Measurement of Smart Technology Capability for Manufacturing Fields in a Smart Technology Environment

Palm oil industry in Indonesia has been growing rapidly. But, unfortunately the growth is only effective on upstream industry with low value products, such that potential downstream value added are not explored proportionally. The government is therefore in the process of developing an appropriate policy to strengthen the national palm oil downstream industry. This paper proposes that an approriate policy for developing palm oil downstream industry could be derived from the maps of value chain and existing technology capability of the industry. The result recommends that government policy should emphasize on the supply of raw materials, infrastructure and utilities, as well as developing the missing value chain industry, especially ethoxylation and sulfonation.

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Smart technology-assisted Home Nursing Care Program for Persons with Dementia or Hip Fracture: Implementation Difficulties: Thematic Analysis (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.26338 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yea-Ing Shyu ◽

Chung-Chih Lin ◽

Ching-Tzu Yang ◽

Pei-Ling Su ◽

Jung-Ling Hsu

Keyword(s):

Hip Fracture ◽

Family Caregivers ◽

Nursing Care ◽

Care Program ◽

Wearable Devices ◽

Elderly Persons ◽

Home Nursing ◽

Smart Technology ◽

Smart Clothing ◽

Home Nursing Care

BACKGROUND Wearable devices have been developed and implemented to improve data collection in remote health care and smart care. Wearable devices have the advantage of always being with individuals, enabling easy detection of their movements. In this study, we developed and implemented a smart-care system using smart clothing for persons with dementia and with hip fracture. We conducted a preliminary study to understand family caregivers’ and care receivers’ experiences of receiving a smart technology-assisted (STA) home-nursing care program. OBJECTIVE This paper reports the difficulties we encountered and strategies we developed during the feasibility phase of studies on the effectiveness of our STA home-nursing care program for persons with dementia and hip fracture. METHODS Our care model, a STA home-nursing care program for persons with dementia and those with hip fracture included a remote-monitoring system for elderly persons wearing smart clothing was used to facilitate family caregivers’ detection of elderly persons’ movements. These movements included getting up at night, staying in the bathroom for more than 30 minutes, not moving more than 2 hours during the day, leaving the house, and daily activities. Participants included 13 families with 5 patients with hip fracture and 7 with dementia. Research nurses documented the difficulties they encountered during the process. RESULTS Difficulties encountered in this smart-care study were categorized into problems setting up the smart-care environment, problems running the system, and problems with participant acceptance/adherence. These difficulties caused participants to drop out, the system to not function or delayed function, inability to collect data, extra costs of manpower, and financial burden. Strategies to deal with these problems are also reported. CONCLUSIONS During the implementation of smart care at home for persons with dementia or hip fracture, different aspects of difficulties were found and strategies were taken. The findings of this study can provide a reference for future implementation of similar smart-home devices.

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Information Technology Capability, Management Forecast Accuracy, and Analyst Forecast Revisions

Accounting Horizons ◽

10.2308/acch-52113 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 49-70 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Feiqi Huang ◽

He Li ◽

Tawei Wang

Keyword(s):

Forecast Accuracy ◽

Analyst Forecast ◽

Management Forecasts ◽

Forecast Revisions ◽

It Capability ◽

Management Forecast ◽

Prior Literature ◽

Technology Capability ◽

Information Technology Capability ◽

The Relationship

SYNOPSISPrior literature has firmly established the relationship between IT capability and firm performance. In this paper, we extend the research in this field and investigate (1) whether IT capability contributes to management forecast accuracy, and (2) whether IT capability improves the informativeness of management forecasts and enhances the extent to which analysts incorporate management forecasts in their revisions. Using firms listed on InformationWeek 500 as our high IT capability group, we empirically demonstrate that firms with high IT capability are able to increase management forecast accuracy, and that analysts incorporate more information from management forecasts in their revisions if the firm has high IT capability.

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Smart Farming Precision Agriculture Project Success based on Information Technology Capability

2020 8th International Conference on Cyber and IT Service Management (CITSM) ◽

10.1109/citsm50537.2020.9268807 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Dwi Yuniarto ◽

Dody Herdiana ◽

Dani Indra Junaedi

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Precision Agriculture ◽

Project Success ◽

Smart Farming ◽

Technology Capability ◽

Information Technology Capability

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Toward A Business Resilience Framework for Startups

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13063132 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 3132

Author(s):

Leo Aldianto ◽

Grisna Anggadwita ◽

Anggraeni Permatasari ◽

Isti Raafaldini Mirzanti ◽

Ian O. Williamson

Keyword(s):

Innovation Process ◽

Dynamic Capability ◽

Case Study Approach ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Study Approach ◽

Continuous Innovation ◽

Technology Capability ◽

Resilience Framework ◽

Business Resilience

Covid-19 has had a significant impact on the disruption of the global economic sector, including for startup businesses. This encourages entrepreneurs to carry out a continuous innovation process to become more ambidextrous and continue to innovate in an effort to futureproof their business. The paper aims to provide a business resilience framework by exploring capability (innovation ambidexterity, dynamic capability, and technology capability), behavior (agile leadership), and knowledge (knowledge stock) in startup businesses. This study uses a literature review synthesis to gain a greater understanding of startup resilience and its implementation. This study also uses a case study approach in building a framework by obtaining data from semi-structured interviews with three startups owners in Indonesia. This preliminary research has identified four propositions that will be used to develop questionnaires and data collection instruments. Thus, this study provides new insights on how startups can overcome contradictory pressures for business resilience in anticipating, dealing with, and emerging from business turbulence due to the Covid-19 pandemic by considering the factors proposed in this study. The implications and recommendations of this study are also discussed in detail.

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