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Strategic facility management and technology: The case study of the University of Calgary

Dennis, Don - In: Journal of Corporate Real Estate 4 (2002) 3, pp. 215-226

The Campus Infrastructure (CI) Department at the University of Calgary absorbed a 25 per cent reduction in its operating budget in 1995. As a result, it was forced to transform its business processes in order to provide the required level of services to the campus. Through its strategic planning...

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Enterprise program management: A Sprint case study

Boutross, Dan - In: Journal of Corporate Real Estate 7 (2005) 3, pp. 199-209

In the midst of a major corporate reorganization and an ever‐changing industry landscape, how does a corporate real estateorganization successfully build enterprise alliances and create integrated approaches to problem solving in order to 1) realign the real estate portfolio and 2) achieve...

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Trade liberalization effects on commodity imports in Cameroon

Emmanuel Tambi, N. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 25 (1998) 3, pp. 193-202

The hypotheses that an increase in relative price elasticities is not associated with increased import substitution and that an increase in income and foreign exchange elasticities is not associated with a greater degree of “openness” of the Cameroon economy are investigated using...

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Collective action in the implementation of a “greener” performance measurement system

Länsiluoto, Aapo; Järvenpää, Marko - In: Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 6 (2010) 2, pp. 200-227

practically utilized before in EMS and PMS studies. Furthermore, EMS and PMS integration studies have usually been normative …

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Value propositions: a new conceptualisation for integration

Perrey, Randall; Johnston, Alex; Lycett, Mark; Paul, Ray - In: Journal of Enterprise Information Management 17 (2004) 2, pp. 142-163

This paper argues that enterprise scale information systems integration should be driven by business value propositions … comprehending integration. The concept is further developed from a synthesis of the issues from literature with the results. The … implications of value proposition driven integration projects leads onto recommendations for industry and implications for further …

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Is business process integration feasible?

Themistocleous, Marinos; Corbitt, Gail - In: Journal of Enterprise Information Management 19 (2006) 4, pp. 434-449

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether business process integration is feasible. Design … application integration (EAI) technology can integrate business processes. However, since it is not possible to generalize from a … technology, it defines and presents a stage model for the business process integration and it examines the research question. …

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Assessing manufacturing performance: an advanced manufacturing technology portfolio perspective

Small, Michael H. - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 99 (1999) 6, pp. 266-278

Addresses the relationship between firm performance on 15 manufacturing attributes and the extensiveness of advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) portfolios that firms adopt. Mail survey data obtained from 116 manufacturing firms in the USA that had adopted a variety of AMT are used in this...

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Managing professional integration in an acute hospital – a socio‐political analysis

Crump, Norman - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 15 (2002) 2, pp. 107-117

This paper considers the form that the challenge of the introduction of new ways of working takes for those charged with the management of new partnerships by drawing on some of the research and other literature currently available. The paper introduces a case study from a large NHS hospital...

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Competitive implications of information technology in the public sector

Salmela, Hannu; Turunen, Pekka - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 16 (2003) 1, pp. 8-26

Increased use of market mechanisms in the delivery of public services is one of the major attempts made by governments to achieve greater efficiency, higher quality and a clearer focus on customers. Information systems (ISs) can promote the adoption of market mechanisms, but they can also...

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Computer‐integrated operations: the introduction of a hospital information support system

Procter, Stephen; Brown, Andrew D. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 17 (1997) 8, pp. 746-756

Study of the integration of operations through the application of computer technologies has focused on the … in implementation and the effects of reducing organizational slack. Applies this framework to the integration of … information systems in a UK hospital. Examines the effects of integration: the new system is circumvented and organizational slack …

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