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Creativity is the source for innovation and is responsible for ongoing and sustainable progress within companies. Over the years, different theories and practices have been established to enhance creativity and to produce innovative ideas. A number of creativity support systems have been designed, implemented and tested to foster and optimize creativity processes. However, the full potential of information...
Abstract-Role of information technology (IT) within the organization become part of the strategy for the organization in achieving competitive advantage. This is because information technology can create added value for the organization. However, appropriate management of information technology has also become a challenge for the organization in creating effective use of IT and beneficial to the organization...
COBIT 5 is a framework, released in 2012 by ISACA, which can help enterprise set governance objective and plan strategy effectively, to make enterprise create business value. It can be used to identify and manage risk and intensify the IT services. The main findings of this study could help enterprise understand that: (1) The IT management process of COBIT 5 has a significant direct impact on internal...
As an emerging social media, WeChat has brought a shock both theoretically and practically, which caused the shift of service mode and content. However, research on WeChat application and its impacts on performance at firm level are rare. This study examines how WeChat use influence firm performance through customer relationship management (CRM) capability, and value co-creation. Partial least squares...
The tendency of the management that focuses on facets of strategies and business risks without comprehending the procurement, the implementation, the availability of services, and information technology governance supports leads to not centralised online cosmetics business management and an increasing level of the customer turnover. The aims of this research are to cognise the gap value of each process...
SCADA systems (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) as the smart grid control unit has been used in almost various industries around the world in terms of automation systems. Smart grid technology combines the energy and telecommunications infrastructure and Internet networks. SCADA system in order to function optimally, it is necessary to process the security of information technology governance...
The aim of this study is to describe recent development of the labor market in IT area. Trends in labor supply and as well as labor demand are discussed. The primary focus is on current situation in recruitment: what are the job requirements of companies and how they are changing over time. We also concentrate on characteristics of job candidates in IT, their demographic profile and shifts in their...
About a decade ago, when online learning was introduced to most public universities in Slovakia, focus was heavily on technology, rather then methodology. Up to this day, many public universities provide their teachers and students with access to a Learning Management System, occasionally some technical training, but that is where the efforts ended. About three years ago, Comenius University started...
Information technology (IT) offshoring grows rapidly along with the availability of large number of highly capable IT vendors in developing countries. To be able to play a significant role in the global IT market through offshore IT outsurcing, it is necessary that vendors are capable in building a good relationship with their clients. In this study, we examine the critical processes for developing...
In this paper we cover the prospects of University-based IT-outsourcing using the example of Odessa National Polytechnic University's participation in the ≪IHSITOP≫, which is a TEMPUS project. The pilot project was carried out in two stages. At the first stage the students who would take part in the project were selected and taught the basic outsourcing skills. At the second stage, the exact workload...
Internet technology has changed many aspects in business these days, from new product and services development, to business process improvement such as online tender, mobile payment, online registration, and many others. As a result of those changes, companies need the right resources who understand on how to do business and compete in this new economy hence new competencies are hired. This research...
Various drivers push companies to implement Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) practices. However, implementing GSCM practices is always subject to a number of interacting factors (attributes, characteristics and practices) that characterize the companys organization and its relationships with other supply chain partners. This study contributes to understanding how such factors taken together interact...
Nowadays, a web service is one of technologies that is reliable and promising in business practices. This is evidenced by the services created by the providers to support them. Web service similarity is very important to get a replacement Web service, when the web service used is disable. Web service similarity based on annotations and descriptions in this decade are being carried out. Unfortunately,...
This paper describes the evolution of e-business in B-to-B manufacturing small and medium enterprises. Based on the e-business initiatives that were resulted in previous work, this paper explains the empirical evidence through three separate studies that are complementary. First, this paper presents the initial allegations of e-business evolution. Second, a quantitative study is conducted to see whether...
Big data tsunami has hit Malaysia recently that has awakening the industry and academy communities to aggressively address the insight, hindsight and foresight challenges ensuring Malaysia to be among the top world players in big data information economy for the next decade. Rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in this era is very significant due to increasing number...
This paper proposes a new framework to identify and rank Twitter accounts of which short messages or tweets may influence a specific financial stock price. In this paper, we start by mainly focusing on the first step of our framework, selecting potential influencers based on their association with a particular stock market. With numerous limitations of Twitter service to access and acquire Twitters...
The focus of knowledge management is not only for academic but already a realization that knowing about knowledge is critical for business growth and business survival. Knowledge management is known as one of the key factors for the enterprises to have a sustainable competitive advantage. Many enterprises would like to have knowledge management implemented in their company but they are often confused...
The main problems of interaction between IT business and IT education for establishing the effective specialist training in this industry in Ukraine are analyzed. The key points, that are inherent in the educational field that prepares IT professionals and in the corporations that have successfully positioned in the IT market, are outlined.
Nowadays information technology (IT) has evolved from its traditional orientation of administrative support toward a more strategic role within an organization. But, there is still a lack of frameworks and models to measure this new strategic orientation of IT. To remain competitive, firms should align their IT and Business strategy. A number of alignment models have been offered in the literature,...
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