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- A Survey of SMEs and Their Attitudes Towards the Implementation of ISO 9001:2000
- The purpose of this survey was to investigate the potential impact that ISO 9001:2000 is likely to have upon small and medium sized companies. The particular focus concerns the appropriateness of the revised standard to SME's, the likelihood of continued or new registration, difficulties the SME's are likely to experience...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Investigating the rationale for pursuing total quality management(TQM) as a valid competitive strategy for SME's
- "The importance of Total Quality Management TQM for Small and Medium Sized (SME?s) is widely acknowledged by various authors. It state that SME's are often suppliers of goods and services to larger organizations and therefore a lack of product quality and/or service from SME's could adversely affect...
- White papers 2000-08-25
- Joint EMS and Group Certification: A Cost-Effective Route for SMEs to Achieve ISO 14001
- The article is about Joint Environmental Management System. At Hackefors Industrial District in Sweden, 30 small and medium-sized enterprises SMEs formed a network to establish a joint environmental management system EMS as a cost-effective way to receive ISO 14001 certification. Since receiving certification in early 1999, they have observed many...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Quality Systems in the Small or Medium Sized Enterprise [SME]: A Guide To The Adoption Of The ISO 9001:2000 Standard
- The article talks about the ISO certification. The year 2000 revision contains five requirements sections, each dealing with one of the fundamental building blocks required by any process. These are: Quality management system, Management responsibility, Resource management, Product/Service realization, and Measurement, analysis and improvement. Each of these five fundamental building...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Third Benchmarking Workshop Input Paper: Intellectual Property Rights
- There are two sectors which are very important for the knowledge economy in terms of their contribution to economic development. Firstly, the Small and Medium sized Enterprises SMEs whose the dynamism and flexibility are crucial for the development of innovations. Secondly, the public sector research institutes contribute significant amount of...
- White papers 2001-04-02
- Delivering The Business Value Of Automating Business Processes To Small And Medium Enterprise
- Enterprises of all sizes face common problems dealing with handling increasing business complexity while reducing costs. The solution continues to be the automation of business processes. SAP is an established leader in addressing the needs of large enterprises. Building on that performance and identified best practices, SAP built and launched...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Networks, Partnerships, Clusters And Intellectual Property Rights
- Even more than larger firms, SMEs Small and Medium Sized Enterprise need to access external sources of information, knowledge, know-how and technologies, in order to build their own innovative capability and to reach their markets. They can only partly secure such access through markets for goods, services, IPRs (Intellectual Property...
- White papers 2004-06-03
- Intellectual Property (IP) Rights And Innovation In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises
- The phrase "Knowledge-based economy" describes the new economic environment in which the generation and management of knowledge play a predominant part in wealth creation, as compared with the traditional factors of production, namely land, labor and capital. The system of Intellectual Property IP rights creates a mechanism to resolve the...
- White papers 2004-06-18
- Outsourcing Of Accounting Tasks In SMEs: An Extended TCE Model
- This paper explores why Small and Medium-sized Companies SMEs engage in outsourcing of accounting services. It expands the transaction cost economics model by adding the variable resource deficit from resource-based theory, while controlling for personal characteristics of the SME executive (age, education), organizational structure, firm maturity and ownership structure. It...
- White papers 2006-09-01
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- Benioff And Dell Link Arms: Here Comes Hybrid Cloud
- Marc Benioff set aside his duties as master of ceremonies at the death of software Tuesday and announced on-demand applications and on-premises applications could work together. His venue was a Yerba Buena Center theater in San Francisco next to Oracle OpenWorld. He still took a swipe at enterprise software, but...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Apple Snow Leopard Is Not the Mac's Ticket to the Enterprise
- Apple's new operating system, Snow Leopard, possesses features such as built-in support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 seemingly designed to give it greater appeal for enterprise and SMB (small- to medium-sized business) users. But analysts suggest that, if Apple wants to truly gain more business market-share, it will need to...
- News items 2009-08-28
- Furniture exports seen up by 10pc, BUSINESS TIMES
- Business Times Malaysia 02-10-2004 HYPERMARKET Tesco Stores M Sdn Bhd says it will assist potential local small and medium enterprise SME suppliers to explore the export market through Tesco's international operations. "The produc Business Times Malaysia ...
- Research articles 2004-02-10
- Top Dell Execs Step Down in Reorganization
- NEW YORK, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Dell Inc's president and chief marketing officer are leaving the company as part of a reorganization at the No. 2 PC maker, which is facing weak demand during the economic downturn. The company has already been cutting jobs and overhead as it tries to...
- News items 2009-08-07
- SAP May Have Business Suite 7, But It's Still MIA With SaaS
- SAP last week rolled the drums for its introduction of "Business Suite 7," the first major upgrade of its flagship corporate-operations support software in almost three years. But the company has failed to come up with a convincing plan for surviving a determined push by more modern and flexible rivals...
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Commander takes Volante on a new path.
- Byline: Ben Woodhead Aug 07, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian-listed Commander Communications is restructuring its operations after acquiring systems integrator, Volante Group. Commander increased its offer to $A147 million. Commander has completed a three-month review of its...
- Research articles 2006-08-07
- Keep Control Over Your Growing Business
- Introducing new software into your workplace can make you anxious. It takes time and money for you and your employees to learn a new application. And the gains are never guaranteed. However, for an organisation that is growing - and resolved to keep operations under control at the same time...
- White papers
- Fujitsu To Offer Cloud Services
- Fujitsu will make servers, networking, and storage in the data center available for use by the hour in the first quarter of 2010, with an emphasis on services that enhance privacy and security in a multi-tenant facility. "We will primarily offer private cloud infrastructure for the enterprise and a platform...
- News items 2009-12-08
- Arrow Electronics, Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you, Ms. Weaver. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Matt Sheerin, Thomas Weisel Partners Matt Sheerin - Thomas Weisel Yes, thank you. My first question is in regard to the Components business. You talked about there are several areas of weakness, Europe...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-24
- Dell, Salesforce Partner on Cloud Computing Offerings
- Cost-conscious companies seeking streamlined CRM solutions should take note of Salesforce.com's Dell-certified customer management offerings.Computer maker Dell and cloud computing company Salesforce.com announced today announced the availability of new certified Dell-salesforce.com solutions, joint offerings for small and medium businesses SMBs, that deliver customer relationship management CRM applications via the cloud....
- News items 2009-10-13
- Smartphone wars - BlackBerry's plan to win
- Fortune Magazine -- For two Canadian guys who've spent the past 17 years together building one of the world's most important tech companies, Research in Motion co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have surprisingly little in common. Balsillie, 48, is tall, sinewy, and bald. He likes to spend his free...
- News items 2009-08-17
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