Pub Date : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038531
A. Vincentelli, J. Martínez
In today's world with growing globalization of engineering services and the appearance of worldwide "low-cost engineering centers", engineering companies have to develop and manage technologies and resources, integrating them with those of partners and technology providers, in order to remain competitive in the long-term and to avoid falling in the ever-increasing trend of engineering services becoming "commodities". To avoid becoming a commodity provider engineering companies should: (a) develop expertise and proprietary technologies in specific and specialized areas where corporate know-how adds significant value to their clients; (b) develop, manage and continuously improve work processes, designated as execution technologies, (c) develop "soft technologies" and establish networks of knowledge and procurement with international and domestic partners and clients, all these to improve the efficiency, productivity and shorten the time response of their work.
{"title":"Engineering companies: technology development and integration-key factors for survival (...or how to avoid the commodity trap)","authors":"A. Vincentelli, J. Martínez","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038531","url":null,"abstract":"In today's world with growing globalization of engineering services and the appearance of worldwide \"low-cost engineering centers\", engineering companies have to develop and manage technologies and resources, integrating them with those of partners and technology providers, in order to remain competitive in the long-term and to avoid falling in the ever-increasing trend of engineering services becoming \"commodities\". To avoid becoming a commodity provider engineering companies should: (a) develop expertise and proprietary technologies in specific and specialized areas where corporate know-how adds significant value to their clients; (b) develop, manage and continuously improve work processes, designated as execution technologies, (c) develop \"soft technologies\" and establish networks of knowledge and procurement with international and domestic partners and clients, all these to improve the efficiency, productivity and shorten the time response of their work.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133975700","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 : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038501
Chen-Tung Chen
In a competitive environment, selecting the right information system projects can be a key factor in sustaining the ability of corporate competition. Information system (IS) project selection problems are multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. Existing methods for IS project selection does not reflect interdependencies among criteria and candidate projects. In general, many influence factors such as investment cost, return of investment (ROT), probability of technology success, and support degree of top management must be considered to determine suitable information systems. In this paper, decision-makers' opinions are described by linguistic terms expressed in trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. A new algorithm is developed based on the fuzzy measure and fuzzy integral to deal with the information system (IS) project selection problems. Finally, at the end of this paper a numerical example is given to demonstrate the procedure for the proposed method.
{"title":"A decision model for information system project selection","authors":"Chen-Tung Chen","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038501","url":null,"abstract":"In a competitive environment, selecting the right information system projects can be a key factor in sustaining the ability of corporate competition. Information system (IS) project selection problems are multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. Existing methods for IS project selection does not reflect interdependencies among criteria and candidate projects. In general, many influence factors such as investment cost, return of investment (ROT), probability of technology success, and support degree of top management must be considered to determine suitable information systems. In this paper, decision-makers' opinions are described by linguistic terms expressed in trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. A new algorithm is developed based on the fuzzy measure and fuzzy integral to deal with the information system (IS) project selection problems. Finally, at the end of this paper a numerical example is given to demonstrate the procedure for the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133141821","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 : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038504
Xu Qingrui, Zheng Gang, Chen Jin, W. Yong
Since the 1990s, with the rapid development of ICTs and internet economy, more and more Chinese enterprises have begin to integrate ICTs into the whole processes of their businesses, and many of these enterprises have carried on some organizational innovations to face the challenge of Internet economy. Based on a case study in a Chinese top enterprise named Haier Group, this paper explores the impact of Internet economy and ICTs on organizational innovation, and tries to analyze the new characters of organizational innovation in the internet economy, and the complex relations among application of ICTs, organizational innovation and enterprise performance. Finally, the authors summarize some valuable results, which may be useful for other enterprises to learn from.
{"title":"The impact of internet economy on organizational innovation: case study from a Chinese top enterprise","authors":"Xu Qingrui, Zheng Gang, Chen Jin, W. Yong","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038504","url":null,"abstract":"Since the 1990s, with the rapid development of ICTs and internet economy, more and more Chinese enterprises have begin to integrate ICTs into the whole processes of their businesses, and many of these enterprises have carried on some organizational innovations to face the challenge of Internet economy. Based on a case study in a Chinese top enterprise named Haier Group, this paper explores the impact of Internet economy and ICTs on organizational innovation, and tries to analyze the new characters of organizational innovation in the internet economy, and the complex relations among application of ICTs, organizational innovation and enterprise performance. Finally, the authors summarize some valuable results, which may be useful for other enterprises to learn from.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124966989","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 : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038517
E. Adamides, Y. Stamboulis, T. Malakis, D. Harisoulis
This paper presents a simulation study carried out for the investigation of the dynamics of the combined development-production-selling system of a firm. Different product line management strategies were evaluated with respect to its operational results for a specified time interval. It was found that strategies that balance the intensity and timing of the development projects with the products' life-cycles characteristics result in superior performance compared to strategies that focus on development efforts or life cycles only.
