In recent months many organizations have begun to focus attention on Model Driven Architecture (MDA)1 as an approach to application design and implementation. This is a very positive development for several reasons. MDA encourages efficient use of system models in the software development process, and it supports reuse of best practices when creating families of systems. As defined by the Objec...

Effective use of an enterprise system may result in productivity and quality improvements, cost reductions and a better resource management but also bears non-negligible risks. Since enterprise systems usually exhibit a proliferating complexity, many small and medium-sized enterprises fail to pass this hurdle. Therefore, the imperative of this research is to develop an understanding of what inh...

The Asia-Pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. At the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. Advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...

The study presents a brief and synthetic discussion of selected conclusions resulting from multidimensional and in-depth empirical studies. Its theoretical part presents the assumptions referring to social responsibility management from the perspective of the specific nature of small enterprise functioning, while the empirical part presents the selected dysfunctions and paradoxes in social resp...

The article presents the principled approaches to conceptual principles development of small and big enterprises' interaction management. need organize enterprises based on using a program-objectives approach, highlighting procedures for structuring characterizing set interacting enterprises, is substantiated. program organization considered as strategic plan with definition main directions suc...

Currently the methodology of eliminating the negative effects of the issues in ramp-up stage mostly involves the increase in investment and updating the design data. In the paper the authors consider an approach that can be applied on every level of ramp-up production: from suppliers to shopfloor operators. The architecture of the system is described and the first implementation results are given.

This article describes the administrative status of head enterprise as an official. It is determined that official employee state bodies, enterprises, institutions, organizations various forms ownership, whose activity, for purpose implementing management functions, has a power-administrative nature and aimed at organizing ensuring efficiency work other persons. Whereas managers are type offici...

The possibility of voice communications traveling over the Internet, rather than the PSTN, first became a reality in February 1995 when Vocaltec, Inc. introduced its Internet Phone software. This technology has advanced rapidly. This paper is aimed at making suggestions on things to consider when deploying VoIP onto a small enterprise network. Though the suggestions to be presented are centered...