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In This Page you'll find academic articles, business white papers, and presentations - covering the topics related to our business consulting services and academic mentoring. 

The material is organized under the following groups:

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In Memoriam

    Peter F. Drucker: Prolific Father of Modern Management (Flanigan, J., & Mulligan, T. S., 2005)


BPR - Business Process Reengineering

    The New Industrial Engineering: IT & Business Process Redesign (Davenport, T. H. & Short, J. E., 1990)

    BPR and IT in the Clinical Research CRO Business (Bar, E. Z., 2002)

    An ABC Guide to Business Process Reengineering (Parker, J., 1993)         

To Use DMEDI or to Use DMAIC? That is the Question (Jones, S. H,, 2006, iSixSigma)


Requirements Management

Presentation on Writing Good Use Cases (75 minutes)  (Heumann, J., IBM, 2005)

    The Life Cycle of a Use Case (Bittner, K., & Spence, I., 2003; Chapter 6 of the book "Use Case Modeling")

    Transformations Between UML Diagrams (Selonen, P., Koskimies, K., & Sakkinen, M., 2003)

    Non-Functional and Technical Requirements, Ontario Ministry of Transportation (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Security Requirements, Ontario Ministry of Transportation (Bar, E. Z., 2005)


Business Analysis & IT Enterprise Architecture

    Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture - A Poster

    Zachman - Mandatory and Optional Artefacts for Rows 1&2 of the Framework (Bar, E. Z., 2006, Edited)

The Four Domain Architecture- An Approach to Support Enterprise Architecture Design (Lyer, B., & Gottlieb, R., 2004)


IT Development

 

  Online Article Library of Agile Alliance is a great source, we strongly recommend.

    A Rational Development Process (Kruchten, P., 1996)

    Inter-operability of DSDM with the Rational Unified Process (Tuff, D., Stapleton, J., West, D., & Eason, Z., 1999)


IT Project Management

    Using DSDM with PRINCE2 (DSDM Consortium, 2003)

    Total Cost of Ownership - 75% goes for Service Management (Macfarlane, I., & Tylor, S., 2004)


SME/ SMB - Small & Mid-size Enterprise/ Business

    The Characteristics and Features of SMEs:  Favorable or Unfavorable to Logistics Integration (Cleinas, R., & Bigras, Y., 2004)

    Growth and Performance in Small Innovative Firms (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Principles of Productivity and Operations Management for Small Business (SME) (Bar, E. Z., 2004)

   Economies of Scale vs. Economies of Scope (Bar, E. Z., 2004)


Management of Engineering and Technology

            

The Bio-Ethanol Fuel Dilemma - Analysis of Economical, Environmental, Social, and Moral Aspects - A Qualitative Research (Bar, E. Z., 2006)

     Product offering, Pricing, and Make-to-stock/ Make-to-order Decisions with Shared Capacity (Dobson,G., & Yano,C.A., 2002)

     Justifications for the Use of Group-Technology-Cell over Batch-Manufacturing (Bar, E. Z., 2004)

  Using Pareto Charts for Quality Improvement (Bar, E. Z., 2004)

Ensuring Successful New Products and Services with QFD (Hjort, J., 2006)

    ISO-9000 and Baldrige-based Approaches to Quality (Bar, E. Z., 2004)

    BS15000 (British Standard for Service Management) - Taking you Beyond ITIL (Macfarlane, I., & Tylor, S., 2004)


Innovation and Change Management

    The Art of Managing Balances in Innovation (Bar, E. Z., 2006)

    Measurements and Incentives that Support Innovation (Bar, E. Z., 2006)

    Organisational Learning and Culture that Nurture Innovation (Bar, E. Z., 2006)

Following are papers that were handed during presentations and lectures

    The Various Types of Innovation (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Why is it Hard to Innovate? (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    What is Successful Innovation? (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    How Innovation can be Successfully Managed in a Growing Technology Business? (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Rationalist and Incrementalist Strategies to Innovation (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    How do Competitors Influence Innovation? (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    National Systems of Innovation (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Firm Specific Competencies (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Technology Paths in Small Firms (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Allocating Resources for Innovation (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Blending Technology and Corporate Strategies While Managing Innovation (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    How do Market Activities Affect Technology Development? (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    The Challenges of Diffusion of Innovations and Commercialization of Products (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Forms of Business Collaboration (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Patterns of Business Collaboration (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Enabling Scanning and Strategy Making (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Enabling Implementation and Effective Resource Provision (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Corporate Venture (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Corporate Venture Structures (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    What is the Appropriate Organizational Structure for Innovation? (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Growth and Performance in Small Innovative Firms (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    The Value of a University Incubator to Innovation (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    The Audit of Innovation Management (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

    Measuring Innovation Success (Bar, E. Z., 2005)

         


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