Mohammad Reza Taghva; Mojtaba Hosseini Bamakan; Hamid Reza Fallah Lajimi
Volume 2, Issue 5 , June 2004, Pages 1-17
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This research has been conducted with the purpose of employing information technology (IT) in organizations. To this end, the present research, titled “The Impact of Characteristics of Employing IT on the Organizational Performance and the Competitive Advantage in Organizations”, was done, ...
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This research has been conducted with the purpose of employing information technology (IT) in organizations. To this end, the present research, titled “The Impact of Characteristics of Employing IT on the Organizational Performance and the Competitive Advantage in Organizations”, was done, thereby resulting in achievement of the conceptual model of research. This model entails three factors or hidden variables, namely, IT practicing, organizational performance, and competitive advantage, each of which has some indicators. IT has four indicators: economic, security, Correctness & authenticity of information, and speed of information and communications. Organizational performance has also four indicators, i.e. customer, finance, human resources, and organizational efficacy. Competitive advantage also consist of five indicators, that is, price/cost, quality, timely delivery of product or service, and innovation & time of delivery to the market. Based on this model, the Questionnaire for measuring the indices was designed and distributed among 85 managers of IT and information systems nationwide and collected after completion. Data obtained from this Questionnaire regarding research hypotheses in the form of a single model suggest that IT factors affect organizational performance and competitive advantage in addition to security.
Ebrahim Rajabpour; Sara Babaahmadi
Volume 2, Issue 5 , June 2004, Pages 19-40
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E-learning is not restricted by time or place and can provide teachers with a learning environment that is flexible and convenient, enabling them to efficiently learn, quickly develop their professional expertise, and advance professionally. The overall objective of this study was to investigate the ...
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E-learning is not restricted by time or place and can provide teachers with a learning environment that is flexible and convenient, enabling them to efficiently learn, quickly develop their professional expertise, and advance professionally. The overall objective of this study was to investigate the possibility of implementation of E-Learning system in the Persian Gulf University of Bushehr. Statistical population of this study included students at 90-91 semester in Bushehr University. Sample size was 360. The method for selection of statistical sample size was stratified random sampling method. To confirm the validity of questionnaire content validity was used. Therefore, the opinions of teachers and experts were obtained. The reliability of the questionnaire was measured by Cranach’s alpha. The coefficients of different sections of questionnaire are between 0/90 to 0/97. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (ANOVA one-way and t-test) was used. The results showed that the students of Persian Gulf University have relative readiness to participate in E-learning. In addition, analytical data indicated that the faculty of Literature and Humanity Science and Engineering had the highest score, but the read in ess to participate ine-learning between these faculties with others has no meaningful difference.
Mohammad Mehrabioun Mohammadi; Gholamreza Shahriari; Ahad Zare Ravasan
Volume 2, Issue 5 , June 2004, Pages 41-71
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Nowadays, many organizations took Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices in the field of IT service management to improve their service management related processes. Although, many organizations adopted ITIL, not all ITIL implementations are successful. With this in ...
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Nowadays, many organizations took Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices in the field of IT service management to improve their service management related processes. Although, many organizations adopted ITIL, not all ITIL implementations are successful. With this in mind, this paper seeks to identify critical success factors (CSFs) that impact on successful implementation of ITIL V3 in organizations based on a mixed approach. So, at first, with the semi structured interviews and literature reviews, 22 success factors were identified. After that a questionnaire developed and sent to domain experts. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) have been used for data analysis, which finally classified critical success factors in five groups named as “organizational”, “human”, “project management”, “managerial” and “process centric”. The results of this study have provided a very useful reference for scholars and managers to identify the relevant issues of ITIL projects in Iran
Amir Zakery; Seyed Hossein Jalali; Seyed Alireza Motevallian
Volume 2, Issue 5 , June 2004, Pages 73-95
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Current research has been performed to evaluate the knowledge management (KM) in business administration, and assess the relationship between utilization of KM tools and competitive position of business as an empirical and practical survey. The target population of this study is registered firms in Tehran ...
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Current research has been performed to evaluate the knowledge management (KM) in business administration, and assess the relationship between utilization of KM tools and competitive position of business as an empirical and practical survey. The target population of this study is registered firms in Tehran Stock Exchange among Iranian top 100 firms selected by the Industrial Management Institute of Iran. Datawas collected by questionnaire, and investigated through eight hypotheses in four main dimensions: KM attitudes, KM implementation, KM challenges, and KM tools. Findings showed that firms acknowledge the importance and necessity of KM, but also were facing human and structural challenges in terms of infrastructure; so goal-oriented and coherent KM plans are not successfully implemented. On the other hand, results confirmed that KM adoption has a direct and positive impact on competitive position of firms; therefore implementation of KM tools could improve the competitive position of major firms
Saeed Roshani; Nafiseh Rezaeenik; Seyed Mohammad Hosain Shojaei
Volume 2, Issue 5 , June 2004, Pages 97-132
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The aim of this paper is to compare the internal and international specialized and public social networks in order to identify their centralized and common issues, weaknesses and strengths of each selected social network, and propose the efficient solutions to improve and expand the social networks in ...
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The aim of this paper is to compare the internal and international specialized and public social networks in order to identify their centralized and common issues, weaknesses and strengths of each selected social network, and propose the efficient solutions to improve and expand the social networks in Iran based on the “usability” and “sociability” factors of social network. The Research Method is conducted based on the library and evaluative studies. In this regard, the study sample includes six foreign public networks with a local network and six specialized international networks with three internal networks. NICI model is used to compare the selected social networks based on the four ‘Navigation’, ‘Interactivity’, ‘Source credibility’, and ‘Intelligence’criteria to analyze the structure of the social networks and assessment of their usability and sociability. In this regard, 33 main indexes for these criteria were examined and the result shows that Facebook, Myspace, and Cloob networks have the highest level of compatibility with the criteria among the selected public networks. Whereas, three Goodreads, HR, and Linkedin networks have the highest level of compatibility among the selected specialized social networks. Finally, according to the conducted comparison and analyzes concerning with the common, strengths and weaknesses issues of each network, efficient solutions are proposed to improve the status of social networking in Iran.
Haniyeh Hooshmand; Amir Afsar
Volume 2, Issue 5 , June 2004, Pages 133-157
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Increasingimportance ofknowledge and growing trendin today'sknowledge-based economy, has turned knowledge management into a strategic and vital tool in order to gain and maintain a competitive advantage. And electronic Banks as well as effective organizations in country’s transactions to gain and ...
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Increasingimportance ofknowledge and growing trendin today'sknowledge-based economy, has turned knowledge management into a strategic and vital tool in order to gain and maintain a competitive advantage. And electronic Banks as well as effective organizations in country’s transactions to gain and maintain a competitive advantage, should try to successful implementation of the knowledge management.Because knowledge management can act as a different element in E-commerce environment, and help people to accept their new roles and responsibilities easier and faster in e-commerce environment.Thereforein this research we have focused on the impact of proper infrastructure of knowledge management in E-banking. The method of this research is descriptive-analytical and Mellat Bank of Qom province is selected as the statistical subjects. And to evaluate the reliability, inconsistency rate is calculated. Also To prioritize indicators of Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process is used. As a result, this research indicates that the most important criteria include “IT infrastructure, knowledge infrastructure and organizational infrastructure”.
