This paper refers to the project GPM-SME – FP6-005857, included within the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission, in its CRAFT Programme. The goal of this document is to present the main concepts of Global Performance Management and how the GPM-SME consortium pursues to develop a framework to improve the competitive capability of companies and their network visibility, specially de...

This paper studies the problem of knowledge management and particularly from the perspective of a small & medium enterprises (SME) under the « new industrial constraints ». We propose and argue our original approach to knowledge management which really consider some specific needs of SME. This approach starts with knowledge needs of current projects (i.e. pulled by customer demand). We propose ...

The purpose of this paper is to present research in progress concerning barriers to sharing information in Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME‟s). The work will examine the barriers to sharing in the newly emerging economies of Poland and Hungary with the relatively established economy of the UK. The results of the study will be used to from a model of “best practice” for SME‟s who are sett...

The reorganization of the supply chain in the aerospace industry has led to a new situation for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). The suppliers are forced to deliver completed systems instead of components and assemblies. In order to react to the changed requirements, one possible solution is the project-oriented and temporary cooperation of SME by building a Virtual Organization in ord...

This study aims to explain and elaborate a new model for the business environmental hostility in small and medium enterprises in the science and technology park in Kermanshah (Iran). The research method is a mixed method. Content analysis was used in the qualitative part, and a confirmatory factor analysis was used in the quantitative section. In the qualitative section for the environmental ho...

Risk Assessment Tool (RAT) is an expert system that assesses, monitors, and gives preliminary treatments automatically based on the project plan. In this paper, a review was taken out for the current project time management risk assessment tools for SME software development projects, analyze risk assessment parameters, conditions, scenarios, and finally propose risk assessment tool (RAT) model ...

The reorganization of the supply chain in the aerospace industry has led to a new situation for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). In order to react to the changed requirements, one possible solution is the project-oriented and temporary cooperation of SME by building a Virtual Company. This again presents the employees with new challenges regarding the work requirements. Within the rese...

Application service providers (ASPs) offer customer organizations the option of accessing applications and databases over the Internet or leased lines instead of installing applications locally. Adoption of the ASP concept, so far, is slower than anticipated even among small and medium sized enterprises (SME) considered by forecasters ideal candidates for ASP adoption. In this work, we use qual...