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Legacy System Management
No full textDispensa didattica, pubblicata da SEU Edizione Servizio Editoriale Universitario, Pisa 200
SOCIAL EVOLUTION OF ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS: A FIRST INTERPRETIVE FRAMEWORK FOR BENEFITS AND RISKS
No full textWhat are Enterprise Information Systems going to be in the next five
years? How are employees, customers, partners and suppliers going to interact within and throughout the company borders in the next future? Social software irruption in the EIS world is already a reality for CRM, SALES and HR modules, so can EIS really become “socio-professional” systems? Which is the value of embedding social functionalities into EIS systems? Which are the potential benefits and risks? These are just few of the numerous questions this research would like to answer about the changes that social software is leading to the business environment and information systems. In this perspective, this working paper suggests a first interpretive framework in order to assess a systematic in-depth investigation
Exploring the Exploratory Search. A Structural Equation Modeling Test for Practices and Performance
No full textIdentifying, developing and commercialising innovations through traditional approaches are often ineffective or inefficient when discontinuous
conditions occur. New or additional capabilities and practices are desirable for
organisations under such complex conditions.
Based on a comprehensive literature review about search practices and
drawing on the empirical background of a survey to 500 Italian mediumand
high-tech companies (by the Discontinuous Innovation Lab), the relations
between search practices, exploration activities and firm performance are tested
by structural equation modelling. Evidences shows that higher levels of search
practices lead to higher levels of exploration activities and this, in its turn, can
affect firm innovation performance
Antecedents and Performance for Organizational Ambidexterity: an Integrated Model and empirical test
No full textThis paper analyses organizational ambidexterity (OA) – as defined in terms of exploration and exploitation attainments of knowledge and innovation - its antecedents in terms of organizational context and its consequences in terms of firm performance. It is the first attempt to test an OA model, which combines contextual and realized views of ambidexterity. Findings, based on a 112 response survey, provide empirical evidence of the hypothesis and confirm the positive influence on OA from the organizational context and its role as moderator in relation with firm performance. The paper is also a contribution to the `measure problem` for the OA construct
Miglioramento continuo: tutte le strade sono uguali? Analisi dei percorsi evolutivi in 430 imprese
No full textHow firms deal with radical innovation under discontinuity: search practices, innovation context and performance
No full textManagement literature has highlighted that under discontinuous conditions incumbents have encountered serious obstacles in identifying, develop and commercialize innovations as traditional and validated 'good' approaches are not adequate, or even counterproductive. It is, therefore, necessary to identify and deploy practices that organisations could apply for enhancing their capacity to manage innovation under such complex environmental conditions.
Based on a comprehensive literature review on search practices and on the empirical background of the Discontinuous Innovation Lab - a research network covering around 180 firms in 12 countries - a questionnaire has been submittedto a 500 high tech Italian firm sample. This article analyses in detail the relations between search practices, innovation context (in terms of culture, organizational context) and performance and proposes an interpretative framework
Assessing Needs and Opportunities of a Risk Management Approach to ERP Projects
No full textEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are extremely complex information systems, whose implementation is often unsuccessful. In recent years these systems have received much attention both from academic literature and practitioners, so that various methods were proposed to try improving success rate of ERP introduction or implementation efficiency. However, ERP projects still continue to be considered complex and risky to implement in business enterprises. A possible explanation for high ERP project failure rate is that managers do not take prudent measures to assess and manage risks involved in these projects (Wei et al., 2005). In literature few authors promoted a structured risk management approaches in facing this kind of projects, but dealing with risk management for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) introduction projects is a difficult task, so that an effective and efficient risk management methodology is still a wish. The scope of the present work is to discuss the main challenges, opportunities and shortcomings related to the development of a risk management methodology for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects. In this aim, the structure of the paper is the following one: • Introduction-It presents a general description of the ERP systems, risk management perspective, its peculiarities in ERP introduction projects and specifies main objectives of the work • ERP risk management framework-It reports the authors' perspective on the issues, introducing and discussing around an ERP Risk Management Framework driving the next stages of the review. • ERP risk management review-It reports the review results comparing specific methodological works on ERP risk management. The identified contributions are described and analyzed according to the previous presented risk management framework. • Discussion-The paragraph discusses main evidence from the critical review of the literature, analyzing main gaps and shortcomings in the field and suggesting future directions. • Conclusion-It resumes the discussions about the overall coverage of the topic, utility for managers and researchers and main open issues
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