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Creative industries can't be separated from the product innovation, but the problem is the ability to innovate products is always limited. So, do a collaboration with customers can be a solution for company in order to continually innovating its products. In order to collaborate with their customers certainly not an easy thing for the company, so it should at least be able to apply some of the variables...
The role of ICT in the organization will continue to experience growth in line with business growth. However, in reality, there is a gap between ICT initiatives with the development (needs) of company business that is caused by yet inadequate of ICT strategic alignment. Therefore this study was conducted with the aim to create an agile enterprise architecture model rules, particularly in mining company,...
For enhancing the test quality, it is required to something how to improve Test Maturity Model (TMM). However, the existing TMM has some inappropriate parts to apply TMM in domestic small and medium businesses. This model does not identify deficient documents for achieving test maturity goal of a company. To solve these problems, we suggest a Simplified Test Maturity Model (STTM) to customize a scale-down...
IT service catalogs are a pivotal element for managing IT services in many organizations, in accordance with common practice IT service management frameworks such as the IT Infrastructure Library. However, both in theory and practice, IT service catalogs are underspecified as much emphasis is put on the structure and content of the catalogs while the use and integration into IT service management...
The importance of alignment between business and information technology (IT) for generating IT business value has been emphasized in many research papers. Current literature broadly supports that capable and sustainable enterprise architecture is essential to support business processes as well as future agility. In that respect, individuals performing the role of an enterprise architect are at the...
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems have increasingly been developed and integrated with other internal and external systems. This paper contributes to the field of enterprise systems integration by clarifying the concept of integration in the context of ERP systems. We investigated integration obstacles during ERP development in 5 large organizations through theme-based interviews. Besides...
To support the systematic improvement of business intelligence (BI) in organizations, we have designed and refined a BI maturity model (BIMM) and a respective measurement instrument (MI) in prior research. In this study, we devise an evaluation strategy, and evaluate the validity of the designed measurement artifact. Through cluster analysis of maturity assessments of 92 organizations, we identify...
Abstract-Role of information technology (IT) within the organization become part of the strategy for the organization in achieving competitive advantage. This is because information technology can create added value for the organization. However, appropriate management of information technology has also become a challenge for the organization in creating effective use of IT and beneficial to the organization...
There is no denying the fact that industries of any dimension in a country have considerable contribution to the GDP of that country. If economic health of industries in a country become better, the financial health of the country, also becomes enriched. The economic health of the industries in India is also required to be improved so that India, as a whole, can prosper. Now, in order to achieve this,...
This article discusses about how the variables affect the safety practice level of employees in a manufacturing organization. Brief gap analysis study is made between existing standard in calculating safety practice level index of the organization, and the proposed model of safety index. Left out variable in existing standard is added in proposed model of calculation of safety practice index. A new...
It is often taken for granted that the right products will be available to buy in retail outlets 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Challenges in achieving this continued on-shelf availability range from recession hit demand patterns to cost reduction driven strategies. Irish government initiatives to brand the country as a sustainable, reliable provider of food retail supply chains has resulted in increased...
Despite of the promising benefits of cloud computing in enabling efficient, sustainable and agile Supply Chain Collaborations (SCCs), this service does not eliminate governance challenges in SCCs. Cloud based SCCs may flounder without a proper understanding of how to govern inter-organizational relations and insight into how the cloud service will affect it. Using a case study method, this study aims...
Productivity has been identified as a key strategy by the Singapore government to drive economic growth for the next 10 years. However, most of the efforts have been focused on developing and adopting tools and techniques as point solutions to improve productivity. A new methodology is needed that automates making improvements everyday as part of the job routine of every employee and has an explicit...
World-class operations need to be efficient and cost effective. Maturity models are examined in this research as a tool for operational development in manufacturing companies. Several leading frameworks are analysed. These models provide baseline to develop companies operations and ultimately the creation of competitive advantage over competitors. The use of maturity models allows organizations to...
One important challenge in ERP implementation is the acceptance and usage of ERP systems by their users. This study aims to identify important antecendents of ERP acceptance and usage among individual users, considering specifically the complex nature of ERP systems. A research model was developed, incorporating two antecedents from DeLone and McLean IS success model, two technological related antecedents...
Periodic inventory review systems are generally preferred by organizations but the selection of right periodic inventory control policy is a challenge especially when demand is irregular. In this research, we classify irregular demand into erratic, slow moving and lumpy for a real industry case, and further develop three periodic review policies for performance evaluation. The simulation results show...
The ability to identify trends is vital for engineer-to-order companies in order to remain competitive and to enable an early response to changes. However engineering trends have either been described from a primarily theoretical point of view or the focus lied on a detailed description of single trends. This contribution identifies 12 general trends in engineering based on a literature review. It...
The sales procedures are the most important factors for keeping companies alive and profitable. So sales and budget sales are considered as important parameters influencing all other decision variables in an organization. Therefore, poor sales forecasting can lead to great losses in an organization caused by inaccurate and non-comprehensive production and human resource planning. Hence, in this research...
Organizations currently use whole range of environmental management tools. All the tools used by environmental policy arose from the voluntary internal initiatives of business entities and organizations. Today, these tools affect production of products and their market position in a complex way. Theoretical background of various environmental management tools is contained in the relevant standards...
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