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  • Managing enterprise IT infrastructure and security 2022

    e-Learning Courses
    • R. Leszczyna
    • B. Woliński

    The aim of the course is for a student to acquire fundamental knowledge on cybersecurity management in organisations. During the course the concepts and methods associated with of an information security management system, cybersecurity standards and guidelines, cybersecurity management process, cybersecurity policy, cybersecurity threats, risk management, protection controls and the cost of the cybersecurity management will be...

  • Cybersecurity of Enterprise Infrastructure 2024

    e-Learning Courses
    • R. Leszczyna
    • S. Ostrowski

    The aim of the course is for a student to acquire fundamental knowledge on cybersecurity management in organisations. During the course the concepts and methods associated with of an information security management system, cybersecurity standards and guidelines, cybersecurity management process, cybersecurity policy, cybersecurity threats, risk management, protection controls and the cost of the cybersecurity management will be...

  • Knowledge Risk Management in Organizations

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    - Year 2018

    Purpose – Shorter product life cycles, greater demands from consumers for sustainable and eco-friendly products and services, and thus the need for constant market observation make today’s business environment a rather complex one, the one that is characterized not only by a number of opportunities but also by a number of risks. These risks are increasingly related to knowledge which, in turn, underlines the need for an updated...

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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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  • Emergent approach to Knowledge Management by Small Companies: multiple case-study research

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    - Journal of Knowledge Management - Year 2016

    Purpose: The aim of this paper is to examine knowledge management approach followed by small companies on the example of firms from the knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) sector. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on the results of a qualitative survey involving 12 owners and managers of small companies operating in the KIBS sector. The survey uses the case study method. Findings: The findings confirm that...

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  • An Industrial Survey on Business Analysis Problems and Solutions

    The paper focuses on the problems reported by business analysts which have a negative impact on their work and on the applicability of available business analysis (BA) techniques as solutions to such problems. A unified set of BA techniques was developed on the basis of 3 industrial standards associated with IIBA, REQB and IREB certification schemes. A group of 8 business analysts was surveyed to list problems they encounter in...

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  • Marek Szelągowski dr

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    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...

  • The High Quality Business School Academic Teacher of the 21st Century – Polish Students’ Perspective

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    The literature shows that the success and competence of future managers depend on the quality of their academic teachers. Moreover high quality study requires high quality lecturing/teaching that creates an environment in which deep learning outcomes are made possible for students. The aim was to identify the characteristics of the academic teacher working at business schools, according to the expectations of Polish students...

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  • Developing a model of cooperation between universities and business - the generalization of cases of cooperation

    The aim of this paper is to present a model of cooperation between universities and business.

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  • Hey student, are you sharing your knowledge? A cluster typology of knowledge sharing behaviours among students

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    Knowledge Sharing (KS) is crucial for all organisations to better face current and future challenges. It is justifiable to assume that after graduation, students will have to face the coming challenges at societal and business levels, and that they will need the adequate KS skills to do so. Though the importance of KS is established, the understanding of how students pass on their knowledge is still fragmented and underdeveloped....

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  • Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting as Post-pandemic Dangers to Knowledge Management

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    - Year 2023

    Purpose: COVID-19 pandemic aftermaths include the emergence of new tendencies, such as the Quiet Quitting, and continuation of trends such as the Great Resignation, both of which have multiple knowledge-related impacts on individual, organizational and even national level. The aim of this paper is to show the mechanisms behind the Quiet Quitting and the Great Resignation from individual and organizational perspectives. Understanding...

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  • Social networks as a context for small business? A new look at an enterprise in the context of a smallness and newness liability syndrome

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    - Year 2011

    In this paper we aim to propose and outline key ingredients to a small enterprise success, emerging from the social capital of small business owner-managers and their business networks. We employ resource based view of an organization as well as an embeddedness perspective along with new approach transaction costs to outline the pillars of an advantage of a small business entity. The analysis of survey data leads us to conclusion,...

  • Family business experience and the probability of starting a venture: gender differences in Poland

    The aim of this study is to analyse whether the experience of working in a family member’s business is related differently to the assessed probabilities of men and women starting their own new venture in the future. The research is conducted on a sample of 334 Polish undergraduate students. Poland is an efficiency-driven European economy with a substantial gender gap in entrepreneurship. The results obtained indicate that the relationship...

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  • High Growth Aspirations of Nascent Entrepreneurs: Why Do They Fall?

    Intention-based research become more and more popular in various domains, including entrepreneurship. Achieving growth by a business must be planned or at least consciously accepted by the business owner. That is why it is vital to take growth intentions into account when trying to predict growth of business. Personal attitude of an entrepreneur towards growth is important from the very beginning of business operations or even...

