Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599872
R. Sassman, B. Lehaney, I. Marshall
Nearly 40 million people worldwide are living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), with just 12% of those who urgently need treatment receiving it. South Africa (SA) has one of the highest cases of HIV infections in the world. Intervention efforts have not kept pace with the spread of HIV/AIDS, and a knowledge divide has been identified as a major factor in this. Within healthcare knowledge management has been applied to a number of areas. These include methods and systems that reduce daily routine work and calculation errors, methods and systems for evaluation of cost and quality scenarios, systems and infrastructure for the collaboration of health professionals, and systems and infrastructure that deal with patient management and patient care. The managerial issues of development and implementation using knowledge management have not been addressed in the literature in a way that results in a framework that can use knowledge management to help evaluate the intervention programmes in regard to the identified knowledge divide. This paper reports on progress to date on the development of a knowledge management evaluation framework that can assist in more successful management of HIV/AIDS intervention programmes in South Africa.
{"title":"Towards a knowledge management framework for assisting organisations to evaluate their own (non-clinical) approaches to the dissemination of knowledge about HIV/AIDS intervention programmes in South Africa","authors":"R. Sassman, B. Lehaney, I. Marshall","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599872","url":null,"abstract":"Nearly 40 million people worldwide are living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), with just 12% of those who urgently need treatment receiving it. South Africa (SA) has one of the highest cases of HIV infections in the world. Intervention efforts have not kept pace with the spread of HIV/AIDS, and a knowledge divide has been identified as a major factor in this. Within healthcare knowledge management has been applied to a number of areas. These include methods and systems that reduce daily routine work and calculation errors, methods and systems for evaluation of cost and quality scenarios, systems and infrastructure for the collaboration of health professionals, and systems and infrastructure that deal with patient management and patient care. The managerial issues of development and implementation using knowledge management have not been addressed in the literature in a way that results in a framework that can use knowledge management to help evaluate the intervention programmes in regard to the identified knowledge divide. This paper reports on progress to date on the development of a knowledge management evaluation framework that can assist in more successful management of HIV/AIDS intervention programmes in South Africa.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127582069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599789
Yali Cheng, C. Chiou, C. Tai
The outbreak of SARS, mad cow disease, Tsunami in Southern Asia, 921 earthquake in Taiwan, and the hurricane in Bangladesh have significant impacts on supply and demand. These disruptions might cause tremendous loss to the supply chain system due to delivery delay or using alternative sources to eliminate capacity deficiency. While there has been a significant amount of research conducted in the area of supply chain systems, there has been relatively little reported in this important area of understanding the system-wide or global impact of supply chain disruptions. Therefore, the importance of effectively managing supply chain disruptions has drawn more attention in both academia and industry. In this study the analysis through system dynamics approach on the disruption in the supply chain system can be demonstrated as useful methods for investigating the strategic management problem. The results of this study will assist the high or middle-level management to cope with the supply chain disruption by providing systematic procedures for strategic analysis. We also conducted an empirical study by using the data collected from TFT LCD industry. The simulated results suggest guidelines and decision rules for improving the performance of the entire system with the disruption.
