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Knowledge management literature does not provide much guidance on how to measure the success or benefits of doing knowledge management. This paper discusses research that proposes a definition of knowledge management success and dimensions and measures that organizations can use to measure knowledge management success. A nuclear utility engineering organization and professional services firms in Europe...
Information Technology (IT) has been used in large organizations since the 1950s for internal and external purposes. The pervasive use of technology in organizations has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT Governance (ITG). However, determining the right ITG mechanisms remains a complex endeavor. In this paper we propose to perform an exploratory research and...
With the advent of globalization and the knowledge-based economy, industrial SMEs must constantly innovate to remain competitive. Now, an important research issue in this regard concerns the role played by IT capabilities in enabling innovation processes such as new product development, and in determining the product innovation performance of these organizations. Using a configurational approach grounded...
The present article addresses how different types of B2B customer involvement motives and B2C customer involvement motives affect different dimensions of new product development (NPD) operational performance in the B2B context. This study also explores the moderating effects of high vs. low product technology on the relationships between different types of customer involvement motives and different...
Wide-spread adoption of the agile movement has rapidly changed the landscape of software industry. In particular, Scrum is an agile process framework that has become extremely popular in industry. However, the practical implementation of Scrum in companies rarely follows the text book ideals. Typically, companies deviate from the proposed Scrum practices for different reasons. While some deviations...
Information dissemination by means of computer networks uses information systems to store, retrieve and transmit knowledge, which are considered very important tools for society nowadays. The concepts of Information Science, their application to the solution of real situations regarding life cycle inventory and the procedures used in Information Technology provide a new direction to Information Science...
This paper discusses whether design management curricula in United Arab Emirates meet current global and local practice. Hence, it was explored widely the status of design management education and practice in developed and developing nations in order to understand different perspectives and trends on its use. Then, it was examined the design management offering of universities, academies and schools...
In this paper the status of knowledge transfer at an premier Indian Institute of Higher Learning in Technology (IHLT) have been portrayed. Smooth knowledge transfer helps in better understanding of the subject and it helps in achieving administrative and academic efficiency. An questionnaire-based survey has been done where responses of 922 UG students have been analyzed to ascertain the extent to...
The Technologies of Information and Communication, through the use of softwares developed for specific environment has been helping the education through the search for new technologies that provides to the students the disciplinary contents in a way closer to the real world, as well as on the meaning of seeking for tools that came to expand the current learning ways, making the education to have...
Context: Testing is one of the most important phases of software development. However, in industry this phase is usually compromised by the lack of planning and resources. Due to it, the adoption of a streamlined testing process can lead to the construction of software products with desirable quality levels. Objective: Presenting the results of a survey conducted to identify a set of key practices...
Purchasing management is a key process in the iron and steel industry since it impacts the overall performance of the firm. In this study, first the critical yet generic supplier evaluation criteria have been identified for the iron and steel industry. Subsequently the application of an integrated model of Fuzzy set theory and Analytic Hierarchy Process has been highlighted for the prioritization...
The academic interest in International Entrepreneurship and Born Globals on the one hand; and in standardization and standards on the other hand is strong and growing, but there has been hardly any linkage between the two research streams. This paper shows how Born Globals can successfully establish their technologies as de facto standards. Based on 22 case studies and a new success factors model,...
Communication related issues are among the main reasons of the low rate of success in software development, more specifically in distributed projects in which developers are located apart from each other and need to establish virtual relationships to communicate and to collaborate. It is important for a distributed team to be able to communicate properly and in a timely manner. As time goes by and...
Despite the increasing popularity of the case study teaching methodology in computing education, papers reporting on actual implementations of case study-based computing courses are still scarce. Moreover, most of this work focuses on the teacher's perspective, thus, largely missing out the learner's perspective. Over a period of four years, the author of this paper has been systematically observing,...
Spikes are an agile software development technique used by software teams to investigate, close gaps and reduce risk. Computer science education can benefit from the application of agile techniques. In this paper we document our definition of spikes, adapted from agile software development practice, applied to computer science education across a number of different units. Our view is that spikes align...
Technical writing curricula and pedagogy have traditionally emphasized blogging's practical and supplemental role in technical writing contexts. In contrast to such disciplinary conceptions, this paper examines how blogging offers technical writing curricula and pedagogy a more advantageous rhetorical and social genre of workplace writing. Following social media's influence on industry writing conventions...
Business document standards usually cover a hierarchical structure of thousands of elements that may be relevant in any business context (any industry, any geopolitical region, etc.). In order to use a business document standard in a specific context, user groups define so-called implementation guidelines based on a subset consisting usually of 3 – 5% of the overall elements. When one defines a new...
This paper discusses the main problematic, misunderstandings and gaps associated with the development of self-organizing multiagent mechatronic systems. The paper reflects the authors' experience in designing and implementing Multiagent Mechatronic Systems. It also partly addresses the work developed under the FP7 IDEAS project (rated an EU FP7 success story) as a clarifying, but not unique, example...
Starbucks is a world well-known coffee shop company. Starbucks originated from the United States where people used to drink low quality and poor taste coffee. To teach the customers how to taste the best coffee and to provide people with a very relaxing and comfortable environment where people can enjoy their coffee as comfortable at their homes as possible, Starbucks developed some strategies which...
The application of corporate sustainability in triple bottom line has been a critical issue to enterprises. It is a future trend for enterprises working and self-discoursing on their corporate sustainability, and there are many reports about enterprises' efforts on corporate sustainability in developed economy. The research purpose of this study is (1) to explore the three different industrial sectors'...
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