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New technologies associated with the current digital transformation promise high production improvements, but require new competences, which have to be built up in advance. While scientific research and innovation management have acknowledged the importance of the digital transformation for the long-term success of firms, little research effort is dedicated to empirically determine how competence...
As a result of globalization and increasing numbers of application filings around the world, the harmonization of intellectual property systems has become a key global issue. Many previous studies have examined the issue of harmonization, from industrial, IP policy, and enterprise perspectives, but have not taken inventors' points of view into consideration. Therefore, we have administered a questionnaire...
Crowdsourcing (CS) is a new model of software development inspired by contribution. Several companies are adopting CS in their projects to reduce costs and employ specialists. However, several gaps persist in the literature analyzing the management of such projects, the impact of participants and activities. Thus, we perform a systematic mapping (SM) in order to verify how CS software project management...
Start-Up formation and execution can be a daunting proposition for a technologist. The uncertainty and number of unknowns translate into substantial risk, which can discourage an engineer from even starting a company. One approach to address that risk is through instruction; by understanding the path through the start-up process, the variability is decreased and confidence can be cultivated. Although...
This paper studies how the efficiency of an online platform is impacted by the degree to which access of platform participants is open or controlled. The study is motivated by an emerging trend within platforms to impose increasingly finegrained control over the options available to platform participants. While early online platforms allowed open access, e.g., Ebay allows any seller to interact with...
Educational systems of IT-companies typically provide a network space in which students and teachers can come together for teaching and learning. Using the microservice architecture offers advantages in application development.
The paper analyzes the existing methods and approaches to correcting bases of fuzzy rules of decision support systems (DSS). There was developed and implemented a two-stage method of fuzzy rule base correction for hierarchically-organized DSS with discrete logic output at variable structure of input vector. The appropriate method interactively provides reduction of database rules structure and correction...
The Product development has been approached by linear methods that apply to any design problem without concern of ambient variables. In this approach, we will find a new matrix method that can deliver a basic path in which the designer can begin his journey, but adaptable to accept ambient variables.
Successful brands often rely on successful products to achieve true brand value. Brand portfolio is an effective strategy to create dominant brand, and its methods are brand development, brand alliance and brand acquisition. Based on the analysis of correlation between the three methods and the development strategy of product, this paper focuses on the development strategy of product under the brand...
In the 1920s and 1930s, the U.S. automobile enterprise Ford made its retail debut in Taiwan and mainland China markets. At that time, Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule and had went through a series of assimilation policy; while China was in the period of semi-feudalism and semi-colonialism, a stage in which all sectors of society, from politics to economy, were invaded and controlled by foreign...
This study adopts the action research method to investigate how a grocery store can survive in the rural area. The grocery store is located in Yenpu Township of Pingtung, southern Taiwan, the resident is less than 27000 people. This study tracked the grocery store's development process and operations performance for 18 months to examine the influences of sales models, product categories, and folk...
In the past, once a new product appearing in the market, consumers first check if the price is reasonable, if it is within their budget, if the product's functions meet their requirement, and if the appearance of the product caters to their preferences, etc. In fact, in addition to the corporate's brand image, the price, functionality and appearance will be the key success factors of product sales...
Today, technology is enabling change in most of our lives. Also, crucial for most of these changes, are software startups whose contributions have led to the creation of a global market, jobs, and some help in fighting the "brain drain" pertaining in most developing countries. However, there is not enough academic literature to guide practitioners on how to leverage the collaborative potentials...
This position paper addresses the issue of startups and technical debt. Early stage startups condition makes creating technical debt an almost mandatory decision. Not managing technical debt can be deadly for a startup as fast product iteration cycle is necessary. We here introduce a technique for managing technical debt based on Visual Thinking. The technique addresses the problem of knowing how...
In this paper we present a case study of applying fitness dimensions in API design assessment. We argue that API assessment is company specific and should take into consideration various stakeholders in the API ecosystem. We identified new fitness dimensions and introduced the notion of design considerations for fitness dimensions such as priorities, tradeoffs, and technical versus cognitive classification.
In order for the conduct of collaborative research projects and their outcomes to be valuable for both research and practice it is necessary to successfully address a number of socio-technical challenges in the field of software engineering. Collaborative research involving researchers and practitioners related to software systems have utilised a variety of different research approaches. Adoption...
During collaborative innovation projects, interactions between actors and knowledge exchange among them have a crucial role to foster innovation. External knowledge can be integrated into the project through different practices. Thereby, to help companies to identify their best practices, it is necessary to find out where and how external knowledge is acquired, transformed and applied in order to...
Agile software development principles enable companies to successfully and quickly deliver software by meeting their customers' expectations while focusing on high quality. Many companies working with pure software systems have adopted these principles, but implementing them in companies dealing with non-pure software products is challenging. We identified a set of goals and practices to support large-scale...
One of the most interesting spheres which allow steady improvement of the quality of electricity supply service in the European Union and worldwide, but also in Poland, are the techniques and procedures to ensure reliable maintenance and repairs of the power network, power lines and installations and power equipment without the need to resort to power cuts.
In France, grid live working is supervised by the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Industry. In the early sixties, both ministries together with transmission and distribution supply operators (TSO and DSO) decided to create the “Live Working Committee” to entrust all grid live work regulation. Nowadays, the Live Working Committee is in charge of defining work methods, tools and training programs...
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