Business Process Management Education in Academia: Status, challenges, and Recommendations

In response to the growing proliferation of Business Process Management (BPM) in industry and the demand this creates for BPM expertise, universities across the globe are at various stages of incorporating knowledge and skills in their teaching offerings. However, there are still only a handful of institutions that offer specialized education in BPM in a systematic and in-depth manner. This article is based on a global educators’ panel discussion held at the 2009 European Conference on Information Systems in Verona, Italy. The article presents the BPM programs of five universities from Australia, Europe, Africa, and North America, describing the BPM content covered, program and course structures, and challenges and lessons learned. The article also provides a comparative content analysis of BPM education programs illustrating a heterogeneous view of BPM. The examples presented demonstrate how different courses and programs can be developed to meet the educational goals of a university department, program, or school. This article contributes insights on how best to continuously sustain and reshape BPM education to ensure it remains dynamic, responsive, and sustainable in light of the evolving and ever-changing marketplace demands for BPM expertise

THE LIFE CYCLE OF PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN COMPANIES IN THE RUSSIAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY

Professional players on the Russian market in microelectronics form temporary partnerships so that they can design and develop microelectronic devices with a certain life cycle. This paper proves that the capacity of such partnerships to develop successfully and to achieve the goals they have set depends on the stages of their development, i.e. the stages of a partnership life cycle. The materialisation of these partnerships refers to all stages of the technological value chain of microelectronic devices, which allows each professional player on the Russian market in microelectronics to perform their functions. Each stage of the partnership life cycle relates to specific features and key success factors. By analysing the stages of partnerships life cycles, it is possible to predict and identify potential problems in terms of the materialisation and development of interorganisational relationships

Database Management of Vedaranyam Taluk, Nagappattinam District, Tamilnadu using Geographic Information System (GIS)

GIS, known as geographical information system, is the latest tool, a computer system for capturing, storing, checking, integrating, manipulating, analysis in and displacing data related to positions on the Earth’s surface. Typically, a geographical information system or (spatial information system) is used for handling maps of one or another. These might be represented as several different layers each layer holds about a particular kind of feature is linked to a position on the graphically image of a map. With the help of GIS a data base management  including data or demography, occupation, education, health, drinking water, power, telecommunication, roads/transportation, banks& commercial  institutions, agriculture, sanitation, common property resources ,employment, forestry, industries,  marketing facilities, etc.The scope of the work involves  1, data pertaining to geological and geophysical resources, human resources, social and economic infrastructure, etc. should be collected, collected, updated, and retrieval on regular basis, 2, generation of real time, reliable database on natural resources, socio-economic, agro- climatic condition, financial, institutional and environmental data using geo- informatics and 3, data base to cater to the needs of planning sharing information to various user organizations with necessary data analysis, etc and would act as a centralized data base for state govt. department/ institutions/ institutions involved in  development planning

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Business Process Management Education in Academia: Status, Challenges, and Recommendations

In response to the growing proliferation of Business Process Management (BPM) in industry and the demand this creates for BPM expertise, universities across the globe are at various stages of incorporating knowledge and skills in their teaching offerings. However, there are still only a handful of institutions that offer specialized education in BPM in a systematic and in-depth manner. This article is based on a global educators’ panel discussion held at the 2009 European Conference on Information Systems in Verona, Italy. The article presents the BPM programs of five universities from Australia, Europe, Africa, and North America, describing the BPM content covered, program and course structures, and challenges and lessons learned. The article also provides a comparative content analysis of BPM education programs illustrating a heterogeneous view of BPM. The examples presented demonstrate how different courses and programs can be developed to meet the educational goals of a university department, program, or school. This article contributes insights on how best to continuously sustain and reshape BPM education to ensure it remains dynamic, responsive, and sustainable in light of the evolving and ever-changing marketplace demands for BPM expertise

