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The goal of the diploma thesis "Financing of small and medium-sized enterprises" is to systematically analyze and review the financing options for SMEs in the Czech Republic. In the introductory part there is a definition of small and medium enterprises with its social contribution and meaning, I describe the needs and potential barriers for further development. The thesis proceeds with specification of various financial resources, there are mentioned own, external and alternative financial resources as well as trade finance possibilities. The last chapter of the theoretical part focuses on the support devoted to SME. In the practical part there is a business and financial analysis of the selected company on the market with artificial sweeteners.

The aim of the study is to determine whether the Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovation take place in the years 2007 - 2013 in the Czech Republic with the exception of Prague and has a positive impact on the increasing number of mini breweries in the Czech Republic. Analysis the Development programe which subsidy in technology help to incease the competitivenes of Small and Medium Enterprises, showing its progress and possible advantages or disadvantages. Using the questionnaire is then examines the suitability of the program in mini breweries. The testing of hypotheses, namely that the Development program has a positive impact on the expansion of mini breweries, can be universally confirm. This work also shows that more mini breweries using this program to start its work but that probably does not diminish the purpose of the program.

This bachelor thesis is focused on the possibilities of support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the form of subsidies from European funds. In the theoretical part characterizes the principle of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activity. Furthermore, the evolution and funding opportunities for entrepreneurial activities of SMEs in the Czech Republic are defined. The practical part is focused on analyzing the individual steps towards the creation of a specific project of the chosen company Resort Sv. Frantisek in order to obtain a subsidy from the Rural Development Programme 2014_2020. The conclusion evaluates the benefits of the project in the case that the applicant receives the subsidy and it also contains a recommendation for other entrepreneurs who would also like to fund their business projects partially by grants.

Cloud Computing has become a serious participant in ICT in past few years. Technical and economic attributes of Cloud Computing can change a forecast in an organization. These benefits are investigated and putted into large picture of teleworking. In critical moment there is flexibility, which is crucial either for the organization or for the individual. How much is flexibility important is illustrated on the example of organization, that is considering whether the cloud computing and teleworking is the right way for the their future.

This diploma thesis focuses on options of Competitive Intelligence solutions in small and medium enterprises. Applied part is conducted in a medium sized manufacturing company. Theoretical part of this thesis introduces areas of Competitive Intelligence and Business Intelligence, basic technological overview and illustrates Competitive Intelligence cycle description. In Czech republic, majority of companies are in a form of a small or medium enterprise, therefore theoretical definition is provided. In applied part of the thesis are introduced relevant information sources for small and medium enterprise, selected Business Intelligence tools under the Open-source license or provided as a Service. In following chapters is described possible utilization of this analytical software for a Competitive Intelligence. In final part of the thesis is a chosen solution applied in a HF Czechforge s.r.o., which consists of Business Intelligence and Competitive Intelligence. Main contribution of this thesis is a implementation suggestion of a user friendly Business Intelligence and Competitive Intelligence, which can be helpful for the company in gaining better overview of itself and its environment at acceptable costs.

The first part of Master`s thesis focuses on defining the concept of small and medium sized company, a description of their meaning and the possibility of obtaining grants from EU structural funds and from government institutions. Within the options of grant will be prepared and submitted a grant application for a subsidized loan from Czech-Moravian Guarantee and Development Bank or from another entity. The second part of Thesis deals with the business plan. Thesis compares business plan from the franchisor with the reality that arose in building small store in Tabor and its operation in the first fifteen months. Based on the comparison may be designed to optimizing cost outlets of the store. The contribution of this Thesis is to look at a small retail business and it's financing. Such a complex view can help to similar retailers with orientation in the establishment and funding of a similar type of retail businesses. It will also be evaluated by franchise concept Náš grunt in the light of the real picture of financing its stores.

The bachelor thesis deals with a recently published set of accounting rules intended for small and medium-sized entities, called IFRS for SMEs. This accounting framework created by IASB is aspiring to be general used document ensuring worldwide comparability of financial statements on the field of small and medium-sized entities. Thus, the main objective of this thesis is to describe its current position in the world and to summarize the pros and cons arguments which prevent or encourage next expansion. The thesis tries to analyze this fact in detail in connection of European Commission view.

