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Disaster can affects a nation from functioning normally, and it can impact human, material, economic or environment. Disaster management is the concept being applied during disaster in organizing and managing resources and responsibilities of all relevant agencies in the event of disaster. Today, disaster management critically relies on information to ensure all agencies responsible can disseminate...
In today's world, companies support many of their business processes by outsourcing tasks or jobs to third-party providers located all over the world. The trend of outsourcing recently is to use Internet as the main sourcing platform. The latest trend of outsourcing is crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing has similar concept of outsourcing, but instead of outsource to business, crowdsourcing will outsource...
Crowdsourcing is a new wave of outsourcing which has become a new society paradigm that might change the outsourcing landscape in the future. Crowdsourcing offers substantial benefits to the involved parties. For crowdworkers, crowdsourcing offers flexibility in terms of time, locations and durations of doing tasks given to them and the most important is crowdsourcing will give them additional income...
Crowdsourcing is defined as a process where company distributes tasks online publicly to anonymous people over the Internet to complete the task. It has opened up opportunities for supply and demand for employment via the Internet. One of the major issues, however, is the quality of products and services delivered through the Internet. This issue needs to be addressed seriously as the demands for...
Business Strategist and Technologist Implementers realized that ICT Outsourcing was one of the most successful strategies for ICT operational cost cutting and solved the shortage of ICT expertise or resources to implement an ICT project and services. Unfortunately, the strategy cause's other significant risks that could interrupt the ICT outsourcing venture's success. Information Security Risk (ISR)...
The scope for ICTs in economic development and poverty reduction has expanded. Under the Digital Malaysia initiative the ICT industries which are crowd sourcing industry has been identified as a potential industry to help increase income. The major component in crowd sourcing industry is the crowd sourcing platform. In ensuring the credibility and reliability of Malaysian platforms and also local...
Crowdsourcing is view as major changes in current economy as it has revolutionary effects on organizations. Unlike previous outsourcing trends that practices closed inter-organizational relationships subject to the long-term legal contract, these new crowdsourcing practices take place in an open and virtual context, characterized with small and shortterm deals. Crowdsourcing has been recognized as...
Microsourcing is an emerging outsourcing practice by organization to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in a form of an open call. It is considered as a new entrepreneurial evolution in digital economy value creation. Because of the challenges and competition faces by organization nowadays, organization approved the need to provide services with higher added value and less cost....
Malaysia experienced flood on a regular basis due to the geographical location of the country and the improper development of its cities. Based on this situation, it is recognized that Malaysia have to establish an effective flood management (FM) practice in order to reduce the impact caused by flood. This article seeks to examine the proper governance framework needed in managing flood. The aim of...
The past few years have witnessed dynamic changes in the field of software project management. These provided evidence of the strength of agile methodologies as a strategy that can speed up the development of rhythms and growth of innovation. Managing a project involves a complexity of requirements and developmental processes. This provides challenges to the project manager as he is accountable for...
Micro sourcing is the act of outsourcing small or micro task to the crowd. During recent years, commercial micro sourcing has become a successful business model. Micro sourcing initiative in Malaysia is still nascent. The implementation is targeted to B40 group; those with low income household. This study is attempted to identify the critical success factor of micro sourcing initiative on the industry...
Malaysia is fostering a digital ecosystem through several initiatives with intention to create itself as developed digital economy country as well as uplifting household income of each family by 2020. Micro sourcing is one of the industries that can strongly support the country into this direction which it able to facilitate income generation among the poor. The poor which resides at the bottom 40...
Micro sourcing to generate income is an economic initiative that offers opportunities to people outside the traditional workforce and those with low household income level. Under Digital Malaysia, micro sourcing industry has been identified as a potential industry to uplift the income of the population in the bottom 40 percent household income (B40). The B40 in Malaysia is defined as household income...
Currently, the distance related to time and location between distributed software development teams is considered contributing to the chaotic environment of Global Software Development (GSD). Furthermore, when it involves using Agile method where communication is crucial between developers and customers. This paper aim to discussed the issues that have occurred related to the communication in Agile...
Malaysian public sector is highly encouraged to utilize IT to improve their public services delivery to the public. Therefore, numerous IT projects have been approved and funded under several Malaysian National Plans. As the success of the existing or current IT projects in public sector are not properly evaluated has resulted in the same failures due to non-existence of a specific guideline, method...
Information technology outsourcing (ITO) has grown to become a multi-billion dollar business especially with the growth of the e-business paradigm. In education, IT and knowledge outsourcing have been widely used in the last decade. However, there are also risks involved in ITO. An important risk that must to be considered is the knowledge transfer during the ITO activities. The biggest value of knowledge...
In this global era, IT investment is rapidly increasing. IT governance practices must be emphasized in order to retrieve competitive advantage from IT investment. The aim of this research is to develop IT governance practices model for Malaysian public sector. Interview sessions with IT personnel at management level at Putrajaya were conducted. Based on the interviews, a theoretical model of IT governance...
Organizations need to establish effective IT governance practices in order to stay competitive. The aim of this research is to determine the extent of IT governance practices in Malaysian public sector and to determine factors contributes towards IT governance practices. Questionnaire was constructed and distributed to IT management level personnel in public agencies in Klang Valley and Putrajaya...
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Outsourcing provides an effective ways to cut cost, launch new business venture and improve efficiency. Sometimes, ICT outsourcing can lead to an information security risk incident that might be difficult to manage and mitigate. Hence, the objectives of the research are to determine the information security risk factors, consisting of threats and vulnerabilities;...
Risk management in IT outsourcing projects is a process of identifying, analyzing, controlling and reducing risks in IT outsourcing projects life cycle. Risk management is important as the practices of risk management will reduce the risks thus lead to success in IT outsourcing projects. Risk management should be conducted in IT outsourcing as it will foresee risks that might disturb the smooth flowing...
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