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Between Innovation And Legitimation-Boundaries And Knowledge Flow In Management Consultancy, Andrew Sturdy, Timothy Adrian Robert Clark, Robin Fincham, Karen Handley

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Management consultancy is seen by many as a key agent in the adoption of new management ideas and practices in organizations. Two contrasting views are dominant-consultants as innovators, bringing new knowledge to their clients or as legitimating client knowledge. Those few studies which examine directly the flow of knowledge through consultancy in projects with clients favour the innovator view and highlight the important analytical and practical value of boundaries-consultants as both knowledge and organizational outsiders. Likewise, in the legitimator view, the consultants' role is seen in terms of the primacy of the organizational boundary. By drawing on a wider social …

How To Optimize Knowledge Sharing In A Factory Network, Arnoud De Meyer, Ann Vereecke

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Designing a manufacturing network entails devising and managing flows of innovation and know-how—not just determining what to produce and where—and organizing the resulting logistics flows.

Understanding Early Diffusion Of Digital Wireless Phones, Robert J. Kauffman, Angsana A. Techatassanasoontorn

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

There is increasing empirical evidence from academic research and strong recognition among policymakers that wide diffusion and innovative uses of digital wireless phones are important sources of a country's economic growth and social development. Adopters do not necessarily adopt digital wireless phones at the same time though. Although the diffusion of innovation theory suggests five adopter categories according to their degree of innovativeness, this approach lacks theoretical justification and, more importantly, it makes a critical assumption of a normal distribution of adopters that needs empirical validation. This study investigates the basis for defining different adopter categories and factors that affect …

Application Of Ict Ii: The Impact Of Performance Management System On The Performance Of The Employees & The Organization, Arshad Siddiqui, Faryal Malik

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between performance management system (PMS), employee's job satisfaction and thus, their commitment to the organization by working for its fate. If various characteristics of PMS that build commitment and satisfaction could be identified, then managers may be more capable of using PMS so as to yield positive results. Further, the study will also examine the impact of PMS on organizational effectiveness by enhancing personal performance using appropriate performance measures.

Software Engineering: Security Characterization For Evaluation Of Software Architectures Using Atam, Asad Raza, Haider Abbas, Louise Yngstrom, Ahmed Hemani

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Significant technological advancement in the current electronic era has influenced the work processes of private and government business entities. E-Government is one such area where almost every country is emphasizing and automating their work processes. Software architecture is the integral constituent of any software system with not only cumbersome modeling and development but require heedful evaluation. Considering this aspect we have highlighted in this paper, security evaluation of an ongoing e-society project ESAM using Architectural Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM). ESAM is a Web based system intended to provide e-services to the Swedish community residents. ATAM is primarily used for architectural …

Wireless Networks: Certificateless Id-Based Authentication Using Threshold Signature For P2p Manets, Aasia Samreen, Seema Ansari

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

As far as the security of MANET (mobile and ad hoc network) is concerned, it depends upon the secure authentication especially for P2P MANETs. Identity based encryption was introduced to construct Public Key without requiring a certificate. Therefore, certificateless authentication combined with threshold digital signature and efficient key generation using identities such as IP address, are the challenging issues in front of researchers. In this paper we have addressed the problem of identity based secure authentication employing well-known RSA algorithm and secret sharing to generate threshold signature on a message.

Software Engineering: An Open Source Service Oriented Mobile Business Intelligence Tool (Mbit), Bushra Sajjad, A. Mir, A. Khawar, F. Bashir, A. Tariq

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Corporate executives require relevant and intelligent business information in real-time to take strategic decisions. They require the freedom to access this information anywhere and anytime. There is a need to extend this functionality beyond the office and on the fingertips of the decision makers. Mobile Business Intelligence Tool (MBIT) aims to provide these features in a flexible and cost-efficient manner. This paper describes the detailed architecture of MBIT to overcome the limitations of existing mobile business intelligence tools. Further, a detailed implementation framework is presented to realize the design. This research highlights the benefits of using service oriented architecture to …

Application Of Ict Ii: Analytic Network Process Applied To R&D Project Selection, Murad Habib, Raza Khan, Javaid L. Piracha

