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Developing a Maturity Rating System for Project Management Offices 开发项目管理办公室成熟度评级系统

IF 1.9 4区社会学

Systems Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI: 10.3390/systems12090367

Abdullah M. Alshabragi, Abdulmohsen S. Almohsen, Abdulrahman A. Bin Mahmoud

{"title":"Developing a Maturity Rating System for Project Management Offices","authors":"Abdullah M. Alshabragi, Abdulmohsen S. Almohsen, Abdulrahman A. Bin Mahmoud","doi":"10.3390/systems12090367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12090367","url":null,"abstract":"Effective project management is crucial for organizations to achieve strategic objectives and maintain competitiveness in today’s market. The project management office (PMO) has emerged as a key enabler in enhancing project management effectiveness through centralized oversight, support, and standardization. However, evaluating the effectiveness of PMOs and identifying areas for improvement remain challenging. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of project management effectiveness and the role of PMOs in achieving organizational success by establishing a maturity rating system. The research objectives include identifying critical success factors relevant to sustainable PMO effectiveness, reviewing existing literature on project management maturity models, analyzing data through literature review and questionnaires, developing a rating system based on identified success factors, and contributing to the existing literature on PMOs. The literature review and thematic analysis identified five critical themes—organizational culture, governance, competence, project controls, and engagement—each with corresponding success factors. Questionnaires were used to assess the maturity levels and relative importance of these factors, where the AHP analysis determined the weighted importance of each success factor and category. The results highlight the critical success factors for PMOs: collaboration, effective leadership, alignment with organizational goals, knowledge management, project planning, risk management, stakeholder satisfaction, and communication. By establishing a standardized and objective approach to evaluating sustainable PMO effectiveness, organizations can enhance their sustainable project management practices, improve project success rates, and address the challenges associated with evaluating PMO performance. Ultimately, adopting a systems approach enables PMOs to align strategies with organizational goals and foster a culture of continuous improvement.","PeriodicalId":36394,"journal":{"name":"Systems","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142254498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An Improved Driving Safety Field Model Based on Vehicle Movement Uncertainty for Highway Ramp Influence Areas 基于高速公路匝道影响区车辆移动不确定性的改进型驾驶安全场模型

IF 1.9 4区社会学

Systems Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI: 10.3390/systems12090370

Yueru Xu, Wei Ye, Yalin Luan, Bingbo Cui

{"title":"An Improved Driving Safety Field Model Based on Vehicle Movement Uncertainty for Highway Ramp Influence Areas","authors":"Yueru Xu, Wei Ye, Yalin Luan, Bingbo Cui","doi":"10.3390/systems12090370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12090370","url":null,"abstract":"Road traffic accidents result in numerous fatalities and injuries annually. Advanced driving assistance systems (ADASs) have garnered significant attention to mitigate these harms. An accurate safety assessment can significantly improve the effectiveness and credibility of ADASs. However, a real-time safety assessment remains a key challenge due to the complex interactions among humans, vehicles, and the road environment. Traditional safety assessment methods, relying on crash data and surrogate safety measures (SSMs), face limitations in real-time applicability and scenario coverage, especially in freeway ramp areas with frequent merging and lane changing. To address these gaps, this paper develops a driving safety field based on the uncertainty of vehicle movements, which integrates the characteristics of driving behaviors, vehicles, and the road environment. The proposed method is validated with a simulation of driving scenarios and ROC curves obtained from the NGSIM dataset. The results demonstrate that our proposed driving safety field effectively quantifies the real-time risk in ramp influence areas and outperforms Time to Collision (TTC), making it suitable for integration into collision warning systems of ADASs.","PeriodicalId":36394,"journal":{"name":"Systems","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142254503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Interaction Mechanism between Inter-Organizational Relationship Cognition and Engineering Project Value Added from the Perspective of Dynamic Impact 从动态影响的角度看组织间关系认知与工程项目增值的互动机制

IF 1.9 4区社会学

Systems Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.3390/systems12090362

