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Goal understanding and communication of requirements are vital for ensuring that large and complex project organizations collaborate efficiently. We have used a design science approach to explore and address the problem of communication for large IT projects. We designed a method for avoiding communication gaps by eliciting information regarding stakeholders and information flows. The MAPS (Mapping...
The purpose of the paper is to design a comprehensive evaluation system for the Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturing industry from the stakeholders' respective, and then apply it to evaluate listed companies by using entropy weight method and building the grey cluster evaluation model. The final evaluation results provide a reference for the stakeholders. The system is conductive to promote and guide...
The modern consumer electronics (CE) integrating the features of computer, communications equipment, and mobile handheld device is able to carry out a great amount of consumer applications for entertainment, online business, virtual-community activities, and so on. The modern CE successfully delivering consumer applications advances the operation of personal living affairs; on such basis, whether...
Many countries having recognized the importance of engineering in economics are paying serious attention to education in this area. In order to meet labor market needs when developing engineering study programs are encouraged to consider the opinion of all stakeholders. In this paper, the authors first identify key stakeholders to be considered in the process of study programs development, then argue...
The current resilience literature lacks a thorough comparison of the behavior of resilience metrics using fundamental models of system performance. To close this gap, this study identifies three metrics that either encompass or can be easily amended to encompass resilience definition of resilience as proposed by Ayyub [1]. The three selected metrics are integral resilience [1], [2], quotient resilience...
The Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS) is an approach for authoring natural language requirements using a simple template with an underlying ruleset. EARS applies a series of keywords to denote separate clauses within a requirement. Application of the template produces natural language requirements in a small number of patterns. EARS has proved popular with practitioners for numerous reasons...
Cities provide an excellent platform for gathering and detection of massive amount of data from cities and citizens. Emergence of new digital technologies inspires not only city governments but also city residents, researchers, companies and other stakeholders in discovering and creating new innovative solutions to solve urban challenges and improve peoples' everyday life. Developing novel Internet...
In this paper we want to point out the importance of Anything Relationship Management (xRM) as an extension of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Therefore we will describe the historical development of xRM and give a detailed and comprehensive literature review as well as an own definition. After that we want to point out the key aspects of xRM compared to CRM. Finally the results of a state-of-the-art...
Discussions surrounding the development of an Ocean Enterprise have continued since the 1980s. While interest and engagement in ocean science and application have increased over the years—particularly as technologies have advanced—actual development of the Ocean Enterprise has not advanced significantly. Fundamentally a gap in the needed partnerships persists, preventing greater benefit to our economy...
Context is not just a descriptive consideration, it plays a critical but often neglected role in the implementation of information and communication technologies in developing countries. As the deployment of technology encapsulates the share desire of donors and recipients to contribute to the welfare of the most needed nations, project failures cannot be just measured only in monetary terms but also...
Ecological environment protection projects are important to improve the ecological environment of the region. Based on stakeholder theory, this paper puts forward three attributes, such as power, behavior predictability and benefit and judges stakeholders of ecological environment protection project in China according to three attributes. This paper analyses the fuzziness of the three attributes,...
The expectation on the creation of new business based on the combination of data from different domains, organizations, and sections, has been increased. It is important to consider which stakeholders are involved and how they are involved in the new businesses. However, the combination of stakeholders and their relationships in the scenarios depends on the context and has various patterns, making...
People are the core of service. An in-depth study on one of the four factors in service design' stakeholder was launched in this work. According to the attributes of service and stakeholder, it's pointed out that people in service design refer to all the individuals and organizations having interest relationships with service system, which involves complex relationships. The power and interest of...
This paper addresses professional communication experts who develop communication concepts for companies and the introduction of new technologies, e.g., in the energy sector. It presents an approach exploiting social media applications (Facebook®, blogs) as an information resource for the communication of technologies by detecting information on relevant topics and stakeholders. For the topic and...
End-to-End (E2E) differentiated services refer to content and application services delivered over Internet with differentiated grade of quality of service (QoS) involving multiple network and ecosystem actors. Such services represent a prospective way to assure QoS required by demanding customers, who cannot be satisfied with QoS delivered by the usual best effort Internet connectivity. This paper...
Project stakeholders -- those of IT projects in general as well as those of e-government projects in particular -- have considerable influence on the perceived project success. Thus, understanding and managing stakeholder behavior is of great importance. So far, stakeholder theory is used to describe specific aspects of stakeholder influence. However, it cannot explain the distribution of stakeholder...
Mega project is prone to crisis due to its characteristics. Crisis occurrence undermines the mega project's objectives and even leads to mega project failure. Mega project social responsibility has critical effects on crisis evolution and successful crisis management. Therefore, this paper studies the relationship between mega project crisis management and social responsibility from a stakeholder...
The development of open source software (OSS), and their deployment by general public as well as by different types of organizations, has increased manifold over the past decade or so. In spite of the ubiquity of OSS, the quality of many OSS remains questionable. Testing provides a curative approach for OSS quality assurance, and a comprehensive approach to testing is a knowledge-intensive endeavor...
Today agile software development methods are used to create new systems, applications, and services in a wide range of industries. This paper analyzes the differences in stakeholder cooperation intensity for different levels of agile development. Two teams used a stakeholder identification framework to identify stakeholders' involvement for the new software system development. The teams are also measured...
Information systems are implemented to support business processes to enable efficiency through automation while maintaining the effectiveness of the process. The focus often is to reduce the cost and time in performing business processes. Business Processes automated using workflow systems often ignore the structure and responsibility of people who are integral to it. This paper introduces an approach...
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