, hands-on approach to the vital managerial process of gathering and using data to make clear business decisions, such as the increasing role of online research, ethical issues, data mining, customer relationship management, and how to conduct information-gathering activities more effectively in a rapidly changing business environment.
Abstract: Managers increasingly must make decisions based on almost unlimited information. How can they navigate and organize this vast amount of data? Essentials of Business Research Methods provides research techniques for people who aren't data analysts. The authors offer a straightforward, hands-on approach to the vital managerial process of gathering and using data to make clear business decisions. They include such critical topics as the increasing role of online research, ethical issues, data mining, customer relationship management, and how to conduct information-gathering activities more effectively in a rapidly changing business environment. This is the only such book that includes a chapter on qualitative data analysis, and the coverage of quantitative data analysis is more extensive and much easier to understand than in other works. The book features a realistic continuing case throughout the text that enables students to see how business research information is used in the real world. It includes applied research examples in all chapters, as well as Ethical Dilemma mini - cases, and interactive Internet applications and exercises.
1,506 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a Business Model Framework (BMF) is proposed to enable the creation of business models from very basic (and not very valuable) models to far more advanced models.
Abstract: Purpose – To innovate the company business model, executives must first understand what it is, and then examine what paths exist for them to improve on it. This article aims to examine this issue.Design/methodology/approach – The article provides a practical definition of business models and offers a Business Model Framework (BMF) that illuminates the opportunities for business model innovation.Findings – The article finds that BMF sequences possible business models from very basic (and not very valuable) models to far more advanced (and very valuable) models. Using the BMF, companies can assess where their current business model stands in relation to its potential and then define appropriate next steps for the further advancement of it.Practical implications – An organization must give a senior manager the resources and authority to define and launch business‐model experiments.Originality/value – The article provides a cogent model for assessing the potential for new business model innovation, a framewor...
1,460 citations
Patent•
17 Jun 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a data processing system having a business object model reflecting the data used during a business transaction, which is suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business within a transaction.
Abstract: Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a data processing system having a business object model reflecting the data used during a business transaction. Consistent interfaces are generated from the business object model. These interfaces are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction.
1,431 citations
TL;DR: It is found that firm sustainability depends on anticipating and reacting to sequences of voluntary and emerging change, giving the label ‘dynamic consistency’ to this firm capability to build and sustain its performance while changing its business model.
1,197 citations