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In the recent decades most of the big organizations have adopted maturity driven process improvement efforts (MDPI). Most of these efforts have been inspired of maturity models like the CMM (capability maturity model). The maturity of an organizationpsilas processes is measured through its maturity level. An organization availed a high maturity level is considered more trustworthy In this competitive...
SmallBlue is a social networking application that unlocks the valuable business intelligence of 'who knows what?', 'who knows whom?' and 'who knows what about whom' within an organization, without requiring explicit involvement of individuals. The aim of SmallBlue is to locate knowledgeable colleagues, communities, and knowledge networks in companies. The suite also helps users manage their personal...
As e-Business and e-Commerce applications are increasingly exposed to a variety of information security threats, corporate decision makers are increasingly forced to pay attention to security issues. Risk management provides an effective approach for measuring the security but existing risk management approaches come with major shortcomings such as the demand for very detailed knowledge about the...
The successful development and market insertion of a financially successful new product requires technology, marketing, manufacturing, and luck. This paper suggests various steps in the process that are critical to success. More specifically, the paper deals with the special problems encountered by small business. The analysis is presented in light of the Small Business Innovative Research program...
In order to, proliferate capabilities of information systems as a managerial leverage and a means of decision making, organizations need the support of software, hardware and humanware infrastructures. Without such support, implementation efforts may adversely suffer from excessive development costs, delays or may even fail before completion. Hence, readiness assessment studies and exploration of...
In this paper, we propose a characterization of the main classes contained in the database of the system K-DSS and related to the domain of identification of the crucial knowledge for which a capitalizing operation is required. We exploit ontological categories existing in the literature to define the notions of knowledge, actor, support and criteria of knowledge vulnerability. The objective is to...
A direct correlation exists between an organization's capability maturity and an organization's capability to develop mature and reliable products. A mature organization is capable of repeatedly designing and producing mature products. To develop a mature organization with the capability to develop mature reliable products, a reliability capability assessment and improvement process is needed. An...
High-tech companies need to collect and analyze requirements and allocate them to appropriate product releases in market-driven product development. Development activities are typically scattered across multiple sites and involve multiple partners in different countries, complicating requirements and release management. Flexible, scalable, and secure groupware-based support for the activities provides...
The amount of electronics in vehicles is growing quickly, thus systems are becoming increasingly complex which makes the engineering of these software intensive systems more and more difficult. In the automotive industry the use of product line architectures enables a set of vehicles to share architecture to decrease cost and increase quality. In this study we investigate key issues related to real-world...
The increasing economical, ecological and social significance of information systems (IS) demands reorientation for IS management. Ever-growing energy consumption, waste streams, data amounts and performance expectations require management concepts that consider these forces. While concepts of corporate social responsibility or sustainability have been applied to other industries, IS is still lacking...
Companies like eBay, Google, or Amazon offer web services that allow third parties to access various data sources and applications. This research contributes to existing literature by analyzing third parties' business opportunities that result from using eBay web services.Therefore, business models of companies that use eBay web services are studied, and the contribution of eBay web services to strategic...
Many employers now provide electronic personal health records (PHR) to employees as part of a free or low cost health benefit program. This paper reports findings from a survey distributed to employees of a large U.S. corporation. The survey focused on identifying employee concerns and expectations from an employer sponsored PHR system and to help understand the utilization and adoption of PHR systems...
This study takes a long-term perspective on the relationship between firm performance and the usage of information service for promoting informatization programs and strengthening the competitiveness of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in key industries. We developed a research model and hypotheses using key variables drawn from previous research, such as Information System Success Model,...
Many organizations pursue knowledge management (KM) initiatives, with different degrees of success. One key aspect of KM often neglected in practice is following an integrated and holistic approach. Complementary, KM researchers have increasingly focused on factors that determine KM success and examined whether the metrics used to measure KM initiatives are reasonable. In this article, the importance...
In this paper, we examine the effects of the implementation of electronic invoicing on buyer-seller relationships. We apply the framework by Cannon and Perreault [1] to analyze the changes in the relationship connectors between the two parties. Drawing on qualitative interview data from a single case study, we find that the implementation of electronic invoicing has a strong impact on the information...
Cross-firm collaboration has emerged as one of the primary management issues in the network-driven economy. Previous studies have emphasized cross-firm collaboration as a key factor in the successful attainment of corporate success in buyer-supplier relationships. However, these studies have not focused on the efficacy of IT leveraging competence and social capital with regard to collaboration. It...
This paper analyzes the culture conflicts of merged IT departments in two banks in Taiwan. The integration of divergent cultures is crucial to maintain the performance of a merged organization. We examine issues in post-merger IT integration of two Taiwan's financial holding companies, and then argue that the understanding of IT culture conflicts between two merged departments can contribute to the...
The efficient and effective management of projects is a key success factor for many organizations. Empirical studies indicate that systematic know-how transfer from, between and within projects has significant impact on the success of projects. However, the role of knowledge management in projects has been insufficiently investigated. This research aims at spotting the status quo and causalities of...
This is a detailed interpretive case study analysis of an open source software project, called Varnish. The conceptual framework is based on the literature covering issues of commons based production models and the organization of open source projects. The comparative analysis reveals that Varnish is a hybrid project, encompassing the features of open source software while managed by a company as...
This study explores the linkage between technology development and new product development (NPD). Literature suggests that there is gap between technology development and product development. We develop a set of propositions through review of previous research and a case study from the semiconductor industry. We conclude that for successful integration of technologies into products, a formal technology...
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