Personality, Productivity, and Instant Messaging

This paper explores the relationship between personality, productivity, and instant messaging. With the current and forecasted usage of IM software, business implications must be addressed. Managers should understand how to effectively manage this technology. Not understanding these implications could result in abuse and negatively impact productivity

RFID: Revolutionizing inventory management across the supply chain

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is revolutionizing asset tracking, inventory management, and supply chain execution. RFID has the ability to track inventory with almost no human intervention, thus offering enormous potential for better inventory management across the supply chain. This paper discusses the application of RFID within four settings: (1) health care facilities, specifically hospitals; (2) tracking pharmaceuticals from manufacturing throughout distribution; (3) managing retain supply chains; and (4) tracking personnel, assets, and inventory in the military

Ethical data mining

The advent of data mining opens up a number of interesting prospects to increase competitiveness. To remain competitive, a corporation must strategically manage its information and react quicker than its competitors. However, this information must be kept secure, but accessible. Every organization must be held responsible for ensuring that their data is being used in a legal and ethical manner. This paper highlights both the positive and negative aspects of data mining. In addition, it provides insight into how information systems (IS) professionals and businesses may protect themselves from the negative ramifications associated with improper use of data

B2B Trade Exchanges: A Study from a Seller\u27s Perspective

B2B transactions directly affect a company\u27s bottom line. More businesses are turning to e-marketplaces to conduct their purchasing and selling operations. This paper examines online trade exchanges and studies 20 manufacturing trade exchanges from a seller\u27s perspective

How to successfully create and sustain a vibrant APICs student chapter

Starting a successful student chapter is not easy. It requires the right mix of support from the parent chapter, academic liaison, faculty advisor, college administration, and students. Most APICS student chapters are struggling with few (less than 10) student members and even fewer activities that encourage student membership as well as ties with local APICS chapters. It is possible to create and sustain a vibrant student chapter given these tried and tested guidelines provided in this paper

Business-to-business (B2B) trade exchanges: current marketplace information flow

Marketplace communication channels in most industries are complicated by the presence of thousands of buyers and sellers maintaining business-to-business (B2B) relationships with one another. The conglomeration of these channels has produced an intricate network of unique relationships between these partners that simulataneously encourages inefficient, non-standardized, information-flow transaction platforms. Through trading partners such a sales representatives, brokers, or distributors, Buyer A maintains a unique business relationship with each of its suppliers (see Figure 1). For every transaction process conducted between Buyer A and its respective supplier, a different means of communication may be utilized (Girishankar)

Critical success factors for the development of trade exchanges

Inefficiencies exist throughout the supply chain. Everyday business operations are often tedious and time-consuming. Transactions may be significant delayed due to limitations associated with asynchronous communications. Electronic marketplaces provide a means for improving supply chain efficiency. They enhance liquidity by permitting a large number of buyers and sellers to connect with each other. Estimates indicate that B2B trade exchanges with facilitate $600 billion to$3 trillion (U.S. revenues) in trade by 2003 (Tumolo, 2001). Exchanges are found in a variety of industries including aerospace, agriculture, automotive, banking, chemical, education, energy, food, hospitality, paper, and steel..

Pursuing lean objective-oriented software development

Software quality can be characterized as meeting customer requirements at the agreed cost within the established time frame. Currently, the sad state of software quality indicates new software development approaches might be warranted. One of the most dramatic examples of software project failures is the London Stock Exchange (called Taurus) developed eleven years late and 13,200% over budget. According to the Standish Group, known for its high quality, independent primary research, analysis, and advice, only 16% of software development projects are successful whereas 31% are canceled due to defects. Average cost for failed projects is 189% of the original estimate, almost double what was budgeted. Average time for software development projects is even more than double the original estimate. Finally, an average project delivers only 61% of the specified functions and requirements (Corr,2002). If such statistics were applied to manufacturing, process throughputs times and the quality of final outputs would be unacceptable. Due to the difficulty of monitoring progress and defining the problem as well as the solutions, the degree of precision required, and the rapid pace of technological advances, many software developers accept that projects will be delivered late and over budget

Interactive exercises in synchronous flow and constraint management

This interactive presentation will explain synchronous flow, line balancing, and constraint management following by two hands-on exercises. The first exercise will be a line-balancing problem in which apirs of participants determine the number of workstations needed to meet daily production goals. The second exercise, groups of six to 10 participants will optimize a production line in a simulated environment to illustrate the effect of dependent events and statistical fluctuations

Consumer willingness to adopt pervasive computing applications: A Comparison of the deaf and non-hearing impaired community

Aside from the seven electric motors inside the computer used to type this paper, there are approximately 38 individual devices that use electric motors in the typical home and automobile. What began with Michael Faraday in 1831 (when he demonstrated the principle of an electric current), has now reached maturity. Two words that serve as accurate descriptors of this maturation process they are: small and everywhere. One might say, And your point is? The examination of the life cycle of the electronic motor provides insight into the future of computing