Current Issue : 5 Volume : 2011 Issue Number : 1-2 Articles : 4 Articles
The introduction of the Enterprise 2.0 philosophy is to make the companies more flexible by improving the collaboration between the employees. The real application of this concept doesn�t concern about a simple adoption of a new technology but a more complex change that involves all company�s sectors. Today, there is not a unique and well-know methodology to design this innovation inside the business process and applications. The collaboration aspects were not properly considered in the panorama of the traditional methodologies to model collaborative business applications. Thus, in this paper in order to fill this gap, we introduce a new methodological approach supported and explained through real case studies....
Last decades and especially since the massive generalization of web 2.0, we have assisted to a blossoming of the role of users, either as generators of contents or as direct contributors in the innovation process. However these contributions are better characterized as lacking structure and governance making it difficult to actively build on them in terms of both business process and policy. On the other side, broadening the inflows of companies in the innovation process in order to capture the benefits of globalization posses a massive filtering problem: How to be aware, reach and select the right ideas. This problem, massive per se, becomes even greater if we include user contributions. Living Labs, small organizations that aim to capture users� insights, prototype and validate solutions in real life contexts, aim to contribute to both problems providing structure and governance to the user\r\ninvolvement and methodologies and organizations to filter and sense user insights. This work aims to situate their contribution in the context of Open Innovation at micro level and in Systems of Innovation at macro level while providing insights on both where are there more effective and where their main limitations lie....
There is currently plenty of research concerning the effect of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems on business performance. Previous research has shown a mixed relationship between ERP and business performance where some suggested that ERP improves performance and others found that it does not.\nPrevious research was mainly based on quantitative methods which don�t give important insightful knowledge and details. A case-study on the other hand can help identify the important contributing factors for the relationship between ERP and business performance. This paper therefore, investigates this topic by analyzing a critical case-study consisting of an Egyptian SME branch of a multinational company. The results indicate that in general many benefits in business performance were achieved after implementing the ERP as reported by the business users, but have also shown that a few benefits previously linked to ERP were not fully achieved. This indicates the positive contribution of ERP on business performance but also suggests the limited applicability of this positive relationship according to specific factors to be researched....
An entrepreneur is a person who has an enterprising quality with an eye on opportunities and an uncanny vision, commercial acumen and above all, a person who is willing to take risks because of the adventurous skill within, same holds good for women also. For women entrepreneurs,\" starting and operating a business involves considerable risks and difficulties regarding obtaining lines on credit, problems in marketing management, production, advertising and packaging and other socio-personal, managerial, technical, Raw-material, Inventory, Financial and governmental assistance problems. This paper proposes to identify the major problems of women entrepreneurs in Tiruchirappalli city with the objectives of analyzing the various problems faced by them and by suggesting the remedial measure which will help in the acceleration of women entrepreneurship in the city....
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