Recent work in the field of management has focused on 'dynamic capability', the ability of a firm to develop new capabilities in response to shifts in its external environment, as a significant source of competitive advantage. "This paper enhances our understanding of dynamic technical capability. While most established firms have difficulty adapting when confronted with radical, competence-des...

In today’s networked service economy, it becomes essential for service firms to continuously innovate their service offering to remain competitive in constantly changing market conditions. Many successful firms collaborate with external partners and utilize contemporary information technology (IT) support to integrate dispersed service innovation capacity and knowledge. In this paper, we develo...

This paper describes dynamic and spatial reasoning enhancements to the Graph-Based Interface Language tool (GRBIL), which creates ACT-R models by demonstration. A new ability for users to create monitors enables procedures to be dynamically triggered. A new integration of ACT-R with a diagrammatic reasoning theory allows ACT-R to perform spatial reasoning. Capabilities of the tool are demonstra...

This research examines the strategic impact of enterprise systems (ES) from a dynamic capability perspective. This perspective, which evolves from the resource-based view of the firm, suggests that performance differences among firms in an industry is related to a firm’s capability in creatively configuring, coordinating, integrating, and transforming firm resources. ES is considered a valuable...

The move towards Network Enabled Capability (NEC) by the UK Ministry of Defence is designed to achieve enhanced military effect through the networking and coherent integration of existing and future resources including sensors, weapon systems, and decision makers to achieve a more flexible and responsive military. This paper addresses the existing reliability and sustainability issues of large-...

The maturing of e-commerce, the diffusion of call centres into the B2B space and purchaser demands on price and service are leading to rapid change in the route to market in many B2B sectors, with shifting combinations of channels being offered to the customer in the search for advantage. In this situation managers can no longer rely on the channel resources that they have assembled to provide ...

The ability to consistently improve current processes and learn new ones is termed continuous improvement capability. A framework model is presented as based on the findings of a case study of process improvement within a firm. The results show that the key tacit elements are mediated by behavioural factors.

Problem statement: The study has mainly been created to present a study on the significance of dynamic capability thereby stressing on the factors that can be dealt with in organizations through the use of dynamic capabilities. Approach: The literature review illustrates the effects of dynamic capabilities on managerial decisions and resource allocation. Results: The study reveals that the use ...

portable information appliances, the extraordinary power consumption ratio of memory accesses promotes importance of efficient memory system design to an ultimate. We address the following issues: how to minimize memory bandwidth requirement for instruction accesses, and how to minimize memory access delay, again for instruction accesses. Then we propose to move dynamic branch handler (e.g., br...

The resource-based view of the firm argues the essence of decision making is to determine how firm and supply chain resources can be configured to achieve inimitable advantage and superior performance. However, combining resources found among diverse members of a supply chain requires higher levels of coordination than exist at most companies. Manifest cross-functional and interorganizational c...