The aim of this thesis is to find a suitable Business Intelligence solution for small and medium enterprises, based on market analysis of these solutions. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The first part focuses on the definition of Business Intelligence, its historical development, explaining the basic principles and main components of Business Intelligence. The second part is devoted to present the main players, both in the field of paid solutions, and in the field of open source solutions, as well as the definition of criteria for selecting the appropriate BI solutions for small and medium enterprises and comparison of selected products based on critical analysis. The conclusion summarizes the findings of work and selects the appropriate BI solution for small and medium enterprises.

This thesis is focused on issues of Green ICT and application of its principles in small and medium enterprises in the Czech Republic. The aim of this thesis is to realize and evaluate a survey of the Green ICT implementation into management of small and medium enterprises in the Czech Republic. In order to achieve this goal it is necessary to define survey goals, create a questionnaire, choose respondents and ask them to complete it. Based on respondents answers it is necessary to evaluate the survey, make conclusions and meet the goals of the survey. The contribution of this thesis is the comprehensive presentation of Green ICT issues and mainly the survey realization and results evaluation. The conclusions arising from this survey provide insight into small and medium enterprises Green ICT issues. The conclusions summarize the current situation in the Green ICT implementation and characterize benefits which are considered to be important in small and medium enterprises in the Czech Republic, barriers which obstruct the implementation, and also factors which support the Green ICT introduction in enterprises. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part explains the sustainable development, Green ICT and shows relationships between ICT and sustainable development. In this part, there is also described an importance of Green ICT implementation into small and medium enterprises. The practical part is focused on the survey realization and evaluation. Firstly, the reasons leading to the realization of the survey are given, followed by the survey presentation, its goals formulation, survey questionnaire characterisation, detailed research questions definition and questionnaire description. The respondents answers are analysed, research questions are answered and then the conclusions are formulated.

This work is initially focused on the general description of ITIL V3 (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and its five elementary books to enable the reader to become familiar with the essential terms and to get at least an overall view of this approach to the administration of IT services. The section Service Strategy is deeply analyzed on a theoretical level as well as in the practical part of the work. For the needs of this work, the term SMB -- Small and Medium Business is defined, in accordance with the recommendations of the European Commission. For these businesses, the work describes the advantages and disadvantages related not only to their operation, but also to the implementation of ITIL. In the practical part of the work, an analysis of a current state of a sample small business is carried out in the field of service strategy, the result of which is the assessment of its state according to the ITIL principles, pointing out faulty processes or incorrectly defined services, and the decision whether the company would benefit from changing its service strategy.

This thesis concentrates on Competitive Intelligence which is not well known in the Czech region. On the other hand, it has been a rapidly increasing discipline. The main aim of this thesis is to suggest how to use the methods of Competitive Intelligence in small and medium-sized companies. The theoretical part summarises the terminology of Competitive Intelligence. At first the strategic management is being defined, as it is the basis of practical usage of the Competitive Intelligence methods in companies. The definition of small and medium-sized companies in the Czech business environment is also included in the theoretical part, because the importance of this kind of enterprise constantly grows even in the conditions of the global economics. This part of the thesis is a background research resulting from the available range of the specialized literature and other related sources. The empirical part of the thesis works in detail with the problem of Competitive Intelligence in three retail companies which focus on different business segments. The main aim is to suggest an appropriate solution in the area of monitoring the relevant information resources and other processes of the intelligence cycle. The target company is the one whose information collection and distribution was -- according to the analysis -- considered insufficient. The methods of the analysis include for example Michael Porter's Five Forces Model, SWOT analysis and the analysis of the existing processes of collecting and sharing information in the examined companies. The contribution of this thesis is that it explains the available IT tools and applications which provide systematic monitoring of relevant information sources or collect and distribute information with practical functions responding to demands and needs of MSP. The suggested solution also defines the qualified person responsible for realization of CI processes and it describes the specific activities that the qualified person should perform. The thesis should simplify the process of finding the most appropriate methods in the area of Competitive Intelligence, used in medium-sized and primarily small companies.