{"title":"Product R&D, process R&D and market dynamics: a simulation study","authors":"E. Adamides, Y. Stamboulis, T. Malakis, D. Harisoulis","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038517","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a simulation study carried out for the investigation of the dynamics of the combined development-production-selling system of a firm. Different product line management strategies were evaluated with respect to its operational results for a specified time interval. It was found that strategies that balance the intensity and timing of the development projects with the products' life-cycles characteristics result in superior performance compared to strategies that focus on development efforts or life cycles only.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125015012","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 : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038524
R. Dyerson, A. Pilkington
This paper explores patenting activity in the development of fuel cell technology. Using American patent data, the paper analyses the flow of information through firms and individuals at a time when the automobile sector sees this technology as a key response to radical regulatory change. This regulation is stimulating incumbent automobile manufacturers to change their approach to new product development from the traditionally exclusive to a more inclusive orientation through the development of knowledge networks. However, problematic in this search for new knowledge networks are the competing variations of fuel cell technology currently under development. Technology research in other sectors suggests that the development of these knowledge networks may be highly dependent upon key individuals or gatekeepers within firms. This paper tests that proposition through analysis of the patenting activity of the individual firms engaged in fuel cell development. Using American patent data, indexes of patent quality and activity are constructed and assessed in order to explore who the key inventors and firms are in fuel cell development and how many are automotive based. In addition we explore the data to present a picture of the technological status and advances being pursued in fuel cell commercialisation. This allows us to group firms on the basis of technological focus and suggests the existence of networks of firms clustering activity around certain technological problems.
{"title":"All steering in the same direction? Patterns of patent activity and the development of fuel cell technology","authors":"R. Dyerson, A. Pilkington","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038524","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores patenting activity in the development of fuel cell technology. Using American patent data, the paper analyses the flow of information through firms and individuals at a time when the automobile sector sees this technology as a key response to radical regulatory change. This regulation is stimulating incumbent automobile manufacturers to change their approach to new product development from the traditionally exclusive to a more inclusive orientation through the development of knowledge networks. However, problematic in this search for new knowledge networks are the competing variations of fuel cell technology currently under development. Technology research in other sectors suggests that the development of these knowledge networks may be highly dependent upon key individuals or gatekeepers within firms. This paper tests that proposition through analysis of the patenting activity of the individual firms engaged in fuel cell development. Using American patent data, indexes of patent quality and activity are constructed and assessed in order to explore who the key inventors and firms are in fuel cell development and how many are automotive based. In addition we explore the data to present a picture of the technological status and advances being pursued in fuel cell commercialisation. This allows us to group firms on the basis of technological focus and suggests the existence of networks of firms clustering activity around certain technological problems.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129934499","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 : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038497
P. Kanof
This paper revisits the author's prediction of 10 years ago of the risk of conflict of interest between information technology auditors and large CPA firms and discusses some cases which lend support to this prediction. The survey shows the lack of consulting boundaries/rules has had terrible consequences to the economy and to the small investors. In order to address this problem of conflict of interest, three actions are proposed.
{"title":"The illusion of technology auditing: the results of a survey and proposed solutions","authors":"P. Kanof","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038497","url":null,"abstract":"This paper revisits the author's prediction of 10 years ago of the risk of conflict of interest between information technology auditors and large CPA firms and discusses some cases which lend support to this prediction. The survey shows the lack of consulting boundaries/rules has had terrible consequences to the economy and to the small investors. In order to address this problem of conflict of interest, three actions are proposed.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129983833","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 : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038487
J. Kasser
Much research effort is being expended in an effort to develop new concepts that can be used to solve the problem of managing Systems of Systems. This paper shows that from an information and knowledge management perspective the system and software life cycle (SLC) for a single system is a multi-phased time-ordered parallel-processing recursive paradigm that is little different from the uncoordinated ad-hoc evolution of a System of Systems. Hence, after providing the necessary coordination, information and knowledge management based tools and techniques may be used to control the SLC of each of the individual systems in the System of Systems as well as the System of Systems itself.
