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Globalization and competitions are the main two challenges facing firms who are trying to sustain their success or even to stay in the market. Therefore, investments in technology, process and people become necessary for organizations to ensure having desired share in the marketplace. Large firms set up advanced and complex websites and hi-tech technology to create, maintain and share knowledge internally...
DevOps presents a significant broader perspective in delivering software solutions. The perception of DevOps being a mere tool has been formulated into a change in culture, paradigms in automation, clarity in measuring risks and facilitating ease of sharing. DevOps has been responsible for companies to move from a monolithic pace of software releases to an agile mindset. This paper discovers the significance...
IT governance is crucial for managers to regulate the decision rights and responsibilities that the desired IT behaviors and business objectives are aligned with each other. Additionally, culture in national, organizational or group level can play a role in IT governance and this role is rarely explored in academic research. This paper provides a literature review investigating the impact of culture...
If you are an Executive in a large organization Scrum / agile helps address a number of issues that you face in releasing products -- improving quality, predictability, engagement of your people, and productivity. You've got help in the form of an Agile Coach and you understand that change is required to get these benefits, not only for the Scrum teams directly affected but also in the way you think...
China issued a new set of Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises (ASBE) in 2006 and this ASBE are substantially in line with IFRS. Based on the cross-cultural work of Hofstede, we figure out different results of cultural values between China and world average and these cultural factors make accounting follow different patterns in different parts of the world, so a few important differences...
The Confucian Businessman is commodity producer and operator that carry out a Confucianism ethics principle to obtain economic interest. The premise of Confucian Businessman managerial concept is self-consciousness of Confucian Businessman. “Be a good person, raise a decent family, rule a fair kingdom, make the world a peaceful place” is the logic point of the forming of managerial concept. It infers...
Since the introduction of numerous IT technologies, formal business cases convince that proper e-HR strategy could lead to cost reductions, improved service and transaction accuracy, etc. However, many difficulties have appeared in the implementation of e-HR. In the relative low level of e-HR, the deficiencies of techniques and skills might be the main barriers in the application of e-HR; during the...
Many professionals think that predesigned solutions could solve the problem regardless the nature, individual attributes and culture of the different countries. Developed countries have huge computing infrastructures which make data handling and sharing through local and global networks easy and mandatory to every user. However, usually developing and undeveloped countries is lack of computing infrastructures...
Systems engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the development of large complex systems, managing both the design processes and the design of the systems. As such systems engineering has both a technical and a managerial focus. SE originated during the 1950s as a means to address the problems presented by large and consequently high risk US government acquisitions. The approaches...
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