Ergonomics for Eletrobras arose from the need in having an environment more suitable to the characteristics and circumstances of employees, in compliance with Regulation Standard no. 17 - Ergonomics (NR17) of the Ministry of Labor and Employment. Being a mixed economy company with regionalized anthropometric characteristics of its employees, the study of ergonomic adjustments and improvement of...

Despite widespread adoption of IT control frameworks, little academic empirical research has been undertaken to investigate their use. This paper reports upon research to benchmark the maturity levels of 15 key IT control processes from the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) in public sector organisations across Australia. It also makes a comparison against a simi...

Reference models usually serve as starting points for developing company specific models. Unfortunately, successful usage of reference models is often impeded by various aspects, such as a lack of acceptance among employees, incorrect model implementation, or high project costs all of which more often than not are resulting from an imbalance between the model's complexity and the complexity of ...

Independent from branch of business, size, structure or maturity organisations need a management system to be successful. A lot of leaders of SME search for a suitable organisational concept for their business. The EFQM Excellence Model including RADAR seems for many leaders too complex. To deliver the thoughts of the model and RADAR to the responsible managers an efficient method was developed...

Organizations in software industry become aware that adopting comprehensive software process such as Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and ISO12207 can improve their process and produce high degree of quality software. However, successful implementation of such expensive and complicated Software Process Improvement (SPI) methods in small organizations is generally not possible becaus...

While most research regarding adoption of cloud computing by companies covers countries with highly developed IT infrastructure, cloud computing is actually used also in less IT-mature countries. Still, companies address cloud computing differently in countries with different levels of IT-maturity. This research explores cloud computing adoption factors in less IT-mature countries having Turkey...

Public authorities have recently supported development of the biotechnology sector by encouraging start-ups and creating favourable environments such as incubators, a specialised stock exchange or technopoles. The different programmes to encourage biotech development (subsidies for research performed jointly by firms and academic labs, subsidies for start-ups, creation of incubators) seem to be...

The management of IT carve-out projects is very challenging due to the strict time frame, the severe contractual penalties, the huge number of stakeholders and the various as well as unique IT tasks that have to be conducted. Up to now, there is no instrument for evaluating the readiness of the IT for a carve-out and also not for managing such a project. In order to address this, we develop a m...

The present research paper aims to identify the role of data centers in big processing for decision support, sources information processing, competencies specialists promote as well difficulties encountered by specialist during data. authors adopted descriptive analytical approach designing and applying a questionnaire sample (313) employees data, documentation, support public private sectors R...