the purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of organizational ambidexterity on strategic entrepreneurship in software companies. therefore we examined the ambidexterity with two dimensions i.e. exploration and exploitation as an independent variable and strategic entrepreneurship with four dimensions i.e. entrepreneurial mindset, innovation, managing resources strategically and competit...

Software Process Improvement is one of the main software development challenges. Unfortunately, process descriptions generally do not correspond to the processes actually performed during software development projects. They just represent high-level plans and do not contain the information necessary in a software project. This lack of alignment between the process and project is caused by proce...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to define the strategic processes or processes with strategic nature of investment companies (ICs). This goal is achieved by proposing a methodology for selecting strategic processes among the processes of ICs based on the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) framework and the statistical analysis. Design/methodology/approach – Ten leading Iranian Investment Companies...

efficient and on-time maintenance plays a crucial role inreducing cost and increasing the market share of an industrial unit. preventivemaintenance is a broad term that encompasses a set of activitiesaimed at improving the overall reliability and availability of a systembefore machinery breakdown. the previous studies have addressed thescheduling of preventive maintenance. these studies have co...

Software Process Improvement (SPI) is one of the main software development challenges. Unfortunately, process descriptions generally do not correspond to the processes actually performed during software development projects. Process and project alignment is essential to really find out how process improvement is important to achieve an organization’s strategic objectives. Considering this appro...

The strategic methods of achieving the set objectives the third element of the strategy substantiates the possibility to put them into practice. The strategic options reflect the general directions of action for the realization of the established strategic objectives and the direction in which all the activities which form the object of the respective strategy will evolve. For this reason, in t...

in recent decades, necessity to protect environment has been a serious concern for all people and international communities. in appropriate development of human economic activities, subsistence dependence of the growing world population on nature decreases the natural diversity of ecosystems and habitats day by day and provides additional constraints for life and survival of wildlife. as a resu...

This paper introduces a methodology for considering the uncertainties in stability analysis of gravity dams. For this purpose, a conceptual model based on the fuzzy set theory and Genetic Algorithm (GA) optimization is developed to be coupled to a gravity dam analysis model. The uncertainties are represented by the fuzzy numbers and the GA is used to estimate in what...