Electronic Procurement

2012 ◽  
pp. 213-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Andrade ◽  
Bráulio Alturas ◽  
Tiago Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Business Partner ◽  
Indirect Benefits ◽  
Electronic Procurement ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Expected Benefits

E-procurement systems make purchasing activities more effective in terms of both time and cost. However, over the past years there is evidence that some of the expected benefits have not been achieved. Among several causes, supplier’s low adherence to such platforms has been regarded as one. The focus of this work is in supplier adoption of e-Procurement. It will help to better address the issues actually faced by suppliers within e-Procurement. The authors have conducted a questionnaire-based survey to 721 Portuguese companies and performed an empirical analysis of the data. The findings from this work provide evidence that the supplier perceived indirect benefits and business partner pressures are most important to e-Procurement adoption while barriers have a negative impact on their adoption. The main critical success factors on e-Procurement adoption are also presented.

scholarly journals Lifelines engineering

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-200
Author(s):  
David R. Brunsdon
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Earthquake Engineering ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Success

Significant developments have occurred in the field of lifelines engineering over the past decade both in New Zealand and internationally. In New Zealand, this period encompassed both the beginnings of lifelines engineering and its development into being an established discipline of earthquake engineering. This paper charts the progress of lifelines engineering during this time, outlines the key achievements and critical success factors and discusses current needs and future developments.

scholarly journals Understanding Practices and Critical Success Factors of FDA Human Factors Validation Projects – Preliminary Findings

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katia M. Rojas ◽  
Leon Cosler ◽  
Daryl L. Santos
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Key Stakeholders

Since the FDA published guidance on the application of human factors engineering to medical devices and combination products, the concerns about the quality and success of human factors validation projects have put a strain on key stakeholders. Failed HF validation submissions can have serious negative impact not only on manufacturers and HF service providers, but also on the regulatory system and patients. Previously, we remarked on the need for alignment between key stakeholders, and strategies that increase the quality and success of HF validation projects. Leveraging the application of project management was recommended for that purpose. However, there is currently no research about characteristics, practices and critical success factors of these projects. An online survey instrument was developed tailored to this specific context to inform the development of an industry-focused project management maturity assessment tool (which will be Phase II of this research). In this opportunity, the high-level, preliminary findings are presented and briefly discussed. This effort contributes much needed literature regarding the current practices and factors that influence the quality and success of FDA HF validation projects.

In Search of Successful Mobile Advertising

2010 ◽  
pp. 279-392
Author(s):  
Stuart J. Barnes ◽  
Eusebio Scornavacca ◽  
Jonathon McKenzie ◽  
Amy Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mobile Advertising ◽  
Consumer Decision ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Business Perspective ◽  
Consumer Perspectives

The deployment of SMS-based marketing campaigns has been noted as a very successful mean of reaching consumers. With this mind, this chapter reports on three different studies that we have conducted aimed at better understanding what makes SMS marketing campaigns successful. The studies were conducted in the past four years and they explore business as well as consumer perspectives: (i) a consumer scenario perspective, which examines the importance of three factors in SMS advertising acceptance; (ii) a consumer decision perspective, which analyses the opt-in decision for an SMS campaign; and (iii) a business, perspective examining managers’ perceptions of the critical success factors in advertising campaigns. The paper rounds off with conclusions and recommendation for future research and practice in the area of mobile advertising.

scholarly journals Social Impact Bonds and Institutional Investors: An Empirical Analysis of a Complicated Relationship

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Del Giudice ◽  
Milena Migliavacca
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Agency Problems ◽  
Private Capital ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Social Impact Bonds

Over the past 8 years, social impact bonds (SIBs) have attracted increasing attention from scholars, policy makers, and investors. Notwithstanding good intentions and policy makers’ enthusiasm, SIBs have failed to attract significant private capital. Considering the SIBs issued worldwide until December 2017, we look for the critical success factors of SIB funding by investigating both the financial and contractual characteristics of SIB contracts. We find that institutional investors are more likely to participate in an SIB funding when there are fewer agency problems.