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Research and development (R&D) project selection is a complex decision-making process. Risks and uncertainties are also associated with the investments and returns of R&D projects. This research paper illustrates an application of ANP (analytic network process). The analytic network process (ANP) is presented as a potentially valuable method to support the selection of projects in a research and development (R&D) environment. The AHP (analytic hierarchy process) is employed to break down large unstructured decision problems into manageable and measurable components. The ANP, as the general form of AHP, is powerful to deal with complex decisions where interdependence exists in a …

Wireless Networks: Automated Frequency Distribution, Management & Assignment (Afdma) In Ieee 802.16, Khurram Shehzad, A. Ali, F. Rasool, R. M. Hashmi, A. Zubair, R. L. Ali

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Frequency is amongst the most exclusive and most costly resources in wireless communication networks, especially, while considering the demands of broadband wireless access (BWA). In BWA, the management of frequency distribution and its effective utilization is of utmost importance. This research explores possible ways to ensure the most effective allocation of bandwidth resources and their best possible utilization on need basis. The model for static frequency allocation has been optimized and the dynamic frequency management has been calculated while dividing the users in different user classes on the basis of their needs and requirements. The effect of ping-pong handovers has …

Application Of Ict Iii: Use Of Information And Mobile Computing Technologies In Healthcare Facilities Of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Ahad Siddiqi, Munir Ahmed, Yasser M. Alginahi, Abdulrahman Alharby

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Information technology forms an important part of the healthcare solution. Accurate and up-to-date information is essential to continuous quality improvement in any organization, and particularly so in an area as complex as healthcare. Therefore, diverse information systems must be integrated across the healthcare enterprise. The knowledge base in the medical field is large, complex, and growing rapidly. It includes scientific knowledge, as well as familiarity with the day-to-day business of providing healthcare. It is crucial to identify the processes in the healthcare sector that would most benefit from the support of information technology. This study is focused on the analysis …

Artificial Intelligence – Ii: Image Normalization For Face Recognition Using 3d Model, Zahid Riaz, Michael Beetz, Bernd Radig

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

This paper describes an image segmentation and normalization technique using 3D point distribution model and its counterpart in 2D space. This segmentation is efficient to work for holistic image recognition algorithm. The results have been tested with face recognition application using Cohn Kanade facial expressions database (CKFED). The approach follows by fitting a model to face image and registering it to a standard template. The models consist of distribution of points in 2D and 3D. We extract a set of feature vectors from normalized images using principal components analysis and using them for a binary decision tree for classification. A …

Artificial Intelligence – Ii: Watermarking Of Chest Ct Scan Medical Images For Content Authentication, Nisar A. Memon, S.A.M. Gilani, Asad Ali

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Medical image is usually comprised of region of interest (ROI) and region of non interest (RONI). ROI is the region that contains the important information from diagnosis point of view so it must be stored without any distortion. We have proposed a digital watermarking technique which avoids the distortion of image in ROI by embedding the watermark information in RONI. The watermark is comprised of patient information, hospital logo and message authentication code, computed using hash function. Earlier BCH encryption of watermark is performed to ensure inaccessibility of embedded data to the adversaries.

Networks - Ii: Assessment Of Node Density In Cartesian Ad Hoc Routing Protocols (Carp), Imran Raza, Mohammad Hasan Raza

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

With the rapid development in the geographical positioning system (GPS) technology, the geographical routing category of the MANET protocols has recently been a hot research area. The Cartesian Ad hoc Routing Protocols (CARP) are a set of three adaptive and connectionless protocols that address the problem of routing and power consumption in MANET. These protocols are used to limit the number of forwarding nodes in a logical transmission area. Density of an ad hoc network is considered a network parameter in CARP, and is used in the calculations to form a logical transmission area. The CARP assume that the nodes …

Data Mining: Applying Centroid Based Adjustment To Kernel Based Object Tracking For Improving Localization, Rashid Mehmood, Muhammad Usman Ali, Imtiaz A. Taj

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

In recent studies kernel based object tracking (KBOT) using Bhattacharya coefficient as similarity measure is shown to be robust and efficient object tracking technique. Image histogram provides a compact summarization of the distribution of data in an image. Due to computational efficiency; histogram has been successfully applied in KBOT based tracking algorithms. However without spatial or shape information, similar objects of different color may be indistinguishable based solely on histogram comparisons. The application of meanshift algorithm (the core of KBOT) on 1-D low level features of histogram may converge to false local maxima and cause inaccuracy of target localization. In …

Data Mining: Implementation Of Data Mining Engine On Crm-Improve Customer Satisfaction, A. S. Al- Mudimigh, F. Saleem, Z. Ullah, F. N. Al-Aboud

