Concurrent Engineering (CE) is concerned with improving the product development process by the consideration, during the early stages of product design, of the disparate factors associated with the life cycle of the product. An extensive body of research has emerged in CE focused mainly on the internal operations of an enterprise. However, early participation of suppliers and customers in CE, i...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are important for all kinds of enterprises. The selection and implementation of such systems are very difficult and many projects do not meet their expectations. While large companies have financial and human resources to engage in such a project, the situation for smaller sized enterprises is different. They have only limited budget, human resources a...

the study has been done regarding the systematic approach (including: input, process, output and feedback). initially a list of factors has been recognized through surveying the secondary resources and existing models. then the factors are summarized and completed. finally 30 factors are identified as composing factors of enterprises' marketing. these factors have been matched with the sys...

Are there fundamental technical differences between requirements engineering for software vs. systems in general? It seems as though even functional requirements can mean something more general for a system including mechanical parts than for software alone. Quality requirements on safety deal with humans and their relationship with some real artifacts in their environment, so they cannot be de...

The enterprise software industry faces dynamic market environments. Customers are unpredictable, and many different factors influence a sale. Software as such is frequently perceived as being a sort of 'black box'. In this paper we examine the different factors that influence new product adoption and diffusion in the enterprise software market, where we especially look at the role of third part...

Considering the heterogeneity of customer purchase behavior in loyalty programs partnerships, in the asymmetric situation of enterprise A who joins the loyalty programs partnerships while enterprise B who implements customer loyalty programs alone, discussing the win-win mechanism of loyalty programs partnerships through the two stage game model, and providing equilibrium price and asymmetric e...