Lean Construction (LC) is under the spotlight to improve the overall performance of civil construction projects in England. A strategic target of public clients is to effectively extend the current LC efforts, which have been mainly led by large companies to date, across small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper presents a summary of the initial findings of a research effort aimed at un...

Against a background of the low engagement of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in e-business this paper investigates the application service provider (ASP) perspective. Conducting qualitative case studies based of SMEs using hosted applications and service providers the research highlights the opportunity for ‘one to many’ service delivery to aggregations of SMEs promoted by trusted thi...

Since small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role within many major economies throughout the world, their ability to successfully adopt and utilize the Internet and electronic commerce is of prime importance in ensuring their stability and future survival. This paper highlights some of the important issues identified by SME managers relating to the adoption of Internet related techn...

In October 2006, the Broadband Wales Observatory undertook case study research into the change, impact and benefits of broadband, on a diverse selection of SMEs (including micro and SOHO businesses) and citizens from across Wales, UK. This paper explains the research approach and method, and presents an overview of the findings from 24 case study reports. It concludes that all of the cases have...

Our study focused on the putative effects of roads on small-mammal communities in a high desert region of southern Utah. Specifically, we tested whether or not roads create adjacent zones characterized by lower smallmammal densities, abundance, and diversity. We sampled abundance of small mammals at increasing distances from Interstate 15 during two summers. We recorded 11 genera and 13 species...

The growth of the Internet has opened up a vast arena, providing more opportunities for businesses, particularly small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to sell their products and services to a global audience than they would have been able to afford to reach using the traditional methods. SMEs are extremely important to many countries and their contribution to economy cannot be over emphasize...

The 1980s have seen the advent of the first commercial applications of artificial intelligence research. The two prime examples are expert systems and natural language processors. These developments have already begun to affect the design of office computers. Future office workstations will have some 'understanding' of office procedures and of the goals of office workers and their organisation....

the aim of this study was to design a student sport strategy of islamic azad university. this study was a description application study and from the aspect of aim was practical. statistical population consisted of 94 managers and experts of physical education general office of islamic azad university, selected physical education managers and experts of faculties of islamic azad university and p...

3 Department of Physics, Govt. New Science College, Rewa, (M.P.), 486001, INDIA; __________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Based on SOHO/LASCO catalogue and solar geophysical data, we studied the geoeffectiveness, solar source and flare association of a set of 397 halo CMEs during the period of 1996 to 2008. We find that Disk halos are ...

In the current climate, preparing for change is an issue for companies large and small. However, there remains a dearth of empirical evidence that highlight how software Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) operationalise their approach to knowledge management (KM) as a means of preparing themselves for the future. For an SME, the first step is to take stock of the types of knowledge that a...