Improving Operational Efficiency of Applications via Cloud Computing

Bauer, Eric

doi:10.1109/mcc.2018.011791710

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“…Lower operating unit costs generally imply higher efficiency and financial flexibility (Bauer, 2018; Hofer et al, 2009). An airline's operating unit cost (dis)advantage is expected to impact its choice of strategies.…”

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Financial distress and service decisions: Empirical evidence from the US domestic airlines

Wang

2023

Manage Decis Econ

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Understanding the firm's service decisions under financial distress is of central importance to service quality regulators and operation management scholars. This study aims to add new evidence to the relationship between financial distress and airline services and reconcile the discrepancies between theory, practical implications, and empirical results. We examine if and how airlines in financial distress may change their service provisions to turn around, with a particular focus on the moderating role of operating unit costs and market share. In the study, four measures of service failure (the inverse of service quality) are constructed and evaluated: airline arrival delay minutes attributable to the carrier, cancelations attributable to the carrier, mishandled baggage, and involuntary denied boardings. In the US domestic airline business context, we estimate the mixed-effects model using panel data from the Department of Transportation and Wharton Research Data Services. We find robust evidence that financial distress plays a vital role in airline service provisions, and the distress-service relationship is contingent upon the operating unit costs of airlines.The findings provide evidence to help explain the different and sometimes contradictory empirical findings. We depend on the aggressive strategy framework to understand the service effect of airline financial distress.

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Financial distress and service decisions: Empirical evidence from the US domestic airlines

Wang

2023

Manage Decis Econ

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“…Indian SMMEs can leverage advanced analytics at the edge and in the cloud to help better manage variability – specially to address mass customization business needs (Bauer, 2018). Variability can be in terms of size and type of IT infrastructure, applications or usage, Indian SMMEs can use cloud-based solutions and services to benefit both their own operations and those of their industrial customers to improve service efficiencies while lowering warranty costs with condition-based, predictive maintenance (Mourtzis et al , 2017) and cloud-enabled remote diagnostics that can reduce or eliminate technician visits.…”

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Digital transformation priorities of India’s discrete manufacturing SMEs – a conceptual study in perspective of Industry 4.0

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Purpose Manufacturing excellence is critical to our nation’s economy. Indian Government’s National Manufacturing Policy, drafted in 2011, is being revamped to include the aspects of Industry 4.0. Initiatives, both led and assisted by government and industries, are being launched to catalyze and transform India’s manufacturing competencies. This paper aims to study the functional areas which can potentially leverage Industry 4.0 technologies and help India’s manufacturing establishments to transform. It does so in context of the aspirations of India’s small and medium discrete manufacturing establishments (SMME) towards adopting digital technologies for the identified functional areas. The study draws its context from the relevant literature review intended to examine the academic articles published until the end of September 2018, followed by a maturity assessment survey of Indian SMMEs to establish priority areas Design/methodology/approach The literature survey has been complemented with a maturity survey of more than 250 of Indian SMMEs to establish adoption gaps by comparing proficiency and sophistication of their present status and proposed adoption aspirations by 2020. The assessment of the organizational aspirations and gap areas identified is expected to indicate which of the Industry 4.0 elements can be adopted by them. Findings The maturity survey undertaken throws up several insights – Indian SMME community’s self-assessment indicates operational measurements followed by manufacturing and design interventions as the aspired transformation cycle. The survey indicates that manufacturers would like to make changes to their design and manufacturing strategies based on performance metrics; therefore, they need to first capture real-time machine data, analyze and then incorporate the resulting improvements in manufacturing and design decisions in that order. Research limitations/implications The maturity assessment method itself is in evolution stage, and future correlations with benefits will strengthen observations. Industry 4.0 being relatively new initiative for India, availability of country-specific academic literature is limited. The maturity assessment survey undertaken across organizations of North, West and South India therefore carries the risk of not reflecting the views of a wider population. The current maturity, or the lack of it, of proficiency and readiness of India’s SMMEs with respect to digital technologies may also be a barrier to self-examine. Practical implications This research is expected to provide insight into priorities to be adopted for digital-centric transformation by Indian SMMEs. It is expected to facilitate policymakers and influencers from government and industry to help frame policies that facilitate the adoption of digital technologies by Indian SMMEs and facilitate India’s technical education community to adopt skill development programs to support industry. It is expected to provide guidance to India’s academic institutions to rejig their curriculums to help bridge the critical skills gap that exists between newly inducted engineering professionals and industry. Social implications Digitalization is expected to foster lean and therefore support sustainability initiatives. Digitalization is expected to help create new, alternative sources of employment which are more relevant to emerging times and foster unlearning the past and relearning of new skills. This emerging diversity of engineering applications resulting from digitalization is expected to also support the larger and poorer agricultural community of India and help the sector to become more efficient and productive, which in turn will reduce economic alienation of a large section of Indian society. Originality/value Industry 4.0 has been identified as the transformational initiative for India’s manufacturing competitiveness. Indian manufacturing sector needs to urgently implement the digital technologies and improve their performance and remain relevant in this dynamic market. This research will help guide them to frame their respective digital strategies and be successful. This research will help government and industry influencers to plan and execute their interventions.

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“…Recently, the wave of a TOS Cloud has prompted ports and marine terminals to reorganize their operations and migrate to cloud infrastructure. However, a terminal must undertake comprehensive research and take appropriate precautions to choose the optimum solution that will result in a rise in return on investment, reduced operating expenditures, and overall operational efficiency (Bauer, 2018).…”

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Cloud Computing Present Limitations and Future Trends

AlTwaijiry¹

2021

Preprint

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Cloud computing is still in its early stage. There are several companies, both big and small, that provide a diverse range of cloud-based services. There are several types of apps, such as complete programs, support services, mail filtering services, and storage services. IT professionals have become used to using some of the many cloud-based services as business requirements required. Cloud computing aggregators and integrators, on the other hand, are already developing, providing bundles of goods and services as a single point of access to the cloud. This research attempts to explore the current limitations and future trends of cloud computing. More specifically, this research discusses current limitations such as limited control, Cloud outage, Vendor lock-in, Cloud security, Energy consumption and the future trends to combat these limitations such as Edge computing, Hybrid and Multi-Cloud solutions, green cloud computing, serverless computing.

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Improving Operational Efficiency of Applications via Cloud Computing

Cited by 12 publications

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Financial distress and service decisions: Empirical evidence from the US domestic airlines

Financial distress and service decisions: Empirical evidence from the US domestic airlines

Digital transformation priorities of India’s discrete manufacturing SMEs – a conceptual study in perspective of Industry 4.0

Cloud Computing Present Limitations and Future Trends

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