{"title":"A system dynamics modeling approach for the strategic management of TFT-LCD supply chains","authors":"Yali Cheng, C. Chiou, C. Tai","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599789","url":null,"abstract":"The outbreak of SARS, mad cow disease, Tsunami in Southern Asia, 921 earthquake in Taiwan, and the hurricane in Bangladesh have significant impacts on supply and demand. These disruptions might cause tremendous loss to the supply chain system due to delivery delay or using alternative sources to eliminate capacity deficiency. While there has been a significant amount of research conducted in the area of supply chain systems, there has been relatively little reported in this important area of understanding the system-wide or global impact of supply chain disruptions. Therefore, the importance of effectively managing supply chain disruptions has drawn more attention in both academia and industry. In this study the analysis through system dynamics approach on the disruption in the supply chain system can be demonstrated as useful methods for investigating the strategic management problem. The results of this study will assist the high or middle-level management to cope with the supply chain disruption by providing systematic procedures for strategic analysis. We also conducted an empirical study by using the data collected from TFT LCD industry. The simulated results suggest guidelines and decision rules for improving the performance of the entire system with the disruption.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"2005 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127652810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599653
K. Chan, L. Oerlemans, Thea Pretorius
In the recent past, several researchers explored the added-values of Science Parks. On the basis of empirical research, some questioned the assumed benefits of the science park model, whereas others reported positive outcomes. As a result, mixed findings regarding the benefits of science parks for firms can be observed. An important criterion in analyzing the effects of science parks is the level of networking as science parks often are regarded as a perfect location for inter- organizational knowledge exchange and collaboration. Different levels and types of networking could be one of the explanations for these mixed findings. The literature on networks mainly stresses the benefits of networking in general, and networking between firms located on science parks in particular. This paper proposes that networks can have both positive and negative effects for firms located on science parks. The aim of this study is to theoretically explore the impacts of networking on innovative performance of on-park and off- park firms. A conceptual model is developed including the main and interaction effects of various aspects of inter-organizational networks on innovative performance. Absorptive capacity is also included in the model to account for firm-specific abilities.
{"title":"A conceptual model of the impacts of networking on innovative performance of new technology-based firms","authors":"K. Chan, L. Oerlemans, Thea Pretorius","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599653","url":null,"abstract":"In the recent past, several researchers explored the added-values of Science Parks. On the basis of empirical research, some questioned the assumed benefits of the science park model, whereas others reported positive outcomes. As a result, mixed findings regarding the benefits of science parks for firms can be observed. An important criterion in analyzing the effects of science parks is the level of networking as science parks often are regarded as a perfect location for inter- organizational knowledge exchange and collaboration. Different levels and types of networking could be one of the explanations for these mixed findings. The literature on networks mainly stresses the benefits of networking in general, and networking between firms located on science parks in particular. This paper proposes that networks can have both positive and negative effects for firms located on science parks. The aim of this study is to theoretically explore the impacts of networking on innovative performance of on-park and off- park firms. A conceptual model is developed including the main and interaction effects of various aspects of inter-organizational networks on innovative performance. Absorptive capacity is also included in the model to account for firm-specific abilities.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133948665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599714
Hui-Ying Hsu, Wan-Yu Chen, C. Weng, Shang-Ping Lin
In business-to-consumer electronic commerce, enterprises have to contact with the consumers directly. Understanding the consumers is one of the most important things to enterprises. The characteristic of Internet shopping is the purchase risk on Internet is larger than that in physical stores. According to the risk degree consumers have perceived, products can be divided into three patterns: search goods, experience goods and credence goods. However, while doing Internet shopping, it is not easy for consumers to evaluate credence goods; the study, therefore, tries to investigate the risk-reduction strategies used by consumers in purchasing search goods and experience goods. This paper examines in-depth the risk-reduction strategies of consumers when they select and purchase search goods and experience goods and compares its finding with literature regarding risk-reduction strategies. It is hoped that this finding serves as a reference for the companies that sell search goods and experience goods in their formulation of marketing strategies.
