The paper proposes a framework for organizations’ business IT alignment that merges traditional IT assessment parameters, such as application portfolio coverage and integration, with technological and architectural parameters providing flexibility to the company’s Information System. The framework proves to be a practical decisional instrument, overcoming theoretical approaches which lack appli...

In the technology-driven industries like automotive industry, the success of the companies depends on their ability to provide new and continuous innovations to the market. In this regard, technological capabilities lead to a competitive advantage. The purpose of this study is to identify the effective factors in the technology assessment based on the dynamic capabilities of small and medium au...

This paper focuses on the implications of learning processes for technological capability accumulation and performance improvement. These relations are evaluated through a single case study in the steelmaking unit of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (1997-2001). Recently developed frameworks in literature on technological capability accumulation and learning processes have been used, but adapted ...

This paper builds analytical frameworks in order to examine the role of key features of the underlying learning processes in influencing inter-firm differences in technological capability-accumulation paths in the latecomer context. This relationship is examined in two of the largest steel firms in Brazil over their lifetimes of 40 and 60 years. These issues have been addressed, individually or...

This paper discusses the competence and cap ability assessment problems the di erences between them and a uni ed method to solve them Competence can be assessed by exploiting meta rules present in the knowledge base Cap ability assessment focuses on planning meta knowledge can be used here as well There are di erent stages in the planning process where meta rules can be added and these represen...

Technological innovation capability (TIC) is defined as a comprehensive set of characteristics of a firm that facilities and supports its technological innovation strategies. An audit to evaluate the TICs of a firm may trigger improvement in its future practices. Such an audit can be used by the firm for self assessment or third-party independent assessment to identify problems of its capabilit...