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Entrepreneurship has been linked with improved economic stability and the economic turnaround of countries. Creating and enabling environments that spur, cultivate and sustain entrepreneurs is of paramount importance. The purpose of this paper is to relate how entrepreneurial firms utilise external actors to create value in their companies in an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Of particular importance...
Tests are considered important to ensure the good behavior of applications and improve their quality. But development in companies also involves tight schedules, old habits, less-trained developers, or practical difficulties such as creating a test database. As a result, good testing practices are not always used as often as one might wish. With a major IT company, we are engaged in a project to understand...
Software companies need to support continuous and fast delivery of customer value both in short and a long-term perspective. However, this can be hindered by evolution limitations and high maintenance efforts due to internal software quality issues by what is described as Technical Debt. Although significant theoretical work has been undertaken to describe the negative effects of Technical Debt, these...
This article investigates how omni-channel services operations are building technology-based business networks. It uses a case study research, which includes multiple sources of data collection for triangulation purposes, to study a real-life phenomenon. The results suggest that omni-channel companies are changing their landscape to business networks, looking for competitive advantages over their...
Online controlled experiments (for example A/B tests) are increasingly being performed to guide product development and accelerate innovation in online software product companies. The benefits of controlled experiments have been shown in many cases with incremental product improvement as the objective. In this paper, we demonstrate that the value of controlled experimentation at scale extends beyond...
Context: Several research works emphasise that the concept of simplicity is, in itself, by far not a simple concept, mainly because there are many perspectives on the perception of simplicity. Purpose: To understand how project managers and software engineers interpret their experiences in agile software projects considering the simplicity issues in agile software development. Method: Semi-structured...
The EMFIS model allows companies to explicate a representation of the organization's current situation regarding continuous integration impediments, and visualizes what the organization must focus on in order to enable more frequent integration of software. The model is used to perform an assessment of twelve factors, where the ratings from participants representing the developers are summarized separately...
Keeping the build fast is often stated as an important prerequisite for continuous integration, and is also widely discussed in literature. But which importance does the capacity of the build system actually have in relation to developer behavior? Based on metrics and interview results from a large-scale industry project, we present the factors that according to the developers themselves affect how...
The software ecosystem paradigm is a means for companies to obtain benefits by joining a network of partners that supply infrastructure, software and services for a shared market. In this paper, we analyse the relationships among partners participating in software ecosystems by means of established power theories. We report the findings of a multiple case study of two software ecosystems formed by...
In recent years, there has been growing interest in research on sustainability in software engineering. Despite active research in this area, there is still a lack of understanding of how sustainability is perceived by software professionals. To understand how software sustainability is currently dealt with in practice, we performed an interview study with 10 software project team leads from nine...
Problem identification is a way to determine what domains will be the focus discussed in a study. Some researchers have used the method to fit the goals of a company. This paper aims to identify problems based on COBIT 5. Methodology used: 1. Gather information from stakeholders to get issues to be evaluated, 2. Mapping company's objectives to obtain IT related goals, 3. Mapping IT related goal to...
Survey and interview data indicates that companies have abandoned their obsession with elaborate, "validated" business requirements and are adopting emerging technologies rapidly to enable digital transformation.
Even though the first attempt to develop a vehicle-sharing system can be traced around 1950, only in the last decade it was possible to see an increase both in members and in service providers. This increase is mainly fostered by strong developments in the IT sector, which allow car-sharing companies to offer easier solutions to their members, such as vehicle localization and booking and electronic...
In our digitized world, the importance of virtual work environments continues to increase. A prior study showed that, in the collaborative business domain of product costing, adequate collaboration support is still missing and that generic collaboration solutions are not able to cover relevant requirements. We established an approach for e-Collaboration that focuses on its integration into the core...
The objective of this research is to explore the perception of internal auditor in public companies on the use of Generalized Audit Software (GAS) to improve the transparency and accountability of financial report. Qualitative approach was used by conducting face-to-face semi structured interview with internal auditors from Indonesian public companies. This research uses Agency Theory and Technology...
Our work proposes that the understanding of the relationship between communication and power structures is fundamental in teaching, learning and improving communication skills and, conversely, learning and improving communication skills enables people to become more aware of how power is operating in a given environment. Using situated observation in the workplace, our study investigates how pieces...
Platforms are defined as multisided marketplaces with business models that enable producers and users to create value together by interacting with each other. In recent years, platforms have benefited from the advances of digitalization. Hence, digital platforms continue to triumph, and continue to be attractive for companies, also for startups. In this paper, we first explore the research of platforms...
Although high oil prices have attributed bad habits in a matter of “doing things right” rather than “doing the right things” in subsea productions, a continuous price drop renewed the need for cost cutting in recent years. This has been the case for subsea companies, where previous research found significant cost and schedule overruns due to late design changes. A large amount of these late design...
The paper reported a field survey that sought to examine the technical implications in the adoption of a Global System for Mobile communication GSM-based metering system in the New Juaben Municipality. Both simple random sampling and interview guide methods were used. The issues considered under the study were; understanding of a GSM-based metre reading, mobile phone penetration among consumers, reliability...
Knowledge Management (KM) and Collaboration are viewed as a key strategy for achieving competitive advantage in companies around the world. Knowledge by itself is considered one of the most valuable assets owned by an organization. In technology-based firms, it is perceived as being of the upmost value. In Baja California, Mexico, several companies exist which develop products and services using knowledge...
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