Current Issue : January - March Volume : 2014 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 5 Articles
Despite of the huge investments in information technology (IT), IT project success rates are\r\nunsatisfactory and still remain very low. This issue has been investigated by many researchers\r\nall over the world to identify the critical success factors. However, there is no universal\r\nagreement on which factors are significant to success. This paper presents an investigative\r\nstudy of the main factors that affect IT projects success in Saudi Arabian public organizations. A\r\ntwo-phase approach has been adopted combining qualitative and quantitative research\r\nmethods. In phase I, a qualitative approach using semi-structured interview method was used\r\nto collect and analyze the data, and the findings of this phase proposed seventeen factors. Then,\r\nin phase II, a quantitative approach using questionnaire method was used to assess and\r\nvalidate the outcomes of phase I. The findings of the questionnaire confirmed the importance of\r\nthose seventeen factors, and the critical success factors (CSFs) of IT projects in Saudi Arabian\r\npublic organizations to be found are: top management support and commitment, project\r\nmanagement, project team competency, communication management, strategic planning,\r\ntraining and education, partners and suppliers management, and stakeholders management....
The objective of this paper is to provide the conceptual understanding on the effect of managing\r\norganizational change and affective commitment to change on operational excellence. This paper\r\nattempts to ascertain the relationship between managing organizational change, employees�\r\naffective commitment to change and operational excellence. The literature review leads to the\r\ndevelopment of a conceptual framework that incorporate the influence of management of change\r\nto the operational excellence. The operational excellence literature shows on the many important\r\nelements as a framework itself. In addition, the paper organises the burgeoning management of\r\nchange literature into six main elements: leadership style, manufacturing technology, human\r\nresource, organizational culture, organizational structure and operations strategy. Based on the\r\nliteratured syntheses, the authors develop a linkage that the management of change factors and\r\nare likely to contribute positively to the operational excellence of the organization only in\r\nsituations where the employees� committed to change in the management of change efforts. This\r\ngaps in the literature also shows that there is a need for a study in the context of the Malaysian\r\nElectrical and Electronics (E&E) industry. This research explains that it cannot be used to\r\nrepresent the operational of others industry because the effect of managing organizational change\r\nto operational excellence could be different. The limitation suggest a gap for future research by\r\nvalidate others industry. Practical adoption of managing change will improve infrastructural\r\ndecision areas of manufacturing strategy such as benchmarking, best practices, quality practices\r\nand HR policies. The originality in terms of the model to reflects a growing interest in extending\r\noperational management paradigms to emerging in developing country context, particularly on\r\nthe knowledge on the insight of MOC and operational excellence....
In this study, we take the risk reserve of an insurance company to follow Brownian motion with drift and tackle an optimal portfolio selection problem of the company. The investment case considered was insurance company that trades two assets: the money market account (bond) growing at a rate r and a risky stock with an investment behavior in the presence of a stochastic cash flow or a risk process, continuously in the economy. Our focus was on obtaining investment strategies that are optimal in the sense of optimizing the returns of the company. We established among others that, the optimized investment in the assets and the optimal value function are dependent on horizon and the wealth. It is recommended that the managers of the assets of the insurance company should take into consideration this horizon dependency when making policy decisions....
Firms seek often to achieve higher level of performance, however, means and resources that\r\nare available do not allow them to have superior performance on all levels (financial, economic,\r\ncommercial, and so on). In addition, managers do not perceive performance aspects in the same\r\nway. Therefore, instead of indiscriminately dispersing efforts and resources, firms have tomake\r\nwise resource allocation choices with respect to performance dimensions being profitable for\r\nthem. These choices are difficult to establish especially in case of diversified firms whose\r\nactivity and geographic scope is wide. It�s the subject of the present research in which we try\r\nhelping managers to solve this problem by addressing the performance issue of firms with\r\ndifferent activity and geographic scope. It focuses on perceived importance of three\r\nperformance dimensions (customer, human and internal processes) in relation with product,\r\ngeographic and interaction firm scope. Three research hypotheses relating performance and\r\nfirm scope dimensions using a sample of forty-eight managers were tested. Non-parametric\r\ntests show that the relative importance of performance dimensions was different between\r\nproduct and geographic diversified firms. Hence, depending on their firm scope, diversified\r\nfirms should invest on customer dimension of performance; international firms have to develop\r\ntheir human competence, while firms belonging to multinational groups must concentrate\r\nefforts on improving efficiency and production processes. Results were discussed and future\r\nresearches are proposed....
This research suggests studying the concept of structural bilingualism through the case of\r\nFranco-Arabic bilingualism in Maghreb countries. Methodologically, the research attempts\r\nto identify groups of consumers� languages, by an effective marketing segmentation, through\r\na valid measure of Franco-Arabic bilingualism. Several exploratory qualitative and\r\nquantitative inquiries have been conducted. The article concludes with research findings by\r\nproviding a Franco-Arabic bilingual segmentation, managerial implications and future\r\nresearch paths....
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