Managing IT Risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks

2010 ◽  
pp. 115-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali Shalan
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Risk Governance ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Enterprise Networks ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
It Integration ◽  
It Usage ◽  
Special Approach ◽  
It Risk

Information Technology (IT) has proven to be a critical enabler for the formation and operation of Virtual Enterprises (VEs) and a provider of unique business enabling capabilities. Nevertheless, IT integration with VE business model particularities is never a trivial task, thus calling for a special approach to discover and mitigate risks and apply controls related to the continuously growing of IT usage and support in a VE environment. The main objective of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive in depth analysis of risks and issues associated with the IT aspects of Virtual Enterprise Networks (VENs) from technical and procedural point of view and to prescribe specific guidelines to mitigate the effects of the identified and analyzed risks, processes and consequences; In that context, this chapter also aims to promote and suggest an IT risk governance framework that will address the IT risks related to Virtual Enterprises following the recent trend of organic risk management.

A Planning and Scheduling Methodology for the Virtual Enterprise

2011 ◽  
pp. 256-269
Author(s):  
Florent Frederix
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Iteration Process ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Enterprise Networks ◽  
Activity Schedules ◽  
Feasible Schedule ◽  
Planning And Scheduling ◽  
Geographically Dispersed

Virtual enterprises consisting of geographically dispersed, independent units are a reality in the global economy. These units concentrate on core technologies and create partner networks for the design, manufacturing and sale of their products. This chapter documents a methodology, more flexible and efficient than the more traditional techniques, to schedule activities in virtual enterprises and enterprise networks. The presented technique that stepwise searches for improved activity schedules has the advantage that in any stage of the iteration process a resource-feasible schedule is available. Investing in network and computation capacity will result in more efficient schedules. The virtual enterprise unit will view the platform as a time-phased capacity trading marketplace.

scholarly journals A Survey Analysis Of The Resource Selection Models In Agile/Virtual Enterprises

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Pires ◽  
G. Putnik ◽  
P. Ávila
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Resource Selection ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Selection Models

In this work, a survey is made of the analysis of the resource selection process. We approach the process also from the point of view of conventional enterprises but with particular emphasis on the existent models in Agile/Virtual Enterprises in order to identify the main limitations and shortcomings of the process. This analysis was focused in the global process of the resource selection, namely in terms of the pre-selection and selection phases, requisites, mathematical models, tools and other relevant areas in the existent models. It is concluded that the resource pre-selection is an area that is not adequately explored in a systematic way. The value concept is not incorporated in the selection process. As a result, a reasoned analysis is not performed of the decision-making process for creating an Agile/Virtual Enterprise. These conclusions were made to envision a future approach that allows the incorporation of new areas that contribute to the improvement of the resource selection process.

Design Competence Development in an Academic Virtual Enterprise

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imre Horva´th
Keyword(s):  
Technical Writing ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Spatial Vision ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Holistic Design ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Product Realization

Development of competence has been one of the major issues and goals of modern academic design and engineering education. Nevertheless, our literature study revealed that we are still far from a common interpretation of design competence. There are different views on it which we called reductionist and holistic. In the reductionist view, design competence is considered to be not else than a set of low level competencies such as drawing skills, spatial vision, specialized knowledge, intuitiveness and creativity, verbal communication, and technical writing, which have been typically addressed disjointedly. In the holistic view, design competence is a synergetic construct of some generic capacities. We followed this latter view in our work. We studied the implementation opportunities and manifestation of holistic design competence at the development and conduct of our recent European Global Product Realization course. Based on our past experiences and the information from the literature, we assumed that holistic design competence is a construct of five generic capacities: capabilities, attitude, knowledge, skills, and experiences, and can be efficiently developed by concurrently focusing on each of these, respectively. The professional content and didactic approach of the course were designed accordingly. An academic virtual enterprise was formed with the involvement of an industrial company and universities of five countries. The course included two instructional streams, which have been called professional navigation and industrial project. This paper presents our interpretation of holistic design competence, the didactic aspects of developing the underpinning generic capacities, and their manifestation in the European Global Product Realization course. A qualitative research has been completed with the involvement of 46 students to make out how our approach contributed to the development of the elementary design competencies. The conclusion has been that our approach equally well supports the development of both the holistic design competence and the elementary design competencies that are needed by product designers to be able to successfully operate in geographically dispersed virtual enterprises. The students’ opinion has been that the course was challenging but rewarding from the point of view of their future carrier as product designers.

