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The authors, including Murray, the President of Lackawanna College in Scranton, Pennsylvania; write about innovation initiatives at the school, and their relevance to other organizations. They focus on what they call “Little Innovations,” described in their words as innovation born from necessity as an organization considers how to solve a central, pressing problem. They delineate five steps to little...
This paper presents a new approach to innovation management in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). The holistic innovation framework (hif) and value generation model (VGM) support and extend the unique processes of new product development (NPD) in SMEs. These processes were found to be primarily dependent on the owner/manager of the SME. The approach then externalizes the tacit process of the...
It is true that the only constant thing in life is continuously changing. Managing change is high priority for continuing education institutes (CEIs), one of knowledge intensive industry (KII) in Taiwan, coping simultaneously with diversified market needs and limited resources. In today??s business environment, `quality?? and `innovation?? are regarded as key resource of competitiveness. However,...
The EASYCARD provided by the Taipei Smart Card Corporation (TSCC) is a milestone in application of intelligent transport system in Taiwan. Besides, its applications vary from public transportation, related services, access control, to school campus. When facing the institutional problems, however, these applications can not do well as they did. In this paper, through an institutional analysis, we...
The chief information officer (CIO) role has evolved from keeper of the infrastructure under the chief financial officer (CFO), to an executive managing the organizationpsilas information base with a seat at the executive table and more recently to becoming the key strategic agent for the organizational use of technology. In the most advanced firms the CIO is the best indicated executive to move to...
"The human capital is fundamentally aimed at innovation, which doesn't only refer to the innovation in the products and service, but also in the operational flow of commerce" (Stewart , 1997). Implicit human capital is a new view on the research into human capital, which is also the source of innovation. This paper defines and analyses implicit human capital of high-skilled talents. Based...
Virtual communities facilitate effortless exchange of information between remote users irrespective of time, location and remit. The technologies utilized enable organizations to build strong, cost-effective connections within the organization and externally with customers to further the innovation process. VCs act as bridges between organizations and customer bases by fostering product awareness;...
An extensive body of research suggests that an organizationpsilas ability to achieve its goal is a function of the congruence between various components. Following the concept ldquostructure follows strategyrdquo, this study suggested that suited strategy-structure fit should enhance pos-acquisition technological performance for the high tech firms. Further, this study also wishes to examine effects...
This paper aims to examine the impact of the various stages of managing knowledge - knowledge acquisition, dissemination and utilization - on the innovativeness of Technology and Engineering Consultancies (TEC) in Singapore, by drawing on results from questionnaires mailed to 446 TEC firms. According to the findings, knowledge acquisition and knowledge utilization have a positive impact on the innovativeness...
Non-linear business growth is a Holy Grail for executives today. There is a constant need for identification of newer business models, blockbuster products and excellent talent in breaking the linearity paradigm. The latter half of the 20th century has seen some of the major breakthroughs resulting into a significant surge in productivity. Some of these were technology, quality, adoption of management...
Sustained competitive advantages require continuous improvement for a company to maintain its strength or weakness in the marketplace. Information technologies play a crucial role for a competitive future. To create sustainable growth, role and performance measurement of information technologies in management processes such as strategic planning, audit etc. steadily increases in todaypsilas highly...
General management education is often criticized as irrelevant, out of touch, too ldquotrade-school,rdquo too interested in training financial services professionals and consultants, and insufficiently focused on innovation, the major driver of the economy. Technology management (TM) education has always focused on practical and relevant management issues and innovation has been a major theme. We...
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