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  • Towards a process based management system for oil port infrastructure in context of insurance

    This article addresses selected methodological aspects of a process based management system based on analysis of hazards and threats and risk evaluation for an oil port infrastructure in context of insurance. The oil port terminal is regarded as important system of the critical infrastructure that require careful system oriented approach to deal with integrated aspects of environmental, safety and security management to reduce...

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  • Exploring governance among social co-operatives: three models from Poland

    There has been overly interest regarding social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in theory and practice. In this paper the author introduces the workings of governance of small social enterprises i.e. social co-operatives, acting in most cases for the purpose of work and social integration of the marginalized, at the bottom of the pyramid of socio-economic system. The aim of this paper is to provide insights into under researched...

  • Upgrading low value-added activities in global value chains: a functional specialisation approach

    This paper aims to identify patterns of functional specialisation (FS) in global value chains (GVCs) and determinants of upgrading them for selected Central Eastern European (CEE) economies. By combing the World Input-Output Database with data on occupations, we reveal a new FS pattern among subgroups of CEEs. Poland and Slovakia have an unfavourable GVC position and specialise in low value-added fabrication function. In contrast,...

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  • Sustainability reporting in the airline industry: Current literature and future research avenues

    Sustainability reporting (SR) allows organisations to communicate their non-financial impacts to stakeholders. It has also become a widespread business practice in aviation, a transport sector that contributes significantly to global warming. Academia has begun to examine SR in the context of airlines surprisingly late, and no comprehensive reviews of its respective developments have been made so far. Consequently, a systematic...

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  • Psychological inspirations in empirical software engineering.

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    - Year 2004

    Software development is people-intensive activity. Incorporation of human factors in empirical studies of software engineering can bring many benefits for both researchers and practitioners. Psychological inspirations can facilitate this task. In this paper, such incorporation is presented in the contexts of the objectives and problems in empirical studies, applicability of the results in the business context of software enterprise,...

  • Bartosz Sawik

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    Dr Bartosz Sawik is a Professor at the Department of Business Informatics and Engineering Management, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland and at the Institute of Smart Cities, GILT-OR Group, Department of Statistics, Computer Science and Mathematics, Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain. He is a Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has a Ph.D. and a M.Sc. and Eng....

  • Zarządzanie wiedzą w małych przedsiębiorstwach oferujących wiedzochłonne usługi biznesowe

    Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie praktyk zarządzania wiedzą oraz czynników wpływających na sukces, bądź porażkę w ich wdrażaniu na podstawie badania jakościowego przeprowadzonego w trzech firmach działających na terenie województwa pomorskiego. Firmy te należą do sektora małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw oraz oferują wiedzochłonne usługi biznesowe (knowledge-intensive business services – KIBS). W artykule podjęto próbę odpowiedzi...

  • Aleksandra Parteka dr hab. inż.

    About me: I am an associate professor and head of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology (GdanskTech, Poland).  I got my MSc degree in Economics from Gdansk University of Technology (2003) and Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche (2005), as well as MA degree in Contemporary European Studies from Sussex University (2006, with distinction).  I received my PhD in Economics...

  • Przedmiot ekonomiczny, Systemy zarządzania PG_00032920

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    • B. Geniusz-Stepnowska

    Celem przedmiot jest nie tylko zapoznanie studentów z teoriami Ekonomii i Zarządzania, ale także zrozumienie, jak zostać liderami i przedsiębiorcami w czasach po pandemicznego kryzysu i wyzwań klimatycznych.W tym celu wykorzystany zostanie proces myślenia projektowego i procesowego z określaniem misji, wizji i strategii przedsiębiorstwa. Koncepcje osadzone będą w czasach geopolityki i VUCA. Wykorzystane zostaną elementy Design...

  • Mirosław Andrusiewicz prof. dr hab. n. med. i n. o zdr.

    People

    Diplomas, degrees conferred in specific areas  ̶    Post-doctoral degree in medical sciences (doctor habilitated) (discipline: medical biology) December 4, 2017; Title of academic achievement: "Analysis of selected genes involved in the control of pathological changes in cells derived from internal female reproductive organs"; Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine II; re-viewers: Prof. Katarzyna Ziemnicka,...

