for the past 3 decades, creating industrial clusters have been considered as an approach for the development of most small and medium enterprises. the goal of this programme is that all small and medium enterprises locating in a certain geoghraphic area can concentrate on cluster approach to collaborate in market research, production design, training and other activities that are not economical...

Agile processes can be applied to any software process for effective response to changing requirements during the development process and effective communication among stakeholders. There is lack of surveys related to agile processes in large web development enterprises in the world and the current state of adoption of agile processes by large enterprises is still unknown. A survey has been con...

There is a lack of surveys in large web development enterprises to determine: the level of adoption of web engineering practices and capability maturity model integration (CMMI) in these enterprises. Therefore, we need a survey in large enterprises to improve their web development processes and overcome their problems during the development process. We focus in this research on answering four q...

Large industrial enterprises had innovation rates of 84% compared to 63% of similarly sized service enterprises. In excess of 67% of medium sized industrial enterprises engaged in innovation activity in the period while 58% of service enterprises were innovation active. Small industrial enterprises (ten to forty-nine persons engaged) had an innovation activity rate of 51% compared to 38% of sma...

Having regard to the necessity of maintaining the technical infrastructure in a proper condition that ensures production continuity, companies decide to implement modern methods of technological machines park management. These methods include TPM, RCM and outsourcing. Large companies, in particular, are ready to invest in the implementation of these methods because of a great number of machines...

The nature of an open distributed environment provides a resoundingly diverse yet potentially chaotic environment for users. A great deal of research has focused on the management of resources in such an environment and policy-based management has emerged as one such promising solution. In order to support large evolving enterprises we have developed a policy model that is scalable, able to cop...