The growth of business-to-business auctions presents the quality-focused business organization with many opportunities and some serious challenges. In this context, the absence of a well-designed organizational e-business auction-based strategy has the potential to promote business practices which may erode organizational quality gains. This article presents a conceptual open system approach designed to improve the quality focus of business-to-business auctions practices. The open system approach advocated in this article is quality focused and supply-chain sensitive.

Numerous publications have expressed concerns regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in business decision-making. These concerns encompass bias, competence, the absence of an AI development strategy, and the limited attention given to strategic and legal issues and explainability of AI decisions. Therefore, this thesis aims to explore these concerns and examine how companies can address the associated challenges by focusing on the perspectives of the interviewees.Apart from theoretical research and literature review, this thesis relies on qualitative research through semi-structured interviews to collect empirical data. The study involved four respondents who participated in the interviews and provided valuable insights contributing to the findings.The results highlight privacy, explainability, bias fairness, and competence and education as the major legal and strategic concerns associated with AI in business decision-making. The respondents suggested various solutions, including promoting diverse and inclusive decisionmaking processes, data classification, and the utilization of AI models to explain the decisions made by AI systems. In addition, outside the direct focus of the study, some respondents mentioned challenges to knowledge transfer and the use of cloud solutions for data storage.The study’s contributions provide companies that are implementing or have already implemented AI technologies for business decision-making with knowledge about the current challenges in this domain. It also offers insights into how the interviewees ranked these challenges in terms of priority and their perspectives on potential solutions and actions to achieve a balance between efficiency and responsibility. However, the study has limitations, such as a small number of respondents, which restricted the analysis of correlations between their answers and potential relations with their roles or company size. Companies should be mindful of these limitations for further research in this area.

Submitted by Maicon Juliano Schmidt (maicons) on 2015-04-18T13:22:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Reimbran Kolling Pinheiro.pdf: 1615299 bytes, checksum: 253f877e761f1be988b7ba70d8a27058 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-18T13:22:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Reimbran Kolling Pinheiro.pdf: 1615299 bytes, checksum: 253f877e761f1be988b7ba70d8a27058 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-29 / Nenhuma / Este trabalho objetiva identificar quais são os principais desafios estratégicos dos hospitais filantrópicos sediados em Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, na perspectiva de seus gestores sêniores e especialistas do setor. A pesquisa também contemplou a identificação de forças, fraquezas, oportunidades e ameaças, além de tendências do segmento. Assim sendo, foi realizada uma revisão de literatura sobre o mercado de saúde, estratégia e gestão em saúde. Foi utilizada uma metodologia qualitativa de estudos de casos múltiplos, a fim de se obter a perspectiva dos gestores e especialistas. Foram entrevistados quatro gestores hospitalares e dois especialistas no setor. Os resultados revelam a existência de vários desafios estratégicos, dentre os quais se destacam a necessidade de melhoria e aprimoramento da qualidade médica e assistencial, de forma a assegurar a segurança aos pacientes, a superação do descompasso existente entre as receitas e custos hospitalares e a necessidade de aumento da capacidade instalada dos hospitais, de forma que os mesmos consigam atender de forma satisfatória a demanda por seus serviços. O estudo ainda revela um ambiente repleto de peculiaridades e oportunidades. / This study aims to identify which are the main strategic challenges of philanthropic hospitals based in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, in the perspective of its senior managers and industry experts. The survey also included the identification of strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats, and trends in the segment. Therefore, we conducted a literature review on the health market, strategy and health management. We used a qualitative methodology of multiple case studies, in order to get the perspective of managers and specialists. We interviewed four hospital managers and two industry experts. The results reveal the existence of several strategic challenges, among which we highlight the need for improvement in the quality medical care, to ensure the safety of patients, overcoming the mismatch between revenues and hospital costs and the need for increased installed capacity of hospitals, so that they are able to satisfactorily meet the demand for their services. The study also reveals an environment full of peculiarities and opportunities.