  • Aktualne trendy w zakresie certyfikacji normatywnych systemów zarządzania w branży spożywczej

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    W opracowaniu omówiono aktualne trendy dotyczące certyfikacji systemu zarządzania jakością w sektorze rolno-spożywczym. Na podstawie danych uzyskanych z dużej, renomowanej jednostki certyfikującej przedstawiono analizę porównawczą dotyczącą liczby wydanych certyfikatów dla ogólnych systemów zarządzania oraz dla systemów branżowych dedykowanych sektorowi rolno-spożywczemu w odniesieniu do przedsiębiorstw różnych wielkości.

  • Przedsiębiorczość społeczna jako klucz do skutecznej edukacji przedsiębiorczej na społecznie odpowiedzialnym uniwersytecie

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    Cel naukowy: Celem artykułu jest prezentacja nowej propozycji kształcenia na rzecz przedsiębiorczości na studiach biznesowych (zarządzanie i ekonomia), uwzględniającej edukację w zakresie przedsiębiorczości społecznej. Problem i metody badawcze: W artykule omówiono problem edukacji przedsiębiorczej z punktu widzenia wyzwań zmieniającej się gospodarki oraz ewoluujących oczekiwań stawianych polskim uczelniom wyższym. Główną metodą...

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  • Abreham Bekele Bekele Bayu Ass. Prof.

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    I am an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering with a specialization in environmental engineering at Jimma Institute of Technology. Currently, I am a doctoral candidate and researcher at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. I hold a bachelor's degree in Chemical engineering from Addis Ababa University and a master's degree in environmental Engineering From Jimma University. Besides I had a Master of Business Administration...

  • Trust triggers and barriers in intercultural teams

    Intercultural teams are more and more popular nowadays — they constitute a serious challenge in terms of effective cooperation and trust building, however. The article presents the potential problems that can affect intercultural cooperation and stresses the power of trust in cultural diversity conditions. The ten-factor model of intercultural team trust is presented. The main aim was to answer the questions: what are the differences...

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  • Organizational culture as prerequisite of proactive safety and security management in critical infrastructure systems including hazardous plants and ports

    This article addresses selected aspects of organizational culture to be considered in the context of knowledge based proactive safety and security management of plants, ports and systems of critical infrastructure. It has been often emphasized in the domain literature that business effectiveness of such plants and their resilience against hazards and threats to avoid major accidents depends substantially on human and organizational...

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  • Corporate social responsibility in reference to environmental statements within EMAS system in small and medium enterprises

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    - Year 2013

    According to the corporate social responsibility concept, organisations should apply any mechanisms available supporting their business actions contributing i.e. to the improvement of natural environment. Among them is EMAS eco-management and audit scheme. The prove of its implementation is environmental statement and entering the organisation into a national EMAS register. The aim of the statement is informing the society and...

  • Implementing a CSR Strategy in a Small Enterprise - a Case Study

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    As a result of employees’ meetings conducted according to Kaizen workshops formula and seeking new development directions for the company (including CSR actions) various product and service innovations have been implemented. Also a market niche has been discovered, and as a consequence the company gained another profitable aspect of the business activity. The atmosphere and contribution in performing tasks have improved among...

  • Innovation in the strategies of Polish provinces - a comparative study of selected cases

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    - Year 2012

    Many strategic management theorists and practitioners believe that the implementation of innovation is one of the key factors determining the company success and show the relationship between long-term innovation strategy and business development strategy. It has also been claimed that similar strategies should be developed for each unit of public administrationMinistry of Economy has set National Development Strategy 2007-2015...

  • Including the Dark Side of Entrepreneurship in the Entrepreneurship Education

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    Pursuing an entrepreneurial career is often rewarding in terms of both economic and psychological outcomes. However, becoming an entrepreneur also has its darker side that affects professional and personal life. Meanwhile, the positivity bias is prevalent in entrepreneurial education and research. It is recognized as emphasizing the advantages of becoming an entrepreneur and giving considerably less attention to potential downsides....

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  • Customer Engagement Consequences for Firms

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    Purpose: Customer engagement (CE) is a customers’ voluntary resource contribution to firms’ functions, and it goes beyond transactions during customers’ behavioral manifestations toward the brand or firm’s offerings or activities. The effective CE management requires to understand the potential CE effects, and leverage the potential benefit and threat of CE, however negative consequences or risks of CE have remained unexplored...

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  • Reshaping the Gdańsk Shipyard—The Birthplace of the Solidarity Movement. The Complexity of Adaptive Reuse in the Heritage Context

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    The Gdańsk Shipyard—the birthplace of the Solidarity movement—is host to a unique example of a multi-layered brownfield redevelopment project, an area that is burdened by a complex history, overlapping heritage, and multiple memories. These circumstances require an integrated yet differentiated approach to the site’s heritage and make the creation of one homogeneous narration of its future impossible. At the same time, the size...

