Linkages between manufacturing strategy, benchmarking, performance measurement and business process reengineering

An empirical analysis is presented for researching linkages between manufacturing strategy, benchmarking, performance measurement (PM) and business process reengineering (BPR). Although the importance of these linkages has been described in conceptual literature, it has not been widely demonstrated empirically. The survey research was carried out in 73 medium and large-sized Slovenian manufacturing companies within the mechanical, electro-mechanical and electronic industries. The resulting data were subjected to reliability and validity analyses. Canonical correlation analysis was used to test six hypotheses.The results confirmed the need for a strategically-driven BPR approach and the positive impact of performance measurement on BPR performance.     

CDMA-VPDN业务故障管控的思路

简单介绍了CDMA-VPDN特点、组网情况和业务，使用事例分析法得出CDMA-VPDN业务故障管控点。从而促进该类故障快速定位和处理。     

Relationship between Construction Firm Strategies and Innovation Outcomes

Survey results provide a preliminary assessment of the relative contribution of a range of tactical business strategies to innovation performance by firms in the Australian construction industry. Over 1,300 firms were surveyed in 2004, resulting in a response rate of 29%. Respondents were classified as high, medium or low innovators according to an innovation index based on the novelty and impact of their innovations and their adoption of listed technological and organizational advances. The relative significance of 23 business strategies concerning (1) employees; (2) marketing; (3) technology; (4) knowledge; and (5) relationships was examined by determining the extent to which they distinguished high innovators from low innovators. The individual business strategies that most strongly distinguished high innovators were (1) investing in R&D; (2) participating in partnering and alliances on projects; (3) ensuring project learnings are transferred into continuous business processes; (4) monitoring international best practice; and (5) recruiting new graduates. Of the five types of strategies assessed, marketing strategies were the least significant in supporting innovation. The results provide practical guidance to managers in project-based industries wishing to improve their innovation performance.     

SME tailor-designed patent portfolio analysis

The management of patents is acknowledged to be closely correlated to a company’s profits. Thus, evaluation of patent portfolios is an essential task for companies producing or depending on technology-related products. While global players and consultants already have considerable experience in this field, no tool has so far been available that meets SME requirements. The Innovation and Patent-Centre at the Chamber of Commerce in Hamburg, a German think tank for patent management, has now developed a tool specially suited for SMEs. The article describes the methodology of the tool and compares it to other state-of-the-art tools. The tool gives an easy-to-understand overview for personnel with different professional backgrounds and facilitates strategic cross-functional discussions. Field tests carried out with SMEs in different industry sectors and with varying patent portfolio sizes and structures have shown good results.     

A semantic approach to a framework for business domain software systems

In enterprise firms, enormous amounts of electronic documents are generated by business analysts and other business domain application users. Applications that use these documents are often driven by business logic that is hard-coded together with application logic. One approach to the separation of business logic from applications is to create and maintain business and information extraction rules in an external, user-friendly format. The drawback of such an externalization is that the business rules, usually, do not have machine interpretable semantics. This situation often leads to misinterpretation of domain analysis documents, which can inhibit the productivity of computer-assisted analytical work and the effectiveness of business solutions. This paper proposes an ontology and rule-based framework for the development of business domain applications, which includes semantic processing of externalized business rules and to some extent externalization of application logic. The creation of external information extraction rules by the business analyst is a cumbersome and time consuming task. In order to overcome this problem, the framework also includes a rule learning system to semi-automate the generation of information extraction rules from source documents with the help of manual annotations. The main idea behind the work presented in this paper is to re-engineer very large enterprise information systems to adapt to Semantic Web computing techniques. The work presented in this paper is inspired by an industrial project.     

美国非政府组织中的城市改良组织管理机制

美国城市公共管理、开发组织形式与经济社会有着十分密切的关系。该文主要讨论北美国家以非政府力量形式出现的一种城市管理模式,介绍这类改良组织的管理机制以及对城市管理、社会经济起到的作用和职能等方面。     

Downstream performance prediction for a manufacturing system using neural networks and six-sigma improvement techniques

Intelligent techniques have been applied in a range of industrial environments [Meziane F, Vadera S, Kobbacy K, Proudlove N. Intelligent systems in manufacturing: current developments and future prospects. Integrated Manuf Syst 2000;11(4):218–38; Stephanopoulos G, Han C. Intelligent systems in process engineering: a review. Comput Chem Eng, 1996;20 (6–7):743–91; Johnston AB, Maguire LP, McGinnity TM. Using business improvement techniques to inform the optimisation of production cycle time: an industrial case study. Proceedings of the IEEE SMC UK-RI Chapter conference 2004 on intelligent cybernetic systems. September 7–8, 2004 ISSN:1744–9189; Proudlove NC, Vadera S, Kobbacy KAH. Intelligent management systems in operations: A review. J Oper Res Soc, 1998;49(7):682–99] although their implementation is not the first choice of many process engineers. In contrast process engineers in a diverse range of manufacturing environments regularly deploy business improvement techniques, such as the six-sigma methodology. Such techniques aim to control and subsequently identify the relationship between the process inputs and outputs so that a process engineer can more accurately predict how the process output shall perform based on the system inputs. Factors such as cost reduction, automatic process control or simply process prediction may be the defining factors in establishing prediction models.     

The effect of proposed district centres on Melbourne's central business district

Abstract

Concerns have been expressed that the designation of the 14 district centres in the MMBW's proposed Amendment 150 will have an adverse effect on the Central Business District. This paper analyses these claims and contends that there is little threat from the district centres themselves. Because the planning concepts espoused in Amendment 150 and the Melbourne LDS are not sufficiently related to the economic development processes occurring in the city, they will have limited success in other than physical enhancement terms. The opportunity to develop an alternative economic role for the CBD has been overlooked.     

重视商业文化 增强企业竞争能力

本文就市场经济下商业文化与企业竞争能力的问题进行了论述。     

论企业法律顾问制度与企业管理

本文采用调查研究的方法,考察了我国几种不同类型企业设置的专业性的企业法律顾问机构及其实践活动,抽象出一些共同的东西,以求正确地论述企业法律顾问制度的产生、使命及其在与企业管理的结合上所著现的功能。