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Abstract: Describes the above-named upcoming conference event. May include topics to be covered or calls for papers. PubDate:
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Abstract: Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. PubDate:
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Pages: 3 - 3 Abstract: Presents a listing of the editorial board, board of governors, current staff, committee members, and/or society editors for this issue of the publication. PubDate:
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Pages: 5 - 5 Abstract: Presents a listing of the editorial board, board of governors, current staff, committee members, and/or society editors for this issue of the publication. PubDate:
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Authors:
Joseph Sarkis;
Pages: 6 - 13 Abstract: Presents the introductory editorial for this issue of the publication. PubDate:
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Authors:
Muhammad Odeh;
Pages: 14 - 16 Abstract: This article discusses how leadership skills can be employed to inspire project team members to overachieve with unexpected results. The team voluntarily worked overtime, proactively anticipated customer's needs, and actively mitigated project risks. Integrity is a leadership currency for which you are guaranteed to yield marvels. PubDate:
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Authors:
Christoph Fuchs;Tobias Gutmann;
Pages: 17 - 19 Abstract: We present an anonymized case of a campervan to illustrate how companies sometimes develop products that do not meet market requirements. Drawing from years of experience and case work, we demonstrate how using technical market segmentation at the beginning of the product development process helps to understand the basic market requirements necessary for building a successful modular product architecture. PubDate:
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Authors:
Shari L. S. Worthington;
Pages: 20 - 23 Abstract: Rapid technology advancements have changed the way customers research products and make purchases. This has led to an almost immeasurable increase in the number of customer touchpoints along the customer journey and a corresponding need for a richer set of digital tools that find and engage people on a global scale. The result has been a plethora of options that overwhelm most marketing teams. It is time for us to more carefully consider our approach to the tech frameworks we are creating in marketing. PubDate:
Firstquarter,march 1 2022
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Authors:
Rafael Sotelo;Terrill L. Frantz;Samuraí Brito;Vanessa Fernandes da Silva;André Juan Ferreira Martins;Igor Bernardes-Urias;
Pages: 24 - 27 Abstract: Quantum computing technology is developing rapidly. Technology managers are now faced with pressure to bring the emerging technology in-house, albeit perhaps stealthy. This article presents the story of a large Brazilian financial services firm that is facing the quantum “opportunity” head-on. We provide insights into the challenge of introducing nonproven technology to this one particular organization. In addition to team-level management, other aspects in the realm of organization-level issues are presented including expectation setting, reporting, and budgeting. PubDate:
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Authors:
Nagesh Ramesh;
Pages: 28 - 30 Abstract: Digital customer experience (DCX) is one of the most important and least understood factors significantly influencing customer adoption of digital innovation. This lack of understanding also limits the success or failure of your next big digital innovation. DCX index benchmarking is a scoring system that may help support your digital offerings. We introduce this index in this technology manager notebook article and provide insights into what it can tell us. PubDate:
Firstquarter,march 1 2022
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Authors:
Eli Sumarliah;Muhammad Naveed Ahmad;Kamila Usmanova;Kawther Mousa;Muhammad Asad;
Pages: 31 - 42 Abstract: The Coronavirus outbreak has instigated demand and supply interruption risks that influence supply chain (SC) management, implying an inevitability to foster the agility to ease the risks. The article investigates the complex and systemic effects of the Coronavirus outbreak on the global apparel SCs from the perspective of risk management in multinational business. This article proposes risk management in the global apparel SCs during the Coronavirus outbreak using four steps based on an in-depth literature review. Despite several SC management (SCM) approaches, this article emphasizes equalling the lean SCM versus the agile SCM (with a little about risk-hedging SCM and responsive SCM) as these are the foremost SCM styles that the apparel industry adopts the most. Furthermore, this article exposed the inadequacy of the lean-SCM framework caused by the absence of the SC transparency due to the increase in demand unpredictability identified even before the Coronavirus epidemic. On the other hand, the agile-SCM framework tackles this problem through augmenting the supplier–buyer connections for better information swap, but it also involves a linked upsurge in inventory cost and business stock. Thus, this article delivers several approaches that businesses can apply to alleviate the risks and discover key areas for upcoming works, considering downstream and upstream stakeholders in the apparel SC. PubDate:
Firstquarter,march 1 2022
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Authors:
Yuriy Kamenivskyy;Abhinav Palisetti;Layal Hamze;Sara Saberi;
Pages: 43 - 53 Abstract: The COVID-19 vaccine distribution chain faced multiple challenges associated with the lack of production capacity, security issues, and miscommunication between different actors. Blockchain technology has been shown to solve the security and miscommunication issues in other industries. We first identify distribution chain challenges via literature reviews and primary interviews. Case studies that solved these challenges in other industries also served as a source. This information allowed us to devise a blockchain framework for the vaccine distribution chain and evaluate its application feasibility. We present the framework using data flow diagrams. The proposed framework helps minimize the circulation of counterfeit vaccines and vaccination records, improves communication between stakeholders in the distribution chain, increases supply chain security, and simplifies vaccine inventorying and handling processes. PubDate:
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Olamide Jogunola;Craig Morley;Ikpe Justice Akpan;Yakubu Tsado;Bamidele Adebisi;Li Yao;
Pages: 54 - 64 Abstract: The ripple effects of the pandemic have resulted in an unprecedented shift in sectoral energy consumption as the workforce predominantly stays and works from home. Quantifying the impact of these restrictions on energy consumption offers a new direction toward intelligent energy services in a post-coronavirus (post-COVID-19) world, especially for commercial buildings. Thus, utilizing actual power consumption data, the study evaluates how energy usage in commercial buildings can change in a post-COVID-19 world, while examining the impact of digitalization to identify potential new opportunities. The article analyzes the changes in energy demand with occupancy rate based on data from 126 commercial businesses with varied classes across Manchester, U.K. The results show that the reduction in energy demand is not proportionate to the occupancy level, resulting in high energy costs. For instance, an average footfall for February 2021 is 10% of 2020, while the costs of electricity only fall to 80% of 2020. Although most of the energy demand is from appliances, the absence of energy efficiency increases energy consumption, highlighting the urgent need for optimized energy efficiency measures to include the time of use and scheduled use of energy across people and processes. PubDate:
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Vinícius Jaques Gerhardt;Julio Cezar Mairesse Siluk;Cláudia de Freitas Michelin;Alvaro Luiz Neuenfeldt Júnior;Claudimar Pereira da Veiga;
Pages: 65 - 84 Abstract: The purpose of this article is to measure the impact of market development indicators on company performance, according to the perception of decision-making agents in two nonalcoholic beverages companies. The article was developed according to the application of two research instruments aimed at experts and decision-making agents in the market development area. The first research instrument was used to validate a theoretical model of market development stages and indicators. The second instrument was used to identify the impact of the indicators. MONNA software performed the calculation of the impact of the indicators on the performance of two nonalcoholic beverages companies. The results showed the impact of the indicators according to stages that represent a chronological order of the market development process. The results identify the relationship between indicators present in different stages of market development. Among the main contributions, the article demonstrates the purpose of the indicators, identifying their impact on company performance. The article contributes to a theme of relevance to the scientific literature and its results generate knowledge for researchers to develop future studies. The contributions of the article stimulate how company managers can direct their activities toward optimizing the most impactful market development indicators. PubDate:
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Authors:
Mary Dempsey;Lisa Geitner;Attracta Brennan;John McAvoy;
Pages: 85 - 93 Abstract: In order to stay competitive and relevant in the business environment, companies need to embrace and address internal and external change and understand how to deal with it. It is necessary for them to develop knowledge about the success and failure factors of handling change and how the latter can be resolved. The aim of this article was to identify change management success and failure factors and provide a method dealing with failure factors. In the systematic literature review, 38 success factors and 23 failure factors from 2006 to 2021 were identified. In comparing the frequency of the occurring factors, four main success and three failure factors emerged. The success factors included: communication, create a vision/change message, early active participation of all individuals, and top management commitment. The failure factors included: resistance to change, standardized concepts, and viewing change initiatives as short-term. Complementarity and dependence links between failure factors and success factors were highlighted. Solutions for resolving three failure factors were found using Ishikawa diagrams and applying root cause analysis. Identifying key factors that affect project success is part of handling change. To support any necessary change, a consistent change management framework that is adaptable to individual organizations is also recommended. PubDate:
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Yash S. Asawa;
Pages: 94 - 112 Abstract: The primary goal of any financial investor is to maximize returns and minimize risks. The selection of the right assets and appropriate allocation of principal wealth is highly essential for the same. Investment specialists and portfolio managers have to manually analyze assets, determine potential returns and risks, and adhere to client preferences to create optimal portfolios. It is a complex and grueling process and demands significant skill and relevant experience for success. Like all other sectors in finance, machine learning models have seen tremendous success in the portfolio selection problem as well. In this article, a thorough review of several machine learning portfolio optimization techniques such as clustering based, Support Vector Machines based, genetic algorithm based, and more has been presented. This article, in its entirety, condenses and interprets the numerous approaches and the merits and limitations corresponding to their implementation. The conclusions presented by this review can be utilized to identify the advantages of these papers. This will help future researchers in their study of the domain and ensure the availability of essential data for further analysis in a systematic and comprehensive manner. With the help of this article, researchers will be well placed to identify areas that present scope for improvement and come up with novel or possibly hybrid techniques to achieve near perfection in portfolio selection. PubDate:
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Guilian Wang;Liyan Zhang;