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  • Tacit Knowledge Sharing and Value Creation in the Network Economy: Socially Driven Evolution of Business

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    - Year 2018

    Key factors which affect competitive advantage in the network economy are innovation, relationships, cooperation, and knowledge. Sharing knowledge is not easy. Companies find it problematic. Presented studies show that the essence of the value creation today is not in sharing explicit but rather tacit knowledge, which is a source of creativity and innovation. Delivering value through knowledge does not only require efficient Transactive...

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  • SERVICE ORIENTED SCENARIOS FOR SUPPORT ENTERPRISE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

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    In the paper, a service oriented architecture is used to describe various scenarios of human-oriented enterprises. They can be modeled by BPMN to show basic information flow. We consider business scenarios to present another modeling solution called service orchestration or service mashup. That approach gives an opportunity for the right management through taking the best possible choice of services, or composition of services....

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  • Business applications of geolocation - modern solutions and trends

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    - Year 2015

    The technological development of geolocation systems has resulted in the utilization of physical location of users by a growing number of entrepreneurs. As mobile technology develops, the use of geolocation in business is becoming widespread with a new range of geomarketing techniques. Entrepreneurs therefore more often utilize geolocation in their promotional and operational activities. In this article mobile-based geolocation...

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Family Business: Current Debates and Future Prospects

    This paper aims at examining the main perspectives on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in family firms discussed in international literature. The topic of CSR has grown exponentially in the last two decades in both, business practice and as an area of interest among academics and researchers. Most studies focus on multinational corporations, some on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the smallest number on family business...

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  • A Survey Investigating the Influence of Business Analysis Techniques on Software Quality Characteristics

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    Business analysis is recognized as one of the most important areas determining the outcome (success or failure) of a software project. In this paper we explore this subject further by investigating the potential impact of techniques applied in business analysis on essential software quality characteristics. We conducted a literature search for software quality models, analyzed the existing models and selected a subset of commonly...

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  • CSR in Family Business- Ethnocentric Meaning Socially Responsible?

    The aim of this paper is to provide framework and key issues relevant for research on social responsibility of family business. From providing two theoretical approaches towards social responsibility such as social capital concept commenting on the familiness as a family firm resource and capability; and the stakeholder theory we move to the state of the art of family business. Then, we discuss heterogeneity among family firms...

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  • Critical Success Factors for Knowledge Management in SMEs in the KIBS Sector

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    - Year 2014

    The purpose of this paper is to examine knowledge management practices and critical success factors (CSFs) for their introduction in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) sector. Methodology: The paper is based on the results of an exploratory qualitative survey involving owners and managers of small and medium-sized companies operating in the KIBS sector. In the survey, eight...

  • Implementation of Business Intelligence in an IT organization - the concept of an evaluation model

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    - Foundations of Management - Year 2013

    This paper presents the issue of assessing the validity and effectiveness of implementing a Business Intelligence system in an IT Support Organization. This entity provides IT services to external clients involving, in particular, the storage and processing of large amounts of data. The vast amount of realized projects and also incidents reported in connection with those projects prevented effective decisions from being made without...

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  • 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...

  • Mashup Approaches for Improving Service Oriented Business Scenarios

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    Two kinds of business scenarios are considered: application- and service-oriented. It is shown that the former are more flexible and easier reconfigurable for both traditional (human-oriented) and IT services. Moreover, complex IT services can be created by simple IT services using the modern mashup technology. It is the reason why such business scenarios can be modeled by BPMN in much easier ways. A simple example of a supply...

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  • The Impact of EU Funds on the Development of Business Environment Institutions – Research Results in Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland

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    - Year 2014

    The paper presents the main findings of the research conducted to assess the impact of EU funds on development of business environment infrastructure in Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland, and – indirectly – on the growth of the innovation capacity of Pomeranian entrepreneurs. The research shows that support of ROP PV 2007-2013 contributed to the creation of multifunctional business infrastructure throughout the Pomorskie Voivodship,...

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  • Surpassing the Line: Urban-Oriented Strategies in the Development of Business Complexes in Poland

    Development trends regarding the business-related urban complexes seem to evolve from the “big-box” towards the more “multi-use” types of structures. Within it, the special role is reserved for places, which—due to economic, political, and geographical reasons—have not been previously considered as major business hubs. Only recently, places like cities in Central and Eastern Europe have become attractive locations for business...

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  • The Role of a Software Product Manager in Various Business Environments

    The aim of the paper is to identify the role of the software product manager depending on the size of the company and the characteristics of the product they are working on. This has been achieved in cooperation with 15 experts from the IT industry. The companies were divided into 4 levels of size: micro-enterprises, small businesses, medium businesses and large enterprises. The characteristics of the products were divided into...

