The purpose of this paper is to investigate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system outcomes in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Most of the former research on ERP outcomes is based on data from large enterprises, and this study examines how the SME context affects the ERP system outcomes and the related evaluation practices. The paper reports findings from a multiple...

Development projects for radical innovations are typically long in duration and, therefore, surrounded by a high level of technological, market, organizational and resource uncertainties. Various techniques have been developed in order to manage the uncertainties due to unpredictable future and to support managers in their strategic decision making during the innovation development process. Typ...

Preparation and negotiation of innovative and future projects can be characterized as a strategic-type decision situation, involving many uncertainties and an unpredictable environment. We will focus in this paper on the bidding process. It includes cooperative and strategic decisions. Our approach for bidding process knowledge capitalization is aimed at information management in project-orient...

In the project portfolio management, the project selection phase presents the greatest interest. In this article, we focus on this important phase by proposing a new method of projects selection consisting of several steps. We propose as a first step, a classification of projects based on the three most important criteria namely the value maximization, risk minimization and strategic alignment....

OBJECTIVES To assess the implementation and evaluation phases of strategic plans in selected hospitals. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study of implementation and evaluation of strategic plan in 24 hospitals in 2015, using a questionnaire which consisted of two separate sections for strategic implementation and strategic evaluation. Data were analyzed with SPSS version 18. RESULTS N...

Managers of large data warehousing projects often put project failure down to organizational resistance. Technical requirements are usually not considered to be crucial for project success. However, the majority of the scientific work on data warehousing concentrates on technical aspects. As a consequence, a comprehensive framework or method for the introduction of a data warehouse is still mis...

In this paper we present general strategies concerning Language Resources (LRs) – Written, Spoken and, recently, Multimodal – as developed within the ENABLER Thematic Network. LRs are a central component of the so-called “linguistic infrastructure” (the other key element being Evaluation), necessary for the development of any Human Language Technology (HLT) application. They play a critical rol...