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The Effect on Performance with SCM Dynamic Capabilities in the Pharmaceutical Industry : Mediated Through Cooperational Relationship (제약산업의 SCM 동적역량이 성과에 미치는 영향: 협력관계를 매개로 하여)

  • Seo, Young-Kyu;Song, Dohan;Huh, Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.192-206
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    • 2021
  • The pharmaceutical industry is an industry that provides medicines related to the health and life of the people. The pharmaceutical industry is a traditional regulation industry with the characteristics of R&D(Research and Development), purchasing, manufacturing, distribution and consumption under strict government management. Until now, pharmaceutical companies have continued to make efforts to maintain competitiveness through patent management, new product development, and marketing. However, industries are rapidly changing, including rising costs for developing new products and expanding generic markets. As these changes and uncertainties in the management environment increase, efforts are required to improve the competitiveness of the pharmaceutical industry from a new perspective. In this study, we intend to examine the impact of SCM(Supply Chain Management) dynamic capability of pharmaceutical companies on corporate performance through partnerships to respond to market changes and uncertainties. It was determined that the agility, visibility and flexibility that constitutes the SCM dynamic capabilities would affect the performance of pharmaceutical companies. In this study, the importance of SCM dynamic capabilities and cooperative relationships was identified through surveys by SCM managers of pharmaceutical companies. Consequently, in the pharmaceutical industry, which is a regulatory industry, we have identified that SCM dynamic capabilities and cooperative relationships with partner companies have a significant impact on corporate performance.

The Effect of Market Orientation of SMEs on Responsiveness to Market Change and Organizational Performance: Focused on a Comparative Study of Manufacturing and Service Firms (중소기업의 시장지향성이 시장변화 대응능력 및 조직성과에 미치는 영향: 제조기업과 서비스기업의 비교연구를 중심으로)

  • Son, Je-Young;Kang, In-Won
    • Korea Trade Review
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.171-189
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    • 2019
  • As many studies have contributed to various aspects of the market by utilizing market orientation, however, this study has tried to overcome limitations of existing studies and suggest more concrete and extended implications. In this study, the relationship between market orientation, responsiveness to market change, and organizational performance of SMEs was examined and compared with characteristics of SMEs (manufacturing and service firms). As a result of the verification, interfunctional coordination has a strong influence on the ability of the organization to respond to market changes as well as customer orientation and competitor orientation. And responsiveness to market change, organizational flexibility has a strong impact on both personal performance and overall team performance. As a result of the comparative study, it can be concluded that manufacturing firms emphasize competitor orientation and organizational agility while service firms emphasize customer orientation and organizational flexibility.

Integrating Software Security into Agile-Scrum Method

  • Ghani, Imran;Azham, Zulkarnain;Jeong, Seung Ryul
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.646-663
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    • 2014
  • Scrum is one of the most popular and efficient agile development methods. However, like other agile methods such as Extreme Programming (XP), Feature Driven Development (FDD), and the Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Scrum has been criticized because of lack of support to develop secure software. Thus, in 2011, we published research proposing the idea of a security backlog (SB). This paper represents the continuation of our previous research, with a focus on the evaluation in industry-based case study. Our findings highlight an improved agility in Scrum after the integration of SB. Furthermore, secure software can be developed quickly, even in situations involving requirement changes of software. Based on our experimental findings, we noticed that, when integrating SB, it is quite feasible to develop secure software using an agile Scrum model.

A Framework for Agile Development in Cloud Computing Environment

  • Younas, Muhammad;Ghani, Imran;Jawawi, Dayang Norhayati Abang;Khan, Muhammad Murad
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.67-74
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    • 2016
  • Distributed agile software development faces difficulties for instance lack of visibility across development and delivery processes, complex and disjointed development processes, inability to capitalize on business opportunities, lack of communication agility between disconnected owners, development teams, and users or clients. However these difficulties are solved with the help of cloud computing services. This study proposes a framework to provide a skeletal or structural environment for distributed agile software development in cloud computing environment. The framework guide towards the best tooling to deliver a consistent, automated, governed, and unified agile software development process with reduced technical debt, and minimized project backlog. In addition to this, the study highlights the benefits of cloud computing in agile software development.

A Design Method for Dynamic Selection of SOA Services (SOA 서비스의 동적 선택 설계 기법)

  • Bae, Jeong-Seop;La, Hyun-Jung;Kim, Soo-Dong
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.91-104
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    • 2008
  • Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is the development method that published services are selected and composed at runtime to deliver the expected functionality to service clients. SOC should get maximum benefits not only supporting business agility but also reducing the development time. Services are selected and composed at runtime to improve the benefits. However, current programming language, SOC platforms, business process modeling language, and tools support either manual selection or static binding of published services. There is a limitation on reconfiguring and redeploying the business process to deliver the expected services to each client. Therefore, dynamic selection is needed for composing appropriate services to service clients in a quick and flexible manner. In this paper, we propose Dynamic Selection Handler (DSH) on ESB. we present a design method of Dynamic Selection Handler which consists of four components; Invocation Listener, Service Selector, Service Binder and Interface Transformer. We apply appropriate design patterns for each component to maximize reusability of components. Finally, we describe a case study that shows the feasibility of DSH on ESB.

