Development of a Decision Support Framework, based on Critical Success Factors, to obtain and analyze the level of entrepreneurship at the University

When addressing the possible futures for the university, one can ask what the new critical success factors (CSF) are that represent the core of the University of the Future, from a strategic perspective of analysis. Considering the Society 5.0 paradigm, characterized by higher levels of uncertainty, turbulence, and balance between technology and human values, adaptation to the ecosystem becomes an essential competence. Based on the literature, considering the convergence of organizational cybernetics and biomimetics, this theoretical article proposes a set of new CSF for the University of the Future, expanding the analysis of Society 5.0 and the future challenges for universities. Additionally, proposes a maturity model with eleven dimensions and three stages to support this discussion, visioning a future scenario. This foresight approach provides new insights to think over strategic critical success factors for the university to respond to possible and sustainable futures. Reconfiguration, purpose, and digitization are capacities to address the new environment set in this Smart Society. With this analysis, strategic questions are proposed for researchers and practitioners, especially to address global and regional challenges that universities will face, particularly due to the technological gap established between countries.

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An Analysis of Critical Success Factors for a Public Sector Decision Support System

Evaluation Review ◽

10.1177/0193841x8701100104 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 73-83 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Louis A. Le Blanc

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Public Sector ◽

Decision Support System ◽

Support System ◽

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Critical Success ◽

Sector Decision

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Critical Success Factors influencing Web-Based Decision Support Systems in Online Shopping Context

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ◽

10.24297/ijmit.v8i3.1950 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 1364-1371

Author(s):

Mohammed A. I. Ayoub

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Decision Support ◽

Decision Support Systems ◽

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Online Shopping ◽

Support Systems ◽

Quality Data ◽

Web Based ◽

Critical Success

Web-based decision support systems are increasingly used over the past years. However, few studies have been conducted on evaluation of web-based decision support systems especially in the field of online shopping. This paper attempts to explore the critical success factors that influence decision making satisfaction in online shopping context by providing a conceptual model for this purpose. Although there are various factors which contribute in making online shopping decisions but this study focuses on five factors i.e. web site quality, data quality, knowledge management, decision making satisfaction, and perceived net benefit. Also, this research will use existing models that explain and predict information systems success. However, these success models need to be updated to recurrent industry developments since the updating existing IS success models, a better understanding of web-based DSS practitioner success can be achieved.

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Critical success factors for employee suggestion schemes: a literature review

International Journal of Organizational Analysis ◽

10.1108/ijoa-04-2014-0753 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 315-339 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Flevy Lasrado ◽

Mohammed Arif ◽

Aftab Rizvi ◽

Chris Urdzik

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Review Paper ◽

Google Scholar ◽

Content Type ◽

Critical Success ◽

Success Criteria ◽

The University ◽

Key Terms

Purpose Employee suggestion scheme (ESS) have existed for many years and many articles have been published over the past decades. They have been studied from many perspectives to illustrate their objectives, nature, content, process, significance and the benefits. Arguments have also been made with respect to success and failures of the suggestion schemes. Although the corporations widely use the suggestion schemes to elicit the creative ideas of their employees, sustaining a suggestion scheme is still a challenge. The purpose of this paper is to extract the critical success factors and critical success criteria to the suggestion scheme and to discuss the importance of these factors on sustainability of suggestion system. This is a literature review paper. Design/methodology/approach This is a literature review paper. The research used the university library to search for the relevant material. The university has an access for 25,000 journals. As the university had the subscription to main databases such as EBASCO, SCIENCE DIRECT, EMERALD, Google Scholar and WILEY, a search was performed on these databases using the key terms. The keywords used in the searches included: Suggestion System, Suggestion Scheme, Employee Participation, Employee Involvement, Innovation, Employee Creativity and Ideas Management. The Google Scholar citation tab was also searched further to identify any related articles. The citations of resulting articles were scrutinized further for further clues. Findings This paper identifies 23 critical success factors and 9 critical success criteria for suggestion schemes. It also discusses the interconnection between the critical success factors and the critical success criteria. Further, the frequency of each of the factors is also presented. It recognizes the lack of work on the assessment framework for sustainability of a suggestion scheme. Practical implications This paper should be of value to practitioners of suggestion schemes and to academics who are interested in knowing how this program has evolved and where it is today and what future it holds. It offers practical help to an individual starting out on research on the sustainability of suggestion schemes. Originality/value The paper attempts to put together many factors discussed in the literature and proposed a definition to define the sustainability of the suggestion system and categorized them as critical success factors and critical success criteria.

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MEASUREMENT MODEL OF CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN MALAYSIAN UNIVERSITY

Malaysian Journal of Sustainable Environment ◽

10.24191/myse.v5i2.5617 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 55

Author(s):

Alia Abdullah Saleh ◽

Siti Norsazlina Haron ◽

Nur Azfahani Ahmad ◽

Nor Eeda Ali

Keyword(s):

Energy Management ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Measurement Model ◽

Partial Least Square ◽

Least Square ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Critical Success ◽

The University

The increasing number of staff and students in Malaysian universities has led to consume energy excessively. The activities of the university's management to reduce the energy expenditure is critical, where critical success factors (CSFs) are the few issues that must be addressed as well as to ensure the accomplishment of an organisation. Unfortunately, most Malaysian universities are lagging in determining the relationship of identifying CSFs for EM with KPIs towards a sustainable university. Therefore, this research focuses on critical success factors (CSFs) for energy management (EM) towards Malaysian sustainable university. This inquiry is broadened by taking a conceptual measurement model using Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The assessment demonstrates that the construct of CSFs for EM which comprises of ‘Top Management Provision’, ‘Commitment from EM Team’, ‘Planned Maintenance Management’, ‘Consciousness’ and ‘Good Relationship among Stakeholders’ were maintained and some of the indicators relate to this construct were expelled. In conclusion, the findings obtained can assist the decision maker in the university to identify the areas that need improvement in order to increase the performance of EM. This study is very beneficial to all universities, especially universities in Malaysia which practice EM. The existing guidelines also can be improved so as to be more effective and able to be applied to all universities in Malaysia.

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