A survey of Western Australian Software Businesses an exlporative web content analysis

© 2016 IEEE.This paper surveys the Western Australian Software Businesses. A literature survey of Australian software firms has been done. Documented studies on Australian software businesses includes themes such as quality management systems, knowledge intensive service activities, requirement engineering practices, software testing practices, knowledge management practices and project management practices. The web content analysis shows that there are around 334 western Australian software businesses that have a web presence. Amongst this there are around 285 project based companies and 49 product based companies which are widespread across twenty towns in the Western Australian state. The key business aspects which are primarily important for the success of Western Australian software businesses are identified as the geographic distribution, human resources structure, business incubation and vendor orientation. Finally we are outlining a number of implications for Western Australian Software businesses to boost their businesses in the forthcoming years

Green Business Practices for Software Development Companies: An Explorative Text Analysis of Business Sustainability Reports

This paper reports the findings of a text analysis of the corporate sustainability reports of eleven large scale Indian Software Development Businesses for the period of 2012 to 2014. The results shows that there are twenty two reported components of software development sustainability namely green buildings, green energy, green factory, green data centres, green infrastructure, green initiatives, green innovation, green packaging, green portfolio, green power, green practices, green procurement, green products, green program, green rating, green solutions, green space, green team, green tech and green supply chain which are addressed in the published reports of Indian software development businesses. The reports were further analysed to infer some knowledge on how the software development companies could contribute to green environment and the possible environmental impacts of these contributions. Finally a number of generalised conclusions were derived and followed by a set of implications for best practices in green software development as the outcome of the research reported in this paper

Business sustainability frameworks a survey

© 2016 IEEE.This paper aims to formulate a number of research questions based on a literature survey. A critical review of literature has been undertaken to evaluate the existing business sustainability frameworks. Business Sustainability frameworks from a number of domains such as manufacturing, e-learning, agriculture, bioenergy and Information technology has been reviewed. The knowledge gap in this space has been clearly outlined and a number of research questions were derived from this discussion. Based upon this review a framework will be proposed using the inputs from the existing literature. The proposed framework will be validated by interviewing domain experts. Once validated the framework would be applied to two different ICT businesses either from Australia or overseas. This will be a case study based research where the two ICT companies will be assessed using the proposed framework and the results from this case study will be used to draw generalized conclusions related to the sustainability of ICT businesses