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  • Processes of enhancing the intelligence of Learning Organizations on the basis of Competence Centers

    The process of organizational learning and proper knowledge management became today one of the major challenges for the organization acting in the knowledge-based economy. According to the observations of the authors of this paper the demand for formalization of knowledge management processes and organizational learning is particularly evident in research institutions, established either by the universities, or the companies. The...

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  • Knowledge Management Critical Success Factors and the Innovativeness of KIBS Companies

    The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of two critical success factors for knowledge management (i.e. leadership and support by the management, motivational practices) on the innovativeness of knowledge-intensive business service (KIBS) companies in the SMEs sector. A sample of 400 companies (KIBS SMEs) located in the Pomeranian District in Poland was selected. The questionnaire was designed to measure knowledge...

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  • Cross-Cultural Interactions between Expatriates and Local Managers in the Light of Positive Organizational Behaviour

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    - Social Sciences/ Socialiniai Mokslai - Year 2014

    The main purpose of this article is to identify the ‘individual positive deviance’ presented by expatriates and local managers in their mutual cooperation. The theoretical basis for the publication is the discussion of the Positive Organizational Behaviour (POB) essence and the application of this approach in the area of expatriation. Attitudes, behaviour, working style and personality traits of employees of different nationalities...

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  • New Challenges in Management and Economics in 21st century. Selected studies and examples

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    - Year 2020

    In Chapter 1 authors describe the method used to assess the level of readiness of an organization to introduce the Lean Six Sigma concept supporting the Quality 4.0 assumptions, which is gaining more and more interest not only in large organizations, but also in the SME sector. Its use will be illustrated by the example of a small service company. Chapter 2 presents the characteristics of blockchain technology applications in the...

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  • Society 4.0: Issues, Challenges, Approaches, and Enabling Technologies

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    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Year 2024

    This guest edition of Cybernetics and Systems is a broadening continuation of our last year edition titled “Intelligence Augmentation and Amplification: Approaches, Tools, and Case Studies”. This time we cover research perspective extending towards what is known as Society 4.0. Bob de Vit brought the concept of Society 4.0 to life in his book “Society 4.0 – resolving eight key issues to build a citizens society”. From the Systems...

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  • Overview of new product development strategies and models

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    - Catallaxy - Year 2023

    Motivation: The motivation for the overview presented in this article is to provide a starting point for considering whether existing new product development methodology and its level of detail allows product teams to develop high-quality and business-effective product concepts. Aim: The aim of this article is recognise the current state of research into new product development methodology and to present the strategies and models...

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  • Development of a tropical disease diagnosis system using artificial neural network and GIS

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    - Year 2021

    Expert systems for diagnosis of tropical diseases have been developed and implemented for over a decade with varying degrees of success. While the recent introduction of artificial neural networks has helped to improve the diagnosis accuracy of such systems, this aspect is still negatively affected by the number of supported diseases. A large number of supported diseases usually corresponds to a high number of overlapping symptoms,...

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  • Predyspozycje zawodowe artysty a cechy przedsiębiorcze

    Artykuł stanowi analizę porównawczą cech osobowości przypisywanych artystom z charakterystyką skutecznego przedsiębiorcy. Podstawą zestawienia jest profil osobowości twórczej, typy osobowości zawodowych oraz profil osobowości przedsiębiorcy. Celem artykułu jest wskazanie zakresu kompetencji, które mogą być niedostępne dla twórców, a które warunkują realizację przedsięwzięć biznesowych. Potwierdzeniem konieczności integracji sylwetki...

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  • Tworzenie sieci współpracy uczelni z otoczeniem przy wykorzystaniu zamówień przedkomercyjnych na przykładzie projektu e-Pionier

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    - e-mentor - Year 2017

    Autorzy podjęli temat nowatorskiego podejścia uczelni do zamówień publicznych z wykorzystaniem modelu poczwórnej helisy opartej na zamówieniach przedkomercyjnych (pre-commercial procurement). Celem publikacji jest wskazanie możliwości praktycznego zastosowania takiego podejścia na przykładzie pilotażowego projektu e-Pionier, realizowanego w latach 2017-2020 przez Politechnikę Gdańską we współpracy z innymi uczelniami, instytucjami...

