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An Analysis of the SaaS Quality Impact on the Service Performance and Loyalty (SaaS(Software as a Service) 품질이 서비스 성과 및 충성도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Eun-Hong;Park, Young-Sun;Nam, Kyung-Ok
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.127-147
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    • 2011
  • Business organizations today have sought management effectiveness and efficiency utilizing information technologies. In particular, small and medium-sized enterprises short of information resources tend to rely more on outsourcing for accomplishing their own information strategies. SaaS(Software as a Service) has recently become one of the powerful outsourcing alternatives. This study tries to identify the influence of the SaaS quality on the service performance and loyalty. A SaaS quality model is developed including tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy. Then they are hypothesized to have influence on the service performance defined as user satisfaction, individual performance, and organizational performance. Service performance is considered to have an impact on the loyalty to service. Findings from a survey to test hypotheses on the relationship among SaaS quality, performance and loyalty show these variables are significantly important to widespread adoption of SaaS.

A Study on the Influencing Factors on the Profit Improvement Rate of IT Service Projects (IT서비스 프로젝트의 이익개선율 영향요인에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kyung-Bae;Oh, Jay-In
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.127-156
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    • 2010
  • Most companies in the IT service industry have suffered from low profitability although this industry is highly value added, which may result in losing the competitiveness of the industry. The purpose of this study is to identify the influencing factors on the profit improvement rate of IT service projects and suggest how to improve the profit improvement rate, thus recovering the competitiveness of the IT service industry. The 273 IT service projects conducted by an IT service company in Korea during the past three years were analyzed and the project managers who performed these projects responded to the questionnaire developed in this study. The result from the analysis of data collected shows that the influencing factors on the profit improvement rate of IT service projects include scheduling, experience in similar projects, the leadership of project leaders, the level of team skills, relationship with clients, and clients support.

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e-CRM Strategy based on Customer Purchasing Activity (고객구매활동 기반의 e-CRM 전략)

  • 강현석;서영호
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.133-144
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    • 2000
  • Many organizations have developed their own information systems not only for internal efficiency but also for effectiveness of external customer services. One of the most effective service tools for their customers is the use of information technology. The web technology is rapidly becoming one of the most effective tools for online customer services. In order to gain competitive edge, organizations must have effective web site planning methods for their customer service. A study on traditional information systems planning methodologies has been conducted and they are compared with web site planning techniques. Cases of web sites in order to Improve customer relationship are analyzed. finally, a new conceptual framework for web site planning strategy for e-CRM is proposed in this paper. In order to support effective web site planning, online customer contact points and online service activities are defined and classified as several stages. And, web site strategies corresponding to each customer service activities are developed and proposed, With this framework, organizations can build competitive web strategies for improving their online customer relationships, thereby increasing customer satisfaction.

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Predicting Crop Production for Agricultural Consultation Service

  • Lee, Soong-Hee;Bae, Jae-Yong
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 2019
  • Smart Farming has been regarded as an important application in information and communications technology (ICT) fields. Selecting crops for cultivation at the pre-production stage is critical for agricultural producers' final profits because over-production and under-production may result in uncountable losses, and it is necessary to predict crop production to prevent these losses. The ITU-T Recommendation for Smart Farming (Y.4450/Y.2238) defines plan/production consultation service at the pre-production stage; this type of service must trace crop production in a predictive way. Several research papers present that machine learning technology can be applied to predict crop production after related data are learned, but these technologies have little to do with standardized ICT services. This paper clarifies the relationship between agricultural consultation services and predicting crop production. A prediction scheme is proposed, and the results confirm the usability and superiority of machine learning for predicting crop production.

