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Knowledge has become one of the important resources for competitiveness and growth world-wide. Innovative and knowledge-based organizations are characterized by better productivity and sustainability in the fast changing business environment. Technologies provide many opportunities for creativity, collaboration and knowledge transfer, and are behind present changes in innovation models. While large...
Logistics service providers (LSP) are facing an increasing complexity of the logistics sector, i.e. growing levels of process fragmentation plus increasing speed, customization and service demands of logistics clients. Adequate powerful, integrated ICT infrastructure and tools are a prerequisite for keeping pace with the ever increasing service level demands within international logistics. The Cloud...
This paper reports on a study of the perceptions of top managers in 18 Swiss firms on the future of knowledge work in an age of new social media (SM). The executives perceive, and are concerned with, future work practices and behavioral norms, they are aware that the use of SM for knowledge work can change the locus of knowledge production from within the firm to networks and communities of practice...
To keep up the pace of innovation organizations need to open the innovation process to all organizational members. Virtual worlds enable a new way to connect globally dispersed employees to jointly contribute to the company's innovation process. To explore the potential and current usage of virtual worlds as collaborative innovation platforms, we conducted a qualitative study at IBM. We interviewed...
Mashups are web application hybrids built from usually independent online services and information sources, commonly for purposes that differ from the original reasons those services were developed in the first place. The intent is usually to make data more useful, often through visualisation, combination, aggregation or the application of distributed expertise. Mashups rely on APIs to leverage content...
This paper aims to discover how Mook, a publishing company, connects with their users through a new tourism platform named Tripass. This platform has set some new functions, in which encourages users to participate, such as, trip planning, itinerary discussions, etc., are including new innovation services, Using Mook as a study object. This paper examines the relationships between the company and...
Maintaining an educated, high-performance workforce in the today's world of fast changing technology is a daunting task, especially in the electro-mechanical and mechatronics field. Traditional practice in the enterprises is to provide training/retraining to their employees by means of the conventional in-company training. Such training usually doesn't use the advantages of the communications technology...
The thesis points out that interactive service-oriented model is the development direction of education publishing digitalization, which combining related typical cases and presenting the three basic ways of the model, that are E-schoolbag, E-campus and E-teacher.
Social networks are becoming an additional marketing channel that could be integrated with the traditional ones as a part of the marketing mix. However, traditional advertising techniques are not applicable for the social media platforms, resulting in companies experimenting with many different approaches, thus shaping a successful social media strategies based on their own experiences. To gain a...
The use and integration of social networks is becoming increasingly important to many companies. Such networks are used within a company not only to publish information, but also to recruit new customers. Of particular interest is the provision of a vehicle for direct, effective communication between the company and its customers. Most of the well-known social networks provide what are known as “Application...
The State of Kerala in southern India is a highlydevelopedregion with most demographic indicators performingwell above that of the rest of India. Despite this, Kerala hasseveral social outliers, notably the isolated groups such as thetribal or fisher populations. While nearly 100% of Kerala'svillages are electrified, there still exist a number of small,isolated homesteads which are difficult to connect...
Browser-based games played directly in the web browser are a new business environment, where traditional business models for digital games needs to be replaced with new one. There are no game packages to be sold in the first place, and availability of free options makes browser-based game with monthly costs very uninteresting for the players. Therefore neither: “make game - sell game” cycle or monthly...
This paper analyzed the strategies of socially responsible investment and pointed out that socially responsible investment enhances a firm's value by improving its operating environment and reducing its financing costs in theory. And some empirical evidences also are found that there is a positive relation between SRI and firms' value. Social screens are relevant to firms' value. Socially responsible...
The study shows that how coercive isomorphism has influenced business to associated its Corporate Responsibility initiatives into business core activity. By employ case study methodology, the research demonstrates that the well defined CR framework, is not only improved business financial performance, but also has changed employee behaviors that lead into business sustainability. Furthermore, our...
With the tremendous growth of online shopping, this paper tries to figure out what factors influence consumer's shopping decisions online. Following the idea of a customer of both traditional market and e-market, his offline experience and online experience in each community may probably affect his decisions to buy a product in e-market, especially for experience goods. Therefore this paper theoretically...
In the business world, the protection of information and data objects and their well-directed flow is essential for the success of enterprises. The Chinese Wall Security Policy model (CWSP model), defined by Brewer and Nash in, provides access control based on the definition of conflict of interest classes. This model addresses in particular the commercial business sector. In their model Brewer and...
Extending commercial tools for variability management is the problem addressed in this paper. IBM Rational DOORS is a well accepted tool in the area of requirements engineering and supports an Application Programming Interface (API) called DOORS extension Language (DXL). In this contribution we present a way of extending DOORS for product line requirements engineering based on a DXL plug-in called...
Businesses can improve their organizational resilience by ensuring the continued existence of critical data and systems after disastrous events. Cloud computing is frequently recommended as a solution for reliable and robust systems. Community based clouds could avoid the disadvantages associated with public cloud offerings, while ensuring sufficient geographic diversity to maintain IT services at...
Abstract: Every company's business consists of a collection of activities undertaken in the course of designing , producing, marketing , delivering and supporting its products or service. Company resource strengths should generally form the cornerstones of strategy because they represent company's best chance for market and growth success. If a company doesn't have the resources and competitive capabilities...
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