Innovation is the soul of modern enterprise, and sustainable innovation is the essential for enterprises to keep their long-term energies. Small and medium enterprises should start from the construction of interior sustainable innovation ability cultivation system, cultivate innovational leading thinking, establish innovational enterprise culture, improve innovational encouragement system, walk...

IT alone is no longer sufficient for business success. Companies need to control enterprise-wide processes and adopt matching actions. This paper presents an overview of existing approaches of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM). By reasoning, the importance of integrated EAM for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) is underlines. The study is structured as a systematic literature revi...

With the emergence of new enterprise models, such as technologybased enterprises, and the large quantity of information generated through technological advances, the Zachman framework continues to represent a modelling tool of great utility and value to construct an enterprise architecture that can integrate and align the IT infrastructure and business goals. Nevertheless, implementing an enter...

The emerging of the new global economy has forced companies to adopt innovative manufacturing practices. In this context the concept of Extended Enterprise has emerged as a model which companies are pursuing in order to remain competitive in global markets. A research project named Extended Enterprise Demonstration Factory program is being carried out in order to create reference models, method...

Nowadays, extremely competitive worldwide economy enterprise integration (EI) can be considered as a main factor in performance improvement when severe competition requires a low-profit environment for many of the commercial markets. This point causes interaction problems during both the design and implementation phase while utility enterprise (UE) appears as a business strategy for small, medi...

This chapter describes Aneka-Federation, a decentralized and distributed system that combines enterprise Clouds, overlay networking, and structured peer-to-peer techniques to create scalable wide-area networking of compute nodes for high-throughput computing. The Aneka-Federation integrates numerous small scale Aneka Enterprise Cloud services and nodes that are distributed over multiple control...

SmallandMediumEnterprises(SMEs)inservicesectortakethelionshareofthemarketcompared toothersectorssuchasagricultureandmanufacturing.TheincreasingnumberofSMEsintheservice sectorbroughtthecompetitioninthemarkettoitspeak,whichforcedSMEstoinvestinimproving theirservices.However,solvingserviceproblemsrequiresmoreresourcessuchasskilledlaboro...

This exploratory study focuses on ERP post-implementation issues in Small-and-Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). The authors conducted a case study in a small Norwegian retail company, which experienced a performance dip that lasted longer than expected. The case demonstrates how overwhelming the ERP competence requirements can be for an SME. Errors in the configuration of the ERP system and impr...

Women represent about 40% of the total labor force in Taiwan. The majority of women employment is concentrated in manufacturing and service sector such as commerce and social or personal community work. Small and medium enterprises in Taiwan accounted for 97.8% of the total enterprises and employed about 78% of the total work force. Small and medium enterprises have played a crucial role in eco...

Tags and emergent folksonomies are a potentially rich new source of document annotations, offering query independent and dependent evidence for exploitation by information retrieval systems. Previous research has shown that tags may facilitate improved web search in an environment where each tagging action generates a (user, tag, resource) triple. For websites operated by a public institution, ...