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One major theoretical issue that has dominated the construction field for many years, concerns the general misconception that lean can only be successfully applied to manufacturing. Its introduction into design and construction industry has been slow due to a conflation of reasons including organisations disinclination to make the necessary capital investments. Recent research has shown that many...
This qualitative research examined the links between knowledge management (KM) and innovation in 16 Australian manufacturing and service organizations that exhibited successful innovation and robust KM practices. A review of the literature indicated the contributions of KM to systematic innovation capability. Using a multiple cross-case analysis methodology and applying a framework of sustained innovation...
Productiveness is an issue when it comes to manufacturing. This paper discusses the advantages of using a system architecture approach within the context of product design and development. It shows how the philosophy behind the theory of systems architecting can induce lower costs and shorter schedules, without affecting the specification of the product under development. This also leads to the concept...
Complex Product System is playing an increasingly important role in the modern economic development, and even affects a country's overall competitiveness. According to the concepts and characteristics of COPS, and the relation between modularization and COPS, this paper has constructed three types of modular innovation model of COPS based on relationship between complex product and corporate, the...
This paper studies the adaptation of enterprise information system in equipment manufacturing industry. In order to overcome the inadequacy of previous research, the study analysizes the connotation and internal composition of system adaptation. The internal composition of system adaptation includes organization, cooperation, and technique. Complexity adaptation analysis is conducted for equipment...
With the economic globalization, networking, rapid development of IT and customization of customer requirements, supply chains must adaptively respond to its dynamic environment and customer requirements in order to keep long-term survival in a rigorous competition world. Traditional supply chains must change to adaptive supply networks (ASN). It is significant to study thoroughly the conception,...
Thus far have been developed different enterprise architecture (EA) methodologies. Much of them attempt to the identification of essential steps for enterprise architecting. They also do not impose any particular set of tools or methods for enterprise architecting, but define the criteria to be satisfied by any set of selected tools and methods. In this paper the axiomatic design is considered as...
Boundary plays an important role in system evolvement. This paper uses self-organization theory to demonstrate the existent and blur quality of Virtual Enterprise System boundary, point that the boundary of VES is a comparatively absolute blur zone. It also provides an arithmetic whose core is K-means arithmetic, try to find the boundary zone which gradually becomes clear when VE members doing self-...
This paper reports an empirical investigation conducted to identify the major factors that impact the adoption of electronic procurement in Chinese manufacturing enterprises. A research model inspired by the technology-organization-environment framework is postulated. Logistic regression is used to examine the relationships between the technological, organizational and environmental characteristics...
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