Title :
Proactive business performance management in the book distribution industry
Author :
Fujiwara, Faori ; Koide, Akio ; Saitoh, Masaru
Author_Institution :
Tokyo Res. Lab., IBM Japan Ltd., Tokyo
Abstract :
This paper presents a feasibility study of proactive business performance management based on monitoring data for the Japanese book market. By using two years of such data, we developed three types of forecasts. We tested them with simulations to show how prediction-based book distribution can improve the book business
Keywords :
business data processing; electronic commerce; electronic publishing; Japanese book market; book distribution industry; prediction-based book distribution; proactive business performance management; Books;
Conference_Titel :
e-Business Engineering, 2005. ICEBE 2005. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2430-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICEBE.2005.98