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Analysis on customer relationship is reaching more practical and motivating success factor for the growth of every company, in the same way, discovery of unseen information is also supporting for the successful expansion in an organization. A customer and a company are essential to each other and their good relationship and understanding will take the company on the top as well as the customer to the satisfactory level. In this paper we presented the model of customer relationship management (CRM) to describe the association of a customer with the company and enhanced the model by connection with data mining engine …

Application Of Ict - I: Risp Design Using Tightly Coupled Reconfigurable Fpga Cores, M. Aqeel Iqbal, Uzma Saeed Awan

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Reconfigurable instruction set processors are the next generation processors which can adapt their instruction sets through a reconfiguration process in their hardware according to the demand of the application being under execution on them. In this way the processors adapt the hardware which is the most suitable solution for the running application and hence it accelerates the performance gain. The reconfigurable instruction set processors are programmable processors that contain the reconfigurable logic in one or more of their functional units. Among the most important design parameters are: the granularity of the reconfigurable logic, the structure of the configuration memory, the …

Networks - I: Networks-On-Chip: Challenges, Trends And Mechanisms For Enhancements, Omer Tayan

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

The rate of increase of silicon capacity in integrated circuits (IC) will enable system integration of several billion transistors to reside on a single chip in the near future. Future system-on-chip (SoC) systems must therefore integrate up to several hundreds of cores within a single chip, and SoC designs will employ on-chip communication networks (NoCs) as a result. This paper discusses the problems with many current SoC systems, surveys the challenges and trends facing future SoC designs and proposes a mechanism for enhancing NoC strategies of the future by enhancing memory management and utilization techniques within an NoC.

Artificial Intelligence – I: Robust Audio Steganography Via Genetic Algorithm, Mazdak Zamani, Hamed Taherdoost, Azizah A. Manaf, Rabiah B. Ahmad, Akram M. Zeki

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Steganography is a technique used to transmit hidden information by modifying an audio signal in an imperceptible manner. The transmission must be possible in spite of subsequent imperceptible alterations (attacks) of the modified signal. We propose a novel approach of substitution technique of audio steganography. Using genetic algorithm, message bits are embedded into multiple, vague and higher LSB layers, resulting in increased robustness. The robustness specially would be increased against those intentional attacks which try to reveal the hidden message and also some unintentional attacks like noise addition as well.

Artificial Intelligence – I: Subjective Decision Making Using Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Advisor, Owais Malik

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

In this paper, we present and compare two-stage type-2 fuzzy logic advisor (FLA) for subjective decision making in the domain of students' performance evaluation. We test our proposed model for evaluating students' performance in our computer science and engineering department at HBCC/KFUPM in two domains namely cooperating training and capstone/senior project assessment where we find these FLAs very useful and promising. In our proposed model, the assessment criteria for different components of cooperative training and senior project are transformed into linguistic labels and evaluation information is extracted into the form of IF-THEN rules from the experts. These rules are modeled …

Beyond Bullets: Engaging Audiences With Powerpoint, Keith W. Krieger

SIDLIT Conference Proceedings

PowerPoint’s strength lies in the use of visual content, but everyone has seen their share of bullet points. Your strength as an educator and communicator lies in story-telling. Using 4 simple techniques, you'll move away from bullet points and enliven your presentation for your audience.

Rubber Mirror: Reflections Of The Rubber Division's First 100 Years, Henry J. Inman

University of Akron Press Publications

The Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) was founded to promote the education, professional growth, and betterment of those individuals associated with the rubber and associated industries. 2009 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Rubber Division, ACS. Over those ten decades, the elastomeric profession has undergone innovations, improvements, retooling, and rethinking.

The Rubber Mirror: Reflections of the Rubber Division’s First 100 Years traces the history of the division and details how it became the forum for the many people who ultimately impacted the advances in the rubber industry. Started by twenty-eight rubber chemists in the …

The Importance Of Being Earnest… In Cyberspace, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Community websites are increasingly viewed as treasure troves of opinions, from restaurant service to hotel accommodations, from mobile phone reviews to reliability ratings of an online auctioneer. An underlying factor behind the success of such websites is the implicit trust between users – to offer unbiased, accurate views. Consequently, a trustworthy online community puts users at ease to make decisions and perform transactions confidently. So web administrators would do well to maintain a trusting online community, if only to keep the cash tills a-ringing. But is it possible to measure or monitor something as unquantifiable as inter-user trust?

