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.
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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.2008.4599827
D. Ozdemir, S. Gozlu
Expenditures of health care are increasing in every country and studies about health care expenditures predict that this trend will not end very soon. The greatest proportion of health care investment made is health information systems (HIS). It is obvious that performance measurement criteria are needed to trace the improvement in this area. In this study, it is aimed to develop performance measurement criteria for organization-wide HIS. In the first step of the study literature survey is conducted to understand the requirements of health care industry, the evolution of HIS, current usage area of information systems in health care industry and its promises. The literature survey is also performed to find out the ways to evaluate performance of different technologies, especially information systems. In the next step in-depth interviews are conducted with IT experts in health care organizations and health care staff. New perspectives and their experiences with information systems are scrutinized. In the last step, HIS usages are classified according to operational levels such as clinical HIS, administrative HIS, and strategic HIS. Performance criteria of these three classes of HIS are derived. The financial criteria are extracted from the study to focus on HIS specific criteria.
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Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599774
T. Makinen, T. Varkoi
Software process improvement (SPI) is used to develop processes to meet more effectively the software organizationpsilas business goals. Improvement opportunities can be exposed by conducting an assessment. A disciplined process assessment evaluates organizationpsilas processes against a process assessment model, which usually includes good software practices as indicators. Many benefits of SPI initiatives have been reported but some improvement efforts have failed, too. Our aim is to increase the probability to success by integrating software process modeling with assessments. A combined approach is known to provide more accurate process ratings and higher quality process models. In this study we have revised the approach by extending the scope of modeling further. Assessment Driven Process Modeling for SPI uses assessment evidence to create a descriptive process model of the assessed processes. The descriptive model is revised into a prescriptive process model, which illustrates an organizationpsilas processes after the improvements. The prescriptive model is created using a process library that is based on the indicators of the assessment model. Modeling during assessment is driven by both process performance and process capability indicators.
{"title":"Assessment driven process modeling for software process improvement","authors":"T. Makinen, T. Varkoi","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599774","url":null,"abstract":"Software process improvement (SPI) is used to develop processes to meet more effectively the software organizationpsilas business goals. Improvement opportunities can be exposed by conducting an assessment. A disciplined process assessment evaluates organizationpsilas processes against a process assessment model, which usually includes good software practices as indicators. Many benefits of SPI initiatives have been reported but some improvement efforts have failed, too. Our aim is to increase the probability to success by integrating software process modeling with assessments. A combined approach is known to provide more accurate process ratings and higher quality process models. In this study we have revised the approach by extending the scope of modeling further. Assessment Driven Process Modeling for SPI uses assessment evidence to create a descriptive process model of the assessed processes. The descriptive model is revised into a prescriptive process model, which illustrates an organizationpsilas processes after the improvements. The prescriptive model is created using a process library that is based on the indicators of the assessment model. Modeling during assessment is driven by both process performance and process capability indicators.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"47 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":"115526992","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.2008.4599671
Christian Stüer, S. Hüsig, Stefanie Biala
Companies have learned that radical innovations are crucial to long term success. However, many companies struggle to introduce radical innovations, since many recommendations regarding incremental innovations do not apply. Increased research has addressed the question of which capabilities are required to manage radical innovation, but so far a common framework is missing. Our paper bridges this gap by developing an improved theoretical framework, enhancing the existing literature and integrating the concept of Open Innovation to support the processes by accelerated learning, accessing new capabilities, and creating new markets. In a case study approach we apply our framework to the research and development department of Vodafone R&D. analysing their radical innovation capabilities, we identify a trans-disciplinary exchange, which integrates art and design, as a key driver in the radical innovation process. Through the cooperation with artists and designer Vodafone R&D creates a trans-disciplinary environment, which influences the processes of idea creation and opportunity recognition as well as the approaches to reduce uncertainties. In conclusion the theoretical findings are translated into practical management implications.
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Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599758
Derek C. Smith, H. Dombo, N. Nkehli
This study evaluates the use of benefits realisation management (BRM) in information technology (IT) projects. Past research concludes that realising the tangible and intangible benefits from IT projects is not easy and is often not carried out at all. Fifty-four IT project managers in South Africa successfully completed an online questionnaire. An analysis of the data showed that, whilst BRM processes exist in some IT projects, benefits monitoring during the project is rarely applied even though planned benefits can change dramatically. It was also found that IT project managers are keen to improve BRM processes so that benefits are more clearly defined and realised. They identify the project owner as the person accountable for benefits realisation as the business benefits normally occur long after the project is complete, but they argue that this is not happening. They also conclude that, because their performance is measured using project efficiency metrics (on time, on budget and on specification), they are not required to focus on the project effectiveness (the longer term benefits from the IT investment).
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Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599669
H. Seriki, M. Hoegl, K. P. Parboteeah
This study clearly supports the notion that societal level characteristics impact on organisational characteristics. Evidence of all societal forces considered here was found in all organisations studied. However, the extent to which the organisation adopts these societal forces was found to be determined largely by the strategic orientation of management towards people in the organisation. This is identified as a key factor determining how societal influences are passed through to teams as sub-systems of the organisation.
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