This paper addresses cross-cultural issues in Software Process Improvement (SPI). Cultural factors, which may have a bearing on successful adoption and implementation of Software Quality Management Systems, were identified during a field-study in five countries. A self-assessment model, called CODES, has been developed for use by organisations developing software in different parts of the world...

The search for implementation strategies to achieve environmental health has been central to actualization of the concept of sustainable development. The dialogue that this search has engendered focuses on "top down" or "bottom up" approaches with particular emphasis on the need for small scale local actions. This paper examines the merits and limitations of local or small scale actions from an...

The promise of knowledge management systems is challenged by implementation problems. This CRM case illustrates that technology-driven approaches are not likely to succeed. It also indicates some limitations of top-down managerial interventions, arguing that we need a deeper understanding of learning processes to be able to implement KM systems successfully. A more experimental implementation s...

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) has emerged as an effective technique to manoeuvre and align projects and programs with business strategy. Strategic alignment empowers the Information Systems (IS) function and Information Technology (IT) enabled initiatives to support business development. To this end, organisations are using more IS projects and programs to enable them to compete. The liter...

Organizations prepare for crisis communication by designing, implementing, and evaluating procedures, scenarios, and emergency measures. In addition to crisis communication, risk communication is a concern for many organizations as well. Risk communication is viewed as an interactive, multi-actor democratic process. Traditionally, risk communication is seen as a linear, top-down, elitist, exper...

the control problem and dynamic programming is a powerful tool in economics and management. we review the dynamic programming problem from its beginning up to its present stages. a problem which was involved in physics and mathematics in i 7” century led to a branch of mathematics called calculus of variation which was used in economic, and management at the end of the first quarter of the 20” ...