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  • Superkomputery do wspomagania procesów gospodarczych ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem sektora bankowego

    W artykule omówiono wykorzystanie superkomputerów do wspomagania procesów gospodarczych ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem sektora bankowego. Odniesiono się do wybranych projektów wspierających rozwój gospodarczy w oparciu o superkomputery. W szczególności zaproponowano zastosowanie HPC do implementacji wybranych metod sztucznej inteligencji w bankowości, w tym oceny ryzyka wybranych przedsięwzięć. Zaproponowane podejście umożliwia...

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  • Jolanta Łopatowska dr inż.

    Jolanta Łopatowska, assistant professor at the Department of Management Engineering and Quality at the Faculty of Management and Economics, is a graduate of the Faculty of Electronics at Gdańsk University of Technology and Institute of Organization and Design of Production Systems at Gdańsk University of Technology. She obtained Ph.D. degree in the discipline of Economic Science. Her scientific and research interests focus on organizationally...

  • Zasady efektuacji w działaniach początkujących przedsiębiorców

    Artykuł dotyczy efektuacyjnego, dynamicznego modelu przedsiębiorczości stanowiącego odpowiedź na wymagania zmiennego, niepewnego otoczenia biznesowego, w którym funkcjonują współcześni przedsiębiorcy. We wcześniejszych badaniach, obejmujących stosowanie pięciu zasad efektuacji w prowadzeniu firm, różni autorzy odnosili się głównie do dojrzałych przedsiębiorców, charakteryzujących się doświadczeniem w zakładaniu i prowadzeniu własnego...

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  • Krystyna Dziubich mgr inż.

    Krystyna Dziubich obtained a Eng. degree in computer science granted by a council at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology in 1996. 1996-2005 employment in industry, as a computer scientist as specialist analyst in the Department of Management Systems Development; She is employed at ETI Faculty as a lecturer since 2005. She conducts lectures for full-time, extramural...

  • BIOSOLFarm BIOSOLFarm - South baltic farms - an essential part of renewable energy systems

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    Project manager: dr inż. Iwona Cichowska-Kopczyńska   Financial Program Name: Europejska Współpraca Terytorialna 2021-2027

    Project realized in Department of Process Engineering and Chemical Technology according to STHB.02.01-0003/23/00 agreement from 2023-11-27

  • Company Culture, Knowledge Sharing and Organizational Performance. The Employee’s Perspective

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    - Year 2017

    Knowledge sharing, as a basic prerequisite for knowledge creation, is a dynamic social process characterized by profound human interactions. The process of knowledge sharing can be supported by organizational culture which is a set of values and norms giving identity to each enterprise. As a valuable element of intellectual capital, organizational culture contributes to achieving strategic business goals. The purpose of this article...

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  • Proximity and Innovation in Clusters: How Close, How Far?

    The concept of proximity, whilst attractive cognitively, is still a poorly explored area in management sciences. The earliest publications on proximity were published at the end of the twentieth century and the development of this concept was strongly influenced by The French School of Proximity (Kirat & Lung, 1999; Rallet & Torre, 1999; Torre & Gilly, 2000; Carrincazeaux et al., 2001; Torre & Rallet, 2005). However, the most influential...

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  • Wiedza i jej przepływy w firmach oferujących wiedzochłonne usługi biznesowe

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    - Year 2018

    Przedmiotem niniejszej publikacji jest wiedza i jej przepływy w małych i średnich firmach oferujących wiedzochłonne usługi biznesowe (knowledge intensive business services – KIBS). Wiedza i jej znaczenie dla ludzkości nie są niczym nowym – już w czasach prehistorycznych ci, którzy posiadali wiedzę na temat zdobywania pożywienia, czy szukania schronienia mieli większe szanse na przeżycie niż ci, którzy jej nie posiadali. Mimo upływu...

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  • Principles and Practices of Corporate Governance in the Global Economy

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    - Year 2020

    The book places ownership at the centre of all relevant choices that the company makes. In particular, it addresses the issue of governance from the perspective of ownership, and in a broader and more articulated sense than most Anglo-Saxon studies do. The authors analyse the relationship between ownership, governance, and corporate strategy, with a dual objective. On the one hand, the aim is to identify the consistency relationships...

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  • A method of Functional Test interval selection with regards to Machinery and Economical aspects

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    - Year 2018

    This paper discusses the problem of choosing the optimal frequency of functional test, including the reliability calculations and production efficiency, but also the effect of company risk management. The proof test as a part of the functional test interval is well described for the process industry. Unfortunately, this situation is not the case for the machinery safety functions with low demand mode. Afterwards, it is presented...