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  • SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS – WHAT MAKES THEM DIFFERENT FROM BUSINESS UNDERTAKERS

    Social entrepreneurs, very often operate with highly limited resources, not to say with virtually nothing. They possess motivation, but apart from financial or technical resources very often they also need complex set of skills, especially those connected with leadership. Social entrepreneurship is similar to business entrepreneurship in many way, however there are some differences. Both similarities and differences can be find...

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  • Magdalena Brzozowska-Woś dr hab. inż.

    Magdalena Brzozowska-Woś is a graduate of the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology (specialization: management systems). She is also a graduate of Postgraduate Studies in Advertising (Faculty of Management and Economics, GUT) and Postgraduate Studies in Public Relations (SWPS University of Humanities and Social Sciences). In the years 2000-2003, she cooperated with Panorama Internet sp. z o....

  • Use of structural equation modeling in quantitative research in the field of management and economics: A bibliometric analysis in the systematic literature review

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    • A. Zakrzewska-Bielawska
    • A. Lis
    • A. Ujwary-Gil

    - Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation - Year 2022

    PURPOSE: This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of scholarly research focusing on using quantitative methods and particularly structural equation modeling (SEM) in management and economics studies, as well as provide a bibliometric agenda including the time horizon of individual publications, the highest citation rate, geographic and industry areas, methodological context, and keywords. METHODOLOGY: A systematic literature...

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  • Logistics of Transnational Corporations as the Basis of Cooperation Between Ukraine and EU (for Poland Example)

    The article describes the scientific and theoretical basis for the organization of logistics management of modern international corporations, owning by assets in mining and metallurgical business in Ukraine and Poland; it had been analyzed the influence of transfer pricing mechanism as one of the main factors affecting on the efficiency of the organization of supply chain of resources (Ukrainian semi-finished goods) to ensure uninterrupted...

  • Managerial Education and Entrepreneurial Attitudes of Students: Is There a Link?

    The role of entrepreneurship over the last few decades has constantly been growing for a number of reasons. This is accompanied by a growing number of students choosing fields of study where entrepreneurship education is an indispensable part of the curriculum, such as business studies or management. Efficiency of entrepreneurship education, often measured by entrepreneurship intentions revealed by students, is examined in numerous...

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  • Examining Ownership Equity as a Psychological Factor on Tourism Business Failure Forecasting

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    This paper examines ownership equity as a predictor of future business failure within the tourism and hospitality sectors. The main goals of this study were to examine which ratios are the most important for a tourism business failure forecasting model and how significant is the “total percentage of equity ownership by company directors” ratio compared with other ratios associated with the probability of bankruptcy. A stepwise...

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  • Knowledge management and factors influencing its implementation in small KIBS firms – evidence from Poland

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    - Year 2020

    Purpose – Even if the notion of knowledge management (KM) has been introduced more than three decades ago, the application of this concept in the context of small firms has still not been sufficiently explored. The relatively few contributions, however, agree on the fact that small companies do not manage knowledge the same way as their larger counterparts. In order to fill this gap, the present paper aims to the investigate the...

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  • Experimental economics in business education: Using simple games to achieve multifaceted effects

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    - Year 2014

    Economics differs from other sciences not only because of its normative part, but also because of very limited use of experiments. In this way, economics is often perceived as being methodologically more similar to astronomy or meteorology rather than physics or chemistry. Over last decades, however, experimental economics has been significantly developed. This chapter presents some of the possibilities for academic teachers to...

  • Using Rule-Based System for Monitoring Marine Navigation Data Processing

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    Processing marine navigational data requires sophisticated software solutions. Typically, specialized tools called processors are analyzing raw data from different sensors. It becomes important to create the monitoring software that is able to validate and verify processing components integrated into the final system. Drools®business rule management platform provides a core business rules engine, web authoring and rules management...

  • 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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  • Karolina Sobieraj mgr inż.

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    MSc. Karolina Sobieraj graduated in 2018 in the field of Renewable Energy Sources and Waste Management in the specialization of Waste Management, with a scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for students for outstanding scientific achievements in the 2017/2018 academic year. From October 2019, she started studies at the UPWr Doctoral School in the discipline of environmental engineering, mining and energy....

  • Jaromir Durkiewicz mgr

    Jaromir Durkiewicz is a research assistant at Department of Applied Informatics in Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk University of Technology. He holds a double master's degree in Informatics and Econometrics and Political Science (University of Gdańsk). His professional career includes a few years of work in IT sector. Since 2017 - PhD student at Faculty of Management and Economics, where he cooperates with...

  • IT Business Standards as an Ontology Domain

    The aim of this paper is to report a selection of Semantic Web aspects pertaining to ontology development activities in the domain of the IT business standard (TOGAF 9) such as formulating competency questions, conceptualization of the domain, resolution of the source knowledge deficiency and applying common design patterns in the OWL formalization. Authors also try to determine target groups that may benefit from such ontology...