{"title":"The acquisition of a System of Systems is just a simple multi-phased parallel-processing paradigm","authors":"J. Kasser","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038487","url":null,"abstract":"Much research effort is being expended in an effort to develop new concepts that can be used to solve the problem of managing Systems of Systems. This paper shows that from an information and knowledge management perspective the system and software life cycle (SLC) for a single system is a multi-phased time-ordered parallel-processing recursive paradigm that is little different from the uncoordinated ad-hoc evolution of a System of Systems. Hence, after providing the necessary coordination, information and knowledge management based tools and techniques may be used to control the SLC of each of the individual systems in the System of Systems as well as the System of Systems itself.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116884279","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 : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038492
K. Das
Managing change in industry requires knowledge of the challenges, the forces which create these challenges and the watersheds that force the direction of change. The technological challenge is to generate innovative products, services and families which can gain market share. The management challenge is to set expectations and then guide the consequent evolutionary or disruptive changes. In the micro-electronics industry two watersheds currently dominate, namely (a) software as a key differentiator and (b) the differential velocities of development of the sub-systems that comprise a micro-electronic system.
{"title":"Managing change in the micro-electronics industry to meet consumer expectations","authors":"K. Das","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038492","url":null,"abstract":"Managing change in industry requires knowledge of the challenges, the forces which create these challenges and the watersheds that force the direction of change. The technological challenge is to generate innovative products, services and families which can gain market share. The management challenge is to set expectations and then guide the consequent evolutionary or disruptive changes. In the micro-electronics industry two watersheds currently dominate, namely (a) software as a key differentiator and (b) the differential velocities of development of the sub-systems that comprise a micro-electronic system.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123486551","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 : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038551
J. C. Kelly, S. Wiseall, D. Knott
The Rolls-Royce University Technology Centres (UTCs) that have been created are widely recognised as one of the more effective models of industrial/academic collaboration. In common with most evaluations of research activity, assessments of UTC performance often identify technology transfer as one of the most critical issues in the UTC-RR chain. As a consequence there are many mechanisms by which technology transfer is now encouraged and planned to take place. At the working level these include people transfer in either direction, project categorisation methods to identify appropriate technology transfer mechanisms and the use of simple check-lists as an active project management tool and for comparison across projects. In particular each Design University Technology Partnership project is encouraged to develop and maintain its own portfolio of mechanisms within a project management framework called a Potential Exploitation Plan. This paper is thus concerned with the evaluation of technology transfer from a series of completed research projects, and not with methods of research project selection per se, although the tools and techniques used can be related.
{"title":"Effective technology transfer in Rolls-Royce - the practical assessment of business benefits","authors":"J. C. Kelly, S. Wiseall, D. Knott","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038551","url":null,"abstract":"The Rolls-Royce University Technology Centres (UTCs) that have been created are widely recognised as one of the more effective models of industrial/academic collaboration. In common with most evaluations of research activity, assessments of UTC performance often identify technology transfer as one of the most critical issues in the UTC-RR chain. As a consequence there are many mechanisms by which technology transfer is now encouraged and planned to take place. At the working level these include people transfer in either direction, project categorisation methods to identify appropriate technology transfer mechanisms and the use of simple check-lists as an active project management tool and for comparison across projects. In particular each Design University Technology Partnership project is encouraged to develop and maintain its own portfolio of mechanisms within a project management framework called a Potential Exploitation Plan. This paper is thus concerned with the evaluation of technology transfer from a series of completed research projects, and not with methods of research project selection per se, although the tools and techniques used can be related.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121300750","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 : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038519
P. Albores-Barajas, P. Ball, J. MacBryde
The paper presents the evaluation of simulation as a decision support tool for the implementation of e-business in manufacturing companies. It reviews the current state of business process simulation and the use of generic business process models to assist in simulation modelling. Two case studies are used to demonstrate the modelling of e-business processes. The benefits of simulation over static modelling tools in e-business implementations is demonstrated.
{"title":"Generic business process models for e-business in manufacturing companies: is simulation useful?","authors":"P. Albores-Barajas, P. Ball, J. MacBryde","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038519","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the evaluation of simulation as a decision support tool for the implementation of e-business in manufacturing companies. It reviews the current state of business process simulation and the use of generic business process models to assist in simulation modelling. Two case studies are used to demonstrate the modelling of e-business processes. The benefits of simulation over static modelling tools in e-business implementations is demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116469716","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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