Mengyu Xu, Xun Liu, Zhen Bian, Yufan Wang

{"title":"Interaction Mechanism between Inter-Organizational Relationship Cognition and Engineering Project Value Added from the Perspective of Dynamic Impact","authors":"Mengyu Xu, Xun Liu, Zhen Bian, Yufan Wang","doi":"10.3390/systems12090362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12090362","url":null,"abstract":"Projects involve inter-organizational relationship cognition, which is central to collaborative engineering project value added. Interest in value added in the project lifecycle is mounting and gaining increasing attention in the research literature. However, little is known about how inter-organizational relationship cognition facilitates value added and how such cognition pushes a project toward higher end-states of value. The existing literature mainly analyzes and studies value added on functional analysis and cost control. There are predominantly static analyses of the factors that influence value added in studies. The guiding role of value added has not been adequately explored in the studies on the influencing factors of value added. Utilizing a combination of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs), this study addresses how inter-organizational relationship cognition influences engineering project value added, identifying complex structures of interaction and cognition dynamics. Results indicate that: (1) A hybrid SEM–FCM method can be able to model dynamic interactions between inter-organizational relationship cognition and value added; (2) trust and shared vision have positive effects on in-role behavior and extra-role behavior. Shared vision has a negative effect on opportunistic behavior. In-role behavior and extra-role behavior have a positive impact on value added, while opportunistic behavior has a negative impact. Organizational behavior is an important mediating variable to explain the interaction between inter-organizational relationship cognitions and value added. This hybrid method explores the potential mechanisms of inter-organizational relationship cognition on project value added from novel perspectives on construction project management practices, proposing practical advice for further project management.","PeriodicalId":36394,"journal":{"name":"Systems","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Diagnosing Market Capitalism: A Metacybernetic View 诊断市场资本主义：元控制论观点

IF 1.9 4区社会学

Systems Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.3390/systems12090361

Maurice Yolles

{"title":"Diagnosing Market Capitalism: A Metacybernetic View","authors":"Maurice Yolles","doi":"10.3390/systems12090361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12090361","url":null,"abstract":"This multidisciplinary paper contributes to political economy, social cybernetics, and philosophy by examining distinctions in market capitalist ideologies through a metacybernetic approach. It explores reflexive processes, akin to Adam Smith’s invisible and visible hands, and their impact on market ideologies. The study highlights the evolutifon of these ideologies in balancing egoism and altruism, revealing insights into sociocultural shifts. Some ideologies are more prone to pathologies like market hegemony, which disrupts market viability and social welfare. Diagnosing these ideologies is essential to address issues of market hegemony like platform capitalism, technofeudalism, and surveillance capitalism. After a comparative analysis of capitalist ideologies, the paper focuses on neoliberal and stakeholder capitalism, due to their dominance, contrasting philosophies, policy influence, and roles in global challenges. A metacybernetic perspective is adopted, modelling the market as a complex adaptive system with agency, using Mindset Agency Theory (MAT). MAT distinguishes agency into subagencies of affect and cognition. Recognising the role of spirit, a spirit subagency is configured into MAT to enable explicit consideration of attributes like ethics and the greater good within the market, relationally improving transparency and promoting sustainable and inclusive economic practices. MAT is applied to the evolution of capitalist ideologies, examining their viability and sustainability under changing conditions. With its now triadic interactive subagency structure, MAT identifies eight distinct types of mindset, each characterised by 21 parameters that combine to deliver unique variations, in neoliberal and stakeholder capitalism, of the market ideologies.","PeriodicalId":36394,"journal":{"name":"Systems","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Digital Transformation and Innovation: The Influence of Digital Technologies on Turnover from Innovation Activities and Types of Innovation 数字化转型与创新：数字技术对创新活动营业额和创新类型的影响

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Systems Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.3390/systems12090359

