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Cloud computing (CC) is a maturing concept that is changing the way information technology is deployed globally. The promotion of CC with an expected impact of transforming the competitive landscape introduced the need to make strategic decisions whether to adopt this technology or not. Organisations world-wide need to take a position amongst the maze of promises as to the benefits of cloud computing,...
In this paper, we attempt to understand what contributes to a successful process for managing legacy system evolution. We provide an analysis of a number of key performance indicators such as cost, duration, and defects. By normalizing through function points, we furthermore compare to a larger benchmark. To do so we performed a mixed, retrospective case study on a series of nine software releases...
Context: To be more flexible, companies call more and more for an independence between development tools and processes. To enable this form of decoupling we need to understand the interrelation of processes and development tools. However, knowledge about that field is rare.Goal: The goal of this study is to better understand how technologies in use might impact the processes and team interaction.Method:...
Context: It is well known that in software engineering, software or system development processes are very important for getting a high quality product. Such processes can be described in many different ways, from textual documents to existing modeling notations. Objective: Before dealing with the overall goal of improving the description of development processes, this paper evaluates what process...
This paper attempts to provide a conceptual framework on factors that affect the purchasing performance of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies'. Till date purchasing performance models have been published for manufacturing firms, this study fills the gap by investigating the factors that constitute Purchasing Performance of an EPC. To accomplish present research objective, an...
This paper addresses the issues regarding retrieve, reuse and update of design information in context of customized products and adaptive design. Capturing and representing design rationale during the development process has been identified as an important factor to support design of product variants. The study explores the development process from identifying customer requirements to production preparation...
This qualitative multiple case study aims to explore the key knowledge that is transferred by predecessors (parents) to successors (children) in a family company. This knowledge becomes a resource to create the family company's competitive advantage. The research sample was composed of 23 participants from 13 family companies. The data were obtained through in-depth, semistructured interviews. The...
This paper presents an approach to improve understanding regarding the current application of product models and design methods within a company's mechatronic product design process. The method consists of five steps, where information is acquired in interviews, analyzed regarding current state of understanding and application, immediate measures are derived and further measures are planned in a roadmapping...
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is the best means to learn latest /current technologies which are otherwise difficult to gain access and learn them. A case study of how, MOOC on 'User Experience (UX) provided by Udacity for mobile app' was utilized to enhance the quality of student projects, is presented in this paper. Most of the time, MOOCs are provided by the global experts who teach the course...
Independent of the application field, major factors in focus when using the products are quality, cost and time. Empirical studies have shown that in IC design projects as much as half of the projected schedule is spent on the verification activities. Our research work involved exploring the current state of practice of the verification process, investigating methods for achieving efficient fault...
The amount of data that businesses collect and analyze has been rapidly increasing, which has triggered an increase in big data teams. With the growth of both the number and size of big data teams, specialized roles are starting to be defined. One such role is the data engineer, who focuses on ensuring that the data is easily available for advanced analytics. Via a case study, this paper explores...
Standing research regarding collaborations between universities and the public/private sector highlights promising benefits for both stakeholders involved. However, as of now, such collaboration is still rare and needs therefore further investigation. This qualitative case study takes up two main purposes. Firstly, it explores Information Technology (IT) needs and challenges in Mozambique for governmental...
We have developed a recommendation system of companies for new graduates. In this paper, we defined high/low-browsed companies and constructed the recruitment navigation system of the low-browsed companies suitable for each student from the browsing data. Different from traditional recommendations, we need to deal with the problems that the entry (application) period is limited. The methods applicable...
Venture capitalists financing is the main source to keep start-ups up and running. Financial support is not the only thing VCs provide, sometimes they are asked to provide advice and sometimes they force their advice. When and what type of help VCs can give were researched in qualitative multiple-case study setting in top Silicon Valley unicorns - Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat, Pinterest and Dropbox. Their...
Many companies seem poor at learning from failure even though managers in which know the importance of it to improve their business performance. There is, however, a unique company in Japan, which has succeeded in establishing their learning system from failure and has never repeated same failure (according to the executives in the company). Authors explored the key success factors of their learning-from-failure...
The present defence industry growth, driven by the emerging needs towards sustainable environment, has made multiple life cycle product remanufacturing into an important aspect in providing the solution for efficient supply chain management from as early as the design stage. Due to these strict needs, strategic assets are focused in this research, in order to provide it with a flexible framework to...
The knowledge of the “state of practice” enables to improve knowledge transfer processes to industry, to know the processes and development techniques in use and to identify areas of interest in the industry that can be addressed by the academy. In order to know the status of the use of Requirements Engineering was developed an experimental investigation. The aim of the research was to identify Requirements...
This paper studies explores web search behavior among procurement officers based on their profile in playing online game. By understanding how people search, companies will better target their market through better suited contents in blogs, websites and social media. The study was conducted using in-depth interview and observation. The data was collected using purposive sampling method, then analyzed...
Along with the change of time, women in maternity still remain in workforce in order to sustain the household income. As the alteration takes place during the pregnancy, the psychological effect comes along, especially, when a pregnant woman is required to be multitasked, the pressure is obvious. Once the inappropriate underwear is worn, a tremendous impact will arise both in physiology and psychology,...
Program Analysis has been a rich and fruitful field of research for many decades, and countless high quality program analysis tools have been produced by academia. Though there are some well-known examples of tools that have found their way into routine use by practitioners, a common challenge faced by researchers is knowing how to achieve broad and lasting adoption of their tools. In an effort to...
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