  • Anna Maria Trzaskowska dr inż.

    Anna Maria Trzaskowska has been employed as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Management and Economics at the Department of Informatics in Management since 2017. For over 2 years she was the Deputy Head of the Department. A member of the Board of the Pomeranian Branch of the Polish Information Processing Society. Current scientific interests fall within the areas of agile methods, lean management in higher education, digitization...

  • Potrzeba wykorzystania narzędzi Enterprise Project Management w przedsiębiorstwie między narodowym - studium przypadku

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    W artykule przedstawiono wyniki badań dotyczące projektu wdrożenia narzędzia informatycznego, które usprawni proces planowanie pracy i zarządzanie zasobami w filiach zagranicznych, mającego znamiona systemu Enterprise Project Management - do wspomagania zarządzania projektami. Omówiono zalety oraz wady tego typu rozwiązań w stosunku do tradycyjnych sposobów zarządzania. Wskazano szanse i zagrożenia dla rozwoju przedsiębiorstw wynikające...

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  • Model działania analityka biznesowego w administracji publicznej w celu przeciwdziałania ukrytym wymaganiom

    Celem referatu było zaproponowanie modelu działania analityka biznesowego po stronie podmiotów administracji publicznej, który jest ukierunkowany na zapobieganie problemom wynikającym z występowania ukrytych wymagań. Podstawą tej propozycji są ogłoszone w 2015 r. dokumenty poświęcone analizie biznesowej, tzn. A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge International Institute of Business Analysis oraz Business Analysis...

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  • DUABI - Business Intelligence Architecture for Dual Perspective Analytics

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    - Year 2017

    A significant expansion of Big Data and NoSQL databases made it necessary to develop new architectures for Business Intelligence systems based on data organized in a non-relational way. There are many novel solutions combining Big Data technologies with Data Warehousing. However, the proposed solutions are often not sufficient enough to meet the increasing business demands, such as low data latency while still maintaining high...

  • Online brand communities’ contribution to digital business models

    Abstract Purpose – There is limited research examining social drivers and mediators of online brand community identification in the context of business models development. This study aims to identify them behind the social mechanisms and present essential factors which should be applied in business models to foster value co-creation. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from a convenience sample of 712 cases gathered among...

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  • Knowledge management driven leadership, culture and innovation success – an integrative model

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    - Year 2015

    Purpose – This article examines the relation between knowledge management (KM) driven leadership, culture and innovation success of knowledge-intensive small and medium sized companies. By building on the previously reported research on leadership, culture, innovation, and knowledge management, we synergistically integrated KM-driven leadership and innovation success while exploring the meditational role of culture in that. Design/methodology/approach...

  • Igor Garnik dr inż.

    Igor Garnik graduated from the Faculty of Electronics at the Gdańsk University of Technology (1992). He works at the Gdańsk University of Technology since 1997 - first employed as an assistant in the Department of Ergonomics and Maintenance of Technical Systems at the Faculty of Management and Economics, and then - after obtaining the degree of doctor in 2006 as an assistant professor. In the years 2009–2015 he was the coordinator...

  • Knowledge Sharing in the COVID-19 Era of Remote Teaching: What Can Academia Learn from Business?

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    - Year 2021

    Purpose: The aim of this paper is to investigate how universities may benefit from experiences of businesses that were also forced to use remote forms of business operations. Methodology: The paper uses in-depth interviews to explore the possibilities of knowledge sharing improvements at the university-level teaching, based on the experiences elicited in the business sector. The theoretical sampling was used to find informants...

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  • Kamil Brodnicki dr inż.

    Kamil Brodnicki is an assistant at the Department of Applied Informatics in Management at the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Gdańsk University of Technology. From 2017, he is the head of the Customer Experience laboratory. Since 2011, he has been working in one of the Tri-City IT companies as an IT Systems Analyst, implementing projects in the financial sector. His research interests are focused on the following areas:...

  • Wykorzystanie słabych sygnałów, foresightu i ciągu zarządzania strategicznego w konfiguracji biznesu przyszłości

    Burzliwość współczesnego otoczenia wyostrza zagadnienie przystosowania prowadzonej działalności gospodarczej do funkcjonowania w przyszłości. Do osiągnięcia sukcesu w biznesie przyszłości przyczynić się może wykorzystanie dostępnej już obecnie wiedzy. Na szczególną uwagę zasługuje teoria słabych sygnałów, metoda foresight oraz ciąg zarządzania strategicznego, które w połączeniu umożliwiają wypracowanie stanowiska w sprawie kształtu...

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