Plus Ça Change: Innovation And The Spirit Of Enterprise In Tocqueville’S America, Christine Dunn Henderson

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Tocqueville describes the spirit of enterprise—along with the taste for material well-being—as “the distinctive characteristic” of the American people. This paper explores the American spirit of innovation and enterprise, beginning with the centrality of this spirit for America's commercial greatness. Tocqueville observes that the taste for innovation is a part of American national character, and its roots can be traced to the equality of conditions which characterizes democratic life. But the same equality of conditions which promotes the spirit of innovation also can also threaten it, for equality of conditions paradoxically encourages individuals both to rely upon their own judgment …

Technology Adoption: Influence Of Availability And Accessibility, William S. Mcconnell

All Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Farmers are small business leaders using available technology to remain competitive. The availability of technology is dependent on the suppliers' use of the marketing mix 4Ps theory--product, price, placement, and promotion. The purpose of this study was to determine how the relation between availability and accessibility influences the adoption by rural farmers of new technological innovations, specifically internet services. Results indicated availability factors (product, price, placement, and promotion) positively correlated to accessibility factors (perceived usefulness, ease of use, and behavioral intention). The study provides empirical support for an extended technology acceptance model (TAM) that includes availability factors as external variables.

Digital/Social Media As An Audience Marketing Tool To Promote Corporate Events, Corie Rand

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The purpose of this professional paper, a case study, is to determine the benefits of using digital/social media as an additional audience-marketing tool in promoting and increasing registration for business-to-business (B2B) corporate in-person events. This case study researches the state of the B2B publishing/media industry, and the media company, Reed Business Information (RBI) is the focus of this study. This paper will address RBI's business need to invest in additional revenue streams, and the potential of applying researched marketing tools that could help to promote and drive registration for events. The impact of applying digital/social media, as a marketing tool, …

Your Inbox Is Killing Your Productivity, Focus And Time: Getting To An Empty Inbox Everyday, Keith W. Krieger

SIDLIT Conference Proceedings

An inbox often controls people instead of people controlling their inbox. The result is an overloaded inbox, warnings from Information Services, important messages being missed, and a feeling of being weighed down by too much email. By managing an inbox effectively, faculty and staff can become more productive, accomplish more, and be free of the issues caused by an overflowing inbox. Simple techniques useful to email users will be demonstrated.

Double-Stack Container Trains Railway Transport Organization Research, Xuhui Wu

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Are Credit Unions In Ecuador Achieving Economies Of Scale?, Nick A. Marchio

Economics Honors Projects

This study tests the assertion that membership growth in credit unions is constrained by their unique structural features, such as their non-profit mission and member-based ownership. Although these features enhance inclusiveness, existing theory suggest that they work against efficiency when membership grows too diffuse. To address this issue, this study uses a model that takes into account existing theory on constrained-optimization in credit unions and theory on the adverse effects of diffuse ownership. Using data on 36 public credit unions in Ecuador, the empirical analysis finds evidence that credit unions can achieve economies of scale despite their problematic structural features. …

Think Outside Your Box: Enhancing Creativity Through Multicultural Interactions, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Creative ideas are often the result of two or more seemingly non-overlapping concepts. The more we expose ourselves to diverse experiences, the more likely we might be to sample from a richer pool of ideas, thereby facilitating our creativity, and by extension for some, organisational innovation. This is because experience lowers our resistance and increases our readiness to sample foreign concepts. Angela Leung, an assistant professor of psychology at Singapore Management University, notes that while ideas from differing cultural experiences can be recruited as intellectual resources, several factors inhibit our ability to draw on these experiences, thus impeding our creative …

Academics Or Entrepreneurs? Investigating Role Identity Modification Of University Scientists Involved In Commercialization Activity, Sanjay Jain, Gerard George, Mark Maltarich

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Establishing the microfoundations of academic entrepreneurship requires closer scrutiny of a key actor contributing to this phenomenon—the university scientist. We investigate the sense-making that scientists engage in as part of their participation in technology transfer and postulate that this process involves a potential modification in their role identity. We analyzed more than 70 h of interview data at a premier U.S. public research university. We observe that scientists invoke rationales for involvement that are congruent with their academic role identity. They typically adopt a hybrid role identity that comprises a focal academic self and a secondary commercial persona. We delineate …