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Military networks rely today on federated systems with coalition or cooperation partners. Examples of this kind of military networks are the NATO lead ‘Federated Mission Networking’ (FMN) project and the US lead ‘Mission Partner Enterprise’ (MPE). The framework of FMN and MPE are very similar and the development of both frameworks goes hand-inhand. The development and understanding of cyber defense...
This paper examines the briefing process of construction projects where the two fundamental requisites are identification of clients' requirements and translating them into building form. The attributes of the client as the key project participant during briefing is vital to ensure the preparation of accurate briefs. The client attributes investigated were categorized into three; the quality of the...
While IT projects continue to have a poor reputation for successful outcomes, there is increasing evidence that the project manager's skills can be critical for effective project team performance. The aim of this exploratory study was to examine the leadership behaviors of IT project managers, with the goal of exploring the types of leadership behaviors they used to keep their projects on track. We...
We proposed a series of leader behaviors, termed Ambassadorial Leader Behaviors, to facilitate team performance and tested them against 42 virtual teams (VT) that included 266 individuals. The results show organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) mediated the collective set and two individual behaviors, shared leadership and advocacy thus contributing significantly to the explained variance of team...
This paper looks at the ideas associated with team roles within a continuous improvement (CI) program. It uses a case study approach, with Belbin's team role theory and the Self-Perception Inventory (SPI) questionnaire to assess the naturally adopted roles within two teams at a Slovenian manufacturing organization. Results show that, team members have a wide range of preferred team roles, but few...
This article is dedicated to solving problems of a management quality financial control organization in an enterprise in accordance with the business strategies and technological innovations application. The problems of a quality control, management quality and financial management quality are the kea problems in any enterprise. This very problem can be solving by constant enterprise financial monitoring...
This paper discusses, examines, explores, explains and analyzes the causes (reasons) and consequences (benefits and dis-benefits) of rise and fall of `Quality Management Department' of R & D Center of a major Chinese based ICT vendor operating in Pakistan. The paper presents finding of 5 years of qualitative research that required study of the subject from start to end. The given case required...
Partially distributed teams (PDTs) are increasingly common in organizations as they collaborate across distance. A PDT has at least two collocated subteams that are geographically distant and communicate by electronic media. This paper reports on a two semester quasi-experimental study of students in global PDTs in the role of software developers designing an emergency management information system...
This paper explored the approaches and effects of performance management orientation and appraisal justice on knowledge sharing behaviors. Results showed intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and control orientation in performance appraisal system had significant positive, weak positive and U shaped separately relation with knowledge sharing behaviors. Distribution justice had the greatest effect...
Business process management (BPM), as a management discipline, can only deliver value once its principles and practices are effectively integrated into an organization's business operating model. This paper analyses the application and evolution of a holistic model of the BPM management system in a large Australian bank. The model was applied to operationalize the principles and practices of BPM within...
Ensuring public security is an important issue for every government, and effective public security depends on the efficiency of criminal justice processes and procedures. The procedures of the criminal justice may be viewed as the upper-, middle-, and down-stream sections of a supply chain. Like their business counterparts, most law enforcement agencies have to deal with logistics, information flow,...
Several vulnerability analysis techniques in web-based applications detect and report on different types of vulnerabilities. However, no single technique provides a generic technology-independent handling of Web-based vulnerabilities. In this paper we present our experience with and experimental exemplification of using the application vulnerability description language (AVDL) to realize a unified...
Too often projects deliver software of which the quality is difficult to predict. Sometimes the project completion is delayed due to the continuous change of requirements while the software is still being built. The quality level must align with the company needs. It is extremely important that the planned benefits of an IT system are reached. When the benefits are not achieved it will cause much...
This paper explores the efficient management techniques for new types of R&D and technology development projects especially executed on public institutions with the collaboration of different types of institutions. A case of this kind of projects has also been analyzed in detail considering the structural and technical sides of the management. An organizational structure and methodology are proposed...
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