Applying case based reasoning for prioritizing areas of business management

  • Authors:
  • Miguel A. Carmona;Julio Barbancho;Diego F. Larios;Carlos LeóN

  • Affiliations:
  • IAT (Andalusian Institute of Technology), Seville, Spain;Department of Electronic Technology, University of Seville, Spain;Department of Electronic Technology, University of Seville, Spain;Department of Electronic Technology, University of Seville, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Determining the importance of different management areas in a company provides guidance about the needs of increasing the analysis and actions focuses in particular topic. To do it, it is necessary to decompose the management in a coherent set of specific management areas and provide a way that allows the company to determine the importance of these areas for them. This paper presents a novel system that guides companies to obtain a classification of important management areas for them. It is focused on the use of a case based reasoning system because the variability and the evolution of companies as time passes requires using techniques with learning capabilities. The proposed system provides an automatic self-assessment system that provides companies an ordered list of their most important management areas. This system was implemented a year ago for the evaluation of Spanish companies. Currently, it is in production providing relevant information about the management areas of these companies.