...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...

... Keywords: Competences, Continuous improvement, Outsourcing,Process management www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/14637150910949461 This article originally appeared in Volume 15 Number 2, 2009, pp. 225-244 ofBusiness Process Management JournalEditor: Professor Majed Al-Mashari...

...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...

... and executing outsourcing plans for pursuing the following benefits (Monczka et al., 2005 ; McCarthy and Anagnostou, 2004 ; Quelin and Duhamel, 2003): Reducing operational cost, improving non‐competitive cost structures. Focusing on core competences. Providing with greater capacity...

... 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 The purpose of this paper is to explore...

...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...