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The growing importance of Information System (IS) to support business operation demands for adequate IS planning. Good IS planning enables organizations to closely align the IS and strategic business objectives. Such alignment ultimately ensures organizations to gain competitive advantages from IS-related investment. Despite extensive works…

At the firm level, intense competition under the global economic framework requires small and medium enterprises to reconsider their competitive position vis-à-vis their rivals, amongst others, through innovation. This justifies why innovation, in the last two decades, becomes a centre stage in small business literature,…

Engineering asset maintenance practices rely on access to information and team expertise from different locations. Many engineering asset organisations have several interdependent departments and sub-systems that collaborate on various productions and maintenance.  Maintenance personnel in the form of individual and/or teams communicate, coordinate, integrate and…

A dairy herd was affected by a disease of unknown origin. Over 12 months standard samples (feces, and blood serum) were taken and tested for Clostridium botulinum, botulinum neurotoxin and partly for botulinum toxin antibodies according to standard international procedures. Finally it was shown that…

In today’s knowledge-driven economy, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are major enablers in all sectors particularly in government departments. Furthermore, it is infinitely acknowledged that information is power, thus, in keeping up with the ICT evolution, the transformation to e-government has continued to be Malaysia’s…

Firms seek often to achieve higher level of performance, however, means and resources that are available do not allow them to have superior performance on all levels (financial, economic, commercial, and so on). In addition, managers do not perceive performance aspects in the same way.…

Managing a natural gas transport system is a complex process that requires controlling a huge amount of data regarding the instantaneous available transport capacity, the reserved capacity, the gas source capacity, the hourly consumption profiles and the network problems. Managing this system must be realised…

Grid computing was introduced with the provision of delivering high performance computing through connecting distributed heterogeneous resources over the Internet. However, due to the varied nature of Grid applications and lack of suitable resource provisioning tools and mechanisms, a major part of Grid resources remains…

From three commercial Friesian-Holstein dairy herds located in three different provinces of Egypt at El-Fayoum, EL-Ismailia, and EL-Beheira; a total of 183 paired serum and milk samples were collected on the same occasion and 23 Bulk Tank Milk (BTM) samples were collected for about a…

This paper is aimed to analyze the environmental impact in supply chain researches and daily transport operations. We have made a survey based on setting the general criteria and the interaction between the supply chain features and their effect on the environment. We integrate the…