Database Reverse Engineering Using Master Data in Microservice Architecture (마스터 데이터를 활용한 마이크로 서비스 아키텍처에서의 데이터베이스 리버스 엔지니어링)

  • Shin, Kwang-chul;Lee, Choon Y.
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.523-532
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    • 2019
  • Microservice architecture focuses on dividing it into small and lightweight services to build for the purpose of performing very close business functions. So it tends to concentrate only on agility, productivity, reliability, and ease of deployment of software development. Microservice architecture considers database as just a file or storage for storing and extracting data, emphasizing that data quality can be sacrificed for convenience and scalability of software development. Database reverse engineering for understanding database structure and data semantics is needed for data utilization for business decision making. However, it is difficult that reverse database engineering is applied in microservice architecture that neglects data quality. This study proposes database reverse engineering method that utilizes master data to restore the conceptual data model as a solution. The proposed method is applied to the return service database implemented by microservice architecture and verified its applicability.

Disaster Recovery Priority Decision for Credit Bureau Business Information System: Fuzzy-TOPSIS Approach (신용조회업무 정보시스템의 재난복구 우선순위결정: 퍼지 TOPSIS 접근방법)

  • Yang, Dong-Gu;Kim, Ki-Yoon
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.173-193
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    • 2016
  • The aim of this paper is to extend the TOPSIS(Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) to the fuzzy environment for solving the disaster recovery priority decision problem in credit bureau business information system. In this paper, the rating of each information systems and the weight of each criterion are described by linguistic terms which can be expressed in trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. Then, a vertex method is proposed to calculate the distance between two trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. According to the concept of the TOPSIS, a closeness coefficient is defined to determine the ranking order of all information systems. The combination between the fuzzy set and TOPSIS brings several benefits when compared with other approaches, such that the fuzzy TOPSIS require few fuzzy judgements to parameterization, which contributes to the agility of the decision process, it does not limit the number of alternatives simultaneously evaluated, and it does not cause the ranking reversal problem when a new alternative is included in the evaluation process. This paper is demonstrated with a real case study of a credit rating agency involving 9 evaluation criteria and 9 credit bureau business information systems assessed by 6 evaluators, and provide the systematic disaster recovery framework for BCP(Business Continuity Planning) to practitioner. Finally, this paper show that the procedure of the proposed fuzzy TOPSIS method is well suited as a decision-making tool for the disaster recovery priority decision problem in credit bureau business information system.

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An Exploratory Study on Key Factors of SOA Success (SOA 성공의 영향요인에 대한 탐색적 연구)

  • Cho, Nam-Jae;Kim, Ji-Yun;Yun, Young-Don
    • Information Systems Review
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.105-119
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    • 2010
  • SOA has become the focus of attention as it is perceived as a concept toward integrative service which helps companies respond quickly to the changes in market needs. This study is aimed to find out success factors for building SOA. We carried out two case studies on companies that adopted SOA successfully in Korea and conducted a survey to collect opinions from experts and experienced managers whose job is related to SOA. The critical successful factors found in this study include: 1) establishment of the SOA taskforce based on CIO's strong support, 2) formation of the corporate-wide consensus and the adoption of standards, 3) active user participation in defining services and obliterating duplication, 4) accomplishment of flexibility in services and business agility based on integrated infrastructure, and 5) securing project budget and consistent support by way of using measurement index for SOA investment effects.

Efficient Detction and Defence Model against IP Spoofing Attack through Cooperation of Trusted Hosts (신뢰 호스트 상호 협력을 통한 IP 스푸핑 공격의 효율적 탐지 및 방어 모델 설계)

  • Lee, Hae-Dong;Ha, Hyeon-Tae;Baek, Hyun-Chul;Kim, Chang-Gun;Kim, Sang-Bok
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.2649-2656
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    • 2012
  • Today, many enterprises have invested heavily for the part of information security in order to protect the internal critical information assets and the business agility. However, there is a big problem that big budget and too many manpower are needed to set the internal corporate network up to the same high level of defense for all of part. On the distributed enterprise networks in this paper, a defense model for effective and rapid response on the IP spoofing attack was designed to protect the enterprise network through the exchange of information between the trust hosts when an attacker attacked any target system using other trusted host.

Process Methology of Designing User Interface in Enterprise Portal (기업포탈사이트 업무화면 설계 프로세스 방법론 - 보험사의 프로젝트 진행 사례를 중심으로)

  • Kwon, Suk-Kyoung
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02b
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    • pp.310-316
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    • 2008
  • This theory focuses on the Enterprise Portal and researches and analyzes the user requirement on as-is system. The UI Checklist Matrix is made based on the result of user analysis and evaluation of checklist. The horizontal axis of the Matrix is composed of 6 results(Layout, Navigation, Information, Function, Visibility and Interaction) of user requirement analysis. The vertical axis of the Matrix is composed of 10 subjects, Learnability, Efficiency, Accuracy, Accessibility, Consistency, Agility, Convergence, Personalization, Technology, and Standardization. At the point of vertical and horizontal items meet, indicates the graded of importance and defines a details item. The Guideline in which Matrix is reflected is set and according to the guideline, designing the business screen and assessing the Matrix.

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