SERIALIZATION – LEGAL AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORK TO TRACK PRODUCT FROM PRODUCER TO CUSTOMER

Quality of product and safety of product usage is of key importance in different industries specifi cally in health and pharmaceutical industry. Internet becomes a framework for new e-economy development ringing new and inventive opportunities for business development. But in the same time Internet becomes largest channel for selling fake, counterfeit and misbranded products and pharmaceutical products specially, threating people’s life and public health. To solve this problem number of countries in the world started implementation of track and trace systems that will enable customer and authorities to track production and logistic chain for specific product from the trader, to the producer and even to the row material producer of product. This is not a simple task, since it requires adequate legal framework and information technology system development. The purpose of this paper is to explain legal framework and information technology terms and procedures related with serialization. A brief overview of serialization implementation in different countries and EU is given. Legal and IT framework is presented for EU. Product counterfeiting is a general problem which importance grows in e-commerce environment. Thus serialization in pharmaceutical industries is just beginning; it will be base for future development and spreading this solution in other industries as well

Revisiting the Impact of ICT to the Tourism Development

Technological development and tourism is close connected since exponential growth is realized in both areas in last 50 years. Information and communication technology influence on global scale on tourism development, and tourism development change the business practice and development strategies. Three new systems has dramatically influence on tactical and strategic level of doing business, computer reservation systems, global distribution system and Internet. Technological changes are obvious in three directions: radical changes in existing industries, development of new industries, incentive of new market development and industries which are not in direct connection with new technologies. The aim of this paper is to point on new technologies development on tourism thru overview of previous research. This work is licensed under a&nbsp;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</p

Knowledge Management in Knowledge Society

In spite the fact that individuals or even some companies neglect knowledge as one of key resources of contemporary business, knowledge occupies very important position within these successful companies. Dominant opinion of these individuals is that knowledge can’t be measured, and according to that it is not possible to govern with knowledge. Different researches how to implement knowledge and how to maintain required level of knowledge among the company employees proves that this is wrong assumption. Investment in the people, in creation of new knowledge and employee intellectual capital management makes a weapon of new economy in which knowledge is main product and that what is buying and selling. In this globalized market with fierce competition, demand and knowledge creation is key factor. The goal of this paper is to present overview of knowledge management in knowledge society, with point to new trends and challenges. This work is licensed under a&nbsp;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</p

IT as strategic resource in Croatian Companies (Challenges and Acceptance)

Information technology (IT) grows in its importance and becomes one of the strategic means for company development. This paper presents the result of survey on the strategic information system (IS) planning practices of Croatian companies. The results are compared with similar surveys done in Slovenia and Singapore. In large Croatian companies IT is still neglected resource, concerned just as a tool for automation of present business processes. The source of those problems comes from lack of knowledge and interest from top management structures. Thus the significant efforts must be done on the management side. It seems that appears the necessity to develop new hybrid manager profile with additional knowledge in strategic business planning and IT management capabilities

Deep Web - Some Lessons to Learn

Internet is a huge resource of information, but only the small portion of it is visible to regular users. More than 90 per cent of the web is hidden and to be able to see it, users need to use specific software like Tor. Currently there are more than 2.5 million daily users using Tor to surf the “hidden web”. Ever since Bitcoin and other virtual currencies became popular, more and more users started using Tor for illegal activities. These activities include exchanging illegal goods such as drugs, weapons, illegal data, and stolen credit cards information. The aim of this paper is to analyse the content of anonymous marketplace in one short period of time (72 hours) according to different products offered, scale of performed transactions, origin of the seller, and customer evaluation of the seller. For the needs of this paper, specialised crawling software was developed and as a result, 35 gigabytes of data was downloaded from one of the many black markets used by Tor users. The study shows that in that period, more than 5000 different products worth 1.8 million dollars were listed on the market. The research includes 2500 transactions each worth on average 51 dollars. With the advances in the technology and a growing number of Internet users, further growth of illegal activities on the “dark web” can be expected. It is interesting to analyse how the transactions are closed on the “dark web” since there are no legal institutions or any legal frame for business. These transactions are based on trust, confidence and customer evaluation on social networks. This work is licensed under a&nbsp;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</p

The Benefits of Enterprise Data Warehouse Implementation in Cloud vs. On-premises

When we think about running enterprise applications on-premises, enterprises do two things for their servers, databases, and storage. Enterprises provision for peaks and put a lot of infrastructures to handle peak demand, although a lot of this capacity is not used at normal times. The other thing is a few instances that each application needs to have, typically between five and six. Multiplying this number by many times due to various applications causes a lot of costs and creates capacity that is not used. For such reasons, the enterprise applications in the cloud seem reasonable. In the cloud, two things are possible again. Instead of overprovisioning for peaks, enterprises can scale the capacity on on-demand and spin up instances on demand. This means a certain amount of cost-saving by running at a normal level instead of overprovisioning. In this paper, various factors will be considered, and the benefits for enterprise data warehouse implementation in the cloud vs. on-premises will be stated

Application of Modern Technology: Perspective of Country Tourism Office

Social media are considered as one of the most significant data source of modern times. Among numerous industries affected by social media impact, tourism emerges as one of the key sectors where social media are progressively relevant. It has the impact on both destinations and enterprises. Data analytic systems help us to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Now that smartphones are broadly used, analytics systems are developed as mobile applications. The main objective of this paper is to examine the increasing role of the social media data analytics in tourism by presenting the case study on country tourism offices of Slovenia and Croatia. Both descriptive statistics and content analysis were used in order to explore, interpret and compare insights from social media provided by data analytics mobile application. Assorted practical implications have revealed from the study report, such as suggestions for content and the time and day of publishing in order to get higher engagement. Furthermore, no one, to the best of our knowledge, conducted similar research, so the paper contributes to the theoretical development of the field as well. This work is licensed under a&nbsp;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</p

KLJUČNI POKAZATELJI USPJEŠNOSTI ZA PROCESNO ORIJENTIRANA PODUZEĆA: SMJERNICE ZA IDENTIFIKACIJU POKAZATELJA

U svrhu stjecanja konkurentske prednosti mnoga poduzeća danas se fokusiraju na reorganizaciju svojih poslovnih procesa i implementaciju menadžmenta upravljanog procesima. U tom kontekstu mjerenje procesne uspješnosti postalo je krucijalno zato što omogućuje pojedincima i grupama da procijene gdje se nalaze u odnosu na svoje konkurente. U ovome radu se argumentira kako mjerenje procesne uspješnosti predstavlja nužnost za moderna, procesno orijentirana poduzeća i kako takvo mjerenje treba biti podržano pokazateljima za mjerenje procesne uspješnosti. Temeljem ekstenzivne revizije literature razvijene su smjernice za identifikaciju ključnih pokazatelja koji služe za mjerenje uspješnosti u procesno orijentiranim poduzećima. Definiranje prikladnih smjernica pomaže sistematizaciji polja mjerenja uspješnosti, ali i predstavlja kritički korak za ljude iz prakse koji navedene smjernice mogu iskoristiti u poslovanju