Pages: 113 - 131 Abstract: Based on the method of system dynamics, analyzing the causal relationship among variables in the “advanced manufacturing technology (AMT)–product innovation” system, this article constructs the system dynamics model of dynamic evolution between AMT and product innovation and uses Vensim Personal Learing Edition (PLE) for simulation. The simulation analysis provided four major conclusions. First, the impact of AMT on the product innovation performance is characterized by dynamic changes. The initial implementation of AMT exerts a short-term inhibiting effect; however, it provides medium- and long-term benefits that occur 50-plus months after adoption. Second, the enhancement of the single dimension of design, manufacturing, and administrative AMT exerts a positive impact on knowledge absorptive capacity and product innovation performance; however, the impact of design AMT is the most noticeable. Third, the design, manufacturing, and administrative AMTs are complementary, and the product innovation benefit of combining multidimensional AMT is most apparent; the synergistic effect produced by it can markedly enhance the product innovation performance compared with one-dimensional AMT. Finally, prior technical level and organizational learning willingness positively moderate the correlation between AMT and product innovation. However, compared with the prior technical level, organizational learning willingness exerts a more notable moderating effect on the product innovation performance. PubDate:
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Shikha Singh;Subhas Chandra Misra;Sameer Kumar;
Pages: 132 - 137 Abstract: Product lifecycle management (PLM) systems have been globally adopted and implemented by a broad variety of large manufacturing firms. Firms still face difficulties in achieving long-term adoption and acceptance—institutionalization—throughout their value chains. This institutionalization is necessary for maintaining product-related data uniformity and standardization. We provide insights into the institutionalization process using various technology adoption models. Based on research evidence, we summarize the situations and factors, where PLM systems institutionalization will occur. Managerial takeaways are emphasized. PubDate:
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Juhi Raghuvanshi;Ankur Kashyap;Rajat Agrawal;Prakriti Kumar Ghosh;
Pages: 138 - 154 Abstract: The marketplace is predominantly a microbusiness-dominated phenomenon. Across the globe, the status of the tiniest form of business is different and dynamic. It has been widely argued that the tiniest forms of business do not get equal opportunities and the resources to come up with something new for the world. There are several barriers to the innovation capability of existing research, and they are all treated with equal importance. Authors opine that prioritization will advance our knowledge further. This article, based on primary data collected using focus group discussions, identifies 14 barriers to innovation capability and seeks to establish a causal (utilizing Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory method) relationship among them in the context of microenterprises. Low involvement of Generation Z emerged as the most important barrier to innovation capability in Indian microenterprises, resulting in limited availability of resources, an orthodox approach, shallow lateral creativity, isolation from the mainstream, lack of market sense and foresight, one person shouldering all responsibility, and a highly unorganized sector. To the best of the researcher's knowledge, no study in the literature has attempted to identify barriers to innovation capability and establish causal relationships among them in the context of microenterprises in India. PubDate:
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Chakunnath Madhusudan;Ramasamy Panneerselvam;
Pages: 155 - 167 Abstract: Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation is a conceptually elegant theory of innovation and competitive response. The basic tenets of the theory have been broadly validated over a wide range of situations, primarily in the context of the developed world, leaving a gap in our understanding of how the theory explains similar situations in a developing world context. We studied the application of Christensen's theory in the Indian context over nine cases in six industrial segments. Closely following Christensen's definition, four key concepts of the theory were identified and analyzed in each case. A novel four-stage disruption matrix was evolved to map the antecedents and temporal evolution of the process of disruption. Although the theory finds broad support for some of the key concepts, it has limitations in its present form in explaining situations from a developing economy with a complex socioeconomic and regulatory background. We suggest possible reasons for these anomalous observations and propose a more generalized definition of what constitutes a Christensen disruption. PubDate:
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Ehsan Samiei;Jafar Habibi;
Pages: 168 - 185 Abstract: Information technology (IT) is a vital part of every organization today. Not only the products and services are based on IT, but also IT is necessary for supporting the organization's processes. As the role of IT becomes more eminent, IT management frameworks become more demanding. IT management guarantees the optimal utilization of IT resources within an organization. Although each of the IT management frameworks focuses on a particular part of this wide scope, implementing frameworks individually, wastes budget, and time results in incompatible or redundant artifacts. The question we want to answer in this research is if a comprehensive IT management methodology could be implemented to provide all the effective results of different IT management frameworks, yet to avoid redundancies and costs of implementing each framework separately. In this study, the integration of the ITIL framework as the most well-known IT service management framework, the COBIT framework as one of the most widely used IT management frameworks, and IT enterprise architecture as a comprehensive solution for identifying, designing, and implementing a desirable IT structure, is analyzed. We present an intuitive methodology to integrate these frameworks by investigating the elements and components of each framework and identifying the interactions of these components. To validate the proposed model, it was implemented in a company active in the transportation industry and the results were qualitatively evaluated from experts’ points of view. We found that the proposed methodology could generate all of the expected artifacts with less time and budget and could prevent the production of redundant/inconsistent outputs. PubDate:
