Multi-criteria decision analysis

1. Introduction E-Learning is a young and ground-breaking phenomenon for serving the needs of learners. The use of technology and new communication channels allow teachers and learners to experience a social, interactive and vibrant learning environment. Governments invest in E-Learning initiatives for making education accessible to everyone by lowering the barriers of time and place and providing flexibility and affordability especially for those could not enter traditional programs. (Bichsel,…

tend to fall into four categories: time, quality, performance and service, and cost. The measures include customer's satisfaction, market share, customer loyalty and customer retention. The internal business processes perspective is primarily an analysis of the organisation's internal processes. This perspective focuses on the internal business results that lead to financial success and customers' expectations. The measures include cycle time, on-time delivery, inventory turnover and quality of…

Through the analysis of the gains of many outsourcing companies, there are many non-core activities undertaken by these companies that promise to their customers reducing costs and focus on their business activities that create direct value [1]. Much research has been…

strive to attain to deliver higher quality services which meet the needs of consumers. In some rare cases, the consumers might not prefer some specific products or some specific decisions made by the organization. These decisions are mostly undertaken the by organization by for the sake of some long term goals. Such decisions are openly communicated at Dunkin’ Brands to avoid any conflicts possible amongst the stakeholders or with the company…

DELL has also invested substantially in building its IT infrastructure in order to create an advance and effective work place. Nonetheless, DELL also prepares its staffs to be IT oriented in performing their jobs, and this enables DELL to stay ahead of their competitors. As observed, DELL’s e-CRM strategies are closely in line with the model of CRM architecture frameworks, which was illustrated in Figure 2. The e-CRM strategy of DELL has begun with customer acquisition, value enhancement and…

studies, the length of stay in ICU or total time of hospital stay related to timing of extubation was not discussed. Also, presence of any different factor affecting extubation in living and deceased donors was not addressed. Further larger sample and multi center studies are required to confirm the variables that can effect time of the extubation. Finally, this study was conducted using multivariate logistic regression model for various variables and explored that factors like younger age,…

structure. Technological and organisational change It is important to ensure that the grading system is appropriate to the needs of an organization particularly following technological and organisational change. The introduction of flexibility, multi-skilling, team working and new operational methods also have important consequences for job design and the way jobs are organized, and will clearly affect traditional work groupings and pay structures. A further, important advantage of some job…

provided medical education a) Industry-provided product specific training The pharmaceutical companies know the importance of keeping the health care professionals updated with the knowledge about medicinal products in order to make rational clinical decisions. This above-mentioned category…

school culture impacts the morale and productivity of teachers, which can adversely or positively affect long-term gains in student achievement (Brown, Lemus, and Pickett, 1999; Taylor and Tashakkori, 1995). Many researchers have also explored the multi-faceted roles and responsibilities of a school principal and have found commonalities that attribute to success as measured by student achievement and positive school culture (Chan & Pool, 2002; Jones, 2007; Marzano et al., 2005; Rideaux, 2011).…

Due to the plethora of stressors that negatively affect medicinal plants in Appalachia (McGraw et al. 2013), conservation action must be taken to ensure that these valuable plants survive for future generations. As medicinal plant species, especially ginseng, are of cultural and economic importance in Appalachia (Hufford 2002) they can be used to focus land management strategies. Indeed, ginseng can be described as a ‘cultural keystone species’ (Garibaldi & Turner 2004) as this plant is an…