Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 106 Issue 3

Comparative innovative business strategies of major players in cosmetic industry

Sameer Kumar, Cindy Massie, Michelle D. Dumonceaux

The cosmetic industry is a very lucrative, innovative, and fast paced industry where product innovation is the key to success. The purpose of this paper is to present a detailed…

Postponement strategies through business process redesign in automotive manufacturing: Knowledge innovation

S. Wadhwa, K.S. Bhoon, F.T.S. Chan

To demonstrate how postponement strategy can be applied in an automotive company by using business process redesign in the knowledge innovation context.

Differential impacts of information technology on cost and revenue driver relationships in banking

Jamshed J. Mistry

The purpose of this paper is to utilize a cost and revenue driver model for commercial banking to examine the differential effects of the drivers within and between banking…

Organizational factors to the effectiveness of implementing information security management

Shuchih Ernest Chang, Chienta Bruce Ho

This paper aims to examine the influence of organization factors on the effectiveness of implementing BS7799, an information security management (ISM) standard.

A performance measurement system using a profit‐linked multi‐factor measurement model

Mohan P. Rao

The purpose of this paper is to re‐introduce the APC model (developed by the American Productivity Center) through a spreadsheet application of the model in a real‐world setting…

Quality improvement oriented training and education programme and its financial accounting system

N. Kathiravan, S.R. Devadasan, M. Muhammed Zakkeer

To design a quality improvement oriented training and education programme (Q_TEPS) for a company manufacturing milk products and to explore its performance using a financial…

Quantifying the value of web services in supplier networks

Mary J. Meixell

The purpose of this paper is to develop an approach for quantifying the operational value of IT‐enabled reliability improvement in a supplier network.

An empirical investigation to IT corporation using collocational networks method

Yuanqin Li

To study how the collocational networks method could be used to analyze textual contents in listed companies' annual reports written in Chinese, in an attempt to identify hidden…