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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 t......
Computer viruses: how companies can protect their systems
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A computer virus is a program that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a copy of itself. When the infected programs are executed, the virus spreads itself to still other programs. Today’s society has seen a dramatic increase in the use of computers; as a result, businesses must take even more precautions to guard against the introduction of computer viruses into their systems.
The impact of information systems on the efficiency of banks: an empirical investigation
Tập 97 Số 1 - Trang 10-16
Financial institutions, and banks, in particular, are one of the largest investors in information systems (IS) and information technologies (IT) and there are indications that this trend is likely to continue. However, there is growing concern that IS investments are not yielding the anticipated results, an issue that is of grave concern to many CEOs and top managers. One way to address this conce......
Management Development and IT: Bridging the Gulf
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The problem of management development in the Information Technology
area is addressed. Some of the symptoms of the gulf between IT producers
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proposed, some of which are being put into practice in the author′s own
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Women in Management
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In the last decade the number of female managers increased dramatically, yet industry is still dominated by men and women are invariably paid less than their male counterparts.
Postponement strategies through business process redesign in automotive manufacturing: Knowledge innovation
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– To demonstrate how postponement strategy can be applied in an automotive company by using business process redesign in the knowledge innovation context., – A demonstrative case was developed using simulation of alternative scenarios of cycle service levels (CSL) and product flexibility, etc. to determine the value of postponement (VOP) in a manufacturing process integrated with a supply process.......
Understanding e‐business adoption across industries in European countries
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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......
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......
Integration of marketing domain and R&D domain in NPD design process
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– To solve the trade‐offs between marketing and R&D domains and to minimize information loss in new product development (NPD), this study proposes an integrated design process as a new solution to the interface system between the two domains., – House of Quality integrated with multivariate statistical analysis is used for determining important design features. These design features are used a......
Improving innovation and customer satisfaction through systems integration
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– In recent years, organizations have been forced to compete in a new environment and to become more innovative, provide more quality and respond more effectively to consumers' needs and preferences. Within this context, the main objectives of this research are to propose scales and study the existing relationships among innovation, Management System Standards (MSSs) Integration and customer satis......