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• Factors in Reuse and Reengineering of Legacy Software

  BNET - 2005-02-05

  The Reengineering and reuse of large legacy software systems can be an expensive, error-prone endeavor. This paper relates experience in a collaborative research project supporting a NASA contractor team attempting just such a project. Risks both potential and realized are discussed, as well as how such collaboration can be used...

  Tags: Software, University Of Houston, Re-engineering, Organizational Structure, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Management

• Strategic Management And Entrepreneurship

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  The characteristics of a good entrepreneur will reflect if he/she is able to manage the business strategically. A few slides explicitly talk about formulating and implementing the strategies in a business house. It intrigues the five important tasks management tasks. Any strategic management is incomplete if the process is not...

  Tags: University Of Houston, Entrepreneur, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Leadership, Swot analysis, Management, Marketing, Marketing Research

• Managing With Ethics And Social Responsibility

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  Ethics, essentially, consist of a set of moral guidelines towards conductance of an appropriate behavior. Such behavior conforms to professional standards of conduct. The corporate code of ethics consists of a set of moral principles and values that govern the behavior of the organization with respect to what is right...

  Tags: University Of Houston, Ethics, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations

• Fundamentals Of Leading

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  Leading is the art of influencing the behavior of others in the organization towards smooth functioning of organizational systems and processes. A leader has skills required to motivate, influence, and direct others towards attainment of certain long term goals. A good leader uses power to willingly make others work towards...

  Tags: University Of Houston, Leader, Leadership, Management

• Leading Through Motivation

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  Leading is the art of influencing the work behavior of others in the organization towards smooth functioning of organizational systems and processes. A leader motivates the subordinates to excel in their work. Employee motivation is the psychological feature that arouses an employee to behave in a certain manner for accomplishing...

  Tags: University Of Houston, Employee Motivation, Motivation, Leadership, Management

• Managing Stability And Managing Change

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  Change is inevitable in today's dynamic business environment. Organizations have to successfully manage change in order to stay afloat amidst intense competition. In doing so, the organizations, in fact, are managing stability because the more effective an organization is in managing change, the more stable it is. The paper examines...

  Tags: University Of Houston, Change Management, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management