Technology Management of Large Industrial Enterprises

The PRODNET cooperative information management for industrial virtual enterprises

When designing an IT platform aimed at supporting industrial Virtual Enterprises (VEs), certain issues related to information management requirements become especially challenging, such as the physical distribution of data, the enterprise autonomy and privacy enforcement, access rights to shared information, and data visibility levels, among others. In the ESPRIT project PRODNET II, a federated...

Impacts Of Information Technology Capabilities on Small and Medium Enterprises (Smes) and Large Enterprises

Forty-percent of local companies in Malaysia failed within the first five years of company establishment (Leitrim, 2013). Some literature even reported a higher percentage of company failure, which was over 60%, in the first five years of establishments (Noor and Pi-Shen, 2009). These high percentages of failure reflect serious challenges and obstacles faced by domestic companies in the era of ...

Information and Innovation Management within Information Technology Enterprises

Australia, while being a large and eager consumer of innovative and cutting edge Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), continues to struggle to remain a leader in Technological Innovation. This paper has two main contributions to address certain aspects of this complex issue. The first being the current findings of an ongoing research project on Information and Innovation Management...

Sustainability Management within Selected Large-scale Enterprises in Germany

Sustainability is a very important factor in long-term entrepreneurial success. Company-wide sustainability management is mandatory and requires software support if it is to be conducted efficiently. Thus, the aim of this paper is to point out the challenges and difficulties facing large-scale enterprises in Germany while implementing and maintaining company-wide sustainability management. We c...

HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Department of Industrial Engineering and Management