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The oil and gas (O&G) industry utilizes engineering contractors (ECs) to perform analysis, evaluations and recommendations. The ambition of ECs is to create value for the O&G operators by minimizing the waste. Inherently, the ECs' organization operates in project mode. Due to the frequently changing nature of: operators' requirements; suppliers' and/or manufacturers capabilities and restrictions;...
Cross-functional teams are often seen as key for innovation projects. At the same time, functional diversity also introduces conflict, which may hinder a team's optimal performance. Most of the existing literature focuses on resolving and preventing these conflicts; however, conflict alone fails to explain why the contribution of these teams to performance is found to be absent in certain types of...
Information dissemination by means of computer networks uses information systems to store, retrieve and transmit knowledge, which are considered very important tools for society nowadays. The concepts of Information Science, their application to the solution of real situations regarding life cycle inventory and the procedures used in Information Technology provide a new direction to Information Science...
Starbucks is a world well-known coffee shop company. Starbucks originated from the United States where people used to drink low quality and poor taste coffee. To teach the customers how to taste the best coffee and to provide people with a very relaxing and comfortable environment where people can enjoy their coffee as comfortable at their homes as possible, Starbucks developed some strategies which...
Any service industry and specifically Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry faces multiple challenges in regards to employee motivation, talent retention and job related issues. The engagement of the employees has been identified as one of the important element to manage these challenges. Gamification is an emerging concept that helps in improving user engagement and user experience. This paper...
In order to deal with continuous drastic increases in healthcare spending and major demographic changes, governments in industrialised countries are initiating major reforms aimed at improving the efficiency and the quality of care services provided to their citizens. These reforms along with increasing requirements for accountability tend to "corporatize" these institutions by exposing...
The present article investigates critical contextual success factors that influence business intelligence (BI) system success and design in organizations with regard to their relevance, variability, and controllability. The initial set of factors is based on an analysis of extant literature and serves as the basis for further research on this topic. In contrast to previous studies, a Delphi Study...
The purpose of this paper is to study the influences of technological, organizational and environmental factors on the acceptance of RFID in China based on the technology-organization-environment framework. The concept of RFID acceptance is defined as a psychological status to intend to use RFID. The data came from a questionnaire survey in China, and 144 samples were analyzed. The analysis shows...
Agrega is a federation of Scorm 2004 learning object repositories, with nodes situated in each of the Autonomous Regions of Spain. Each repository offers a group of services for managing and using the learning objects that it stores. The operations performed on the objects are based on the metadata described in an XML document called imsmanifest which every object has. Together with Agrega, a set...
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