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Strategy. Agitavi Group : Leadership in Local Software Economies. Why Killer Products Don't Sell. Value system. A value system is a set of consistent ethic values (more specifically the personal and cultural values) and measures[clarification needed] used for the purpose of ethical or ideological integrity. A well defined value system is a moral code. Personal and communal[edit] One or more people can hold a value system. Likewise, a value system can apply to either one person or many. A 'personal' value system is held by and applied to one individual only.A communal' or cultural value system is held by and applied to a community/group/society. Some communal value systems are reflected in the form of legal codes or law. [citation needed] Corporate value systems[edit] Fred Wenstøp and Arild Myrmel have proposed a structure for corporate value systems that consists of three value categories.

Consistency[edit] As a member of a society, group or community, an individual can hold both a personal value system and a communal value system at the same time. Value exceptions[edit] A model system[edit] SMART criteria. Mnemonic, giving criteria to guide in the setting of objectives SMART is a mnemonic acronym, giving criteria to guide in the setting of objectives, for example in project management, employee-performance management and personal development. The letters S and M generally mean specific and measurable. Possibly the most common version has the remaining letters referring to achievable (or attainable), relevant, and time-bound. However, the term's inventor had a slightly different version and the letters have meant different things to different authors, as described below. Additional letters have been added by some authors. The first-known use of the term occurs in the November 1981 issue of Management Review by George T. Often the term S.M.A.R.T.

History[edit] The November 1981 issue of Management Review contained a paper by George T. Ideally speaking, each corporate, department, and section objective should be: Specific – target a specific area for improvement. Current definitions[edit] Value system. OODA loop. Diagram of a decision cycle known as the Boyd cycle, or the OODA loop Overview[edit] The OODA loop has become an important concept in litigation,[1] business[2] and military strategy. According to Boyd, decision-making occurs in a recurring cycle of observe-orient-decide-act. An entity (whether an individual or an organization) that can process this cycle quickly, observing and reacting to unfolding events more rapidly than an opponent can thereby "get inside" the opponent's decision cycle and gain the advantage. Boyd developed the concept to explain how to direct one's energies to defeat an adversary and survive.

Boyd’s diagram shows that all decisions are based on observations of the evolving situation tempered with implicit filtering of the problem being addressed. As stated by Boyd and shown in the “Orient” box, there is much filtering of the information through our culture, genetics, ability to analyze and synthesize, and previous experience. Applicability[edit] See also[edit]

e3value. Crossing the Chasm. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers or simply Crossing the Chasm (1991, revised 1999 and 2014), is a marketing book by Geoffrey A. Moore [1] that focuses on the specifics of marketing high tech products during the early start up period. Moore's exploration and expansion of the diffusions of innovations model has had a significant and lasting impact on high tech entrepreneurship. In 2006, Tom Byers, Faculty Director of Stanford Technology Ventures Program, described it as "still the bible for entrepreneurial marketing 15 years later".[2] The book's success has led to a series of follow-up books and a consulting company, The Chasm Group.[3] Synopsis[edit] Crossing the Chasm is closely related to the technology adoption lifecycle where five main segments are recognized: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority and laggards. Sales figures[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]

E-Procurement. Definition E-Procurement. Description. A E-Procurement stands for electronic procurement and is a broad term for buying products or services using electronic means such as the Internet, other computer networks, or wireless (mobile) transmissions. It should not be mistaken for E-Commerce (which is selling products or services using electronic media) and for E-Business, that involves both E-Commerce and E-Procurement.

It refers not just to the purchasing process itself but also to electronic negotiations and the conclusion of contracts with suppliers. E-Procurement is normally business to business (B2B). variants of e-procurement Web-enabled ERP (Electronic Resource Planning). Another word for it is E-Purchasing. Compare with: E-Business | E-Commerce | Reverse Auction | Porter Competitive Forces | Just-in-time | TDC Matrix | Twelve Principles of the Network Economy. Crossing the Chasm.