STOPE‐based approach for e‐readiness assessment case studies

The STOPE‐based approach is used here for practical e‐readiness assessment case studies. The approach integrates and evaluates the various e‐readiness assessment issues, over its well‐structured domains: strategy, technology, organization, people, and environment. The case studies considered concern three Saudi organizations: a government organization, a bank, and a private sector company. The results obtained provide e‐readiness indicators that illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of each organization with regard to e‐readiness strategic development issues, information and communication technology (ICT) issues, management and organization issues, people issues, and environment issues within which the organization operates. The work shows how the approach can be practically used, and it also provides practical results that direct the organizations concerned toward enhancing their e‐readiness in response to the current trend of globalizing e‐business. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Using ISO 17799: 2005 information security management: a STOPE view with six sigma approach

This paper is concerned with supporting the use of ISO 17799: 2005 information security management standard for the purpose of providing a ‘common safe environment’ for information services. The paper introduces a STOPE view of the standard, integrating its parts and protection measures around the basic domains of ‘strategy, technology, organization, people, and environment’. The paper also presents an approach for the application of the standard, considering the STOPE view, in a way that emphasizes continuous improvement. The phases of the approach are based on the phases of six sigma DMAIC approach of ‘define, measure, analyze, improve, and control’; the team proposed for the implementation of the work is also based on six sigma principles. The paper concludes with some suggestions for future related and needed work. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Pivotal Technology Research of Grid Based on Mobile Agent

Grid Based on Mobile Agent is a new grid scheme. The purpose of the paper is to solve the pivotal technology of Grid Based on Mobile Agent ( GBMA) combined with thought of Virtual Organization ( VO). In GBMA, virtual organization is viewed as the basic management unit of the grid, and mobile agent is regarded as an important interactive means. Grid architecture, grid resource management and grid task management are the core technology problem of GBMA. The simulation results show that Inter- VO pattern has the obvious advantage because it can make full use of resources from other virtual organizations in GBMA environment.     

What Is the Right Organization Struture?

What are the advantages to managers in using the design decision tree? There appear to be several: 1. It provides a broad framework for identifying the key factors a manager should think about in considering an organizational design. For example: What is our environment? What different structural options do we have? 2. It forces the manager to diagnose the decision environment. What is our environment like? How stable is it? How complex is it? Is it possible to reduce complexity by segmenting the environment into product or geographical subgroups? 3. It causes managers to think about how much interdependence there is among segments of the organization. How dependent on one another are different parts of the organization in terms of technology, services, support, help in getting their tasks completed? The decision points in the heuristic forces managers to questions themselves about what other parts of the organization they need to coordinate their activities with, and then to think about how to do it. 4. Once the organization is in either a functional or decentralized structure, the decision tree points out what can be done to meet the increased needs for information through the use of lateral relations. Lateral relations provide a mechanism for supplementing the existing structure to facilitate dealing with the organization's increased needs for information and coordination. Managers in a variety of organizations have commented that the decision tree gives them ". . .     

智能电网环境下的继电保护

随着我国经济与科学技术的迅速发展,现代化智能电网已经逐步取代传统电网,传统的继电保护技术已经无法满足智能电网继电保护发展的需求.因此为保障智能电网的运行环境,需采取继电保护的措施,改善电网的运行状态,维持安全、可靠的电网环境.因此本文从智能电网环境下的保护问题入手,分析智能电网环境下继电保护发展趋势,并提出针对性的建设策略.     

Strategic Implications for E-Business Organizations in the Ubiquitous Computing Economy

The ubiquitous economy brings both pros and cons for the organizations. The third space emerged by the development of ubiquitous computing generates new concept of community. The community is tightly coupled with people, products, and systems. Organizational strategies need to be reshaped for the changing environment in the third space and community. Organizational structure also needs to change for community serving organization. Community serving concept equipped with the standardized technology will be essential. One of the key technologies, RFID service will play a key role to acknowledge identification and services required. When the needs for sensing the environment increase, technological requirement such as the ubiquitous sensor network (USN) will be critically needed..     

