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Technology Transfer — An International Two‐way Street
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Britain produces about six per cent of the world's technology, but is one of the
few net exporters of licensed technology. R&D spend in the UK is smaller than
its main competitors, and more R&D is financed by government. The UK must
continue to license aggressively overseas and “license‐in” technology in order
to maintain its position. The British Technology Group operates effectively in
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Is revamping your web site worthwhile?
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– The purpose of this paper is to study how web site quality affects traffic
performance., – An experimental design is employed to study how web quality
affects traffic performance. A revamping of the experimental web site was used
as the treatment, targeting visitors' perceived quality of the web site. Four
traffic performance measures, page: views, visitor count, daily registrations,
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A strategy‐based model for e‐commerce planning
Tập 103 Số 4 - Trang 238-252
Poor planning practice is one of the reasons for the inferior results of some
e‐commerce ventures. In this paper, it is suggested that a strategy‐based
e‐commerce planning model containing seven specific dimensions, with strategy at
its core, should be considered when entering into a new e‐commerce venture.
Implications for managerial practice upon the adoption of such a planning model
are also di...
APS for tactical planning in a steel processing company
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– The main purpose is to describe and analyse the impact that the implementation
of an advanced planning system (APS) has on the tactical planning level at a
steel processing company. This is done in terms of analysing changes in the
tactical planning processes, effects on company performance, and how the APS is
used in a practical planning context., – This research is based on a
longitudinal case...
Mapping supply chains on risk and customer sensitivity dimensions
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– With the emergence of the concepts of lean, agile and leagile paradigms for
supply chains, organizations have little idea as to which model suits them based
on the their supply chain's ability to counter risks and take on the challenges
of the fast changing customer preferences. This paper aims to map supply chains
on these two dimensions., – A model is proposed by which suitable supply chain
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Information systems development: a normalisation process theory perspective
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– This paper utilises a case study to discuss the applicability of normalisation
process theory (NPT) as an alternative lens in understanding how social
processes impact on the information systems development (ISD) process., – The
research was undertaken at an educational setting utilising a qualitative case
approach., – The research suggests a framework based on NPT. This framework aims
to provid...
Standard user interface in e‐commerce sites
Tập 103 Số 8 - Trang 600-610
E‐commerce offers speed, convenience, and often cost‐effectiveness for today’s
busy shoppers, but many e‐commerce sites are still too hard to use. The problem
with e‐commerce sites is that the controls and organization are different for
each site. This research investigates how an individual’s perceptions of key
beliefs surrounding the use of the e‐commerce site with the standard user
interface wo...
Integration of Technologies: An Ultimate Decision‐making Aid
Tập 93 Số 1 - Trang 10-17
Shows how to introduce computer support for the implementation of different
decision‐making settings. Provides a comparison between decision support and
expert systems. Analyses the similarities and dissimilarities of decision
support systems (DSS) and expert systems (ES) and presents a conceptual
framework for the integration of these two technologies. Numerous examples
illustrate operationally i...
HOW TO INTEGRATE NEW MEMBERS INTO A WORK TEAM EFFECTIVELY
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Practical means are provided of integrating a new team member into an effective
team. To be effective, teams must manage goals, roles, processes and
relationships. Goals need to be held in common and be quantifiable. Roles of
members need to be clearly stated for the process to be managed. The leader
needs to be accepted, the decision‐making responsibilities need to be clear and
communications nee...
Re‐engineering information technology: an enabler for the new business strategy
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Addresses the need for re‐engineering information systems (IS) in a rapidly
changing environment, and the urgency of doing this to meet current and future
needs of organizations whose existence is dependent on coping with rapidly
changing requirements. Implicit in this view is the need for restructuring the
industry to meet new applications including the creation of software for an era
that has no...