The study of strategic management improvement in Yemen soft company

Software industry is the core of information industry and the foundation of information-based national economy, and also a strategic industry that decides a country’s position in international competition. The Yemeni government has put the development of software industry to a significant part in the national development plan. Yemen Software, a rapid-developing high-tech corporate enterprise, is entering a growing period after years of primitive accumulation. In this key point of development, it is highly necessary for it to make strategic positioning through comparison of internal and external environment opportunities and the advantages and disadvantages of itself. It is also the most important and the most urgent challenge for Yemen to lay its competitive advantage by grabbing the unprecedented developing chance with limited resources and fully taking advantage of its own strengths so as to stand out from the competition. Therefore, it is of much strategic significance to mane comprehensive thinking and studies on the development strategies of this company. In addition, this paper also makes strategy research on Yemen Software as a subject corporate. In section one, it introduces the importance of studying the development strategies research on Yemen Software as well as the purpose and meaning of this research. The main structure, research methods and technical routes are provided through studying the research condition of this topic. Section two illustrates the nature and features of strategy and introduces the strategy structure and its contents and tasks of this company. Section Three is a general introduction about Yemen Software, including internal operation environment, human resources, market share and resources. Then it analyzes the external macro-environment of this company through the aspects of economy, politics, political law, technical environment and competition environment. In Section four, the author builds a SWOT strategy matrix through the analysis on the advantages, disadvantages, chances and challenges of this company. Section five introduces the Safeguard Measures taken by Yemen Software from four aspects including optimization of organization structure, production strategy, human resources allocation as well as corporate culture. This paper aims to set a development plan for Yemen Software through the strategic analysis and provide learning experience for other similar software companies. Keywords: Yemen Software; strategic management; Yemen; corporate development strategy; SWOT analysis; strategic planning improvement  DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-16-12 Publication date:June 30th 201

THE IMPACT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC MEGATRENDS UPON SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT (METHODOLOGICAL ASPECT OF STUDY)

The article reflects some outcomes of the author’s scientific research which has been conducted for recent few years. The purpose of the study was to reveal the most influential socio-economic trends that have determined the development of the contemporary social and economic systems, including business. In doing so, there has been precised the notion of a socio-economic megatrend (SEM), there have been conceptualized and systematized some key SEMs which produced an impact on the formation of modern society, influence the development of postmodern society and will contribute to the constitution of future society. In the very frame, it has been traced the impact of each of the SEM revealed upon the development of business activity

The impact of IT governance wisdom on board decision-making: A perspective of the philosophy of The Art of War

Board decision-making is a complex process. It is represented by reasoning for choosing the most suitable alternative within a series of options for the operation of the corporation. In practice, strategic decision-making is an important function of the board of directors, especially in the information age. Although there are various determinants of the board for carrying out decision-making, there has been little research concerning the impact of information technology (IT) governance wisdom on board decision-making. This study seeks to investigate the origin of IT governance and analyze IT governance wisdom from the perspective of the philosophical thinking of The Art of War. The analysis indicates that the concept of IT governance must have been produced no earlier than the late 1990s, highly likely at the beginning of the 21st century. In addition, this study presents the results of qualitative field research of a Chinese information and communication technology (ICT) company which indicates that it has an important meaning in explaining IT governance wisdom might have a significant influence on board decision-making. In summary, the importance of information governance wisdom in the decision-making process of the board of directors is also a reflection of intelligent management while considering the interests of shareholders in the digital era

Korea and the global software industry

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Business-IT alignment from operational level: empirical evidence from the Bank of Qingdao, China

