Critical Success Factors of the University of the Future in a Society 5.0: A Maturity Model

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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The Future of WiMAX

Wireless Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-61350-101-6.ch804 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 2001-2013

Author(s):

Dennis Viehland ◽

Sheenu Chawla

Keyword(s):

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Voice Over Ip ◽

Competitive Market ◽

Potential Solution ◽

Wireless Technologies ◽

On Demand ◽

Critical Success ◽

The Future ◽

Wireless Broadband

WiMAX is being promoted as a potential solution to a number of problems that have plagued the wired and wireless broadband industry since it originated. Can WiMAX fulfill this promise in a crowded and competitive market? If so, what factors are critical to its success? Who will use WiMAX and for what purposes? This chapter identifies both the critical success factors that will give WiMAX an edge over other existing wireless technologies and the key applications that will contribute to its success. The top three critical success factors for WiMAX are availability of handset devices and consumer premise equipment, bandwidth speed, and interoperability and standardization. A panel of WiMAX experts concludes that broadband on demand, wireless services provider access, and Voice over IP are the top three killer applications for WiMAX.

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The Future of WiMAX

Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-042-6.ch020 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 314-326

Author(s):

Dennis Viehland ◽

Sheenu Chawla

Keyword(s):

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Voice Over Ip ◽

Competitive Market ◽

Potential Solution ◽

Wireless Technologies ◽

On Demand ◽

Critical Success ◽

The Future ◽

Wireless Broadband

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The Critical Success Factors in Higher Education

University-Industry Collaboration Strategies in the Digital Era - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3901-9.ch005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 84-108

Author(s):

Tuncer Asunakutlu ◽

Kemal Yuce Kutucuoglu

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Success Factors ◽

Success Factor ◽

Critical Success ◽

Ranking Systems ◽

The Future ◽

The Subject ◽

Education Administrators ◽

The University

This study reviews some of the prominent ranking systems with a view to shed more light on what may constitute a critical success factor in the field of higher education. In the first part, the ranking systems are reviewed and the key principles are explained. A brief description of how institutions use ranking information is also included. In the second part of the study, the subject of internationalization in the context of ranking systems is discussed. The main challenges of competitiveness in higher education and the increasing role of internationalization are expressed. The chapter also describes threats and opportunities for the future of higher education. This section also includes suggestions for higher education administrators. In the third part, the subject of ranking with particular focus on the university-industry collaboration and its effects on the future of higher education are discussed. The role of the industry and the changing mission of the universities in the new era are explained.

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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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Critical success factors of TQM, Six Sigma, Lean and Lean Six Sigma

Benchmarking An International Journal ◽

10.1108/bij-08-2017-0223 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 25 (9) ◽

pp. 3479-3504 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Raja Sreedharan V. ◽

Vijaya Sunder M. ◽

Raju R.

Keyword(s):

Six Sigma ◽

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Lean Six Sigma ◽

Future Research ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Total Quality ◽

Content Type ◽

Critical Success ◽

The Future

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on the critical success factors (CSFs) of various continuous improvement (CI) like total quality management (TQM), Lean, Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma (LSS), and perform a content analysis (CA) leading to an agenda for future research. Design/methodology/approach CA is based on literature review of 41 papers published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. A four-stage methodology is used by the authors, with Stage 1 featuring relevant material collection; Stage 2 presenting a descriptive analysis; Stage 3 outlining the category selection; and Stage 4 featuring the material evaluation using clustering and Pareto analysis. Findings The CA revealed various research implications and directions for the future. The number of studies in the literature regarding CSF assessment is found to be far from substantial while compared to CI implementation. Assessment methodologies developed have been ranging from qualitative to quantitative models. Key gaps were identified and directions for CSF assessment are proposed which requires further validation. Research limitations/implications Only articles that appeared in peer-reviewed journals were analyzed; conference papers, reports, manuals and white papers from practice were excluded. Another limitation of the paper would be the scope of CA limited to four CI constructs – TQM, Lean, Six Sigma and LSS. Research implications indicate that the future studies in this domain would be intensive toward analyzing the vital CSFs for enterprise organizational excellence and not merely process excellence. Practical implications This review study can serve as a resource for both researchers and practitioners to understand the importance of CSFs and positioning CSFs for the successful implementation of CI programs. Originality/value The CA on the existing literature on CSFs for CI presents a unique, systematic effort to identify an agenda for future research. This study is the apparently the first of its kind on CSF assessment.

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