A Study on the Factors Affecting the Usage of Internet Banking considering mediating role of customer's attitude and service types (인터넷 뱅킹의 이용에 영향을 미치는 요인 연구 : 소비자 태도의 매개적 역할과 서비스 이용 유형을 중심으로)

  • Jun, Byoung Ho;Han, Pil Koo;Kang, Byung Goo
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.279-295
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    • 2010
  • Technology development has reshaped not only the business environment but also financial service. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting customer's attitude and usage of Internet banking. Based on prior studies, this study identifies usefulness, ease of use, innovativeness, social influence, quality, cost as affecting factors of customer's attitude and usage of Internet banking. This study intends to do a comparison analysis the relationship between customer's attitude and usage of Internet banking by classifying Internet banking service into inquiry, transfer, and other service. Result shows that usefulness, quality, and cost are significantly related to the customer's attitude toward Internet banking service, but ease of use, innovativeness, and social influence are not. Even though customer's attitude was found to be significantly related to the use of Internet banking, the degree of it was different by service types inquiry, transfer, and other service in a row. It implicates that usage of Internet banking still centered on inquiry service.

The Relationship among Service quality, Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty of Children's Pool (어린이수영장의 서비스품질과 만족 및 고객충성도 관계)

  • Kim, Hwa-Ryong;Seong, Moon-Jung
    • Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.1224-1234
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    • 2019
  • This study examines the relationship between service quality, satisfaction and customer loyalty of children's pool. The population distributed a questionnaire to a sample of 300 subjects, and a total of 297 questionnaires were used for data analysis, excluding 3 questionnaires that were determined to be unsatisfactory among the collected questionnaires. In this study, frequency analysis, reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and simple regression analysis were performed using PASW 21.0. In this study, the significance level of all statistics was set to .05 and the following conclusions were drawn. First, facilities, programs, costs, human resources, and trust in the service quality of children's pools were found to affect satisfaction. Second, the cost, personnel nursery, and trust of the children's pool service quality were found to affect customer loyalty. Third, satisfaction with the service quality of the children's pool affects customer loyalty.

The Relationship Between Hydrogen Trapping Behavior and SSCC Suceptibility of API X60/65 Grade Steels

  • Lee, Jae Myung;Kim, Jin Suk;Kim, Kyoo Young
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.109-116
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    • 2003
  • It is well known that SSCC (sulfide stress corrosion cracking) is caused by drastic ingression of hydrogen during the service and accumulation of hydrogen near the potential crack initiation site in the material. It is important to characterize the hydrogen trapping behavior to evaluate the service performance of the high strength pipeline steels. In this study. the relationship between the hydrogen trapping behavior and SSCC susceptibility is evaluated in terms of alloy composition, microstructure and carbide behavior. The hydrogen trapping behavior was measured by electrochemical hydrogen permeation test cell (Devanathan cell). The SSCC susceptibility is evaluated by constant extension rate test and constant strain lest method. The hydrogen trapping behavior is affected greatly by microstructure and nature of carbide particles. The fine TiC, and NbC in the matrix of ferritic structure acts as strong irreversible trap sites whereas the bainitic structure acts as reversible trap site. The SSCC susceptibility is closely related to not only the hydrogen trapping behavior but also the loading condition. As the activity of reversible trap site increases, SSCC susceptibility decreases under static loading condition below yield strength, whereas SSCC susceptibility increases under dynamic loading condition or above yield strength. As the activity of irreversible trap site increases. SSCC susceptibility increases regardless of loading condition. It is cased by the mixed effect of dislocation on hydrogen diffusion and trapping behavior.