Anca Antoaneta Vărzaru, Claudiu George Bocean

{"title":"Digital Transformation and Innovation: The Influence of Digital Technologies on Turnover from Innovation Activities and Types of Innovation","authors":"Anca Antoaneta Vărzaru, Claudiu George Bocean","doi":"10.3390/systems12090359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12090359","url":null,"abstract":"In today’s competitive and globalized world, innovation is essential for organizational survival, offering a means for companies to address environmental impacts and social challenges. As innovation processes accelerate, managers need to rethink the entire value-creation chain, with digital transformation emerging as a continuous process of organizational adaptation to the evolving societal landscape. The research question focuses on how digital technologies—such as artificial intelligence, Big Data, cloud computing, industrial and service robots, and the Internet of Things—influence innovation-driven revenues among enterprises within the European Union (EU). The paper examines, using neural network analysis, the specific impact of each digital technology on innovation revenues while exploring how these technologies affect various types of social innovation within organizations. Through cluster analysis, the study identifies patterns among EU countries based on their digital technology adoption, innovation expenditures, and revenues and the proportion of enterprises engaged in innovation activities. The findings highlight the central role of digital technologies in enhancing innovation and competitiveness, with significant implications for managers and policymakers. These results underscore the necessity for companies to strategically integrate digital technologies to sustain long-term competitiveness in the rapidly evolving digital landscape of the EU.","PeriodicalId":36394,"journal":{"name":"Systems","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Resilience Metrics for Socio-Ecological and Socio-Technical Systems: A Scoping Review 社会生态和社会技术系统的复原力指标：范围审查

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Systems Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.3390/systems12090357

Patrick Steinmann, Hilde Tobi, George A. K. van Voorn

{"title":"Resilience Metrics for Socio-Ecological and Socio-Technical Systems: A Scoping Review","authors":"Patrick Steinmann, Hilde Tobi, George A. K. van Voorn","doi":"10.3390/systems12090357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12090357","url":null,"abstract":"An increased interest in the resilience of complex socio-ecological and socio-technical systems has led to a variety of metrics being proposed. An overview of these metrics and their underlying concepts would support identifying useful metrics for applications in science and engineering. This study undertakes a scoping review of resilience metrics for systems straddling the societal, ecological, and technical domains to determine how resilience has been measured, the conceptual differences between the proposed approaches, and how they align with the domains of their case studies. We find that a wide variety of resilience metrics have been proposed in the literature. Conceptually, ten different quantification approaches were identified. Four different disturbance types were observed, including sudden, continuous, multiple, and abruptly ending disturbances. Surprisingly, there is no strong pattern regarding socio-ecological systems being studied using the “ecological resilience” concept and socio-technical systems being studied using the “engineering resilience” concept. As a result, we recommend that researchers use multiple resilience metrics in the same study, ideally following different conceptual approaches, and compare the resulting insights. Furthermore, the used metrics should be mathematically defined, the included variables explained and their units provided, and the chosen functional form justified.","PeriodicalId":36394,"journal":{"name":"Systems","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Method for Developing the System Architecture of Existing Industrial Objects for Digital Representation Tasks 为数字化表示任务开发现有工业对象系统架构的方法

IF 1.9 4区社会学

Systems Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.3390/systems12090355

Vladimir Badenko, Vladimir Yadykin, Vladimir Kamsky, Arina Mohireva, Andrey Bezborodov, Egor Melekhin, Nikolay Sokolov

{"title":"Method for Developing the System Architecture of Existing Industrial Objects for Digital Representation Tasks","authors":"Vladimir Badenko, Vladimir Yadykin, Vladimir Kamsky, Arina Mohireva, Andrey Bezborodov, Egor Melekhin, Nikolay Sokolov","doi":"10.3390/systems12090355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12090355","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a method for creating the system architecture of existing industrial objects based on Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) principles. The method aims to form a digital representation of physical objects, which is crucial in the digital transformation of industrial enterprises. It allows for the accurate reflection of all components, processes, functions, and interrelationships within an object. The methodology includes stages of data collection, structuring, development of ontological models, and the integration of a comprehensive system architecture into the digital space. This method was tested using a small hydroelectric power plant, revealing its key advantages and disadvantages and identifying areas for further improvement. The main findings indicate a significant improvement in understanding the system architecture for scenario modeling and digital operation of the objects. Despite challenges such as the need for multiple iterations and high data requirements, the methodology demonstrates the potential for applying MBSE in the digital transformation of existing industrial objects.","PeriodicalId":36394,"journal":{"name":"Systems","volume":"185 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Integrating Order Splitting and Acceptance with Batch Delivery in Parallel Machine Scheduling 并行机器调度中的订单分割和验收与批量交付整合

