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Information Technology Governance: Moving With Business Best Practice, Malcolm Fraser
Information Technology Governance: Moving With Business Best Practice, Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser
IT Governance is a subset discipline of Corporate Governance focused on information technology (IT) systems and their performance and risk management. It is the acknowledgment that IT projects can easily get out of control and profoundly affect the performance of an organization. The Club ‘Business’ is simple, IT systems can be complex, Managing complex IT…Simply 1. Business as usual – don’t fiddle with it 2. Business not as usual – Managing change 3. And, reduce complexity
Collaborative Tool Kit For Educational Sector And Delivery Of Tool Kit To Education Summit In March 2007., Malcolm Fraser, Stephen Kelly
Collaborative Tool Kit For Educational Sector And Delivery Of Tool Kit To Education Summit In March 2007., Malcolm Fraser, Stephen Kelly
Malcolm Fraser
Inter-firm collaboration is now recognized to be a primary driver of competitiveness and performance, where the rise of interconnected and interdependent networks act as complex adaptive systems giving rise to the fundamental requirement to collaborate. However, the process of establishing and maintaining strong and fruitful collaboration between firms is not well understood and as a result most attempts to manufacture such associations fail. The project provided a tool kit that will support successful collaborative international go-to-market initiatives by New Zealand academic institutions and commercial enterprises.
The Creation And Growth Of Ict Based Industrial Clusters: The New Zealand Case, Malcolm J. Fraser, Stephen Kelly
The Creation And Growth Of Ict Based Industrial Clusters: The New Zealand Case, Malcolm J. Fraser, Stephen Kelly
Malcolm Fraser
This paper provides an exploratory review of current global research on industrial clusters, and seeks to identify the key success components of these clusters. It then discusses these attributes in terms of their implication for New Zealand ICT industrial clusters. It is argued that by reviewing the success attributes underpinning industrial clusters a baseline can be established for decision-making in both the commercial activities of industry vertical groups, as well as local/central government economic policy formulation. The paper identifies the key success factors as the presence of large pillar firms that intact with strong local demand via a sophisticated work …