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A notable gap exists between the competencies that employers in the UAE want entry-level engineers to exhibit and the knowledge, skills and attitudes these fresh engineering graduates from UAE tertiary institutions are able to successfully demonstrate. Inadequate preparation of engineers in key competencies has been cited as one of the main threats to the sustainable development of the region. Misalignment...
Certification models, e.g. CMMI and TMMi, are hard to use most small software development organizations in Korea. Moreover, some companies do not have their own teams in charge of testing. To solve this issue, we propose the assessment method of a simplified test maturity model for small SW development organizations in local environment and. For the proposed assessment method, we consider the environment...
Companies need new employees that are expected to meet the assessment of each criteria. The criteria set by the company is expected to become a quality standard for the employee's own personal progress. One of the problems in the recruitment of new employees is the problem of subjectivity in the decision for the determination of a new employee candidates. The research objective is to facilitate decision-making...
Large software companies need to support continuous and fast delivery of customer value both in the short and long term. However, this can be hindered if both evolution and maintenance of existing systems are hampered by Technical Debt. Although a lot of theoretical work on Technical Debt has been recently produced, its practical management lacks empirical studies. In this paper we investigate the...
This multiple case based empirical study expands the knowledge around North American software and IT workers in Japan as well as the expatriate literature and discussion of cognitive schemata in cross cultural settings. The study includes eleven individuals, nine of them in software. Evidence of selection, rejection, and adjustment of cognitive schemata found in Japan's business world is presented...
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) plays a crucial role for the governance of IT, by assuring the strategic value of IT and driving and supporting new business models. To investigate this function a new holistic research tool -- the CIO Leadership Mosaic - was developed to incorporate the most relevant dimensions of the CIO role. We apply a leadershiporiented view, allowing understanding how CIOs...
The concept of dynamic capabilities in strategy literature assumes that organizations need to adapt to radical perpetual change in order to ensure survival. In this research we aimed to increase the understanding of competence management as a strategic dynamic capability. This longitudinal interpretive case study was conducted from 2013 to 2015 in a publicly traded professional services company operating...
Despite the growing use of enterprise social software (ESS) to support internal communication or knowledge management, its successful introduction is still a challenge. Studies have shown that ESS needs to be appropriated by the employees by making sense of the tools and reflecting on its possible benefits for individual working practices. To support and accelerate this complex procedure and reduce...
Understanding consumers' expectations of fair data collection and usage (CEFD) in an online environment is critical in a time when the analysis of customer data is increasingly important for companies. Drawing on the psychological contract and justice theory, this study developed a holistic picture of customer expectations by applying a two-stage research design. In stage 1, in-depth interviews with...
Software companies are increasingly moving to use Kanban after Scrum since Kanban claimed to offer improved project visibility, software quality, team motivation, communication and collaboration. However, empirical studies are needed to verify these effects and companies' real motivation for the transition. In particular, underlying reasons leading software companies to start using Kanban in software...
DevOps is a predominant phenomenon in the web domain. Its two core principles emphasize collaboration between software development and operations, and the use of agile principles to manage deployment environments and their configurations. DevOps techniques, such as collaboration and behaviour-driven monitoring, have been used by web companies to facilitate continuous deployment of new functionality...
In recent years, the metaphor of technical debt has received considerable attention, especially from the agile community. Still, despite the fact that agile practices are increasingly used in critical domains, to the best of our knowledge, there are no studies investigating the occurrence of technical debt in critical software development projects. The results of an exploratory field study conducted...
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...
As Information Technologies (IT) play a growingly strategic role in several industries, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) adopt IT solutions to trigger Digital Innovation supporting their processes and improving their products and services. SMEs' scarce resources and inadequate IT competencies forces them to demand support from IT suppliers in the IT adoption and Digital Innovation journey, however,...
Integrating "digital" into the DNA of their business models is an essential part of business success for companies across industries today. The digital transformation has become a critical management issue and requires new ways of managerial thinking. In this context, we address one of the fastest-growing phenomena at top management level: the establishment of Chief Digital Officers (CDOs)...
As ever more companies encourage their employees to realize innovations, a surplus of ideas that exceeds the available resources to implement them has become reality in many organizations. With this paper, we follow recent calls for designing IT-supported, comprehensive, multi-attributive idea screening throughout the whole innovation cycle. Our Idea Screening Framework is grounded in literature and...
As mobile and wearable technologies grow in popularity, ever-increasing volumes of valuable, fine-grained personal information are generated as people go about their daily lives. This information may be exchanged by individuals for "free" services, but there is currently no widely adopted means by which individuals can benefit financially from their personal information. To address this...
Customer Relationship Management is about managing the core asset of a company -- its relationship with customers. Confiding such an important asset to an external service provider requires special attention. Therefore, we investigated which factors influence the willingness of companies, especially in Europe to use CRM in a public cloud environment. Our model of the "Use of CRM" in a public...
Few studies describe in depth the dynamic aspect of the design process of the business model (BM) construct. This dynamic feature is interrelated with the changes in the environment, and this is specifically true for new ventures in rapidly changing context, who need to adjust their BMs several times to succeed. This research attempts to clarify the mechanisms of BM change during a firm's startup...
The increasing use of Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) has been resulting in important changes in individual work practices, and is subject of numerous studies. From both a theoretical and a practical perspective, there is a lack of well-founded knowledge on how the implementation of ESN can be supported best to trigger both learning and change processes in the enterprise. For such processes, managers...
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