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Systems Pub Date : 2024-09-08 DOI: 10.3390/systems12090354

Hanxing Cui, Qilan Zhao, Huanhuan Wang, Yuliang Guo, Junjie Guo

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Influencing Factors and Mechanisms of Value Co-Creation in Artificial Intelligence-Driven Human Resource Management: A System Dynamics Simulation 人工智能驱动的人力资源管理中价值共创的影响因素和机制：系统动力学模拟

IF 1.9 4区社会学

Systems Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.3390/systems12090352

Jun-Jie Dong, Shu-Min Yan, Xiao-Wei Yang

{"title":"Influencing Factors and Mechanisms of Value Co-Creation in Artificial Intelligence-Driven Human Resource Management: A System Dynamics Simulation","authors":"Jun-Jie Dong, Shu-Min Yan, Xiao-Wei Yang","doi":"10.3390/systems12090352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12090352","url":null,"abstract":"In the era of artificial intelligence, human resource management has undergone significant changes compared to traditional approaches regarding value creation methods and influencing factors. This research aims to utilize grounded theory to comprehensively explore the influencing factors of value co-creation in enterprise human resource management within the context of artificial intelligence. Additionally, this research seeks to capture the dynamic relationships, causal links, and evolutionary patterns among the various elements within the system by constructing a system dynamics model. The results indicated that (1) Environmental factors primarily play a regulatory role, organizational factors serve a supportive role, and participant factors act as the driving force in influencing value co-creation in human resource management. (2) In the context of artificial intelligence, both hardware infrastructure and software capabilities can significantly impact value co-creation in human resource management. This research complements current research on the influencing factors of value co-creation in enterprise human resource management. It offers new perspectives and frameworks for the theoretical development and practical application of value co-creation in this area, supporting companies in effectively managing and developing value co-creation in human resource management.","PeriodicalId":36394,"journal":{"name":"Systems","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An Evolutionary Game Study of Collaborative Innovation across the Whole Industry Chain of Rural E-Commerce under Digital Empowerment 数字赋权下农村电商全产业链协同创新的演化博弈研究

IF 1.9 4区社会学

Systems Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.3390/systems12090353

Yanling Wang, Junqian Xu, Guangsheng Zhang

{"title":"An Evolutionary Game Study of Collaborative Innovation across the Whole Industry Chain of Rural E-Commerce under Digital Empowerment","authors":"Yanling Wang, Junqian Xu, Guangsheng Zhang","doi":"10.3390/systems12090353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12090353","url":null,"abstract":"With the profound integration of digital technology and traditional agriculture, the whole industry chain of rural e-commerce, as an advanced system, is reshaping the production, sales, and management models of agriculture and is emerging as a new catalyst for the advancement of digital agriculture through significant innovation. This paper focuses on the digital empowerment attributes and strategic attributes of the whole industrial chain of rural e-commerce, and evolutionary game models under market mechanisms and regulations are constructed. It examines the influence of various elements, such as the digital technology empowerment coefficient, on collaborative innovation within the whole industry chain of rural e-commerce. Using case simulations, this paper discusses the role of government regulation and intervention when market mechanisms are inadequate. The study reveals that factors such as the digital technology empowerment coefficient, technology absorptive capacity, and the amount of technology and information stored in collaborative innovation positively influence the whole industry chain. Potential risk losses and free-rider gains have negative effects on the evolution of the system toward collaborative innovation. When market mechanisms are inadequate, a combination of operational cost subsidies and incentive measures can yield more effective policy synergy, with the incentive impact of cost subsidies being particularly notable. The strategic application of enterprise-liquidated damage and government penalties will aid in regulating and directing corporate behavior. The findings of this research not only offer a new microlevel explanation for understanding the decision-making mechanism behind collaborative innovation in the whole industrial chain of rural e-commerce but also serve as a reference for government policy formulation to ensure the stability of the whole rural e-commerce industry chain.","PeriodicalId":36394,"journal":{"name":"Systems","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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