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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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Many corporations in recent years have considered outsourcing administrative or non‐essential functions. This reflects both a corporate desire to focus on core functions and growing sophistication among providers of these secondary functions. Rogers Communications Inc., one of Canada’s...
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enhance local economic growth, especially in light of the role of new Cultural Technology Districts (CTDs). In this context …
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Purpose – Market strategies and technology strategies are two sides of the same coin that drive innovation efforts …
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manufacturing technology (AMT) portfolios that firms adopt. Mail survey data obtained from 116 manufacturing firms in the USA that … in average labour costs across all technology portfolio classifications. For all technology groups, firms recorded their …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how modern network video technology could be used to improve … existing information technology and offered a new dimension that provided the real-time analysis of different activities in … warehouse operations. The main barriers to implementing video technology included uncertain return on investment, staff …
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Can operations management impact significantly the profitability of consumer‐based businesses on the Internet (called B2C)? During the past two years, Internet retailers have not provided satisfactory financial results. Whereas, leading in‐store retailers have been profitable using...
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and the diffusion of EIS does indeed vary from the traditional S‐shaped curve, consistent with most information technology …
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The political nature of technology design and implementation is explicitly addressed in “human centred” projects to …
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for management’s political programmes. To understand this, a combined organisational politics and sociology of technology … approach is adopted, viewing technology as a political programme for change. A total of 30 manufacturing case studies grouped … around three ERP vendors and systems, show that using technology is not only an issue controlled by an enterprise’s actors …
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