This thesis deals with the issue of sustainable development and its relation to information and communicaton technologies in the business background. The whole concept is called Green ICT. The main aim of the thesis is to provide an insight into the legislative and contentual aspects of Green ICT and its relation to business informatics, suggesting several practices for use in small business. The first part defines all important legislative aspects and summarizes the view of Green ICT according to several authors and describes and compares the certificates of physical ICT. Next part is aimed to business environment and deals with the most frequently occuring barriers and motivation factors. The small and medium business is specified and the requirements of managing and monitoring the impact on the envirnoment is analyzed. Next part of the thesis analyzes defined areas of potential implementation of Green ICT and creates relevant practices to improve the power consumption and the impact on the environment, on the basis of available case studies and research findings For every practice, its potential technical solution, effects and risks are considered. These practices are then analyzed and appraised in terms of MMDIS methodics. The added value of the thesis is comprehensive description and analysis of individual practices of Green ICT from different points of view and analysis and comparison of available certifications of ICT devices.

Diploma thesis reviews a topic of Customer Relationship Management information system implementation from a managerial point of view. Theoretical part describes strategies for a Customer Relationship Management in a field of a small and middle enterprise business. It contains a description of technological options and a market situation in information systems business. Author describes a topic of information systems and their value added and is focused on a process of implementing the Customer Relationship Management information system. In a practical part there is a specific implementation project being analyzed. The analysis is based on the feedback of customers of a company and users of a new system. This part describes a specific implementation project, highlights possible failures and finds possible options to avoid them.

Presented thesis aims at possibilities of implementation of the ITIL best practice at small and medium businesses. The main target is to prove that this methodology can be used not only in big companies, but also in small and medium business sector. First part defines the conception of small and medium business and its specificity. It is concerned with basic definitions, which are used in the main text, such as a service, process, best practice etc. It also demostrates the need of managing IT and some ways how to do it. The second part dwell on ITIL itself, it describes its characteristics, history, it also discusses purpose and content of each ITIL book with emphasis on service operation books. The third part is about deployment of ITIL in SMB, conditions and process of implementation and it proposes some essential processes for small and medium business IT. Also it defines benefits of deployment of ITIL, its limitations and barriers. The final part is concerned about Incident Management implementation in a particular company, it describes the state before and after the implementation. It describes software support tool for this process, its possibilities and costs. At the end of this part an employee survey demonstrates the benefits of the Incident Management process and the SW support tool. It shows resulting improvement of IT support perception among the management and employees of the company.

The aim of the thesis is to describe clusters on the theoretical level and to map their situation on the practical level in the Czech Republic. The economic impact of clusters in the Moravian-Silesian region will be analyzed by the time-comparison method. The practical part charts the grant schemes of the Operational Programme Industry and Enterprise and Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovation.

The graduation thesis is engaged in questions of small and medium enterprises (SME) and it tries to clarify financing possibilities of this segment. The introductory part attends to the definition of small and medium enterprises and the meaning of this segment, it illustrates the advantages and disadvantages and also position of this sector in the economy of the Czech Republic. The thesis proceeds with specification of various financial resources, there are mentioned own, external and alternative financial resources. The last chapter of the theoretical part focuses on the impact of the financial and economic crisis on Czech small and medium enterprises. The practical part is concerned with a particular company. There is an analysis of financial management and financial resources and at the end of the practical part there are mentioned the impacts of the crisis on the contemporary operation of the company.

The topic of this diploma thesis is "Critical success factors of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises" Firstly, the terms enterprise resource planning system, small and medium sized enterprise and critical factor are defined. Part of this thesis is also dedicated to the importance of those systems in small and medium sized enterprises and the supply of products on the market is described as well. The importance of enterprise resource planning systems for this segment of customers is still growing and the number of products offered is quite wide. Customers have unambiguously preferred Czech solutions. Next part of the thesis contains critical factors literature search -- analysis of two studies. Conceptual model of critical factors is made on the basis of findings and comparison of those two studies. The relevance of this model is verified by the analysis of case studies of enterprise resource planning system implementations in small and medium sized enterprises. These case studies were downloaded from websites of system vendors. On the basis of new findings, new model was designed. Each critical factor is described in each part of the thesis to help understand under which circumstances it was used. Finally, the model is assessed.

Small and medium enterprises are very important for the european economy from the view of their quantity, creation of jobs and the added value.In the first part of my thesis I'm introducing the definition of the small and medium enterprises according to European Commission, their importance, strenghts and weaknesses. Another important issue is also the business environment in the Czech republic, which is the main attribute of the development of SME. The second part is about the main types of SME support of European Commission, like the finance and non-finance help, direct help and structural funds. In the third part I will present the impact of the current economic crisis on SME and the steps of European Commission and Czech government which are being taken to help SME. At last, I am introducing succesfull medium company named VARI, a.s. and external and internal factors which help the company to be successful on the Czech market.

