{"title":"Managing Knowledge to Capture Value in Technology and Engineering Consultancies","authors":"J. Tidd, M. Hopkins","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262199","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we report the findings of a two-year project that examined how technology and engineering consultancies (TECs) manage knowledge and innovation to create and capture value. We studied eight multi-national consultancies at two levels. First, we examined the policies, processes and practices used at the corporate level to promote innovation, and capture the value created by it. Secondly, for each company we examined a specific innovative project. We found that whilst many of the policies, processes and practices used are similar to good practice in leading manufacturing firms, the ways in which they attempt to translate knowledge and innovation at the project level into value at the corporate level are far less well-developed, and are closer to practices elsewhere in the service sector","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115456356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building Competitive Advantage with Interorganizational Information Systems in Value Chain: Evidence from Chain Retail Industry","authors":"Xiaobo Wu, Zengyuan Wu","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262236","url":null,"abstract":"As the largest private retailer in the world, Wal-Mart employs more than 1.6 million associates worldwide and operates more than 5,000 units all over the world. And, about 140 million customers visit Wal-Mart stores weekly. In 2004, Wal-Mart accomplished USD285.2 billion sales globally. How can Wal-Mart create so much value? How does it manage so many suppliers and customers successfully? This paper argued that its competitive advantages are based on its successful interorganizational information system (IOIS). According to Bakos and Treacy, and Bartlett and Ghoshal, a framework is introduced to show how a chain retailer builds competitive advantages from the perspective of value chain. By changing rules of interorganizational competition and sharing information, bargaining power is strengthened by IOIS's enforcing cooperation with suppliers and customers, comparative efficiency is gained by IOIS's reinforcing interorganizational relationships and facilitating interorganizational business process reengineering (IBPR), responsiveness is improved by enforcing cooperation with suppliers and customers. As a case study, Wal-Mart' value chain was analyzed according to above-mentioned framework. At last, we discuss how the chain retailers in China should develop more quickly in the future","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"289 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127406790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Failure Severity in New Product Development Processes of Consumer Electronics Products","authors":"Ilse de Visser, Lu Yuan, Ganesh Nagappan","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262283","url":null,"abstract":"Reliability feedback information from the field is essential for product improvement. Traditionally, consumer electronics service centers have provided the product designers with reliability information about product generations on the market at that time. However, within the field of high volume consumer electronics, movement of the business processes to emerging markets, increasing time-to-market pressure, increasing product complexity and increasing customer requirements have led to an increasing number of nontechnical failures. Moreover, these business trends have resulted in higher requirements on the information that is needed in the development process. Particularly, information about the root causes of non-technical failures is required to determine the impact of these failures on the overall product reliability. This study investigates the suitability of current service processes for the collection of information about nontechnical failures and their root causes in order to prioritize them within the development process of consumer electronics. Three case studies, performed at service centers for consumer electronics products, indicate that the recent trends in the field of consumer electronics have resulted in an information gap between developers and users of these products. In order to close this gap, the authors suggest the development of a new failure prioritization model for consumer electronics products","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"451 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125784617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Application of Knowledge Management to Large Complex Systems","authors":"D. Cropley","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262185","url":null,"abstract":"When a complex entity comprises, for example, a set of individually complex, geographically distributed, evolving systems, the question of how to manage change to such a system-of-systems takes great significance. Not only must change be managed at the level of each component system, it must also be managed across the entire interrelated and interacting set. The solution presented in this paper is based on research that treats a class of warships in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), along with the associated operational, production and support systems, as a system-of-systems (SoS) and examines the management of change in this complex entity. The paper describes a knowledge management (KM) strategy that can be used to plan, manage, coordinate and implement change across the entire lifecycle of the target system-of-systems and which may be generalisable to other systems-of-systems","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121645059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study of Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment Mechanism of Agile Virtual Enterprises","authors":"T. Shu, Shou Chen, K. Lai, Chi Xie, Shouyang Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262351","url":null,"abstract":"The agile virtual enterprise (AVE) is a new and effective corporate organizational and production concept in the virtual economic environment; collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) is a scheme in which enterprise partners can pursue collaborative supply chains by sharing information, thus making it a forceful supplement for the concrete mechanism and principles of execution in AVE. Building on an analysis of AVE concepts, AVE-based CPFR and their relationship, and CPFR mechanisms and improved models, this study proposes the conditions needed for integration of AVE-based CPFR and potential future directions in this area","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122119563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empirical Research on the Factors to Impact Innovation Speed for Industrial Enterprises in China","authors":"Shui Changqing, Xu Qingrui","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262168","url":null,"abstract":"Today more than ever before, enterprises in China must speed innovation if they are to successfully confront the disruptive effects of