Companies have increasingly focused on their own core business and created partnerships with other companies to increase their competitiveness. Linear supply chains of companies create the enterprise networks. The enterprise networks could produce wider product and service entities, and the entire network could be comprehended as a value adding value network for the product or service. VTT Indu...

Many new product development (NPD) based enterprises strive these days for even radical transformations in order to sustain and improve their competitiveness. Under current uncertain and turbulent circumstances in many competitive environments agility is often seen necessary and considered as a viable strategic choice. Agile characteristics can be attributed to a wide spectrum of organizational...

The Minister of Economic Affairs of Taiwan announced in 2006 that the sales volumes of the manufacturing industry of Taiwan were continuously increased from 2000 to 2005 where the manufacturing industry took 21.95% and 21.4% in the gross domestic product of Taiwan in 2004 and 2005, respectively. It is no doubt that the manufacturing industry is both important and significant to Taiwan’s economy...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is crucial to be present in global markets as nowadays competition is between supply chains rather than between companies. Current SCM paradigms like Lean, Agile, Resilient, and Green (LARG) are usually presented as individual management philosophies. The current challenge is to make the supply chain more competitive, capable of responding to the demands of custome...

Concerns have been expressed that in a global market place with mobile capital, national governments will have incentives to set weak environmental policies (“environmental dumping”) to protect the international competitiveness of their domestic firms, that these incentives are particularly strong in industries where plants may be relatively footloose, so that governments are concerned to preve...

Most of the software companies can neither be typical software product based company like Microsoft nor afford to develop each customized application for individual customer from clean slate without taking into consideration of reuse. Software companies are under increasing competitive pressure for improving delivery parameters such as cost, quality, and time. Systematic reuse is an opportunity...

CIOs and CEOs are confronted with the key question of choosing the right ERP software for their company. The evaluation process tends to be painstaking as the outcome usually affects the competitiveness and thus the future of the company itself. Packaged software has become so powerful in recent years that it fulfils the requirements of companies from different industries after a thorough custo...

Open data initiatives on governmental data seem often to be linked to small software companies, which also use and release software under OSS licenses. This paper calls for more research to understand the similarities between open data and open source software vendors. We build a theoretical linkage between the more established OSS research and emerging research on open data in the context of s...

This paper discusses the development of a database and an interactive data visualizat ion of Arizona aerospace and defense suppliers. The paper also summarizes key results of a survey of those companies focusing on their strategic competitiveness and next generation manufacturing (NGM) read iness.The survey categories included: company demographics, supply chain management, global engagement, s...

5 There is today a widespread belief in the importance of devoting resources to education and other forms of competence development as a key factor behind productivity development, innovative capacity and competitiveness. This standpoint is not only an outflow of policy discussions about knowledge or learning economies, but has also received considerable support from research (e.g. Lorenz & Lun...