In a technology-driven industry, the appropriate vendors/suppliers can effectively contribute to cobusiness development profits. Key component vendors help dynamically drive solution design firms to achieve strong performances, especially when an integrated circuit (IC) component that has technical know-how specifications dominates an electronic solution design. This paper presents a systematic framework to examine the decision process for the selection of wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) IC vendor alternatives from the business ecosystem aspect in order to review the importance of buyer-supplier synergistic effects. We implement the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process technique which incorporates a vendor’s capability, productivity, and reliability characteristics into a hierarchical structure and deploys decision experts’ judgments along with vague data analysis to solve a real-world problem faced by a leading company specialized in the research and design of wireless networking solutions. .
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Advances in technology innovation
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In recent strategy literatures, operational capabilities in the information technology have been mostly interested among academic scholars since newly developed mobile devices emerged. However, the conceptualization and measurement of operational capabilities in application software firms has little come to attention. The purpose of this study is to propose a measurable model of operational capabilities by conceptualizing, operationalizing, and measuring operational capabilities. Specifically, based upon theoretical and practical literatures, this study seeks to conceptualize a set of capabilities-organizing, managing, and technical capability-that help operating existing capabilities in the application software business. Moreover, it concretizes the construct of operational capabilities with formulating reflective and formative modes, and also certifies their validities through empirical data-driven testing from 227 mobile software developers, sourced from Mac App Store and Google Android Apps. In the measurement model, it results in reflective indicators as first-order model and formative indicators as second-order model using partial least square analysis techniques. Lastly, the author discusses the theoretical and managerial implications and provide some suggestions for the future study.
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Total Quality Management & Business Excellence
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2011 Annual SRII Global Conference
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In today's competitive business world, the amount of information assets you have and how you use it makes a big difference for company's competitive advantage. Marketing departments have the challenge of selling products, or acquiring and retaining clients for services within budget constraints. Identification of the target group is a task that needs to be well thought out to minimize acquisition cost and to maximize return on investment. Determining the right product and service for the target group through the right channel is also very important. This tutorial provides an overview of using information services for advanced marketing. It also provides a basic understanding of how to plan, design, evaluate, successfully refine predictive models, and include this process as part of corporate strategy for competitive advantage. The same process can be followed for other business units like fraud, customer management, retention, pricing and risk management.
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Journal of Information Systems and Telecommunication
Organizations are increasingly in search of ways to derive more business values from IT investments and the need for IT capabilities (ITC) is surging. ITC is critical significant to build enterprise agility and promote organizational performance. However, IT capability is always treated as the causal factor already existing and there are few studies on how IT capability is created and evaluated. Appropriate evaluation is necessary for an organization to measure, manage and improve enterprise ITC. This research aims to identify and map the dimensions of an organization's ITC. Using a mixed research method, this paper comprises two sections. The qualitative section adopts a systematic literature review (SLR) approach to identify the dimensions of ITC. The quantitative section employs factor analysis to validate identified ITC dimensions and their indicators in an attempt to develop a more precise model for ITC evaluation. The proposed ITC model includes IT management, IT human resources, IT infrastructure, and implementation of IT solutions dimensions as well as the 25 related indicators. Drawing on the results of this paper, organizations can engage in evaluation and improve/create essential ITCs based on the evaluation results.
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Computers & Industrial Engineering