{"title":"Risk-reduction strategies for internet shopping of search goods and experience goods","authors":"Hui-Ying Hsu, Wan-Yu Chen, C. Weng, Shang-Ping Lin","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599714","url":null,"abstract":"In business-to-consumer electronic commerce, enterprises have to contact with the consumers directly. Understanding the consumers is one of the most important things to enterprises. The characteristic of Internet shopping is the purchase risk on Internet is larger than that in physical stores. According to the risk degree consumers have perceived, products can be divided into three patterns: search goods, experience goods and credence goods. However, while doing Internet shopping, it is not easy for consumers to evaluate credence goods; the study, therefore, tries to investigate the risk-reduction strategies used by consumers in purchasing search goods and experience goods. This paper examines in-depth the risk-reduction strategies of consumers when they select and purchase search goods and experience goods and compares its finding with literature regarding risk-reduction strategies. It is hoped that this finding serves as a reference for the companies that sell search goods and experience goods in their formulation of marketing strategies.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133850308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599811
M. Marshall, K. Lambert
Maintaining and supporting complex systems within a developing world context has many challenges including dealing with systems that are being operated beyond their designed life or where obsolescence is a major concern. Current methodologies to develop an integrated logistics support system (ILSS) are based on assumptions that are not valid in all cases, and a more robust framework with grounded design rules is required. The approach followed in developing the grounded technological rules was by deconstructing the available ILSS and related literature six case studies into the a framework. After analysis of this qualitative work, a third phase was added on where a questionnaire was used to explore the key areas of concern. Some of the insights regarding obsolete and beyond life complex systems were found to be: the effect of obsolescence is significantly wider than the obsolescence and retirement element of the existing frameworks; obsolescence planning must be done on reliability data for the specific operating environment, it is essential to understand technological changes and scan continuously for the impact on system or component obsolescence and that a risk based approach is essential to develop a obsolescence plan as part of the ILSS.
{"title":"Insights into supporting complex systems under conditions of obsolescence","authors":"M. Marshall, K. Lambert","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599811","url":null,"abstract":"Maintaining and supporting complex systems within a developing world context has many challenges including dealing with systems that are being operated beyond their designed life or where obsolescence is a major concern. Current methodologies to develop an integrated logistics support system (ILSS) are based on assumptions that are not valid in all cases, and a more robust framework with grounded design rules is required. The approach followed in developing the grounded technological rules was by deconstructing the available ILSS and related literature six case studies into the a framework. After analysis of this qualitative work, a third phase was added on where a questionnaire was used to explore the key areas of concern. Some of the insights regarding obsolete and beyond life complex systems were found to be: the effect of obsolescence is significantly wider than the obsolescence and retirement element of the existing frameworks; obsolescence planning must be done on reliability data for the specific operating environment, it is essential to understand technological changes and scan continuously for the impact on system or component obsolescence and that a risk based approach is essential to develop a obsolescence plan as part of the ILSS.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134090278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599741
H. Steyn
While project performance is generally evaluated in terms of the "iron triangle" of schedule, cost and quality performance, guidelines for project quality management are lacking. Practitioners developing complex engineering systems employ several techniques to manage quality but project management literature merely emphasizes quality management processes and provides few guidelines regarding appropriate techniques. Where these techniques are addressed, they tend to be borrowed from high-volume production and statistical quality control, while providing few guidelines for the management of quality on non-repetitive project endeavors such as system development. In this paper a framework for managing quality on system development projects is proposed. The strong link between techniques for Project Quality Management and Project Risk Management is also highlighted.
{"title":"A framework for managing quality on system development projects","authors":"H. Steyn","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599741","url":null,"abstract":"While project performance is generally evaluated in terms of the \"iron triangle\" of schedule, cost and quality performance, guidelines for project quality management are lacking. Practitioners developing complex engineering systems employ several techniques to manage quality but project management literature merely emphasizes quality management processes and provides few guidelines regarding appropriate techniques. Where these techniques are addressed, they tend to be borrowed from high-volume production and statistical quality control, while providing few guidelines for the management of quality on non-repetitive project endeavors such as system development. In this paper a framework for managing quality on system development projects is proposed. The strong link between techniques for Project Quality Management and Project Risk Management is also highlighted.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"219 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134365393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599626
F. Ravalison, P. Rajaonary, E. Raveloson, E. Rakotomaria, J. Gazérian, C. Loubet, J. M. Ruiz
Madagascar has a paper mill industry that is not competitive with regional paper industries which sell on the Malagasy market. Lack of quality process and product quality disadvantages the paper mill industrypsilas products. Non reliability of production capacity and under utilization are factors that decrease the speed of delivery. Its varieties of product are very limited compared to the local market needs. The objectives of study are to improve dramatically the paper industrypsilas performance in production and competitiveness. Reengineering methodology will be utilized. Reengineering is "the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical, contemporary measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service and speed". Study takes place on the paper transformation unit or PTU process of a paper mill industry. Outputs of the PTU are observed and analyzed. The process is then reengineered and a new design based on new organization of process is obtained. When applying reengineering, some dramatic improvement in the speed of delivery, quality, flexibility and dependability are obtained. Reengineering sustains paper industry by restarting its competitiveness in the paper industry sector, helping to sustain the economy.