Mitigating Risk through Building Trust in Virtual Enterprise Networks

2010 ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Burak Sari
Keyword(s):  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Enterprise Networks ◽  
Virtual Collaboration ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Organization ◽  
And Performance

The emergence of virtual enterprise networks represents a dynamic response to the challenge of the hierarchical coordination of networked businesses. Therefore, the chapter’s first aim is to provide justified answers to the question of why the virtual enterprise business model is getting so much attention and correlate these answers with the main business drivers that today’s enterprises are facing. In virtual enterprises, the distributed tasks of the partners must be integrated over and above the barriers of missing face-to-face interactions and cultural differences. The social integration of the virtual network involves the creation of identities for the participating nodes, the building of trust and the sharing of tacit and explicit knowledge between them. The traditional organization already doing well in these areas seems to have an edge when going virtual. As a consequence, trust becomes more and more important in these types of virtual collaboration networks. Therefore, this chapter finally aims to discuss extensively the way of managing trust in virtual enterprise networks as a solution to mitigate collaboration and performance risk in varying business situations and also aims to present conditions for building trust in the virtual collaboration context.

Virtual enterprise networks: the fifth element of corporate governance

2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Nicholas C. Georgantzas
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Transaction Cost ◽  
Transaction Cost Economics ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Dynamics Simulation ◽  
Enterprise Networks ◽  
Market Uncertainty ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Exchange Governance

Although still flying low under the popular business media's collective radar, virtual enterprise networks (or nets) do receive increased attention in the strategic management literature. A virtual enterprise network (VEN) is a system of autonomous firms that collaborate to achieve common business objectives. VENs give participants a competitive edge in markets demanding agility and rapid response. Seen as an emerging transactional exchange governance (TEG) form within transaction cost economics (TCE), VENs and the relations among firms that form them posit challenges for researchers and managers. VENs differ substantially from markets and hierarchies, and from recurrent and relational contracts, utterly changing what it means to be a firm in today's business. This essay explores alternative TEG forms, their characteristics and the criteria that bear on the choice of corporate governance: flexible specialization, market uncertainty, product (good or service) complexity, reliance on trust, risk, self-organization, shared knowledge, and socio-territorial cohesiveness. The essay offers propositions on the relations among economic criteria and the choice of transactional exchange governance forms by exploring the dynamics of a generic TEG structure. This is a system dynamics simulation model that partially offsets the shortcomings of transaction cost economics (TCE) and points to the potentially rich contribution of system dynamics to exploring VENs beyond the ideal-type TEG forms of markets and hierarchies that dominate the TCE literature.

scholarly journals Assessment of Poverty by Municipalities in the Context of Population Ageing—The Case of Małopolskie Voivodeship

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2563
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Ćwiek ◽  
Katarzyna Maj-Waśniowska ◽  
Katarzyna Stabryła-Chudzio
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Social Challenge ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Variables ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
Research Gap

This article undertakes the research problem of the assessment of the significance of poverty as a social challenge for local self-government units, and the differences in the assessment of the incidence of this phenomenon depending on the type of municipality. The authors also analyse the relationships between the ageing of the population and the assessment of the extent of poverty by municipalities. It must be pointed out that the undertaken problem has not been a subject of in-depth analysis thus far. Hence, this article fills the identified research gap in this field. The empirical part is based on the results of our own research, conducted using the Computer-Assisted Web Interview (CAWI) method on a sample of 144 municipalities of the Małopolskie Voivodship (Poland). In order to verify whether there is a relationship between the researched qualitative variables, the chi-square test of independence was used. In order to determine the relationships occurring between the categories of variables characterising the scale of the incidence of poverty and the remaining variables, a correspondence analysis was conducted. The research enabled us to find the issue of poverty to be one of the most important social problems from the point of view of municipalities. It is also worth noting that the degree of ageing in the population has an impact on the assessment of poverty among the elderly.

scholarly journals Theoretical perspectives upon the return to work of cancer patients: The difficult path of integration in the organization

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radu-Ioan Popa
Keyword(s):  
Return To Work ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Returning To Work

Abstract The present article follows an in-depth analysis of several relevant articles and major findings concerning the return to work of cancer patients, in various situations, from a manager and patient point of view, putting into discussion the effects and consequences of different factors that may influence the well-being of the patient at work and impact the organizational life. The concepts of returning to work and integration are scarcely analysed throughout the scholarly literature in the case of employees diagnosed with cancer, due to several reasons presented in the paper: from the complex topic of investigation that many studies fail to approach in terms of confidentiality, technical, ethical and moral grounds to the specific and difficult apparatus for research in the case of an even more complex, multiple instances and personalized manifestation long-term illness. In conclusion, the general framework solicits for a more integrated model of research and future multi-facet schemes for interventions, considering that there is a general consensus focusing on the need for connecting the health services with the employee and employer level, alongside stakeholders’ active participation.

