A case study of exploiting enterprise resource planning requirements

The requirements engineering (RE) processes have become a key to conceptualising corporate-wide integrated solutions based on packaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. The RE literature has mainly focused on procuring the most suitable ERP package. Little is known about how an organisation exploits the chosen ERP RE model to frame the business application development. This article reports an exploratory case study of a key tenet of ERP RE adoption, namely that aligning business applications to the packaged RE model leads to integral practices and economic development. The case study analysed a series interrelated pilot projects developed for a business division of a large IT manufacturing and service company, using Oracle's appl1ication implementation method (AIM). The study indicated that AIM RE improved team collaboration and project management experience, but needed to make hidden assumptions explicit to support data visibility and integrity. Our study can direct researchers towards rigorous empirical evaluations of ERP RE adoption, collect experiences and lessons learned for practitioners, and help generate more effective and mature processes when exploiting ERP RE methods.     

Some Determinants of Core Competencies: Evidence from a Binary-Logit Analysis

Despite the increasing recognition of the salience of core competencies in the process of competition, the notion of core competencies has remained largely ambiguous in the literature. Neither is it clear what strategies, institutions, and resources are necessary for developing and sustaining core competencies. This paper uses the binary-logit model to explore the determinants of core competencies, and identifies investment in intangible assets, marketing/promotional activities and firm size as significant determinants of core competencies. An evaluation of the technology strategies of two competence-seeking firms also points to the increasing salience of intangible assets, decentralization/globalization of the R&D function, and the intensive search for knowledge and capabilities.     

DEVELOPMENT PRESSURES AND HERITAGE IN THE PERTH CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT, 1950–90

This article examines the remaking of Perth's Central Business District (CBD) during the 1950–90 period. It traces the establishment of a modernist development ethos in Perth's planning, outlines the inadequacy of the City's planning regulations, and analyses the impact on St George's Terrace, the city's main commercial thoroughfare. The City Council was largely incapable of restraining excessive development and the extension of its system of plot ratios encouraged manipulation to increase the height of developments. Several important historic buildings were demolished because there were no legal means of safeguarding the city's heritage until 1990.     

“Moving” land across borders: spatial shifts in land demand and immiserizing effects

The rush for land acquisition has attracted considerable attention from the scientific community, although actual research on the topic remains thin. This paper attempts to break new ground by studying the potential effects of land deals in the context of a small open economy subject to exogenous shocks. In particular, it makes three main arguments: first, an increase in world prices of the agro-business sector causes skewed effects in the subsistence sector; second, an attractive premium offered by hosts to lure investors may have immiserizing effects; and third, technological efforts will have favorable effects if host countries adopt policies to revitalize agriculture.     

我国区域卫生规划的法律思考

区域卫生规划制度乃卫生服务提供公平的保障制度,也是我国医疗卫生体制改革中所要重构的重要制度之一。本文认为,区域卫生规划是一个公共选择的过程,并不排斥市场竞争。出于制度建构所需,本文对我国区域卫生规划制度进行了深刻反思,并提出了该项法律制度的重构意见和建议。     

高收入家庭的理财规划方案

刘先生家庭年度结余77万余元,为典型的421型高收入家庭。刘先生是做磷矿生意的,收入高风险也大,刘太太是农行柜员,收入较稳定,家有女儿读幼儿园,还有四老需要赡养。本理财规划方案在介绍刘先生家庭成员及资产情况基础上,编制家庭资产负债表和收入支出表,分析各项资产比率,指出刘先生家庭现阶段资产配置的不合理之处,旨在对该家庭进行现金规划、教育规划、住房规划、保险规划和投资规划。通过规划,该家庭的理财目标得以实现。     

石油企业人力资源规划的战略性组织思考

随着21世纪知识经济时代的到来,企业应该采用科学的方法,合理的手段,结合自身的情况,从组织全局和长远的角度,制定出科学合理的人力资源规划,它对企业生存与发展有着至关重要的意义。     

消防工程学课程教学资源利用研究

消防工程学是安全工程专业一门重要的专业基础课程。在教学中,应充分利用校内外有关教学资源,以提高课程的教学质量。     

利用层次分析法建立图书馆的图书利用率模型

根据图书馆的图书借阅状况,利用层次分析法建立图书利用率模型,给出图书利用率的计算公式,从而给出图书的使用效果估测,为管理者对图书投资和采购提供决策。     

企业级信息系统实施中的用户参与研究

随着企业利用企业级信息系统实现管理创新，信息系统实施成为重要的技术管理问题。用户参与一直被认为是影响信息系统成功的重要因素，但在企业级信息系统实施情境中，传统的用户参与研究存在理论缺口。本文基于ERP项目的案例研究来探讨新IT情境中的用户参与问题，发现企业级信息系统实施中的用户参与包括承担总体责任、用户-顾问协作关系、从事具体工作、用户跨部门沟通及推动组织变革五个维度，其发挥作用的中介机制是促进用户对系统的接受，提升关系质量及保证解决方案质量。