{"title":"How does reengineering sustain economy? The case of a paper industry in a developing country","authors":"F. Ravalison, P. Rajaonary, E. Raveloson, E. Rakotomaria, J. Gazérian, C. Loubet, J. M. Ruiz","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599626","url":null,"abstract":"Madagascar has a paper mill industry that is not competitive with regional paper industries which sell on the Malagasy market. Lack of quality process and product quality disadvantages the paper mill industrypsilas products. Non reliability of production capacity and under utilization are factors that decrease the speed of delivery. Its varieties of product are very limited compared to the local market needs. The objectives of study are to improve dramatically the paper industrypsilas performance in production and competitiveness. Reengineering methodology will be utilized. Reengineering is \"the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical, contemporary measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service and speed\". Study takes place on the paper transformation unit or PTU process of a paper mill industry. Outputs of the PTU are observed and analyzed. The process is then reengineered and a new design based on new organization of process is obtained. When applying reengineering, some dramatic improvement in the speed of delivery, quality, flexibility and dependability are obtained. Reengineering sustains paper industry by restarting its competitiveness in the paper industry sector, helping to sustain the economy.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"177 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132085254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599826
G. T. Temur, S. Gozlu
In this paper, the main goal is to determine the performance criteria for ERP software technology with respect to their sources. Today, the companies are in interaction with many internal and external partners and have to face many situations in various environments. Especially, many small and medium sized firms utilize ERP software technology to plan their business interactions in the chain. In this study, firstly a literature search is accomplished. Then, in order to reveal the performance criteria, a large-scale automotive company has been selected to conduct interviews with managers. Also, the meeting reports of a few small and medium-sized companies have been analyzed. The similar and common agreements on ERP software technology performance criteria were listed and grouped. As a result of the analysis on findings, the common views of the firms about performance criteria are classified into four groups according to their sources such as people, technical, managerial, and economical. The subfactors of these main criteria are also taken into account in order to point out the origins of the criteria. The results of the study will provide insight to researchers and as well as to professionals in the practice.
{"title":"Determination of performance criteria for ERP software technology","authors":"G. T. Temur, S. Gozlu","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599826","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the main goal is to determine the performance criteria for ERP software technology with respect to their sources. Today, the companies are in interaction with many internal and external partners and have to face many situations in various environments. Especially, many small and medium sized firms utilize ERP software technology to plan their business interactions in the chain. In this study, firstly a literature search is accomplished. Then, in order to reveal the performance criteria, a large-scale automotive company has been selected to conduct interviews with managers. Also, the meeting reports of a few small and medium-sized companies have been analyzed. The similar and common agreements on ERP software technology performance criteria were listed and grouped. As a result of the analysis on findings, the common views of the firms about performance criteria are classified into four groups according to their sources such as people, technical, managerial, and economical. The subfactors of these main criteria are also taken into account in order to point out the origins of the criteria. The results of the study will provide insight to researchers and as well as to professionals in the practice.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"32 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132365808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599651
J. Watada, Shinji Imoto, Y. Yabuuchi
The importance of marketing and sales is undeniable. However, owning strategic technologies and new products obtained through innovation, reforming and R&D is crucial in accelerating the development of a manufacturing corporation. It requires powerful energy to realize the innovation of a corporation. It is not possible to innovate a corporation within the formal organization. It is also necessary to collaborate and work among people beyond the formal organization, who have strong energy toward the innovation, beyond the formal organization. The objective of this paper is to analyze and evaluate corporate innovations and reforming using an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and a principal component analysis (PCA), and to clarify the effective structure of particularly innovative and reforming corporations. The importance and essence of corporate innovation are emphasized in this paper. The positive aspects of Japanese corporations are found in the continuous management of their mental innovation and reforming of their organization. This paper compares GE (general electric company) and Toyota (Toyota Motor Corporation), and explains their respective corporate innovation. It also clarifies the influential factors of GE and Toyota in corporate innovation. Seven other corporations are also analyzed using a 5-point scoring system to evaluate their various features. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and principal component analysis (PCA) are used to analyze the obtained data.
