The purpose of this study was to examine ES implementation business drivers in the new millennium and reflect on future directions for ES adoption. The study was designed to explore ‘typical’ implementations, where typical illustrates what is normal or average. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 key players in ES implementations, including ES vendors, ES consultants, IT research ...

Though knowledge management (KM) and knowledge management systems (KMS) have been well established in organizations the question on how to evaluate the benefits to be gained from the use of such systems is still not finally resolved. Based on a complete case study showing how a KMS was introduced in a knowledge-intensive small enterprise in Germany this paper illustrates the operationalization ...

The situational method engineering (SME) literature is surveyed and a synoptic evaluation presented in the context of formalizing and regularizing the conceptual framework and underpinning theory. Metamodels proposed for use in SME are evaluated as well as highlevel process models for method construction. Method fragments and method chunks are then described formally followed by their identific...

This paper responds to the claim of Veale, O’Donoghue and Keane (1995) that SME (Falkenhainer, Forbus & Gentner, 1989; Forbus, Ferguson & Gentner, 1994) performs poorly on noun-noun comparisons, such as A surgeon is like a butcher. Veale et al. argue that such noun-noun comparisons involve “object-centered representations” that do not contain higher-order relations, and that Sapper’s chaining o...

Using Bowen and Bok’s data from 23 selective colleges, we fit multilevel logit models to test two hypotheses with implications for affirmative action and group differences in attainment of science, math, or engineering (SME) degrees. Hypothesis 1, that differences in precollege academic preparation will explain later SME graduation disparities, was fully supported with respect to the outcome ga...

Efficient and precise estimation of project costs even before a project has started is a challenging task. Unfortunately, this is common practice for small and medium sized enterprises (SME) when applying for projects. Without budget (effort) and based on a minimal set of facts SME have to calculate a proposed project’s effort without having the confidence that the proposal will be granted. The...

Many AI researchers and cognitive scientists have argued that analogy is the core of cognition. The most influential work on computational modeling of analogy-making is Structure Mapping Theory (SMT) and its implementation in the Structure Mapping Engine (SME). A limitation of SME is the requirement for complex hand-coded representations. We introduce the Latent Relation Mapping Engine (LRME), ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which traditional marketing theory and practice can be applied in smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and consider how owner-managers perceive their own role in marketing within a small business setting. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative exploratory approach using semi-structured in-depth interviews amongst owner-man...

There has been increasing recognition of the importance of the SME sector in recent years; indeed, the contribution made by SMEs to overall economic development has become widely recognized in many of the newly industrialized economies. In an effort to go beyond some of the present empirical works, this study uses a dataset on both developed and developing economies to examine the contribution ...

Recently, there have been intensive studies of margin-based learning for automatic speech recognition (ASR). It is our believe that by securing a margin from the decision boundaries to the training samples, a correct decision can still be made if the mismatches between testing and training samples are well within the tolerance region specified by the margin. This nice property should be effecti...