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MIS40910 – Skills for Business Enquiry – Good Management Practices

1.  Ghoshal, S. (2005) ‘Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good Management Practices’, Academy Of Management Learning & Education, 4(1): 75-91. 1.Ghoshal2005-Bad Management Theories 2.  Stein, M. & Pinto, J. (2011) The Dark Side of Groups: A “Gang at Work” in … Continue reading

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MIS40670 – SDLC & SCRUM: How Do They Compare?

SDLC & Scrum are two different approaches to software development that also find use in project management. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages, and the selection of either method will depend on various project-centric factors. In both the SDLC … Continue reading

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MIS40670 – Factors behind adoption of project management methodology

A project management methodology really provides the high level PM framework and all the steps needed for the successful delivery of a project. The chosen methodology should list all the project phases, activities and tasks required for successful completion of … Continue reading

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MIS40670 – The Soul of a New Machine – Tracy Kidder

The book is a journal record of a computer engineering team in their quest to design the next generation computer Eclipse MV/8000 at a Silicon Valley minicomputer vendor called Data General in 1980. The book was published in 1981 and … Continue reading

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MIS40910 – Skills for Business Enquiry – Collecting and Analysing Evidence

1.Scherer, F.M. (2001) ‘The Innovation Lottery’, in R. C. Dreyfuss, D. L. Zimmerman and H. First (eds.) Expanding the Boundaries of Intellectual Property: Innovation Policy for the Knowledge Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [13MB!] 1.Scherer2001-The Innovaton Lottery 2.Orlikowski, Wanda J, … Continue reading

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MIS40910 – Skills for Business Enquiry – Writing Up and Presenting Research

1.  Flyvbjerg, B. (2011) Case Study. IN DENZIN, N. K. & LINCOLN, Y. S. (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, 4th edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1.Flyvbjerg2011-Sage Handbook Of Qualitative Research 2.  Fitzgerald, B. & Howcroft, D. (1998) Towards … Continue reading

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MIS40910 – Skills for Business Enquiry – Research Ethics

1.  March, James G. (1991). Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning. Organization Science, 2(1), 71–87. 1.March1991-Exploration & Exploitation 2.  Lazarsfeld, Paul F. (1935). The Art of Asking WHY in Marketing Research: Three Principles Underlying the Formulation of Questionnaires. National Marketing … Continue reading

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MIS40670 – Readings: Architecture and Agility

Foote, B. & Yoder, J. (2000) Big Ball of Mud. IN HARRISON, N., FOOTE, B. & ROHNERT, H. (Eds.) Pattern languages of program design 4. Addison Wesley. FooteYodder_BigBallOfMud_1999 Beck, K. (1999) Embracing Change with Extreme Programming. Computer, 8. Beck_EmbracingChangeWithExtremeProgramming_1999 Foote … Continue reading

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MIS40670 – IONA Case Studies

Allen provided the class with two case studies on IONA Technologies. IONA Technologies was an Irish software company. It was founded in 1991. The company began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin and maintained headquarters in Dublin, … Continue reading

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MIS40910 – Critique – Dahlander, L. and Gann, D. M. (2010) ‘How open is innovation?’

The main motivation of the paper as remarked at its outset is to clarify the definitive of “openness” as currently used in the literature on open innovation and to re-conceptualize the idea for future research on the topic. To examine … Continue reading

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