Optimising processes of IT organisation through software products’ configuration management

The present paper is focused on the efficiency of processes within IT firms which design software products, by finding optimum management solutions for these types of activities. In order to achieve this, we focus on software products configuration management, with specific objectives in documenting and ensuring visibility to the product’s configuration and of the stage of achieving its physical and functional characteristics. Through configuration management, technical and administrative rules are established and applied for designing, developing, producing and supporting the elements of the product’s configuration, in each stage of its lifecycle. The conclusions of this research are focused on evaluating economic effects obtained by implementing the quality management system, according to the ISO 9001:2000 quality standard, while developing software products, at the level of IT firm.configuration management, quality management, product lifecycle, software quality

ASPECTS REGARDING CORPORATE MANDATORY AND VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE

The paper highlights theoretical aspects regarding corporate mandatory and voluntary disclosure. Since financial and business reporting are important information sources for different stakeholders, especially for publicly traded companies, the business reporting is increasingly oriented to the need of different users. In order to make rational investment decisions, users of corporate annual and interim reports require an extensive range of information. The increasing needs of the users persuade different international bodies and researchers to investigate the improvements that can be done in business reporting. The results of those studies usually were different reporting models. Because voluntary dimension of corporate disclosure involve the manifestation of free choice of the firm and its managers, we have considered as necessary to achieve a theoretical analysis of the main costs and profits of the voluntary disclosure policy.corporate disclosure, financial reporting, mandatory and voluntary disclosure

Types of Romanian Companies according to the Culture-Strategy Binomial

The organization’s culture-strategy binomial requires a consistent approach of the external and internal factors that can impact on the company, influence its performance and existence and, consequently, the implementation of sound and explicit strategies that would allow the company to successfully cope with potential changes in the external environment and adapt in order to survive and develop. The organisational culture represents a component of competitive management applied in the most competitive corporations across the world and a premise for further development and efficient use of human resources potential in organisations. Internal and external levels, design and implementation, assessment and control, they are all integrated into the same logic, focusing on getting a better competitive position and meeting the stakeholders expectations.organizational culture; strategy; competitiveness; stakeholders.

Classification of Romanian Industrial Companies based on the Management Strategic Dimension

The interest for strategy expressed within Romanian companies was caused by the fact that the external context has become more and more dynamic and unpredictable, allowing to different factors to exert a more powerful influence over the enterprise than previously expected. Consequently, by elaborating global and specialized strategies the companies try to anticipate and even to shape their direct environment. The analysis performed at this stage is focused on highlighting the main impact elements of endogenous and exogenous variables, conditioning the strategic and cultural dimension of the company related to its managerial and economic performances and, especially, the extent to which the managers understand and use such managerial tools in order to get performances and trigger excellence in management and implicitly excellence in business.strategy; endogenous variables; exogenous variables; managerial tools; performance.

Analysis of the Industrial Enterprises Behaviour

Strategic thinking has always played an important role at enterprise level, especially as concerns profitable companies, even if this implies an implicit strategy or, in other words, the influence of the enterprise leaders, which was deprived of formalism, was not based on models of analysis and was not widely communicated. The article deals with the analysis of the main variables that significantly influence the competitive positioning of the companies and their evolution, emphasizing the strong connections among strategy, culture and performances. This analysis is based on a research carried out in Romania and is targeting to offer new perspectives over the factors that affect the enterprises behaviour and what are some of the options that the present managers can apply in a more and more dynamic environment in order to meet appropriately the stakeholders expectations.enterprises behaviour; economic and managerial analysis; strategy; organizational culture.

Characteristics of the Knowledge Based Organisations

The paper present the main orientations identified in the transition process from the traditional economy to the knowledge based economy.knowledge based organizations; knowledge management

Operation on text entities

There are defined level of orthogonality for text entities. There are built orthogonal entities. There are identified operations on orthogonal entities and for each operation there are speci-fied the proprieties and the signification from applicability point of view. There is described software use to implement operations with structured entities.Text entity, orthogonality, operation.

The Training Process for Higher Education Managers

The paper is focused on the influence of some variables over the training process for higher education managers. These variables are: scientific novelties in the management area, necessity for communication, training and autotraining process etc. This paper represents a small part of the scientific results for the research program “Micro and macrosystemic efficiency higher education activity” (cod CNCSIS 115/2005, research project coordonator lecturer Ph. D. Claudiu Cicea).training proces; higher education managers

SOME ASPECTS REGARDING THE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS USED IN THE MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY

To assess the economic performance of an enterprise four indicators are commonly used: return on investment, residual income, economic value added and profitability of sales. The performance analysis is a constituent of any managerial control system. Strategic planning and control decisions require information on how different subunits of the enterprise worked. To be efficient, performance indicators and remuneration have to motivate the managers and the employees from all enterprise levels and to make sustained efforts to implement strategies and to attain business objectives.performance, profitability, economic value added, investments

Student Evaluation, Basic Element for Quality Improvement in the Higher Education

The student is the person who, through certain native or gained qualities, assimilates the information and knowledge provided by the Professor. He is the main beneficiary of the educational system, because the main educational effects are registered at his level: the social effects (the improvement of the individual’s inter-human relations inside a society, the healthier behaviour of the educated persons etc.) and the economical effects (especially materialized as supplementary incomes for the higher-educated persons). Therefore, we can say that the student, together with the teacher, occupies a central position in the educational system.education; evaluation; student; tests.