The prevalent business environment characterized by technological advances, globalization, powerful customers and increasing ethical concerns is exerting a lot of pressures on business organizations. The ever increasing competition means that it is easier to fail than to succeed. There are some key business virtues to be incorporated in order to gain competitive advantage or even to survive. Or...

The problem of collaborative work in open environment has become a center of academic and industrial attention. Creating, sharing, using, and storing knowledge in both tacit and explicit terms are essential to maintain competitive advantages in a highly competitive open market. This paper discusses the problem of work in collaborative and open environment where language is the main component of...

Business intelligent (BI) technologies have been adopted by different types of organizations. The banking sector is among the service industry that has been largely influenced by technology currently. This has been manifested in the way the operations of banking have evolved from the pure exchange of cheques, cash, as well as other negotiable platforms to the application of IT (information Tech...

The South African Facilities Management (FM) industry has seen increased operational strategy complexity from single-site contractors providing basic janitorial services to highly integrated and bundled FM service providers.  Despite these major changes, very little research has been conducted on evaluating the effectiveness of FM in innovating, integrating and aligning business strategies to a...

in current dynamic and often turbulent work environment, information technology becomes an effective competitive advantage that organizations largely rely on it. due to this affiliation, the importance of integrity and accommodation between the information technology strategies and business strategies in organizations has been increased. this alliance is the initial aim of the governance of inf...

Todays multimodal systems, which allow full-body (3D) gestures and speech as input modalities, are quite restricted to easily interpretable coverbal gestures with a prede ned shape and meaning. In this paper, we propose methods to abstract the concrete shape of gestures by using high-level features and to integrate them with coexpressive words using their phonological attributes. The applicatio...

Electronic business (e-business) is evolving from its technological tool towards a strategic role, supporting new business strategies. Prior studies explained e-business value creation from net-enabled organizational capabilities perspective, and delivered many insights at firm level with individual-level analysis of capability. In this paper, we posit that competitive advantages under e-busine...