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Recent research has begun to place greater emphasis on the strategic use of IT in seeking to build firm's capability, thus innovating firm's business value. In this context, many leading firms have been put efforts to formulate agile structures, processes, and governance mechanisms for firm's IT activities but there is lack of conceptual framework to understand how well ITG is formed within the organization...
Significant attention has been paid to the improvement of system development practices. There are theories and methods that are to be used for such improvement purposes. The criticism towards these theories and methods is that many of them have a narrow focus on the system development process, methods, and tools. Too little attention is paid to business orientation, organisational aspects and social...
E-mail services represent an essential part of the IT landscape of enterprises. Besides in-house hosting, every company can make use of offers from specialized application service providers (ASPs). Former research has shown a lack of transparency in the market for Web-based services. This paper summarizes the results of a study on professional web-based e-mail services catering to the German-speaking...
Living Labs is a rather new research area and phenomena that introduces new ways of managing innovation processes. The underlying idea is that people's ideas, experiences, and knowledge, as well as their daily needs of support from products, services, or applications, should be the starting point in innovation. This paper illuminates experiences and accumulated knowledge to the area of concept design...
Manufacturing companies that are expanding their product offering to cover also lifecycle services in the customers' facilities are facing the increasing complexity and risk to execute continuous business transition. By mastering innovation over customer process life cycle it is possible to achieve leadership in life cycle business transition. Innovation is taking place in three dimensions, business,...
What is the impact of information technology (IT) governance software on the actual processes of IT governance and through that on realizing the business value of IT? This article examines the conceptual foundations underlying this question and analyzes the available evidence based on a quantitative research approach. Using global survey-data from 41 companies that have implemented IT governance software...
Aligning IT to business needs is still one of the most important concerns for senior management. The message of business and IT alignment (BIA) is logical and undisputed, but implementation is apparently difficult. As part of a research program on the differences between the theory and practice of BIA, this paper explores the impact of (national) cultures on the maturity of BIA. The paper relies on...
Recently, it appears on the agenda of many organizations the concept of IT governance in order to justify and mainly optimize IT investments. Some studies have shown that companies which have good IT governance models generate superior returns on their IT investments than their competitors. However, there is a lack of scientific research confirming that effective IT governance results in better financial...
In this paper, we first derive propositions from the current literature addressing the causes and impacts of application architecture (AA) complexity. We then untangle AA complexity itself by differentiating four types of AA complexity that are mingled in extant literature: interdependency-, diversity-, deviation-, and overlap-related AA complexity. Based on this more differentiated view, we validate...
With the deepening development of globalization, knowledge economy and information technology gradually, many large corporations actively explore distributed innovation to keep the competitive power and expand their firms. Basing on the empiric analysis of Midea Group of China, this paper puts forward the concept of distributed innovation and its characters, and then reveals the driving factors of...
Since the inception of the Internet in the mid-1990s, e-commerce has grown at a very rapid rate. Firms had realized that they could be pushed to the world stage of the knowledge-based economic by e-commerce. So, most of firms are stepping up to the adoption of those technologies for upgrading their businesses. Regarding the significant role of customers, the study of their behaviors influence on the...
In this paper, we present the body of knowledge which is transferred between client and vendor in ISD (information system development) offshoring outsourcing project, which are domain knowledge, technical knowledge, process knowledge and culture knowledge. We also find the process of knowledge transfer though the whole ISD project life circles by case study. The results showed that in different stage...
Most of the agile methods mainly concentrate on the development phase. None of them however is explicitly dedicated to the evolution and maintenance domain. In this paper, we outline an agile evolution and maintenance process model and evaluate it within two Canadian software organizations. We do this by comparing current agile development process models to the industrial evolution and maintenance...
When Scrum extends beyond software development into the organization, Agile techniques, notably Scrum, provide a built-in innovation process. There is more to innovation than coming up with good ideas. Innovating involves capitalizing on well implemented ideas. Implementing good ideas involves risk and consequently should be managed carefully.Scrum effectively implements Lean methods into organizations...
As the dishonesty violations of the listed companies occur from time to time, the credit risk of listed companies has become an issue related to the financial system stability. By understanding the concepts of credit and credit risk, a quantitative research has been carried out on the credit taking listed company in Anhui province as an example on the premise of considering the availability of data...
This paper discusses the concepts of data warehouse technology and its importance for decision support system (DSS). The DSS as one kind smart software system of the important application value, provides, each kind of decision information as well as the commercial question solution for the enterprise. Thus Data warehouse can meet the requirements of the database management subsystems of DSS, and is...
Strategic intent is future-oriented and different from goal in being super ordinate to long range or very long range, uncertain in its achievability and linked to core competencies. On the other hand, a strategic intent creates an obsession with winning at all levels of the enterprise while a vision is more clearly a top management leadership tool. Strategic intent and core competencies are inseparable...
The paper theoretically analyzes the pros and cons of the enterprisespsila industrial diversification and compares the differences between the two kinds of industrial diversification (related and unrelated diversification) at the aspects of the pros and cons above analyzed. The industrial diversification of enterprises may produce the following positive effects: dispersing the nonsystematic risk of...
The purpose of this paper is to study the operational competitiveness of Chinese state-owned manufacturing enterprises (CSOME) by analyzing the case CSOME and comparing with other global manufacturing companies in a global manufacturing strategies (GMSS) database. Analytical models are used to analyze the operational competitiveness of the case CSOME based on the weights of the multi-criteria manufacturing...
Rapid growth in financial markets, increasing volatility and globalization are the main reasons of growing competition among commercial banks. And commercial bank performance is very importance for society and economy of country. So bank regulatory commission must find and help the commercial bank which is in trouble by evaluate their performance. Conventional evaluation models for commercial bank...
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