Enterprise resource planning: a review and a STOPE view

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are becoming of increasing importance as integrated parts of business networks. They support ‘e‐business implementation’ for better enterprise performance, ‘integrate activities’ for higher enterprise efficiency, and enjoy a ‘modular architecture’, for future extensions and further benefits. The aim of this review is to introduce ERP systems and explore their current state and future potentials. Using recent literature, the review provides a comprehensive understanding of ERP systems, including illustrating their main components and clarifying their basic and extended features. In addition, the review highlights the main producers of ERP systems, together with their partners and customers. Based on previous investigations, the review also addresses ERP selection criteria and critical implementation factors. Finally, recent views of ERP systems and their future development, including their enhanced intelligence, expansion, and management, are given. The views also include a STOPE view (strategy, technology, organization–enterprise, people, environment), which illustrates the integration of ERP systems with the overall enterprise network. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

人工智能技术研究及未来智能化信息服务体系的思考

人工智能、认知计算、决策支持技术的概念及研究已经跨出实验室,进入真正的实用阶段,其现实价值超过了技术研究者最初的认识,其本质是对信息、数据进行加工生产的技术,而这种生产加工不但可以给人们提供更加便捷的生活,还将对未来人们的生产、生活方式产生根本性的影响,对未来国家经济生活的运行方式、未来社会的组织结构产生深远的影响.首先介绍了人工智能技术的基本概念,然后研究了人工智能技术对未来经济生活的重要意义,人工智能技术开发、积累、复用、平台化的特征及其所面临的问题,最后初步分析了运营商接应人工智能技术研究及应用策略的思考.     

一种基于工作流的网格中间件体系结构

网格计算将是计算机技术未来发展的重点,而面向应用的网格中间件将是网格能否大规模应用的关键.提出一种基于工作流的网格中间件体系结构,利用工作流管理系统进行解析和控制流程,把所有的应用统一到网格服务的概念之下,建立一种统一的应用集成方案,以此来解决异构环境下的协同应用问题.     

网格发展轨迹与用户需求研究

网格(Grid)是继Internet之后又一次重大的科技进步。网格在经历了萌芽阶段和试验阶段后进入了目前的较快发展阶段。美国、欧洲各国、日本和韩国都投放了很大力量研究网格技术,并取得了显著的成果。中国政府也十分重视网格研究,同样也取得了可喜的成果。网格之所以为全世界所瞩目,主要是有大量的和潜在的用户群,分析研究表明,科学研究、计算科学及工程师需要网格,空间信息问题的解决、可持续发展与环保、宏观经济管理、现代教育与培训、社会团体与经济工作、金融、医学、建筑等都需要网格。大量的需求促进网格的发展,网格技术日益完善又提供给用户更大的使用空间,从而形成良性循环发展的局面。     

A Strategic Technology Planning Framework: A Case of Taiwan's Semiconductor Foundry Industry

The increasingly important role that technologies play in today's business success is well known. To ensure proper selection and development of the key technologies, a deliberate technology plan is needed. In this paper, a strategic technology planning framework is proposed. A hierarchical decision model and its sensitivity analysis are presented as two major steps of the framework to provide effective technology assessment and to generate technology scenarios. The hierarchical model links an organization's competitive goals and strategies in evaluating the technology alternatives’ overall contributions to business success; the sensitivity analysis helps to forecast and implement possible future changes in the economic environment, industry policies, and organization strategies. With the proposed framework, organizations can start to implement their technology plans synoptically and follow up with incremental adaptations as necessary. A case study on Taiwan's semiconductor foundry industry is presented to demonstrate the model in detail.      

