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Digital transformation at Murano Glass: Challenges and new directions
No full textIn 1949, Giovanni Murano decided to build a business from the art of glass manufacturing, leveraging the knowledge and skills available in the universally known cradle of glassmaking art, Venetian Lagoon, Italy. The company specialised in the production of glass bottles. Over the years, the company expanded and set up global footprints, positioning itself as market leader in medical glass products. The expansion into new regions required the use of advanced digital tools that will monitor performance and improve productivity across numerous dispersed manufacturing sites. It was a sweltering day in July 2019, Giuseppe stood next to the air-conditioning system, just 20 m from the overheated production line. It magnified the intensity of output as he explained the innovative ideas he had for the company: ‘Digital technologies are changing our society and working life and we need to use them to change the way Murano Glass operates and competes’. He described the implementation of an application that enabled remote assistance with augmented reality and a peer-assistance platform to connect employees all over the world. It would unite a geographically dispersed team and streamline connectivity. Despite his enthusiasm for the initiative, however, the budget for digital projects had shrunk and management support was lacking. His ideas for digital transformation were not progressing as he had hoped. Giuseppe wondered what was going wrong in Murano Glass’s digital transformation journey
Sistemi locali di sviluppo emodelli di governance. Riflessioni sullo sviluppo dell'innovazione in Regione Campania.
No full textFighting organised crime and mafia-type firms. The role of public administrations
No full textThis book provides an overview of main and updated academic and institutional definitions about crime organisations (macro-level) and mafia-type firms (micro-level), and the different theoretical perspectives through which these organisations and firms can be investigated. It combines studies focused on the economic, legal and social implications, with those based on a managerial perspective. Therefore, it offers insights about organisational characteristics, measurement methods, practices to fight the phenomenon, investigating the role of states and public-sector entities
Il governo delle relazioni di outsourcing dei servizi di Information Technology nelle aziende pubbliche
No full textThe article focuses the attention on the characteristics of outsourcing processes in the public sector, analyzing the dimensions that allow the effective management of these processes in the specific case of Information Technology services. This research investigates a transportation company of the public sector through which structural and relational aspects of IT outsourcing processes are investigate
Measuring the success of business intelligence and analytics systems: A literature review
No full textTechnology-based solutions such as business intelligence and analytics (BI&A) systems have become indispensable for organizations due to their ability to support decision-making. Recent developments in big data availability and more powerful analytical tools have increased the potential value of BI&A systems. However, academic and practitioner-oriented research suggests that the potential success of BI&A systems has not yet been fully realized by most organizations. Existing studies have attempted to evaluate the effectiveness and success of BI&A systems by proposing various success measures. However, these studies have generated inconsistent results, limiting the ability to compare and generalize the findings. Therefore, this study takes a step forward by proposing an updated, comprehensive, and consolidated set of success measures for this unique class of information systems. Using a systematic literature review approach, this study examined and synthesized BI&A systems success measures across 173 past studies using the DeLone & McLean IS success framework. Findings revealed success measures such as ease of use, information accuracy, and financial performance that are consistently applied to the measurement of BI&A systems, and importantly, other recommended measures such as system features, presentation format, and decision-making performance that are uniquely important to BI&A systems but infrequently applied. Finally, a comprehensive set of BI&A success measures is proposed for future empirical research studies and practitioner use
Business model innovation in the banking sector: How digital technologies transform innovation drivers in value mechanisms innovations
No full textBusiness model innovation (BMI) involves innovating firms' value creation, delivery, and capture. This paper categorizes the key drivers of BMI, i.e., crucial factors that trigger BMI and sustain the innovation of firms' value mechanisms, emphasizing how to transform innovation drivers into value mechanisms' innovations thanks to digital technologies. Through the longitudinal study of four banks' BMI, we identified three innovation drivers (i.e., globalization, crisis, and customer expectations), triggering three distinct BMI phases (i.e., "stretching", "streamlining", and "synergizing"). Findings reveal that the transformation of innovation drivers into value mechanisms innovations requires a growing application of digital technologies across the three phases
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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