{"title":"What structure of a corporation is innovative?","authors":"J. Watada, Shinji Imoto, Y. Yabuuchi","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599651","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of marketing and sales is undeniable. However, owning strategic technologies and new products obtained through innovation, reforming and R&D is crucial in accelerating the development of a manufacturing corporation. It requires powerful energy to realize the innovation of a corporation. It is not possible to innovate a corporation within the formal organization. It is also necessary to collaborate and work among people beyond the formal organization, who have strong energy toward the innovation, beyond the formal organization. The objective of this paper is to analyze and evaluate corporate innovations and reforming using an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and a principal component analysis (PCA), and to clarify the effective structure of particularly innovative and reforming corporations. The importance and essence of corporate innovation are emphasized in this paper. The positive aspects of Japanese corporations are found in the continuous management of their mental innovation and reforming of their organization. This paper compares GE (general electric company) and Toyota (Toyota Motor Corporation), and explains their respective corporate innovation. It also clarifies the influential factors of GE and Toyota in corporate innovation. Seven other corporations are also analyzed using a 5-point scoring system to evaluate their various features. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and principal component analysis (PCA) are used to analyze the obtained data.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133210754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599629
S. H. Nielsen, K. Nielsen
Cluster inspired regional development inside EU are a result of the work of three European regions, North Jutland (DK), Blekinge (S) and West Midlands (UK), The Innovative Regions project has had the objective of identifying and collecting experiences with different regional development tools. The collection of these experiences provided input to different pilot activities in each partner region and functioned as the starting point for thematic discussions at trans-national seminars. Regional clusters, the geographic concentration of economic activities in a specific field connected through different types of linkages, from knowledge spill-overpsilas to the use of a common labour market, are increasingly viewed as an interesting conceptual tool to understand the economic strength or competitiveness of a region. The Innovative Regions project has given the partners an opportunity to learn from the good and bad experiences of others, and collect reflections and recommended methods, which can be passed on to other regions. So other regions do not have to make the same mistakes. The North Jutland region and the Aalborg University participating are used as a case example with its unique use of problem-based education methods in connection with project and group-organised studies for strengthening the link between research, education and practice. ldquoCluster initiated SME students projectsrdquo are shown in appendix.
{"title":"Clusters in the EU member countries: National and regional case stories with Aalborg University as partner","authors":"S. H. Nielsen, K. Nielsen","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599629","url":null,"abstract":"Cluster inspired regional development inside EU are a result of the work of three European regions, North Jutland (DK), Blekinge (S) and West Midlands (UK), The Innovative Regions project has had the objective of identifying and collecting experiences with different regional development tools. The collection of these experiences provided input to different pilot activities in each partner region and functioned as the starting point for thematic discussions at trans-national seminars. Regional clusters, the geographic concentration of economic activities in a specific field connected through different types of linkages, from knowledge spill-overpsilas to the use of a common labour market, are increasingly viewed as an interesting conceptual tool to understand the economic strength or competitiveness of a region. The Innovative Regions project has given the partners an opportunity to learn from the good and bad experiences of others, and collect reflections and recommended methods, which can be passed on to other regions. So other regions do not have to make the same mistakes. The North Jutland region and the Aalborg University participating are used as a case example with its unique use of problem-based education methods in connection with project and group-organised studies for strengthening the link between research, education and practice. ldquoCluster initiated SME students projectsrdquo are shown in appendix.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132710437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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