scholarly journals La evolución del sector público español en el periodo 1960-2000

2011 ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Estela Sáenz Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Statistical Properties ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Graphic Display ◽  
The Public ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Depth Analysis

En este artículo se ofrece un análisis detallado de la evolución del sector público español desde la vertiente del gasto. En primer lugar, se presenta una breve reflexión acerca de la medición del tamaño del sector público. A continuación, se realiza una descripción histórica y gráfica de las series de gasto escogidas en el periodo 1960-2000. Las mismas nos revelan el importante cambio estructural experimentado por el sector público español en un periodo de tiempo relativamente corto. Finalizamos el estudio con un análisis de las propiedades estadísticas de estas variables.This article offers an in-depth analysis of the evolution of the Spanish public sector from the point of view of expenditure. First, there is a brief reflection on measuring the size of the public sector.This is followed by a description of the history and graphic display of the spending series chosen during the period 1960-2000. These show us the important structural change experienced by the Spanish public sector within a relatively short period of time. The study is completed with an analysis of the statistical properties of these variables.

scholarly journals PHOTOGRAMMETRY AS A PARTICIPATORY RECOVERY TOOL AFTER DISASTERS: A GROUNDED FRAMEWORK FOR FUTURE GUIDELINES

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W15 ◽  
pp. 921-928
Author(s):  
C. Pezzica ◽  
A. Piemonte ◽  
C. Bleil de Souza ◽  
V. Cutini
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Humanitarian Response ◽  
Central Italy Earthquake ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Crowdsourced Data ◽  
Fit For Purpose

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> This paper identifies the application domain, context of use, processes and goals of low-cost street-level photogrammetry after urban disasters. The proposal seeks a synergy between top-down and bottom-up initiatives carried out by different actors during the humanitarian response phase in data scarce contexts. By focusing on the self-organisation capacities of local people, this paper suggests using collaborative photogrammetry to empower communities hit by disasters and foster their active participation in recovery and reconstruction planning. It shows that this task may prove technically challenging depending on the specifics of the collected imagery and develops a grounded framework to produce user-centred image acquisition guidelines and fit-for-purpose photogrammetric reconstruction workflows, useful in future post-disaster scenarios. To this end, it presents an in-depth analysis of a collaborative photographic mapping initiative undergone by a group of citizen-scientists after the 2016 Central Italy earthquake, followed by the explorative processing of some sample datasets. Specifically, the paper firstly presents a visual ethnographic study of the photographic material uploaded by participants from September 2016 to November 2018 in the two Italian municipalities of Arquata del Tronto and Norcia. Secondly, it illustrates from a technical point of view issues concerning the processing of crowdsourced data (e.g. image filtering, selection, quality, semantic content and 3D model scaling) and discusses the viability of using it to enrich the pool of geo-information available to stakeholders and decision-makers. Final considerations are discussed as part of a grounded framework for future guidelines tailored to multiple goals and data processing scenarios.</p>

Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Coal Properties in Terms of Gasification

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 677-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolanta Marciniak-Kowalska ◽  
Tomasz Niedoba ◽  
Agnieszka Surowiak ◽  
Tadeusz Tumidajski
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Coal Gasification ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Gasification Process ◽  
Multi Criteria Evaluation ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Coal Properties ◽  
Induced Changes ◽  
Dimensional Surface

Abstract This paper presents a comparative analysis of two types of coal taken from the ZG Janina and ZG Wieczorek coalmines. The aim of this study has been to analyze the suitability of the coal in the context of the gasification process. The types of coal vary considerably in terms of their characteristics. Each of them was subjected to treatment in a ten-ringed annular jig. A particle size of 0-18 mm constituted the feed. The separated coal was divided into five layers, each of them containing material from two additional annular jigs. Analysis of their characteristics was carried out for each of the five layers and for both types of coal obtained, taking into account both their physicochemical properties as well as chemical ones. Each of these characteristics was then presented in three-dimensional surface diagrams, where the ordinate (or Y-axis) and abscissa (X-axis) was the particle size and height in which the material ended up in the jig (expressed as a percentage of the total height of the device). On the basis of observations, it was found that the types of coal have different potential for gasification, although both types are within the limits specified on the basis of previous studies. A correlation analysis between particle size and remaining characteristics of coal was carried out for each of the layers, allowing to determine which of the studied characteristics induced changes significant from the point of view of the coal gasification process. The entire research and observation was supported by conclusions and findings, which shall form the basis for further, in-depth analysis of coal.

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