For years the German automobile industry has been facing a growing competition from Japanas well as from the emerging markets. Increasing tendencies towards globalization, an evenfaster change in customer needs and a stronger contraction of the product life cycle necessitatenew flexible...

The knowledge of development and maintenance effort is a necessary precondition for alltypes of software management, IS-controlling, guidance of quality and effort estimation. Data collectingsystems seem to be widely used, but the data is said to be unsafe and firm-specific. This paperpresents a...

Bei dem Kampf um Marktanteile kann die Mitarbeitermotivation und die Identifikation mit dem Unternehmen ein entscheidender Wettbewerbsfaktor sein. Im Wandel muss deshalb die Notwendigkeit zur Veränderung kommuniziert werden.(...)

In this paper, we look at the ways in which the 38 largest French and German companies have taken up elements of the MD discourse and integrated them into their annual reports and corporate web sites.

By reference to an in-depth case study of Siemens, a transnational, European-based high technology firm in the electronics and electrical engineering industry, the authors conclude that successful knowledge management requires close attention to three dilemmas.(...)

For Software Applications, the 1990s was characterised by the implementation of ERP systems across Multinational organizations...

This paper deals with trends over a time-frame early 1990s to early 2000s showing how a Project Manager has evolved to be an Enterprise Coach, Leader, Supporter.

Vorliegendes Dokument beschäftigt sich mit den grundlegenden Vorraussetzungen, die für Veränderungs- und Innovationsprozesse notwendig sind.