The generality and causes of Bergmann’s rule have been debated vigorously in the last few years, but Bergmann’s clines are rarely explained in the context of life-history theory. We used both traditional and phylogenetic comparative analyses to explore the causes of latitudinal and thermal clines in the body size of the eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus). The proximate mechanism for la...

Despite the increasing maturity of process management technology not all business processes are adequately supported by it. Support for unstructured and knowledge-intensive processes is missing, especially since they cannot be straight-jacketed into predefined activities. A common characteristic of these processes is the role of business objects and data as drivers for process modeling and enac...

Existing empirical research on the business value of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) has only measured the extent of SOA adoption – but not maturity – to determine whether typical goals, like increased business agility or IT cost reduction, could be achieved. However, a widely implemented SOA might be less mature than an SOA adopted only in particular areas of the organization, which in tu...

The concept of continuous proces s improvement, although familiar in the manufacturing arena, is just starting to b e implemented in the software industry . Currently, software developmen t organizations have identified potentia l process improvements and are working to implement results from ISO 9000 audits an d Capability Maturity Model (C M M ) Software Process Assessments . Quantitative met...

This article introduces a set of unified basic concepts for Process Capability Models for the unification, generalization and modeling of views of the structure and elements of relevant models, with more similar granularity of its leaf elements. This set is part of an ongoing research effort to evolve the current Software (and Systems) Process Improvement area towards a Model Driven Process Cap...

Building Information Modelling has experienced rapid development in recent years. Recognized the numerous benefits, various organizations and stakeholders have begun to implement BIM. Contrary to the extensive application, successful implementation requires a thorough understanding of current situation of BIM operations as well as effective, advanced, and high-performing measurements. Despite t...

Purpose – The purpose of the article is to investigate the impact of organizational culture on software process improvement (SPI). Is cultural congruence between an organization and an adopted process model required? How can the level of congruence between an organizational culture and the values and assumptions underlying an adopted process model be assessed? Design/methodology/approach – The ...

[1] The southern Canadian foreland fold-and-thrust belt (FFTB) (SW Alberta–SE British Columbia) records the interplay between foreland basin evolution with the deformingwedge and thus controls the regionalscale overburden and exhumation history. Overburden estimates are typically based on the assumption that peak burials were reached by sedimentary burial prior to the emplacement of thrust shee...

Software development, unlike manufacturing industry, is highly dependent on the capabilities of individual software engineers and software development teams. SEI presents PSP and TSP to establish personal and team capabilities in the software process, to maintain them and assist organizations in conducting CMMI-Based process improvement. Thus, executors’ capabilities should be taken into accoun...

Social compliance programs employed by MNEs face significant challenges in enforcing labor standards across global supply chains. We study whether focal firms can improve supplier social performance through capability building that aligns business practices with social compliance goals. We analyze an intervention by Nike Inc. to promote lean manufacturing and high-performance management systems...