Business-IT Alignment (BITA) has long been a significant topic for scholars as well as enterprise managers especially in the Internet era. Although numerous studies have identified the factors influencing the aligning process and relationships between them and organization successes from strategic perspective, few consider the impact of these elements on employees’s performances from an operational level. To fill this gap, this thesis first discusses the state-of-art and the challenges of BITA in China’s city commercial banks (CCBs) and further develops a theoretical framework to empirically evaluate the BITA in China banking industry. Finally, some recommendations for improving the level of BITA in China’s CCBs are provided. Taking the Bank of Qingdao (BQD) as a sample, this thesis empirically examines BITA maturity model with the results that five factors including communication, IT competency/value measurement, IT governance, partnership, and IT skills are positively related to the BITA while IT scope and architecture are not significant. In addition, the moderating effect of service quality between BITA and employee’s working performance is also supported by the survey. This study also develops a new theoretical model namely, business-IT punctuated equilibrium alignment model (BIPEAM), based on life cycle theory and punctuated equilibrium theory to describe the alternately leading roles between business and IT strategies. This model may contribute towards the better understanding of the mechanism of business-IT strategic alignment process from a longitudinal perspective within an enterprise.O alinhamento entre o negócio e as Tecnologias de Informação (TI) ou alinhamento business-IT (BITA) tem sido desde há muito um tópico significativo para académicos bem como para gestores de empresas, especialmente na era da Internet. Embora numerosas investigações tenham identificado os fatores que influenciam o processo de alinhamento e as relações entre eles e os sucessos da organização do ponto de vista estratégico, poucas consideram o impacto destes elementos no desempenho dos empregados a partir de um nível operacional. Para preencher esta lacuna, esta tese começa por discutir o estado da arte e os desafios do BITA nos bancos comerciais das cidades da China (CCBs) e desenvolve um quadro teórico para avaliar empiricamente o BITA na indústria bancária Chinesa. Por último, são fornecidas algumas recomendações para melhorar o nível de BITA nos CCBs da China. Tomando o Banco de Qingdao (BQD) como amostra, esta tese examina empiricamente o modelo de maturidade do BITA com os resultados de que cinco fatores, incluindo comunicação, competência/avaliação de TI, governação de TI, parceria, e competências de TI estão positivamente relacionados com o BITA enquanto que o âmbito e a arquitetura de TI não são significativos. Além disso, o efeito moderador da qualidade do serviço entre a BITA e o desempenho de trabalho do empregado é também apoiado pelo inquérito realizado. Este estudo também desenvolve um novo modelo teórico, nomeadamente o modelo de alinhamento de equilíbrio pontuado de business-IT (BIPEAM) baseado na teoria do ciclo de vida e na teoria do equilíbrio pontuado para descrever os papéis alternadamente de liderança entre as estratégias empresariais e de TI. Este modelo pode contribuir para uma melhor compreensão do mecanismo do processo de alinhamento estratégico entre empresas e as TI, a partir de uma perspetiva longitudinal dentro de uma empresa

Development Experience of Japanese Think Tank and Its Enlightenment to China for Building High-End New-Type Think Tank

Think tank, as one of the effective carriers of humanities and social sciences knowledge services, plays an important theoretical support, intelligence support and decision-making reference in national political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, military and other fields. Since the World War II, along with the national recovery and reconstruction, economic restructuring, transformation and upgrading of industries, expansion of the international market, and the enhancing of the international influence power, etc, Japanese think tank industry has rapidly developed, ranking among the world top ten, and has accumulated rich valuable experiences. This article gains some enlightenment for China by analyzing the current situation characteristics of Japanese think tank development and concluding the experience, which will undoubtedly have certain reference effect on strengthening the construction of think tank industry with the Chinese characteristics, and better serving the national economic and social development

Heilongjiang Petroleum & Petrochemical Service Outsourcing Industry Cluster Construction

Heilongjiang petroleum & petrochemical service outsourcing business covers whole industry chain of upstream, midstream and downstream of petroleum & petrochemical field, and owns technology, software and hardware support system. Petroleum & petrochemical service outsourcing enterprises and related organizations own the conditions of forming petroleum & petrochemical industry cluster, and the construction of petroleum & petrochemical service outsourcing industry cluster has certain necessity and feasibility. The construction goal is “One Base and Two Centers”. The construction measures include the introduction of well-known enterprises, the support to backbone enterprises as well as cultivation and introduction of talents, doing well training work, constructing platform facilities, integrating outsourcing market, strengthening organizational leadership and perfecting policy system, and so forth.Key words: Petroleum & petrochemical; Service outsourcing industry; Industry cluste

Precarization, Genderization and Neotaylorist Work: How Global Value Chain Restructuring Affects Banking Sector Workers in Brazil

The transnationalization of financial markets impacted on the fragmentation and recomposition of value chains which induced comprehensive processes of outsourcing and the commodification of bank services. This paper explores how this translates into the sectoral and internal reorganization of Brazilian banks and how work organization and social relations are affected. The case of (bank-owned as well as outsourced) call center not only reflects changes in the importance and form of service relations but also shapes a neotayorist reorganization of the labor process and the respective modes of control. As a result, a complex process of precarization and segmentation of the work force can be observed which impacts on new lines of inequality related to categories like gender, class and race. The analysis is based on a theoretical approach which refers to Michael Burawoy’s concept of the “politics of production” and categories of Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory like symbolic violence. This allows an analysis of power relations which also includes the dimension of identities. Thus a more fine-grained insight can be gained on how transnational restructuring affects redistribution on a macro, meso and micro level