Interorganizational transfer of knowledge: an analysis of patentcitations of a defense firm

It is argued that although technology is considered to be a strategic asset for an organization, interplay in technology among organizations is necessary. Technology may be considered a bank which organizations both contribute to and draw from. Such interactions among organizations in technology follow different patterns. Some preliminary results from a study that aims at addressing this issue are presented. Using patent-citation data, it is shown that the benefits to participating firms change with industry type, organization class, and country of origin     

Data Grids, Digital Libraries, and Persistent Archives: An Integrated Approach to Sharing, Publishing, and Archiving Data

The integration of grid, data grid, digital library, and preservation technology has resulted in software infrastructure that is uniquely suited to the generation and management of data. Grids provide support for the organization, management, and application of processes. Data grids manage the resulting digital entities. Digital libraries provide support for the management of information associated with the digital entities. Persistent archives provide long-term preservation. We examine the synergies between these data management systems and the future evolution that is required for the generation and management of information.     

Revisiting the Worksite in Worksite Health Campaigns: Evidence From a Multisite Organ Donation Campaign

This article advances the beginnings of a general theory of organizational features to aid in understanding why health campaigns that work well in one organization may be ineffectual in another organization. The physical, social, and information structures of organizations are theorized to create an interaction environment that is distinct to each organization and that influences health campaigns. To test this argument, an organ donation campaign was conducted in 46 organizations. Multilevel modeling yielded mixed findings. Physical structure was negatively associated with signing an organ donor card. Social structure and information structure were positively associated with communication with coworkers about donation and communicative peer influence. Industry type was positively associated with knowledge change.     

Historical perspectives on technology, ethics, and privacy

The critical issues of technological change involve people, before profits. However, the authors consider how technology and profits drive most organizations. Responsible managers understand how people reacted to change in the past to prepare them for future changes. They ask how change shifts the values and responsibilities within their own organizations. Learning from history, managers break from the past and lead people who use technology to further the interests of all     

Toward the development of a standard e‐readiness assessment policy

Information networking for digital integration is becoming of increasing importance for national and international organizations concerned with development. E‐Readiness assessments, for various countries, are associated with the investigation of their state of readiness for such integration. They help in understanding the problems that need to be resolved in order to avoid digital divide, or even digital isolation, from world development. Such assessments lack standard policies, which provide unified measures that ease evaluations, support analysis and comparisons, and help in diagnosing problems and deriving solutions. This paper is concerned with the development of a standard e‐readiness assessment policy. It provides a base for the development of such a policy, and hopes that this base will contribute to a future standard international policy. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Opportunities and challenges for the key executive

Strategic opportunities are described for using computing and communication technologies to increase an organization's effectiveness. A model is presented for determining where an organization stands and what its options are for developing a competitive strategy through the use of these technologies. Specific cases of organizations that have taken advantage of strategic opportunities or have suffered by missing their opportunities are presented     

城市配电网提升改造投资方向的有效策略分析

随着城镇化进程加快以及人们生活水平不断提高,城市对用电的要求越来越高.而电网供电的安全可靠一直是人们关注的重点,如何采用有效投资策略,提高城市配网供电的安全性与可靠性,成为现在迫切需要解决的问题.     

Here Comes Here Comes Everybody [Books]

In 1937, Ronald Coase answered one of the most perplexing questions in economics: if markets are so great, why do organizations exist? Why don?t people just buy and sell their own services in a market instead? Coase, who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics, answered the question by noting a market?s transaction costs: buyers and sellers need to find one another, then reach agreement, and so on. The Coase theorem implies that if these transaction costs are low enough, direct markets of individuals make a whole lot of sense. But if they are too high, it makes more sense to get the job done by an organization that hires people.     

Comparing knowledge management in health-care and technical support organizations.

Although knowledge management (KM) tools are well established in technical support organizations, health-care organizations have only recently become aware of their benefits. This research investigates whether health care should adopt the same tools taking into account the different KM requirements in the two industries. This study analyzes narratives from key personnel in a technical support organization and a health-care organization to understand and compare their KM process components and facilitating information technology. The empirical data reveal that health care needs a personalization approach to KM focusing on new problem identification using interactive knowledge webs, while technical support relies on a codification approach for problem resolution using interpretive knowledge and a chain structure.