怎样把IT企业做强大

许多搞IT企业的人,都有做大做强的想法.但拼捕下来,总是难以摆脱在生死线上挣扎的困境.而有人也是白手起家,经过奋斗却做大了企业.人们常把企业成功归到偶然因数上.实际上,企业做强做大有其内在的共性.     

IT业巨子的创业历程

据《文汇报》报道,不久前,全球最大的集成电路芯片代工商台积电发表声明,称公司已与上海松江区签订了在上海投资建立8英寸芯片厂的投资意向,首期投资11亿美元.预期于2003年9月投产。尽管公司表示此项投资最后需台湾当局核准。但这一消息仍受到了广泛的关注,在世界IT业名声显赫的台积电掌门人张忠谋再次成为新闻人物。     

The expert system: constructing expertise in an IT/management consultancy

Despite widespread uncertainty, if not scepticism, about the precise nature of the expertise that consultants bring to bear in their client engagements, organisations continue to employ consultants in large numbers, especially in information technology-related projects. Drawing on a participant observation study of IT/management consultancy practice, this paper seeks to explore the different ways in which consultants are seen as experts in the light of the pressures of the consultancy market place. The ongoing construction of consultancy expertise through the interaction of consultants and their clients with an array of elements, including technical knowledge, skilled practice, individual and collective experience, and commercial interests is discussed. It is suggested that, rather than being a relatively-enduring property of individuals, based on their mastery of a body abstract knowledge or their skills at managing the perceptions of their clients, the precarious and multi-faceted character of their expertise means that consultants are continuously engaged in its active construction through their situated practice.     

Private Politics, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Integrated Strategy

This paper provides a theory of private politics in which an activist seeks to change the production practices of a firm for the purpose of redistribution to those whose interests it supports. The source of the activist's influence is the possibility of support for its cause by the public. The paper also addresses the issue of corporate social responsibility by distinguishing among corporate redistribution as motivated by profit maximization, altruism, and threats by the activist. Private politics and corporate social responsibility not only have a direct effect on the costs of the firm, but also have a strategic effect by altering the competitive positions affirms in an industry. From an integrated-strategy perspective the paper investigates the strategic implications of private politics and corporate social responsibility for the strategies of rival firms when one or both are targets of an activist campaign. Implications for empirical analysis are derived from the theory.     

祁东风 远离IT业

担任方正科技总裁之后,祁东风经常用“累”来形容自己的工作感受。原因是董事会给公司管理层制订的目标总是不断上升,水涨船高     

Narrative and organizational control: corporate visionaries,ethics and power

The purpose of this paper is to explore the language of corporate visions with particular reference to its strategic persuasiveness, the ‘narrative’ of the visions. It explores the nature and content of vision discourses to identify the main dimensions of visions with regard to strategic decision making, to the legitimation of business objectives and to motivation, and relates the vision phenomenon to the literature of narrative and social control. While the futurist elements to visions, their attempts to restructure the relationship of the organization to the environment, and the intuition on which individuals claim that their visions are based are all recognized as essential to the visionary narrative, the key dimension of visions is argued to be their ethical appeal. It is this appeal on which the power to motivate those towards whom the visions are directed is based. The paper concludes by considering the significance of the status of visionary discourse in the understanding of strategic decisions. We can either take visionary discourse on its own terms, and recognize the ethical dimensions of visions and their legitimate role in transforming the organization's relationship with its environment; or we can see them primarily as a further dimension of control which needs to be integrated analytically into the way we view the identification of strategic issues. Either way, visions call upon and reflect power in a significant way.     

Smoking and Politics

Anti-smoking lobbyists regularly call for government intervention to prohibit smoking in 'public places'. Tibor Machan, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auburn, Alabama, contends that such differences of opinion should be resolved in the adaptable market, not subject to inflexible law.     

Wages,Prices and Politics: Evidence from Norway

This paper studies the empirical relevance of the close ties between a central trade union and the social democratic political party using time series data for Norway. Using a structural wage-price model we estimate that changing from a bourgeois to a social democratic government reduces manufacturing wages in the long run by 2.3 percent. This result is consistent with a wage bargaining model augmented by political preferences of the union leaders. Private service wages are not directly affected by government type, but wage spillover effects imply that the long-run dampening effect in the private service sector is around 2 percent. The results also support the proposition of the Scandinavian model of inflation that the traded goods sector is the wage leader.     

IT战略规划--实现IT目标与企业目标的战略集成

伴随信息化的发展而出现的“IT黑洞”,使得IT治理成为当下企业的热门话题之一,而IT治理的核心环节是公司的IT目标是否与战略目标相一致。通过分析IT目标与企业目标的互动关系,进而提出实现二者战略集成的利器—IT战略规划,指出其对于有效地解决“IT黑洞”问题,以及推动我国企业信息化优势提升的探索与实践,都具有重大意义。同时就如何进行企业IT战略规划进行了论述,最后对IT战略规划作了进一步的思考。     

No man is an island: Social and human capital in IT capacity building in the Maldives

In many developing countries, lack of IT skills and human capital impede the potential of IT investments in organizations in developing countries [Lee, J. (2001). Education for technology readiness: Prospects for developing countries. Journal of Human Development, 2(1), 115–151]. This paper draws upon theories of human and social capital, and knowledge, to explain enablers/obstacles for knowledge creation and transfer for IT capacity building in a tourism organization in a developing country – the Maldives. IT capacity building is intimately linked to knowledge and skills at the level of human resource development. Using the Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1998) [Nahapiet, J., & Ghoshal, S. (1998). Social capital, intellectual capital, and the organizational advantage. Academy of Management Review, 23, 242–267] framework for the role of social capital in knowledge creation and transfer, we examine the major issues of IT capacity building for the case organization. We conclude that the role of cognitive capital is the most important for the tourism sector of the Maldives, and may play a vital role in accumulating structural and relational capital, together with appropriate government policies on ICT.