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Product design is an essential part of the new product innovation, which is affected by availability of financing. In the paper, we study the relationship between financial services and capacity of product design, and examine whether capacity of product design contributes to the improvement in performance of the small and medium manufacturing enterprises. The research shows that, financial service...
Fostering the growth of energy management companies (EMC) has proven to be an effective market-based solution for improving energy efficiency in the Chinese economy. However, lack of financing remains the most significant barrier to the full development of small and medium sized EMCs. Thus, developing a new financing mechanism with local banks for energy efficiency projects is an essential strategy...
Article will address collecting spatial data using laser scanning (measurement technology, creation, registration and processing point cloud processing models). To distribute all the information gathered to make a basic description of the VRML format, which allows easy transfer of 3D layout and metadata. All of these technologies and procedures used for the purposes of making a digital business. In...
To find the root cause why it's more difficult for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to obtain loans from banks, this paper presents a new credit model from the point of view that corporate wealth is the signal of entrepreneurial ability. The result shows if there is no other mechanism to show the entrepreneurial ability under asymmetric information, Banks' assessment of the entrepreneurial...
Production facility control system and its current situation in small and medium-sized enterprises were studied in this paper. Equipment management problems were found out through the analysis of equipment management and process of the company studied. This paper focused on the application of TPM in companies, and a new facility management mode that positively propels the improvement of comprehensive...
Nowadays, almost all the enterprises in the world fall in Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) category even though SMEs has different definitions in different countries. At the same time, there is no exemplar standard and /or framework for information technology (IT) governance for SMEs. This paper presents the main issues in implementing IT governance in SMEs. Firstly, it explains the definition of SMEs...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the issue of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation in the context of Make-To-Order (MTO) Small and Medium-size Enterprises (SMEs). No prior study has investigated the whole ERP implementation process in MTO SMEs. Because of the special requirements of both the SME and the MTO context, ERP implementations under these conditions are challenging...
It is often argued that IT investments require active management practices for benefits realization. This applies also to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. As well, benefits realization efforts are assumed to create more value than they cost. Hence, the maturity of organizations should be increased and their cultures cultivated towards more rational benefits realization practices. Our study...
This review summarizes research on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). Due to the close-to-saturation of ERP adoptions in large enterprises (LEs), ERP vendors now focus more on SMEs. Moreover, because of globalization, partnerships, value networks, and the huge information flow across and within SMEs nowadays, more and more SMEs are adopting ERP...
This paper identified the relationship between the effect factors of knowledge management and management results, in order to propose a direction for strengthening knowledge management capability, with focus on domestic SMEs, based on the results of a survey conducted by a commissioned survey research firm (specializing in SMEs). The expert survey conducted on domestic SMEs was analyzed with statistical...
As a new management pattern, `cluster supply chain' (CSC) can help Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to face the global challenges through all kinds of collaboration. However, a major challenge in implementing CSC is the gap between the related theories and practices in the field. The recent rapid commercialization and adoption of `service' technologies have driven a process of transforming theories...
In current dynamic manufacturing environment, Small, Medium Enterprises (SMEs) must develop new products successfully in order to maintain a competitive advantage. SMEs differ from large companies due to their limited resources. Currently, most of SMEs lack a structured process in their New Product Development (NPD) management. NPD is vital for SMEs to survive in a competitive business environment...
University Technology Business Incubation (UTBI) is a program developed for an entrepreneurial company by providing a variety of resources and services to a selected start-up or entrepreneurial groups in early-stage technology-related ventures. To promote the success of UTBI program, it is important for management team to understand the necessary resources required by the program. The purpose of this...
Inventory financing business plays an important part in solving financing difficulty of small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper develops single-period decision models from the perspective of the borrowing company. At first, we will study the borrowing company's optimal financing decision, given initial inventory quantity. Then we consider ordering decision and financing decision simultaneously,...
Because of low profitability recently, large manufacturers in Japan have reduced R&D expenditure, and cannot afford to carry on long-term continuous trading with small manufacturers. This has resulted in an R&D shift from large manufacturers to suppliers, creating a new technological opportunity for the latter. Some of Japan's hi-tech small suppliers tried to be independent, and created a...
The emerging area of Human Computer Interaction - Privacy (HCI-P) is evolving to include research on engineering HCI requirement and localizing privacy protection to include socio-cultural requirement, legal protection by countries and user privacy preferences. `Personal Data Protection Act 2009', passed in April 2010 by Malaysia's Parliament demonstrated the infancy level of privacy protection in...
Nowadays, the growth of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is one of the important criteria for assessing the rate of success for each country and governments try to expand it among societies. At present, in the ongoing emphasis to be competitive and survive, organizations need to continuously improve the goods and services to meet customers' and stakeholders' needs. This study examines the...
The Internet provides an easy and uniform way for businesses to make their brands and products visible to their customers. Due to the vast number of companies that take advantage of the Internet to conduct their business, it is very challenging for them to increase their sales and market awareness. In this paper, we investigate two techniques which are used to improve the visibility of an e-business...
The development of logistics industry is one of the important elements in accelerating economic growth of regions and even a country. With the ever-increasing fierce competition, most logistics enterprises, especially some small & medium-sized ones, have come across more and more difficulties in logistics infrastructure, technicians, industry cluster etc., which greatly hinder the rapid growth...
It is the most important to effectively conduct enterprise credit evaluation in the issuing process of relationship lending. As Chinese market economy is not developed, the current enterprise credit evaluation model in developed countries can only serve as a reference instead of being completely imitated. The enterprise loan signaling game model proposed by domestic scholars gives consideration to...
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