Family business: innovation and tradition in a global economy

Eighty-five percent of Italian companies are run as a family business. They are considered vital for Italian economy. The purpose of this thesis is to study how these companies challenge the global market to understand if the globalization can cause them disadvantages or benefits. The study explains what a family business is and who are the components that can be part of it. Then it focuses on the structure of the firms, how the families run their businesses and organize the tasks between the family members. This thesis considers the strategies of innovation adopted by the family to remain competitive in the national and global industry as opposite to non-family run businesses. Then it examines how the management of these businesses chooses to innovate and preserve tradition, balancing the need of renovation and the processes that helped the firm rise

Tyhjiöprosessin läpimenoajan puolittaminen röntgenputkipäätuotannossa

The target of this thesis is to investigate if it is possible to decrease the lead time of tube head vacuum process by at least 50 % or more. Currently the vacuum process is a bottle neck in the tube head production. It inhibits the continuous flow of products and forces the production to be run in batches. It has been hypothesized that the process could be significantly shortened. This has not been done since there has been no research to support this hypothesis. There also isn’t enough understanding on how much air or moisture would cause problems in a tube head. Structural and operational differences of the products make it difficult to estimate how much vacuuming is required for a specific product. Furthermore, the final testing of each finished products can’t fully verify, if the vacuum process has been sufficient. Consequently, the process needs exhibit the ability to produce steady quality. This thesis will present a test plan that is used to verify statistically, if the vacuum process could be made shorter for all tube heads. This is to be accomplished with a high confidence and reliability so that there is very little risk of any quality issues if a shorter process is to be implemented. Due to high amounts of different products, only some will be tested. However, the same testing process can later be used for all products which will be left out of the initial testing. Another part of this thesis presents how the current state of the vacuum process could be improved in addition to shortening the vacuuming time. This part will include evaluating the current layout, material flows and visual controls of the process. Because of the long duration of each test, all testing will not be completed by the time this thesis is finished. What will be presented, however, are the testing process and suggestions for future development. The likely outcome of the testing will be presented and the future production plans will be designed accordingly.Tämän diplomityön tavoitteena on selvittää voiko putkipäiden tyhjiöprosessia lyhentää vähintään 50 % ilman negatiivista vaikutusta tuotteiden laatuun. Nykyään tyhjiöprosessi on putkipäätuotannon pullonkaula. Prosessi estää valmistettavien tuotteiden jatkuvan virtauksen ja pakottaa valmistamaan laitteita erissä. Tyhjiöprosessin merkittävää lyhentämistä pidetään mahdollisena. Tätä ei ole tehty, sillä prosessin lyhentämisen vaikutuksista ei ole tehty tutkimuksia. Ei ole myöskään tiedossa, kuinka suuri määrä ilmaa tai kosteutta putkipään sisällä aiheuttaisi ongelmia. Eri tuotteiden rakenteelliset ja toiminnalliset erot tekevät tarvittavan tyhjiöajan arvioimisen vaikeaksi. Lisäksi kullekin putkipäälle suoritettavat lopputestit eivät täysin varmista tyhjiöprosessin riittävyyttä. Tästä syystä on todistettava, että prosessi tuottaa tasaista laatua. Tässä työssä tehdään testisuunnitelma, jolla voidaan tilastollisesti todentaa lyhennetyn prosessin toimivuus. Testien on tuotettava korkea varmuus lyhyen prosessin toimivuudesta, jotta lyhyemmän prosessin käyttöönottoon ei liity merkittävää riskiä laadun heikkenemisestä. Tuoteryhmien suuren lukumäärän vuoksi vain osa testataan. Samaa testausprosessia voidaan tarvittaessa soveltaa myös testien ulkopuolelle jääviin tuotteisiin. Työn toinen osa liittyy muihin tapoihin, joilla tyhjiöprosessia voitaisiin parantaa, tyhjiöajan lyhentämisen lisäksi. Tässä osassa arvioidaan nykyistä pohjapiirrosta, materiaalivirtoja ja tuotannon visuaalista ohjausta. Testien pitkän keston vuoksi kaikkia testejä ei voida saattaa loppuun ennen tämän työn valmistumista. Tästä syystä esitetään testausprosessi ja ehdotuksia prosessin parantamiseen. Testien todennäköinen lopputulos esitetään ja tulevaa tuotannon ohjausta suunnitellaan sen mukaan