...Asmare Emerie Kassahun; Alemayehu Molla Purpose The purpose of this paper is to define the skills, systems, and technologies developed post‐business process reengineering (BPR), which the authors refer to as BPR Complementary Competences (BPRCC), and develop and validate a model to evaluate...

... --> Competences Continuous improvement Outsourcing Process management Article Type: 2010 Awards for Excellence From: Business Process Management Journal, Volume 16, Issue 6 Outstanding Paper Award for Business Process Management Journal Dynamic outsourcing through process...

...Angelo Corallo; Mariangela Lazoi; Alessandro Margherita; Massimo Scalvenzi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the case of a leading Italian aerospace company which developed an integrated system aimed to optimize the management of engineering competencies within the Chief Technical...

...Mário Caldeira; Gurpreet Dhillon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present organizational competencies for gaining information technology (IT) benefits within organizations. Following the analysis of 16 in‐depth case studies, a set of six high level, fundamental competencies and 17...

...‐competitive cost structures. Focusing on core competences. Providing with greater capacity of flexibility. Reducing capital investment and overall fixed costs, achieving cost competitive growth in the supply base for goods, services, and technologies in a company's value chain. Matching...

... gathered from 201 users from four electronic government (EG) agencies in Malaysia. The technological factors were represented by IS competency, IS facilities, IS integration, IS structure and user support. The IS success dimensions used in the study were systems quality, information quality, perceived...

...Christian B. Hardless Purpose This paper aims to inform the design of competence development systems for project management, based on a situated learning design framework. Design/methodology/approach An interpretive action research study of a group support system (GSS) (“e‐discussion”) for co...

... to enhance the competitive strength of SMEs. Hence, the Institute of Machine Tools and Industrial Management (IWB) operates three so‐called competence networks for engineering ( www.engineering‐net.de ), rapid prototyping ( www.rp‐net.de ) and manufacturing ( www.produktionsnetz.de ) services...

.... Second, integration (recourses, methods, technologies, departments or organisations) is the means of achieving RAM. Third, IT is demonstrated to be an essential condition. Finally, core competence is seen to be the key. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Lean production is regarded by many as simply...

...Mitsuru Kodama This paper describes the importance of strategic community creation as a new management style. It verifies that video‐based information networks utilizing information and multimedia technologies enhance the quality of competencies and knowledge possessed by strategic communities...