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- Amara, Yasmina, et al.
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Evaluating Business Intelligence Software : Testing the SSAV Model
- 2009
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Ingår i: ECIS 2009: Third European Competitive Intelligence Symposium. - Västerås/Eskilstuna : Mälardalens Universitet. ; , s. 238-251
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Choosing the right Business Intelligence (BI) software is critical to increasing productivity and effectiveness in organizations today. At the same time it is a very elaborating and complex process to choose the right software due to the fact that a large number of BI products exist on the market, which are quite different and updated frequently. The objective of this study is to develop and test a model for the evaluation of BI Software. The findings of the study revealed that it is difficult to declare what is the most competitive BI software as what is good for one user might not be good for another depending on their different business needs. Having said that the study initiated a new classification of BI Software vendors depending on the degree to which they comply with the functions in the Competitive Intelligence (CI) cycle. The software tested was divided into five categories: Fully complete, Complete, Semi Complete, Incomplete and Insubstantial. We conclude that the SSAV (Solberg Soilen, Amara, Vriens) Model Together with some proposed non technological variables and a classification developed can be used as a user's selection tool for deciding which BI Software to purchase.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-, et al.
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20 svenska fallstudier för små och medelstora företag : pedagogik och vetenskaplig metod
- 2006
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- I boken presenteras den största samling fallstudier över svenska små och mellanstora företag som hittills är gjord. Författarna diskuterar också vad en fallstudie är, hur fallstudier konstrueras och hur de kan användas i undervisning och forskning. De 20 korta fallstudierna beskriver företag som befinner sig i en situation som går att koppla till något av företagsekonomins delområden (organisation, ledarskap, marknadsföring, ekonomistyrning m.m.). Dessa fall kan användas inom en mängd olika ämnesområden och är upplagda enligt anglosaxisk modell. Fallföretagen representerar såväl olika branscher som geografiska områden och fallstudierna bygger på verkliga situationer och problem i företagen. I den teoretiska delen av boken ligger tyngdpunkten på användning av fallstudier som pedagogisk och vetenskaplig metod oavsett fackområde. Vad är det som gör att fallstudier lämpar sig bra för inlärning? Vari består oenigheten beträffande bruket av fallstudier som vetenskaplig metod? Författarna ger också detaljerade beskrivningar av arbetsprocessen med att ta fram fallstudierna. Boken vänder sig till studerande inom ekonomi, statsvetenskap och sociologi samt dem som vill använda sig av fallstudier som metod i sin forskning. Boken kan även vara en inspirationskälla för dem som tänker skriva fallstudier utifrån egen empirisk forskning.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-, et al.
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How Application Integration, Security Issues and Pricing Strategies in Business Intelligence Shape Vendor Differentiation
- 2009
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Ingår i: ECIS 2009. - Stockholm : ECIS. ; , s. 252-260
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is investigating, through a mixed-method research combining interviews and an online survey, how BI vendors differentiate themselves when it comes to application integration, security issues and pricing strategies. The conclusion is that BI vendors differentiated themselves mainly by having individual definitions of what BI is. Buyers should therefore compare vendors through the vendor’s definition of Business Intelligence. Security issues were mainly user centric and pricing strategies implied that vendors approach buyers in a similar way where they offered standardized software bundles that could require some degree of customization in order for the buyer to derive the maximum benefit from the applications. It can be deduced from the obtained results that the most competitive BI vendors are acting more homogenous towards buyers when they offer their products and handle customers, compared to niche BI vendors.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
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Increased interactivity to reduce drop-out rate on distance learning programs : The case of Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
- 2007
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Interaction lies at the heart of all education. E-learning is no different. Previous research has shown that the amount of student interaction is likely to improve the distance-learners’ educational experience, e.g. Andrusyszn et al, (1999), and Wright et al, (2000). There is a number of different interactions to consider in education from a pedagogical perspective: Since Moore (1989) defined (1) interaction with the content, (2) interaction with the instructor, and (3) interaction with the students, an additional new fourth dimension has been added by Bouhnik, Dan and Marcus, Tali (2006), named interaction with the system, the interaction with all of the new computer technologies. New and more difficult technology can be a reason for students to drop out, but it can also be a reason for them to stay. It is all a question of what technologies are used and how. As e-learning programs are constantly being developed and universities have become more financially depended upon these programs, the reduction in drop out rates has become an increasingly important issue.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
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Introduction to Private and Public Intelligence : The Swedish School of Competitive Intelligence
- 2005
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book provides both students and intelligence professionals with basic theory and a number of practical tools to enhance their careers as analysts. Its subject matter goes under many names: competitive intelligence, competitor intelligence, business intelligence, and marketing intelligence. The aim has been to show the logic behind analysis so that the student and the professional may learn the techniques of building or adapting his or her own analysis to fit any practical problem, rather than presenting well-known analyses as if they were static truths. The book is not about state and military intelligence, nor about the history of intelligence. Having said this, it will be apparent to the reader that the scientific methods and tools presented are shared by all the intelligence functions.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
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Life style welfare: How the New Class has transformed the Scandinavian Welfare State
- 2009
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Ingår i: Telos. - New York, NY : Telos Press Ltd.. - 0090-6514 .- 1940-459X. ; 2009:148, s. 73-85
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Three hypotheses are presented in this article, each supported by observations and theory. The first is that party distinctions in Scandinavian politics have ceased to be vehicles for coherent ideas related to political ideologies, but that parties instead have become machines to stay in power and keep supporters employed. The second is that the tradition among political parties in Scandinavia and especially in Sweden for accepting federalist measures as a response to central state inefficiencies has been checked by the development of the welfare state. It can only regain momentum through external pressure. The third is that the Scandinavia welfare state model has shifted from one of providing support to the needy to a party guaranteeing the middle class a certain life-style.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
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Macklean som ekonom
- 2009
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Ingår i: Svaneholms Årsbok. - Skurup : Svaneholm Andelsförening. ; , s. 37-48, s. 37-48
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Rutger Macklean (1742-1816) står ofta beskriven som friherre, politiker, och skiftesreformist. I vilken grad var han också ekonom? Frågan kan verka något långsökt vid en första anblick, men då får man komma ihåg, att ekonomi är ett gammalt grekiskt ord för ”hushållningsadministration" och att det var just detta som präglade mycket av hans verksamhet på Svaneholm, både för egen och för andras räkning . På Mackleans tid fanns det inte ekonomer i den betydelsen som vi idag förstår begreppet. Adam Smith (1723-1790), som ofta räknas som grundläggaren av det vetenskapliga studiet av ekonomi, var t.ex. moralfilosof. Hans mest kända verk Wealth of Nations från år 1776 finner vi också i Mackleans bokhylla. På den tiden benämndes inte det vetenskapliga fackområdet ekonomi, men politisk ekonomi vilket var en blandning av vad vi i dag skulle kalla statsvetenskap och ekonomi.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
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Management Implementation of Business Intelligence Systems
- 2008
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Ingår i: Systèmes d'information & intelligence économique. - Tunis : I.H.E. éditions. - 9789973868190 - 9973868196 - 9789973868206 - 997386820X ; , s. 358-371
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There has been much focus on why companies should invest in Business Intelligence (BI) and there has been many contributions on the BI process, but there has been and continues to be less written on how to implement BI in the organization. A major question facing all organizations, both private and public, is where to place the BI or Competitive Intelligence (CI) function in the organization. This answer will depend on the effectiveness of each placement. The findings presented in this article build on a decade of observations and research in the implementation of Business Intelligence Systems. A series of seven models are presented with examples of actual use.
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