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The liberalisation and diversification of the European electricity industry
No full text European Commission directives for the liberalisation and deregulation of the European electricity industry were adopted almost at the same time in several nations. But each country had specific market structures and internal conditions. The aim of this paper is to analyse descriptively if and how differences between the home countries of European electricity firms affected, quantitatively and/or qualitatively, their diversification strategies after liberalisation. Research consisted of collecting and analysing data on the strategic actions of the main European electricity firms. The analysis covers a period often years (1998–2007), i.e. the first ten years after the first European directive. This paper sheds light on the link between pre-liberalisation specificities and attributes of a national electricity market and the post-liberalisation diversification strategy of its national electricity companies. </jats:p
The value of data sets in information and knowledge management as a threat to information security
No full textThe article presents an analysis of the awareness of employees at various levels in large manufacturing companies in Poland and Italy. A questionnaire was used for the research, the questions allow for adopting a 7-point Likert scale. The Servqual method was used to assess satisfaction with the applied solutions. The research became the basis for the development of a model of conduct among middle and senior employees with a large amount of processed information. The article is of a research nature. The main purpose of this survey is to identify the level of awareness of production companies' employees in the field of security of processed information and its collection in big data. For this purpose, the first part discusses information and knowledge management as components of enterprise security. Attention was also paid to the amount of information and knowledge that should be processed, which gives the potential for processing in big data. The article uses the results of studies conducted from September 2019 to March 2020. The second (empirical) part of the article presents the research assumptions, methodology, research results and conclusions from the research. On the basis of 1263 questionnaires, it was shown that the transfer of information and knowledge is at an average level in enterprises. The study also showed a moderate safety effectiveness of the analyzed resources. The next stage of the research was the Servqual analysis, which showed that one of the examined areas: reliability of company management requires immediate improvement, and providing employees with knowledge about big data and security threats requires intervention, reflection and changes. The study also indicated that the growing availability of modern systems and the creation of a security culture gives the potential to transfer the activities of enterprises to IT systems. Information and knowledge processing and management of these resources is also possible with the use of big data
The FutureS of healthcare
No full textThis editorial for the special issue of FutureS is not intended to provide a comprehensive, analytical overview of the future of health care; rather, it collects the perspectives on which scholars have focused most. There is a danger that what we report will quickly become obsolete for numerous reasons; think of the speed of current technological progress or the fact that the Covid-19 pandemic could further stress health care systems around the world. However, we would like to outline some of the current topics explored in the literature and focus on the scenarios envisioned by practitioners. We write this piece being interested in the innovative impulses of all the actors belonging to the “renewed” health care ecosystem, aware of the fact that there are significant differences between the countries of the North and South of the world and, consequently, between their health care systems. What we can say with certainty is that the healthcare and life sciences are the protagonists of an unparalleled revolution. The aging population and changing needs, the increasingly common occurrence of chronic disorders, and digitization are some of the challenges facing the sector. The technological change of the fourth industrial revolution is disruptive and changes the logic of the market, not only that of healthcare but also that of adjacent markets. Because of the intensity with which insiders have to face these new trends, the topic has been the focus of interest of scholars and practitioners in recent years. The big players in consulting, as well as the scholars, have deepened the issues of healthcare of the future, focusing on what will be the major challenges in 10 years and imagining potential scenarios that will reconfigure the way health care is delivered and used. In the next 10 years, there will be profound demographic changes and the healthcare system will necessarily have to reconfigure the supply of the necessary services and the methods of delivery (KPMG, 2018). Due to the aging of the population, there has already been a dramatic increase in chronic and degenerative diseases requiring complex treatment in recent years. In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic that has been sweeping the world since 2019 has strained global health systems, revealed already existing weaknesses, even in the most advanced countries, and is representing an important moment of reflection for all policymakers. The whole world is questioning what will need to be done to foster greater effectiveness of national systems as well as better capacity to cope with shocks of such magnitude. In this document we explore what practitioners and scholars consider the main future challenges and the major changes that need to be made in the healthcare sector in order to embrace a new paradigm of care, based on the centrality of the patient, on prevention and not on cure, on technologies at the side of humans
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