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Raja Zuraidah Rasi;Umol Syamsyul Bin Rakiman;Raja Zahilah Raja Mohd. Radzi;Nor Ratna Masrom;Veera Pandiyan Kaliani Sundram;
Pages: 186 - 200 Abstract: As blockchain technology is continuously evolving, questions arise regarding the possible risk of implementing blockchain technology in supply chain management (SCM). Prominent among these concerns is the risk that may negatively influence SCM and consider the potential solution to managing the risk. This study adopts an integrative review method. An online search is performed by considering relevant keywords related to “blockchain technology risks” closely connected with the SCM context within the period of 2017 until 2021. Several major risks are identified—privacy, regulatory, financial, technological, fraud, and operational risk. This article adopts an integrative literature review method to select relevant literature related to blockchain technology implementation in the supply chain. The integrative literature review method is suitable for this study since the risk of implementing blockchain technology is often shadowed by the benefits of implementing blockchain technology in SCM. The findings are highlighted by categorizing the potential risk that must be recognized in SCM to accompany the blockchain technology and the importance of rectifying the risk according to the organization's capacity and resources. PubDate:
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Authors:
Yiming Zhuang;Lei Ye;
Pages: 201 - 210 Abstract: Environmental issues are becoming critical drivers of firm's competitive advantages. In response, many firms are adopting proactive environmental strategies. A proactive environmental strategy requires a substantial investment of resources from firms, and social capital provides the necessary resources for firms to adopt a proactive environmental strategy. In this article, we explore how social capital contributes to proactive environmental strategy from different perspectives, including marketing, human resources, operations, supply chain, and big data analytics, with the focus on how this issue affects managerial decision-making. PubDate:
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Rodrigo Lozano;Maria Barreiro-Gen;
Pages: 211 - 219 Abstract: Most research on corporate sustainability has focused on large companies’ sustainability efforts; however, research on a holistic approach on small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) addressing the sustainability dimensions and the system elements is still limited. The aim of this article is to assess how SMEs embed sustainability into their systems. A survey was developed and sent to 261 SMEs, from which 72 complete responses were obtained from SMEs in Sweden. The results show that there could be a better operationalization of the priorities and aligning them with the company's impacts, particularly by focusing more on environmental issues. The results show that 1) SMEs have been embedding sustainability through technocentric and managerial approaches; 2) the focus has been on systems elements that tend to be less connected to others (e.g., products, and operations and production) and not on those with highest influence (e.g., governance and change management); and 3) employees tend to be informed about sustainability issues, but they could receive better training and be better engaged in sustainability efforts. SMEs should take a more holistic perspective when embedding sustainability into their system, and better address governance and change management issues to complement their technocentric and managerial approaches. PubDate:
Firstquarter,march 1 2022
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Peter E.D. Love;Jane Matthews;
Pages: 220 - 228 Abstract: Errors cannot be always prevented as they are a normal part of any work routine. Performing rework due to an error can significantly increase construction costs in transport mega-projects. Moreover, rework results in productivity loss, schedule delays, injuries and accidents, pollution, and contamination in projects and tarnish an organization's reputation. Drawing on our empirical research examining error culture and rework, we suggest that developing an error mastery mindset based on seven fundamental principles provides the much-needed ingredients to contain (i.e., enhance detection and recovery from errors as well as minimize adverse consequences) and reduce (i.e., limit is occurrence) error and build resilience in mega-transport projects. PubDate:
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Pages: 229 - 229 Abstract: Advertisement, IEEE. IEEE Collabratec is a new, integrated online community where IEEE members, researchers, authors, and technology professionals with similar fields of interest can network and collaborate, as well as create and manage content. Featuring a suite of powerful online networking and collaboration tools, IEEE Collabratec allows you to connect according to geographic location, technical interests, or career pursuits. You can also create and share a professional identity that showcases key accomplishments and participate in groups focused around mutual interests, actively learning from and contributing to knowledgeable communities. All in one place! Learn about IEEE Collabratec at ieeecollabratec.org. PubDate:
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Pages: 230 - 230 Abstract: Advertisement: TechRxiv is a free preprint server for unpublished research in electrical engineering, computer science, and related technology. TechRxiv provides researchers the opportunity to share early results of their work ahead of formal peer review and publication. Benefits: Rapidly disseminate your research findings; Gather feedback from fellow researchers; Find potential collaborators in the scientific community; Establish the precedence of a discovery; and Document research results in advance of publication. Upload your unpublished research today! PubDate:
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