emerging technologies, empowered customers, new market entrants, shorter product life cycles, and market globalization. Indeed, the innovation speed is the only means by which enterprises can sustain a competitive advantage. In order to accelerate the innovation speed of enterprises in China, first of all, we need to understand and explore the influence factors of the innovation speed. This paper base on the literature research, and earlier research results gotten by RCID (the research center for innovation and development, Zhejiang University), we chose 20 essential factors that most possibly affects the innovation speed to conduct Empirical studies. Through to analyze 154 questionnaires answered by Chinese industrial enterprise's technical center, our conclusions are: Accepts the hypothesis 2, the hypothesis 3, the hypothesis 5, the hypothesis 8, the hypothesis 9, the hypothesis 10, the hypothesis 11, the hypothesis 12, the hypothesis 14, the hypothesis 15, the hypothesis 16, the hypothesis 17, the hypothesis 18, the hypothesis 19 and the hypothesis 20; Refuses the hypothesis 1, the hypothesis 4, the hypothesis 6, the hypothesis 7 and the hypothesis 13","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123544078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Change Management in China - An application of Meta-Strategies Practice","authors":"M. Miles, D. Large","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262247","url":null,"abstract":"Change processes and projects have traditionally used a variety of strategies to ensure initiation, engagement of participants, and successful implementation. General strategies (meta-strategies) of change identified by the literature include use of information, values, power and, more recently, trust as \"meta-strategies\" associated with change management efforts. This article outlines the underlying philosophy and rationale of the four meta-strategies and outlines the perceived importance and frequency of use of each set of strategies in China. Findings indicate that, in China, values-driven strategies are perceived as most important in relation to change success and are also the most frequently used in practice. Trust based strategies, while declared to be the least important of the four meta-strategies, are the second most frequently used in actual change management practice. Power, an underlying theme in Chinese culture where position and hierarchy are perceived in general to be critical, is third in declared importance and fourth (last) in frequency of use while information is second in declared importance but third in actual frequency of use. Results of the study suggest an increased balanced use of all four of the strategies for effective change management","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125711644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Construction of Innovation Networks and the Improvement of Technology Capabilities of Industrial Clusters in the Developing Countries","authors":"Xiaobo Wu, Zhigang Gu","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262365","url":null,"abstract":"The construction of innovation networks is one of the most important means to improve the technology capabilities of industrial clusters. Making use of the opportunity of global transfer of semiconductor industry, Korean semiconductor industry clusters came into being and their technology capabilities became stronger with the construction of innovation networks. Based on literature review and case study, this paper applies 'technology gradient' theory to put forward the conceptual model of the relationship between the construction of innovation networks and the improvement of technology capabilities of industrial clusters in the developing countries underlying global industry transfer, then educes the main conclusions as follows: firstly, as one of outcomes of global industry transfer, 'technology gradient' provides path to construct exterior innovation networks for industrial clusters in the developing countries in order to acquire outer resources of science and technology; secondly, assimilation and translation of outer science and technology resources into inner technology capabilities need support from interior innovation networks; thirdly, the seamless link of both interior and exterior of innovation networks and the matching of their structures become important factors which affect the effectiveness of technology learning and the efficiency of technology capabilities of industrial clusters in the developing countries","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"297 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133937074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aspects of Inter-Organisational Networks for Developing Firm Competencies - Preliminary Evidence from Malaysia","authors":"A. A. Omar, A. Mohan","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262163","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of a preliminary study on an inter-organisational network and the development of organisational competencies among a 'flagship cluster' of organisations. The case study involves a consortium of organisations working on a Government Multi Purpose Card (GMPC) project, one of the various Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) initiatives proposed under the seven flagship applications deployed by the Malaysian Government. The approach has been qualitative and exploratory with data collected via interviews with project partners. While the outcome supports various findings from previous literature on inter-organisational learning networks, further research is needed to test the findings as they result from a single case study. The findings show the benefits to organisations that partake in inter-organisational networks. The benefits are in terms of the different competencies that organisations in emerging economies can gain from their local and foreign partners in the network. This paper puts forward an approach in understanding inter-organisational learning networks from a qualitative and non-experimental perspective, of which only a small of researchers have attempted to do","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"7 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134227724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hierarchical Modular R&D Structure and Intellectual Property Protection: Evidence from Multinational R&D labs in China","authors":"X. Quan","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262182","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how multinational corporations (MNCs) protect their research and development (R&D) activities that are conducted in weak intellectual property rights (IPR) regime countries. Findings from a small scale survey and four case studies in China show that MNC R&D labs in China are innovating for the global market. Furthermore, a hierarchical modular R&D structure can be an effective way for MNC R&D labs to protect their intellectual property, and thus facilitate appropriation of returns in weak IPR regime developing countries","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133480235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}