Showing papers by "Limkokwing University of Creative Technology published in 2011"

International opportunity recognition through international trade intermediary networks in Malaysian SMES

Abstract: This paper expatiate the role of International Trade Intermediary (ITI) to International Opportunities Recognition (IOR) in Malaysian Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs). Thirty SMEs were selected for interview. The results illustrate that twenty five SMEs explored international opportunities through their relation with ITIs. This paper also highlighted ten reasons for IOR through ITIs in Malaysian SMEs. The most important reasons are social ties and business networks, familiarity with governmental support, and familiarity with diverse cultures. In addition, government agencies were found the most important intermediary for IOR in Malaysian SMEs.

Poor Risk Management as One of the Major Reasons Causing Failure of Project Management

Abstract: Poor risk management is currently a blazing issue in project management, it is counted as a major aspect contributing to project failure. This paper is focused much more on how poor risk management leads to failure of projects, it also examines the major reasons that are associated with failure of project management. In more details of the article is the literature review that supports how poor risk management is linked to the major reasons causing failure of project management as well as the strategic efforts to overcome it.

Reorienting Leadership Styles for Sustainable Education

Abstract: This paper describes the leadership style which can sustain education in Botswana community junior secondary schools (CJSS). The concept was examined based on the policy of education in Botswana, Botswana’s vision for 2016 and the current situation in schools. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews from a random sample of community junior secondary school teachers and head-teachers in Botswana. The data suggests that the head-teacher’s leadership style affects teachers’ and pupils’ attitude towards a job and studies and that a participatory leadership style promotes sustainable education in schools. These findings can be useful for education policy makers, school administrators and researchers seeking to promote sustainable improvement in education.

Project Management and Project Integration Management in Relationship with Service Marketing

Abstract: The new economy made it necessary for researchers to focus on service marketing due to products not being successful on their own. Marketing techniques have changed from traditional which was based mostly on goods only, goods and services to services only which make it even easier for service marketing to succeed since its new and have higher demand. Therefore this article explains what service marketing is, factors leading to projects success. It explains the project processes and gives reasons why projects fail. The article is based on a literature review that presents the relationship between service marketing, project management and project integration management.

Analysis of the relationships among Longest Common Subsequences, Shortest Common Supersequences and patterns and its application on pattern discovery in biological sequences

Abstract: For a set of multiple sequences, their patterns, Longest Common Subsequences (LCS) and Shortest Common Supersequences (SCS) represent different aspects of these sequences profile. Revealing the relationship between the patterns and LCS/SCS might provide us with a deeper view of the patterns. In this paper, we have showed that patterns LCS and SCS were closely related to each other. Based on their relations, the PALS algorithms are proposed to discover patterns in a set of biological sequences based on LCS and SCS results. Experiments show that the PALS algorithms are superior in efficiency and accuracy on a variety of sequences.

Cyber-Crimes: Challenges of the Millennium Age

Abstract: The connecting gains arising between organized crimes and the Internet has increased the lapses of the digital world. How do hackers frame their attitudes? What factors encourage and improvise their actions? These are very vital but highly under studied questions. Drawing upon psychology, economics and international relation to propose a framework that elaborates these questions, we found that countries across the globe differ in terms of regulations, normative and cognitive legitimacy to different types of web problems. Cyber wars and crimes are also functions of the stocks of hacking skills relative to the availability of economic availabilities. An attacking unit’s selection criteria for the target network include reasonable significance and criticalness, level of digitization of values and weakness in defense systems. Managerial and policy implications are elaborated and directions for future research are suggested.

The Basics Issues on the Security Information Management Practices in Organizational Environment

Abstract: ---The main purpose of this paper is to illustrate the complexities and solutions involving data and knowledge and to establish the effective practices of the information security management (ISM), and also to create an awareness to the information users of the benefits and advantages surrounding security as well as examining whether the methods are reliable on the organizations management theories and information system approach.

Integration Management Skills at the Expense of Technical Management Skills in the Field of Project Management

Abstract: The most important skills in project management which would ensure that the project is finished in time and all the aims and objectives are achieved include integration and technical management skills. In this article we tried to explain why these two skills are important in project management. This paper will explain the importance of having both of these two skills used in a project.