Managing knowledge within firms is becoming increasingly important as they expand their global presence. Professional service firms have been on the leading edge of the use of information technology (IT) in the past, and they have experimented with how to manage knowledge for years. This article describes the knowledge management practices of the Far East Asia office of a global professional se...

Many researches in managing global transactions in multidatabase systems(MDBS) have been proposed to solve problems of ensuring the global serializability. In these method, a few opportunities are provided to the global transaction to execute concurrently. We concentrate our attention on 1) maintaining consistent database state that is defined by global integrity constraints and 2) investigatio...

The authors of “Management matters: a leverage point for health systems strengthening in global health,” raise a crucial issue. Because more effective management can contribute to better performing health systems, attempts to strengthen health systems require attention to management. As a guide toward management capacity building, the authors outline a comprehensive set of core management compe...

Although global new product teams offer several opportunities, they are hard to manage and present some serious challenges. The objective of this paper is to suggest a theoretical viewpoint focusing on the management issues related to global new product teams. Specifically, the concept of shared mental model and its scope is discussed. The extended scope of shared mental models constitutes a va...

Software development is a complex, knowledgeintensive, and innovative process that frequently takes place in an extremely competitive and highly uncertain environment. For a long time, software developers have used traditional-structured approaches that are more disciplined and focus on coordinated actions to ensure the software goals are met. Recently, this traditional way of software developm...

Although GVTs can bring about many benefits for organisations, the potential advantages of using GVTs largely depend upon fulfilling the requirements prescribed by the critical success factors (CSFs) of implementing GVTs such as resolving the multiculturalism issues. Likewise, it is acknowledged that management aspects of implementing GVTs present one of the most complicated tasks in deploying ...

Atrial fibrillation is a common, global problem, with great personal, economic and social burdens. As populations age it increases in prevalence and becomes another condition that requires careful chronic management to ensure its effects are minimised. Assessment of the risk of stroke using well established risk prediction models is being aided by modern computerised databases and the choice of...

As businesses reconfigure their value chains and scale up their global expansions, they have to cope with a myriad of complex IT management challenges. This research examines how enterprises realign their global IT strategies for scale, speed, and innovation. Anchored in the IT governance literature, we seek to unravel the required governance structures and processes in balancing the inherent g...

The cost versus response trade-off is a growing logistics issue due to many markets being increasingly characterized by demand uncertainty and shorter product life cycles. This is exacerbated further with supply increasingly moving to low cost global sources. However, the poor response implications of global supply are often not addressed or even acknowledged when undertaking such decisions. Co...