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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......
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– This paper aims to study the main requirements of traceability and examine how the technology of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology can address these requirements. It further seeks to outline both an information data model and a system architecture that will make traceability feasible and easily deployable across a supply chain., – The design research approach is followed, associat......
Information systems frameworks and strategy
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Management information systems providers are often still failing to deliver appropriate systems to the perceived user specifications. A major problem is a lack of strategic perspective of information systems and their supporting information technology and a disparate view across organizations of what management information systems are. Investigates some aspects of these problems and suggests a por......
Strategic partnering when the supply base is limited: a case study
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This study considers a supply‐demand situation where a product has only a handful of supply firms and a large number of purchasing firms and compares the attitudes toward partnering of firms which are already in partnering relationships with those that are not. Noting that only 27 per cent of the buyers are currently in any alliance relationships, and most are not planning to be in one, the study ......
The impact of information systems on the efficiency of banks: an empirical investigation
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Management Development and IT: Bridging the Gulf
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The problem of management development in the Information Technology
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– The paper seeks to investigate the factors that affect the adoption of e‐business by firms belonging to European Union (EU) countries, by comparing the effect across two different industries: telecommunications (telco) and tourism., – Data were collected from 2,459 firms belonging to EU27 countries across two industries. The data were analyzed by employing factorial analysis and relevant hypothe......
Understanding broadband adoption in rural Australia
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– The purpose of this paper is to propose and test a model concerning broadband adoption in a rural setting., – A computer‐aided telephone survey was conducted to collect data to validate the proposed model in rural Australia., – It was found that relative advantage, utility outcomes, and facilitating conditions play a crucial role in explaining broadband adoption behavior amongst rural Australian......
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Standard user interface in e‐commerce sites
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