Browsing Mechanical Engineering by Issue Date
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Idea management for organisational Innovation
(World Scientific, 2003-12)Modern organisations are under ever increasing competitive pressure to maintain market share, enhance product range, improve efficiency and reduce cost. The process by which organisations attain these improvements is ... -
Groupware architecture for R&D managers
(2004)The business environment is changing at an accelerated pace. Contemporary business systems are becoming more knowledge intensive. This is particularly evident in areas such as product innovation where knowledge centric ... -
A groupware system for product innovation management
(2004)We are experiencing a radical shift in the way organisations are designed, structured and organised. New organisational forms such as strategic partnerships and networks are replacing simple market based transactions and ... -
Key challenges for inter and intra enterprise knowledge transfer
(2004)Knowledge is a key resource that must be managed if improvement efforts are to succeed and businesses are to remain competitive in global markets. In recent years, researchers, consultants and practitioners have developed ... -
Creativity toolkit for R&D managers
(2004)In this, the twenty first century, innovation has become one of the most important and effective ways of obtaining and sustaining competitive dominance in the market place over the past number of years. Many firms are ... -
Collaboration and enterprise networks: What about SMEs?
(2004)This paper describes the research and analysis realised in relation to the creation of enterprise networks, based on the networked enterprise model, in European SMEs. It focuses on the barriers to inter-firm collaboration ... -
A review of the last ten years of research presented at the annual International Concurrent Enterprising (ICE) conference
(2004)The 10th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising (ICE) provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on the history of the conference and how it has developed and evolved over the last 10 years. The purpose of ... -
Auditing best practice for effective product innovation management
(Science Direct, 2004-10)Over the past number of years, researchers and industrialists have recognised the need for and the importance of developing approaches to enhance competitive advantage in new product development. However, the product ... -
Barriers to FLOSS in SMEs: the lack of knowledge and skills
(IOS Press, 2005)While open source is becoming a topic of mainstream business, the level of awareness and depth of understanding of the open source paradigm still varies considerably and represents a significant barrier to broader adoption. ... -
Managing enterprise networks: Support structures for SMEs
(2005)In an increasingly competitive global economy, small to medium sized enterprises (SME) realise that they must work together in order to survive. They must learn to share their experiences and knowledge and pool their ... -
The development of a supplier performance evaluation tool
(2005)As product life cycles continue to shrink and global competition increases, manufacturers are outsourcing what they consider to be non-strategic activities in order to focus on their core competencies. Consequently these ... -
Supplier performance evaluation: Lessons from a large multinational organization
(2005-07-03)There are ever-increasing demands from customers for more manufacturing agility in the form of higher product variety, smaller production runs of more customised products and batch sizes with shorter delivery times. To ... -
Towards effective knowledge management: a requirements analysis of European manufacturing SMEs
(IOS Press, 2006)Knowledge is a key resource that must be managed within European organisations in general, and because of their importance to the economy Manufacturing SMEs in particular. The key challenges facing such organisations are ... -
Knowledge sharing in manufacturing SMEs: survey findings and analysis
(IOS Press, 2006)This paper reports on it study of European manufacturing SMEs in the metallurgical sector. The goal of the research is to ascertain the extent and nature of knowledge sharing that takes place within these organisations; ... -
Value chain migration from production to product centred operations: an analysis of the Irish medical device industry
(2006)The medical device industry in Ireland is largely confined to manufacturing operations. This narrow focus limits the competitiveness of the industry in Ireland and consequently poses a threat to development and growth. ... -
Virtual team environment for collaborative research projects
(2006)One of the main limiting factors that reduce the potential output the innovation projects, involving different organisations and individuals from different geographical areas, is the poor communication and knowledge sharing ... -
A customer centric process innovation toolkit for SMEs
(2006)The business environment is changing at an accelerated pace. Consequently, continuous systemic changes within companies are imperative. In light of this, we are witnessing a shift in the way organizations are designed, ... -
Measuring and benchmarking digital literacy strategies and efforts: the BENTLI project
(2006)There are numerous interesting strategies in place in Europe, a large majority of them initiated and executed by regional or local government institutions, more or less successful in addressing groups with a high risk of ... -
Understanding ambient intelligence: Typologies for systems development
(2006)This paper examines the concept of ambient intelligence (AmI). Currently research in this field is ambiguous. There are not many definitions and consequently it is difficult to understand the concept. This paper seeks to ... -
Towards effective knowledge management: An analysis of European manufacturing SMEs
(2006)Knowledge is a key resource that must be managed within European organisations in general and because of their importance to the economy Manufacturing SMEs in particular. The key challenges that face such organisations ...