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  • Skłonność do rywalizacji a intencje przedsiębiorcze – o różnicach międzypłciowych

    According to the person-environment fit model people are more inclined to choose particular careers paths over other depending on their individual characteristics. They are also more likely to be satisfied with a career path that matches their characteristics and less likely to experience negative consequences including strain. In previous research several characteristics of entrepreneurs which differentiate them from non-entrepreneurs...

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  • When digital government matters for tourism: a stakeholder analysis

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    - Information Technology and Tourism - Year 2017

    Despite the importance of governance processes for destination management and the impact of digital technology on such processes, surprisingly little academic research has explored the use of digital technology to transform public governance in the tourism sector. This conceptual paper fills this gap by conducting a digital government stakeholder analysis for the tourism sector using the digital government evolution model as its...

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  • Improvements and Spatial Dependencies in Energy Transition Measures

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    - ENERGIES - Year 2021

    This article aims to improve one of the newest energy transition measures—the WorldEconomic Forum WEF Energy Transition Index (ETI) and find its driving forces. This paper proposesa new approach to correct the ETI structure, i.e., sensitivity analysis, which allows assessing theaccuracy of variable weights. Moreover, the novelty of the paper is the use the spatial error modelsto estimate determinants of the energy transition on...

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  • Teaching management skills to software develop- ment teams through the lean start-up methodology

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    - Year 2014

    In order for development teams to understand the impact of software development on value delivery it is important that all team members, including software engineers, possess adequate management skills which not always have been acquired during university education. The lean start-up methodology techniques enable new ventures to test hypothesis, gather customer feed- back and create a minimum viable product. The obtained information...

  • Overview of new product development strategies and models

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    - Catallaxy - Year 2023

    Motivation: The motivation for the overview presented in this article is to provide a starting point for considering whether existing new product development methodology and its level of detail allows product teams to develop high-quality and business-effective product concepts. Aim: The aim of this article is recognise the current state of research into new product development methodology and to present the strategies...

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  • The Development of a Conceptual Framework for Knowledge Sharing in Agile IT Projects

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    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Year 2022

    Organizations must adapt their resources to meet the challenges associated with changes in the work environment in order to remain competitive in the information era. Several research findings identify knowledge sharing as a means for an organization to improve its competitiveness. Knowledge sharing can be defined in a variety of ways, but it essentially refers to the exchange of knowledge from an information giver to an information...

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  • Creating Polish space language dictionary - lessons learned

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    Polish space industry suffers from lack of space vocabulary. Since joining European Space Agency in 2012, the sector has expanded rapidly now employing over 1000 specialists focusing mainly on space sustainability, space debris detection and tracking, robotics and propulsion systems. The Polish Space Agency together with The Polish Committee for Standardization have committed to creating the first lexicon of space language, along...

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  • Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Education: Benefits, Challenges and Strategies of Implementation

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    - Year 2021

    Since the education sector is associated with highly dynamic business environments which are controlled and maintained by information systems, recent technological advancements and the increasing pace of adopting artificial intelligence (AI) technologies constitute a need to identify and analyze the issues regarding their implementation in education sector. However, a study of the contemporary literature reveled that relatively...

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  • WYKORZYSTANIE GRYWALIZACJI (GAMIFICATION) W SEKTORZE MSP DO BUDOWANIA RELACJI KLIENT-USŁUGODAWCA PRZY PROJEKTOWANIU USŁUG

    Artykuł przedstawia nowe pojęcie grywalizacji, które wykorzystuje i przenosi mechanizmy tworzenia gier do świata biznesu i projektowania usług. Autor tekstu wprowadza czytelnika w tematykę zagadnienia grywalizacji, jednocześnie wyjaśniając, na czym ono polega. Prezentuje i omawia mechanizmy, jakie wyróżniają grywalizację. Twórca tekstu pokazuje przykłady zastosowania grywalizacji oraz opisuje zagadnienia związane z wykorzystaniem...

  • Marek Szelągowski dr

    People

    Marek Szelągowski has participated in the creation and implementation of IT solutions in the fields of accounting, human resources management, production, IT infrastructure management, etc. As the CIO of the BUDIMEX Group in 2000–2008 he was responsible for the accommodation of informatization strategies to the changing needs of the business sector. He was managing and participating in analyses and optimizations of business processes...