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Investigating demand forecasting practices and challenges in Ghana's Manufacturing Pharmaceutical (MPharma) small and medium enterprises (SMEs): insights and recommendations (2025)
Journal Article

An organisation’s ability to accurately forecast future demand can generate considerable competitive advantage through effective planning, reducing inventory costs, and enhancing customer service. This paper investigates how Manufacturing Pharmaceuti... Read More about Investigating demand forecasting practices and challenges in Ghana's Manufacturing Pharmaceutical (MPharma) small and medium enterprises (SMEs): insights and recommendations.

Identifying challenges in implementing digital transformation in UK higher education (2024)
Journal Article
Saini, S., Gomis, K., Polychronakis, Y., Saini, M., & Sapountzis, S. (in press). Identifying challenges in implementing digital transformation in UK higher education. Quality Assurance in Education, https://doi.org/10.1108/qae-05-2024-0076

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to systematically dissect strategies against the challenges stalling digital transformation (DT) in the UK higher education (HE) sector. It addresses the challenges impeding DT’s incorporation and offers a blue... Read More about Identifying challenges in implementing digital transformation in UK higher education.

The role of artificial intelligence in project management: a supply chain perspective (2024)
Journal Article

Artificial intelligence continuously overtakes an increased number of functions within numerous business fields. Consistently, its appliance in supply chain-related project management is also constantly rising. The purpose of this paper is to explore... Read More about The role of artificial intelligence in project management: a supply chain perspective.

A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system (2013)
Journal Article
Marshall-Ponting, A., Kobbacy, K., Sapountzis, S., & Kagioglou, M. (2013). A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system. International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 15(2/3), 239-248. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJLSM.2013.053769

Unscheduled and urgent healthcare represents the largest area of activity and cost for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Like typical complex systems unplanned care has the features of interdependence and it has structures at different scales t... Read More about A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system.

Gestao de beneficios na etapa de projecto em empreendimentos hospitalares do reino unido [Managing benefits in the design of healthcare favilities in the UK] (2010)
Journal Article
Tillmann, P., Tzortzopoulos, P., Sapountzis, S., & Formoso, C. (2010). Gestao de beneficios na etapa de projecto em empreendimentos hospitalares do reino unido [Managing benefits in the design of healthcare favilities in the UK]. Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos, 5(1), 109-132. https://doi.org/10.4237/gtp.v5i1.114

Proposal: The healthcare system in the United kingdomis passing through transformation and change for improvement and innovation. Within this context, healthcare facilities are being developed in a complex multi-stakeholder environment, which usually... Read More about Gestao de beneficios na etapa de projecto em empreendimentos hospitalares do reino unido [Managing benefits in the design of healthcare favilities in the UK].

Realising benefits in primary healthcare infrastructures (2009)
Journal Article
Sapountzis, S., Yates, K., Kagioglou, M., & Aouad, G. (2009). Realising benefits in primary healthcare infrastructures. Facilities, 27(3/4), 74-87. https://doi.org/10.1108/02632770910933116

Purpose: This paper focuses upon the requirements to manage change, tangible and intangible benefits in a joint approach to deliver outputs on time, to quality and cost without failing to realise the benefits of the change. The aim of the paper is to... Read More about Realising benefits in primary healthcare infrastructures.