Hlavním cílem práce je návrh vhodné marketingové strategie pro českou firmu Cockyshop.cz, která plánuje vstup na rakouský trh internetového prodeje kontaktních čoček. Práce je koncipovaná tak, aby mohla sloužit i jako obecný návod pro další české malé a střední podniky, které se chystají vstoupit na některý z trhů členských zemí Evropské unie. Navrhovaná opatření jsou založena nejen na důkladné analýze veřejně dostupných zdrojů, ale také na vlastních šetřeních provedených přímo na rakouském trhu.

The topic of this diploma thesis is “Critical success factors of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises” Firstly, the terms enterprise resource planning system, small and medium sized enterprise and critical factor are defined. Part of this thesis is also dedicated to the importance of those systems in small and medium sized enterprises and the supply of products on the market is described as well. The importance of enterprise resource planning systems for this segment of customers is still growing and the number of products offered is quite wide. Customers have unambiguously preferred Czech solutions. Next part of the thesis contains critical factors literature search – analysis of two studies. Conceptual model of critical factors is made on the basis of findings and comparison of those two studies. The relevance of this model is verified by the analysis of case studies of enterprise resource planning system implementations in small and medium sized enterprises. These case studies were downloaded from websites of system vendors. On the basis of new findings, new model was designed. Each critical factor is described in each part of the thesis to help understand under which circumstances it was used. Finally, the model is assessed.

Cílem diplomové práce je zhodnotit možnosti využití faktoringu českými podniky. Vysvětluje podstatu faktoringu, rozebírá jednotlivé náležitosti faktoringové operace a snaží se identifikovat jeho silné a slabé stránky. Dále provádí srovnání mezi bankovními a nebankovními faktoringovými společnostmi a jejich klienty. V závěru se zabývá postavením faktoringu v mezinárodním měřítku a současnou situací na českém trhu.

The purpose of this master thesis is to define a market entry strategy into Denmark for a SME from Czech republic. The thesis includes a complex analysis of the danish entrepreneurial environment and defining a strategy how to enter the market. The thesis intends to be a useful guide for Czech SME's how to expand on this market.

Dissertation thesis deals with development and implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME) in the Czech Republic. This thesis represents climax of author's up to now effort that has been put into completing a methodological model for development of this kind of applications for SMEs using self-owned skills and minimum of external resources and costs. This thesis can be divided into five major parts. First part that describes used technologies is divided into two chapters. First chapter describes contemporary state of Business Intelligence concept and it also contains original taxonomy of Business Intelligence solutions. Second chapter describes two Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) techniques that were used for building those BI solutions that are introduced in case studies. Second part describes the area of Czech SMEs, which is an environment where the thesis was written and which it is meant to contribute to. This environment is represented by one chapter that defines the differences of SMEs against large corporations. Furthermore, there are author's reasons why he is personally focusing on this area explained. Third major part introduces the results of survey that was conducted among Czech SMEs with support of Department of Information Technologies of Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of University of Economics in Prague. This survey had three objectives. First one was to map the readiness of Czech SMEs for BI solutions development and deployment. Second was to determine major problems and consequent decisions of Czech SMEs that could be supported by BI solutions and the third objective was to determine top factors preventing SMEs from developing and deploying BI solutions. Fourth part of the thesis is also the core one. In two chapters there is the original Methodology for development and deployment of BI solutions by SMEs described as well as other methodologies that were studied. Original methodology is partly based on famous CRISP-DM methodology. Finally, last part describes particular company that has become a testing ground for author's theories and that supports his research. In further chapters it introduces case-studies of development and deployment of those BI solutions in this company, that were build using contemporary BI and KDD techniques with respect to original methodology. In that sense, these case-studies verified theoretical methodology in real use.

Cílem této práce je analyzovat nasazení Business Intelligence (BI) v malých a středních podnicích (SME), určit specifika, která jsou spojena s implementací v takovéto společnosti a na základě praktického průzkumu zhodnotit, které důležité faktory ovlivňují nasazení BI systémů v těchto společnostech. Pro dosažení cíle bylo provedeno dotazníkové šetření, kterému předcházelo shromažďování a studium materiálů z různých zdrojů. Výsledky byly následně ověřeny na praktickém projektu implementace ve spolupráci s firmou typu SME.