A Study of the Relationship between Positive Psychological Capital and Teaching Professionalism of Pre-service Early Childhood Teachers: An Analysis of the Mediating Effect of Passion for Teaching (예비유아교사의 긍정심리자본이 교사전문성에 미치는 영향 : 교직에 대한 열정의 매개효과)

  • Seung Hwa Jwa;Hae Jung Lee
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.193-201
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among positive psychological capital, teacher professionalism, and passion for teaching of pre-service early childhood teachers. Specifically, this study investigated the mediating effect of passion for teaching on the relationship between positive psychological capital and teaching professionalism of pre-service early childhood teachers. The study participants were 198 pre-service early childhood teachers. Questionnaire were used to collect data. Data were analyzed using descriptive statics, Pearson correlation, multiple regression, and Sobel test for mediating effect. The results of the study were as follows: First, it was found that pre-service early childhood teachers had relatively high level of positive psychological capital, teacher professionalism, and passion for teaching. Second, there was a significant positive correlation between positive psychological capital, teacher professionalism, and passion for teaching of pre-service early childhood teachers. Third, the mediation effect of passion for teaching of per-service early childhood teachers between positive psychological capital and teacher professionalism was found to be partially significant. This result implies that positive psychological capitals and passion for teaching are to be effective to improve teaching professionalism of per-service early childhood teachers. The results of this study provides basic data on an early childhood teacher training program in improving teaching professionalism.

What Quality Factors Affect to the e-Learning Performance (e-러닝 성과에 영향을 미치는 품질요인에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sung-Gyun;Sung, Hang-Nam;Jeong, Dae-Yul
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.201-230
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    • 2007
  • Recently, the growth of e-Learning systems and its related information technology has presented a unique challenge for both schools and industry. It would make an extremely phenomenal paradigm shift in the educational method and practice. Methods of assessing the quality of e-teaming services and contents are critical issue in both practice and research. Moreover, many researchers are interested in what qualify factors more affect to the Performance of e-Learning service. Nevertheless, service quality is a construct that is difficult to define and measure. e-Learning services are composed of many factors, and they are more complicated than the traditional education services because they we performed on the distance basis and the many platforms of IT infrastructure. The purposes of our research are to classify the e-Learning service dimension and identify their factors, to develop the measurement of the factors, and finally to test empirically their relationship between the service factors and e-Learning service performance. For the development of the service factors we considered SERVQUAL model and SERVPERF model which were developed in the service marketing area. The SERVQUAL model was more fitted to the e-Learning services than the latter. From that we derived several factors that fit to our research domain, ie, tangibles, access, reliability, credibility, security, responsiveness, assurance, empathy. We combined three factors of them(reliability, credibility, security) into a factor, system stability for the semantic simplicity, and divided responsiveness factor into system operator responsiveness and teacher responsiveness as the entity based dimension classification. In the e-Learning services research, Most researcher are mentioned the quality factors of contents, so we added to two contents quality factors, ie, contents production method and richness of contents itself. We examined the relationship between the service quality factors and e-Learning performance(student satisfaction and service reuse intention). As result three quality factors(contents production method, teacher responsiveness, empathy) significantly affected student satisfaction. To the other performance variable, ie, service reuse intention, the teacher related quality factors(such as teacher responsiveness, assurance, empathy) affected only. In conclusion, even in the on-line distance teaming, the teacher's role md earnestness is as important as ever.

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The effects of servicescape and information technology on service encounter job satisfaction, affective commitment and service performance: Focused on nursing services (서비스 스케이프와 정보기술이 서비스 접점직원의 직무만족과 정서적 몰입 및 서비스 수행에 미치는 영향: 간호서비스를 중심으로)

  • Ju, Ki-Jung;Yoo, Sangjin
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.75-88
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    • 2012
  • This study examines the relationship among servicescape, information technology, employee's job satisfaction, affective commitment and service performance. Empirical research is conducted to statistically test the model using SEM and empirically confirms followings: (a) positive effect of servicescape and IT on both of job satisfaction and affective commitment, which, in turn, positively influences on service behavior, (b) positive effect of affective commitment and service behavior on service recovery, and (c) significant indirect effect of job satisfaction on service recovery meditated by service behavior. Results suggest that there are direct and indirect effects on service performance of servicescape and information technology through job satisfaction and affective commitment. This paper is concluded with the summarized result and contribution of this study, managerial implication of the research findings, and further research issues.