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According to a report online [34], more than 200 million unique users search for jobs online every month. This incredibly large and fast growing demand has enticed software giants such as Google and Facebook to enter this space, which was previously dominated by companies such as LinkedIn, Indeed, Dice and CareerBuilder. Recently, Google released their “AIpowered Jobs Search Engine”, “Google For Jobs”...
Today, the "green wave" is sweeping the globe and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is gradually accepted by companies and CSR has gradually become an important core component of competitiveness. How to scientificly evaluate the situation of Chinese enterprises to fulfill their CSR? How to efficiently Standardized CSR disclosure? These problems are urgently needed to solve. This paper,...
Data deluge and changing business environment are considered to be serious in that data in corporate information systems are too conveniently and frequently replicated for companies to make decisions properly. Inaccurate and redundant data would induce erroneous decision making which bases on error-infectious information systems. We report that most of inaccuracy and redundancy can be effectively...
This paper presents an experimentation, realized within an International Master's, aimed to develop in tomorrow's engineers the entrepreneurial capabilities required to develop technology-intensive products and services in the domain of e-business. The new professional profile of the Entrepreneurial Engineer is introduced, along with the innovative features of an “i-learning” environment which supports...
Web has become an open platform where everybody can build and run their applications. Big companies can manage the expenditure themselves. Small company or a single user wants to create web services, better they can rent the computing infrastructure. All the big companies are investing heavily on this Cloud technology. Few notable, important and popular cloud based products are g-mail and yahoo mail...
Article will address collecting spatial data using laser scanning (measurement technology, creation, registration and processing point cloud processing models). To distribute all the information gathered to make a basic description of the VRML format, which allows easy transfer of 3D layout and metadata. All of these technologies and procedures used for the purposes of making a digital business. In...
All-at-once Scrum implementations require total commitment to change, high level management support and aggressive removal of impediments. Several company-wide implementations are known to the authors but none of them had to deal with the complexity of a large, mission-critical, enterprise software product. Pegasystems develops software to manage, automate and optimize a broad array of business processes...
This paper is a descriptive case study of how one department at Paf, Paf.com, introduced portfolio management to help support scaling agile software development. Paf.com had experienced problems with long time-to-market due to thrashing, which was caused by frequently changing priorities due to an ad-hoc prioritization process and handovers. Also, there was lack of visibility into projects entering...
Due to the rapid speed of globalization and evolving technologies, firms rely on IT much heavier than before. They use IT not just to cope with the environment, but also to gain competitive advantages. Therefore, it is important for firms to invest on the right while also critical IT with limited resources. To fulfill this need, this research aims at developing an IT portfolio method to evaluate and...
Importance of BITA has increased over the past few years. However, achieving and maturing BITA still has apparent difficulties. Therefore, research efforts resulted in a number of theoretical models that can be applied as supportive tools for assessing different components of BITA. Most of these efforts have been produced either in Anglo-Saxon Countries or based on their experiences. The purpose of...
This paper uses the theoretical lenses of Stakeholder Theory and Organisational Capabilities Theory to shed light on two factors that can lead to higher levels of improvement. We report on the results of a case study of a major Australian retail organisation where we explore the impact of the proposed factors. Qualitative evidence shows that improvement depends on continuously revisited cyclical,...
We investigated the differences in ES implementation in a transition economy when compared to praxis in developed economies. For that purpose, we conducted interviews with practitioners with several years of experience that played various roles in those types of projects in a transition economy, and then contrasted the findings with those of the mainstream literature, mainly based on data from developed...
Information technology (IT) impacts almost every business unit inside the enterprise. Although the IT organization has been the source of endless new possibilities and successful business innovations, many of them have lost their way in the past few years. In our paper we describe four innovative non-IT companies which aim to bring their IT organizations back to the right path with the implementation...
Cost and time are significant practical concerns when an organization addresses the development of an Enterprise Architecture (EA). In order to overcome these challenges, organizations need to focus on those architecture deliverables that are most relevant to the business problem being addressed with EA, yet without loosing cohesive integration over a longer life-cycle. In this paper, we propose a...
The success of Business Process Management (BPM) projects heavily depends on effective collaboration. Specifically, collaboration with actors from outside an organization (such as customers, suppliers, or distributors) is becoming increasingly important. Despite the significance of this phenomenon, little research has yet been done to systematically investigate into the potential obstacles that organizations...
The article presents an example of application, which could be used to support the work of a company that must deal with improvement and evaluation of knowledge of their workers. Application provide rich client graphical interface that facilitate navigation. The core of the system is based on Spring services, which support application in business logic. On the bottom of the application is middle tier...
Many multinational enterprises are applying multisourcing approaches. Multisourcing is described as the blending of services from multiple internal and external vendors. In the case of one of the worldwide leading financial service providers the implementation of the multisourcing concept at the numerous business entities has been challenging since the group follows a federal IT organization model...
While the approach of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been generally accepted, there are concerns that it is mainly used as a technical IT solution, not as a vehicle for business transformation. An important question, then, is how can SOA support business innovation in practice? We investigated this issue in an in-depth case study at an airline company. Analyzing the relationship between innovation...
Conventional IS outsourcing does not always meet expectations, sometimes because of a company's lack of control over the outsourced activity. Quasi-outsourcing is a form of collaboration where the company transfers its IS personnel to a subsidiary, allowing the company to keep better control over the relationship than in conventional outsourcing. In this paper, the factors affecting the success of...
This paper contains the results of a research activity carried out within an Enterprise context, aiming at the formally definition of the Enterprise 2.0 paradigm adoption process to be applied both in public and in private organizations. Our research starts from the consideration that the demand for freedom (“freeform”) which is on the base of web 2.0 and represents one of its main success key, should...
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