Critical success factors for the digitalization of smart cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86
Author(s):  
Balasubramaniam Krishnan ◽  
Seetharaman Arumugam ◽  
KoilaKuntla Maddulety
Keyword(s):  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Digital Integration ◽  
Inadequate Knowledge ◽  
Quality Of Living ◽  
The City

In the ‘industry 4.0’ era, the phenomenon of digitalization of smart cities has gained increasing prominence, as it has the potential to address the problem of resource optimization and the pressure of demand of the growing urban population. In the past, smart city initiatives may not have created desired impacts as these initiatives were limited in scope, focusing on physical digital integration of the underlying systems of cities and of their citizens. This article examines the success factors that affect the digitalization of smart cities based on secondary research. To achieve smart cities’ core objectives of increasing quality of living, providing efficient and optimal services, thereby making the functioning of the city smart through digitalization, it is essential to look at these critical success factors, namely, sustainability, ecosystems and digital citizen. The article points out important elements such as lack of governance of sustainability, methods and processes to enhance participation of digital citizens and inadequate knowledge about structures and value creation through ecosystems that would need to be addressed while digitalizing smart cities. Given the required policy attention and focus, these factors would be expected to make smart cities sustainable, improve the quality of life of citizens and create new economic opportunities, while digitalizing them.

Critical Success Factors in Lean Implementation – A Maltese Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-103
Author(s):  
Michael Saliba
Keyword(s):  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
High Failure Rate ◽  
Lean Implementation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Systematic Methodology ◽  
Rate Research ◽  
Research Endeavour

For the past 30 years, Lean has become popular throughout organisations across the globe. Based on the Toyota Production System (TPS), Lean is a proven systematic methodology to reduce waste in processes, optimise efficiency and ensure quality in the end products. Although Lean has been proven to be a successful methodology, it also has a high failure rate. Research has identified a range of critical success factors (CSF) that are crucial towards the successful implementation of Lean. This research endeavour takes a qualitative approach, using Grounded Theory (GT) to investigate Lean implementation in Maltese organisations and to determine whether established CSFs are applicable to the Maltese context. Participants from the manufacturing, catering, and logistics industries are interviewed, with the data coded and analysed using MAXQDA2020. The findings suggest the importance of leadership as a catalyst in driving change within an organisation to foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Co-Creation Among Small Scale Tourism Firm

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Sudhanshu Joshi ◽  
Manu Sharma ◽  
Satinder Kumar ◽  
Manoj Kumar Pant
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Functional Linkage ◽  
Income Generating Activities

ICT enabled tourism brings planners and actors into a common platform. Uttarakhand falls under the L4 (above average) category as per an e-readiness report and subsequently within the span of 5 years, it has climbed to level L3 after the infusion of web-based technologies. Tourism Firm's innovation is primarily based on following criteria: coexistence with existing competitors, cross-value chain income generating activities (IGA) along tourism, new products/processes developed in the past 2 years. An intensive literature review has been done, out of which three critical success factors were identified: (a) Internet usage; (b) firm's innovation and competitiveness; (c) income generating activities (IGA) by the firm. Together, these critical success factors (CSFs) express high cumulative variance. The study identifies co-innovation strategies among supply chain actors at the micro and small levels, which is based on cross-functional linkage between allied industries, and on internet use and IGAs. Validation has been done using an explorative study.

Market of Resources

2011 ◽  
pp. 346-371
Author(s):  
Maria Manuela Cunha ◽  
Goran D. Putnik
Keyword(s):  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Enterprise Models ◽  
Expected Benefits ◽  
The One ◽  
Similar Solutions

Electronic Marketplaces (e marketplaces) appear to be a promising solution to B2B e-commerce, however its role, as well as the role of other solutions we have identified that can be used to help or to partially support A/VE integration, must go beyond helping to identify suppliers, improving the efficiency of purchasing transactions, etc., as also confirmed by several credible analysts and information technology research sources. Simultaneously, and considering the perspective of the recent virtual enterprise models, we could not see any other environment to cope with its requirements than the integrated environments as the one we are proposing: a Market of Resources or similar solutions. In this chapter we analyze the context in which the Market of Resources appears, identifying favorable existing conditions and reviewing forecasts by credible analysts and consultancy houses, present a SWOT1 analysis, present some critical success factors associated with the exploitation of the Market of Resources, identify the targeted users, and finally explore some potential opportunities and expected benefits. This chapter also identifies the opportunities for the Market of Resources, presenting the e-marketplaces’ evolution, the failure of the first generation of e-marketplaces and presenting some research forecasts for B2B Internet-based transactions. In addition, it highlights the main strengths and weaknesses of the Market of Resources’ ability to support the A/VE model requirements and the main opportunities and threats associated to its exploitation, using a SWOT analysis. This chapter presents the set of critical success factors for the Market of Resources, their definition or explanation and the competitive advantage that each critical success factor confers. It identifies the target users of the Market of Resources and reflects on the opportunities and expected benefits presented by the creation of the Market of Resources to its targeted users and to the implementation of the A/VE organisational model. Finally, it presents some conclusions and future trends.

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