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Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are a vital part of any national economy, so it is important for SMEs to be successful in their ventures. One of the defining characteristics of modern SMEs is their agility and quick movements. However, this impacts how well they can utilize strategic management tactics and tools to further their position. This article will analyze how implementing various...
Several studies conducted in Morocco and other developing countries have shown that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) fail to achieve business goals for reasons related principally to lack of entrepreneurship knowledge and poor financial management. Indeed, most managers do not have the required educational background and skills, precisely in accounting and cash flow management. To manage these...
The concept of dynamic capabilities in strategy literature assumes that organizations need to adapt to radical perpetual change in order to ensure survival. In this research we aimed to increase the understanding of competence management as a strategic dynamic capability. This longitudinal interpretive case study was conducted from 2013 to 2015 in a publicly traded professional services company operating...
The critical influence of functional strategies on business success is undisputed, as well as the impact of engineering. Surprisingly, research on functional strategies for engineering organizations is scarce. Purpose: this contribution aims to provide engineering organizations with a guideline for the development and implementation of engineering strategies. Approach: first, a literature review determines...
Electric vehicles are in direct competition with conventionally powered cars. However, high prices currently result in a moderate acceptance and low market penetration. Manufacturing companies have to attain new competencies in electric vehicle production as well as develop existing competencies at an early stage to be able to create attractive products for customers. The value chain of electric vehicle...
Despite the ever increasing pervasion of Information Systems (IS) in business processes the industry lacks a focus on sustainability. While concepts of sustainability have been applied to many other areas, IS is yet to demonstrate a balanced economic, ecological and social focus. This paper discusses the issues of IS sustainability and the implications for strategic IS management. It analyses the...
With the rapid economic development of China, the external environment be deeper impact on Chinese enterprises operating, and more and more Chinese enterprises have to make strategic management to adapt to this environment. There were many problems about strategic management of Chinese companies, that mainly be the lack of long-term corporate strategic objectives, the imperfect on business value chain,...
Transportation enterprises plays an important role in the China's national economy. And enterprise Strategy determines the direction of the enterprise. In today's increasingly complex environment, with the challenges of economic integration and knowledge economy, transportation enterprises' strategic management is particularly important. This article first illustrates the enterprise ecosystem theory...
With the constant development of information technology and its increasingly widespread application in enterprises, the enterprise management, decision-making, operational efficiency improved significantly, but the situation that business strategy, systems and operations are sometimes divorced has not been fundamentally changed, the problem seriously affects decision-making speed of parent company...
This paper introduces a framework that could change the way firms set their strategies and goals. This framework links corporate budget to corporate strategies which are cascaded down to the last employee. It bridges the gap between operations personnel and finance people as they talk of only the jargon of activity or process costs. It is flexible as it can increase or decrease the budget from the...
This research reports the results of a single case study that reports an endeavor of IT-based delivery systems implementation from the Egyptian banking industry. The research explores some management practices, and other related aspects concerning effectiveness of implementation that are associated to strategic competitiveness. Reaching strategic competitiveness through IT-based delivery systems is...
Group companies play an important role in the development of Chinese economy. It has been an important way of strategic management to evaluate the competitiveness of group companies and to find out ways to improve it. This paper constructs a group company competitiveness evaluation indicator system through the selection and rational analysis of indicators. By determining the optimal indicator weights...
With the increased application of informationization, China's enterprises are facing tremendous challenges in this informational economy era, and the information strategy of enterprises is an important means for them to respond the challenge. This paper first introduces the situation about the information strategy of enterprises both at home and abroad, finds out the major problems in the implementation...
This paper elaborates on current practices in managing Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Discussions presented in this paper are based on a pilot study of ICT management practices within a group of organizations within the Canterbury region of New Zealand. The paper reviews recent developments in the application of and investment on ICTs. It looks at the reasons of ever-increasing scrutiny...
Interdependencies are used to make project selection process more effective and successful in project portfolio management. Despite of having roots in sixties and relatedness to famous theories, interdependencies are still less researched field. Prior research is mostly seen on emphasizing theoretical-practical techniques and not much interdependency phenomenon per se. Therefore foundation of subject...
The pursuit of enterprise value maximization and profit maximization are the eternal theme of enterprises, however, successful strategic management is not unalterable with the different stages of business growth and market changes in the environment, so timely strategic adjustments are necessary. This paper study on the strategic adjustment measures for McDonald's based on related theories of balanced...
The paper seeks to investigate, how system dynamics modeling can be supportive for green IT management. The behavior of the green IT management under study is analyzed through a simulation model based on the principles of the system dynamics methodology. The simulation model can be helpful as an experimental tool, which can be used to evaluate Green IT strategies ("what-if" analysis) using...
Strategic investment in real estate is the investment based on strategic orientation. With the gradual maturity of the real estate market and the consumers becoming more and more rational, the real estate enterprises are required to change from traditional financial management to strategic management. Through making a comprehensive analysis of financial and non-financial indicators of the real estate...
Rapid changes in economical environment and in technology induce major challenges for companies to strategically manage their technological capabilities for sustained competitiveness. The field of strategic management of technology is exceptionally complex, and there exist no commonly agreed frameworks nor established practices. In this paper the objectives elements of strategic management of technology...
Environmental issues are rapidly emerging as one of the most important topics in strategic supplying decisions. Perusal of the literature has shown many models to support executives in the assessment of a company's environmental performance. Unfortunately, none of these identifies operating guidelines on how the systems should be adapted to support the deployment of different types of tobacco supply-chain...
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