Dr Yiannis Polychronakis' Outputs (6)

Additive manufacturing for standard parts in the healthcare supply chain: What are the available performance improvements? (2024)
Journal Article

Additive Manufacturing (AM) has established itself as a manufacturing technology for customised and personalised parts in healthcare applications. More recently its use in healthcare applications has been extended to also include standard parts, albe... Read More about Additive manufacturing for standard parts in the healthcare supply chain: What are the available performance improvements?.

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
Georgiev, S., Polychronakis, Y., Sapountzis, S., & Polychronakis, N. (2024). The role of artificial intelligence in project management: a supply chain perspective. Supply Chain Forum: an International Journal, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2024.2384823

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.

Relative performance of judgemental methods for forecasting the success of megaprojects (2019)
Journal Article
Litsiou, K., Polychronakis, Y., Karami, A., & Nikolopoulos, K. (2019). Relative performance of judgemental methods for forecasting the success of megaprojects. International Journal of Forecasting, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2019.05.018

Forecasting the success of megaprojects, such as the Olympic Games or space exploration missions, is a very difficult and important task because of the complexity of such projects and the large capital investment they require. Megaproject stakeholder... Read More about Relative performance of judgemental methods for forecasting the success of megaprojects.

Integrating the spare parts supply chain : an inter-disciplinary account (2010)
Journal Article
Martin, H., Syntetos, A., Parodi, A., Polychronakis, Y., & Pintelon, L. (2010). Integrating the spare parts supply chain : an inter-disciplinary account. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 21(2), 226-245. https://doi.org/10.1108/17410381011014387

Purpose: this paper aims to substantiate the need for additional research into a more holistic and multidisciplinary approach to managing the supporting supply chains that may also capture contextual information, also pointing out emerging avenues fo... Read More about Integrating the spare parts supply chain : an inter-disciplinary account.

Virtual public administration: improving public administration procedures through project management (2008)
Journal Article
Kapogiannis, G., Polychronakis, N., & Polychronakis, Y. (2008). Virtual public administration: improving public administration procedures through project management

The best way to contribute electronic and mobile Government is by creating a public administration network in virtual communities. This is essentially the definition of Virtual Public Administration (VPA). A virtual community (a good example of which... Read More about Virtual public administration: improving public administration procedures through project management.