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Advanced globalization has led to information sharing among the overseas bases of companies. Technical information should be protected as they are the knowledge assets of companies. Therefore, companies establish general standards within enterprises, and it is necessary for all employees of an organization to act under their regulations and rules.
In previous work we showed in a systematic mapping study that there is no method to enhance user-developer communication (UDC) in the design and implementation phase of large-scale IT projects (LSI). We then defined the UDC-LSI method. It is substantial especially for newly designed methods to evaluate them within a real-world context. As it is difficult to find a company willing to apply an untested...
Total productive maintenance (TPM) has become one of the most popular maintenance strategies to ensure high machine reliability since it is regarded as an integral part of lean Manufacturing. One of the main objectives of TPM is to increase the overall equipment effectiveness of plant equipment with a modest investment in maintenance. Companies around the world spend a lot of money on buying new machinery...
In recent years software has become integral part of our lives. From product software has become a service now. Software industry has undergone a shift in paradigm. Companies look into every aspect for effective project management. Practitioners have started considering human aspect equally important in the product, process, people triad. Human aspect has become top concern for companies' management...
Professional services organizations are under the same pressures to streamline their operations and increase efficiency as industrial organizations. One way of making the operations more efficient and leveraging a global workforce is to use enterprise systems for HR and project personnel management. However, it seems that the process-oriented nature of enterprise systems is better suited for manufacturing...
This paper aims to reach the core of the “innovative enterprise” concept. The concept shall be redefined and the intellectual creation thesaurus shall be at its core. Further on, there are a series of practical considerations aimed to define the “virtual innovation workshop”. “The virtual innovation workshop” is the mean the authors propose for building, updating and developing the intellectual creation...
A competency model oriented to the development of human potential of the personnel at the Electricity Production Division of Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) in México is presented. The concept of human potential is briefly described and the main features of a competence model are explained. Finally, the status of the implementation at CFE of the competencies model is presented.
Science and technology capability is one of the critical factors in developing the nation's competitiveness and driving the economic growth as well as the well-being of the people. The mobility of talent between academia and industry contributes significantly to the stock of human resources in science and technology, thus talent mobility at the national level plays an important role in the country's...
As world populations increase, the demand for non-renewable resources forces organizations to pursue mega projects in sparsely or non populated regions. Worldwide trends towards urbanization make it increasingly difficult to attract and hold skilled workers in these less attractive locations. As well, the skill sets required to design and build the large projects may not be required within the organization...
It goes without saying that technology companies are expected to innovate. However, the technical personnel need to follow the internal regulations of the company, which can conflict with the goal of innovation. Therefore, when a company changes its system of internal control, a technical organization learns new ways to work under the new system. This study aims to find the success factors for keeping...
In plant construction business engineering has an outstanding influence on project success. Thereby, a plant is usually provided by a general contractor as turnkey solution. However, to win these projects, the general contractor is depending on external engineering service providers. The reasons are e.g. missing expertise in non-core-competence activities, lack of staff or too high costs of internal...
Technology absorptive capacity (TAC) is critical for innovation and competitiveness of enterprises in latecomer countries. The current literature lacks deep study on the differences of corporate TAC. Taking automotive industry as an example, this study selected 13 self-brand passenger car manufacturers in China and researched on the existence and dimensions of differences in corporate TAC through...
This paper examines the role of a game theory approach in the process of knowledge worker selection in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Using a game theory approach, the optimization of the process of knowledge worker selection is clearly defined. The study draws on interviews with 40 knowledge workers in nine innovative Polish business types which were selected for study. The results illustrate...
The new generation of R&D personnel has unique personality characteristics and work values, which brings challenge for the human resource management in enterprises. Based on the literature analysis and in-depth interviews, this paper puts forward a five-dimension model of work values for the new generation of R&D personnel and makes an empirical test through the questionnaire survey and statistical...
With the development of information technology, network technology and communication technology, the human race has entered the information society in an all-round way. The information society to the enterprise management concept, methods, has brought the revolutionary change, enterprise management informatization is a big trend in the development of enterprises in the world, is the enterprise in...
This paper construct the theoretical framework of development strategy for the tourism consulting companies by analyzing the related theory and tourism development trend, through the field survey of related tourism consulting companies in Beijing city, research into the influence factors and the relationship between various factors about the competitive strength of Beijing tourism consulting companies...
A fundamental solution of topical problem for economic, social and technological future of Ukraine and the world is proposed. The problem lies in the elimination of corruption through the formation and implementation of the state program «Creation of Cyber Physical Space for Digital Monitoring Technological Processes and Optimal Resource Management in order to Achieve Socially Important Goals». The...
With China's increasing military and economic might, the number of airports exported to foreign countries, foreign trade aircrafts for short is enormously increasing. Despite the international recognition of characteristics, safety and economy of aircrafts developed by China, researches on operational station show that logistic support issue of foreign trade aircrafts is the crucial problem during...
Knowledge is one key to achieve competitive advantage to an organization. As a company with high employee turnover rate, a human resource consulting company in Jakarta suffers loss of knowledge possessed by resigned employee. Various efforts have been made to equip new employees to have knowledge as employees being replaced. Nevertheless the knowledge of the new employee cannot match the knowledge...
As one of the six Gulf countries, Oman invested heavily in infrastructure construction every year. Many Chinese enterprises want to be able to enter the Omani construction market. Although there are some Chinese companies have undertaken a number of construction projects, the vast majority of them did not get expected benefits, or even had a loss. Analyzing the reasons is mainly because there is its...
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