• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

The purpose of research is to reveal the basic factors which innovation behaviors is motivated in the small-and-medium sized company for strengthening the competitiveness. This study empirically investigates and I was able to obtain participations of 114 questionnaire, and derived statistics by means of SPSS/PC version 18.0. In this study I found that strategic approach of organization and educational supports are significant to effective shop-floor process control. Also, results of process control are significant to customer satisfaction and business performance.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.151-158
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• 2015

The purpose of this study to understand collaborative process and the capabilities of the firm impact on innovation performance in convergence environment. To achieve the purpose, research model was empirically tested with a survey from 162 employees from 4 Korea manufacturing companies and 1 USA company. The data obtained from the survey were analyzed using Partial Least Squares (PLS). As a result, collaboration process, learning capability and operation capability have significant and positive impact on innovation performance. It is a meaningful result that the collaboration process improve the innovation performance of firms through the operation capability and the learning capability.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.141-160
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• 2010

The paper examines the determinants factor and business performance of global supply chain management. Partnership and process innovation were used as proxy for the characteristics of determinants factor of global supply chain management. Agility of business performance was used as proxy for the business performance of global supply chain management. Based on the analysis of sixty eight global supply chain management cases in Oil and Chemical Industry, the following results were found. Firstly, it was found that the process partnership of determinants factor affects agility of improved business performance. Secondly, process innovation of determinants factor was not improved more agility of improved business performance. However, there were several limitations such as characteristics of process innovation and partnership, etc.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.47-69
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• 2010

Open innovation is a phenomenon that has been widely accepted by both practice and theory over the last few years. On the contrary, partner relationships have attracted little attention while the open innovation could not be emerged without the link to partners. This paper identifies and evaluates a framework for the partner relationships and open innovation processes. Based on the literatures regarding open innovation and partner relationships, we propose the framework of matrix type. We present results based on 352 open innovation cases reported during 2002-2009, and each case is classified into 5 different categories of the framework. JV-C(Joint Venture relationship & Coupled process) archetype has dominated the cases with 178 cases(50.6%) where JV-O(Joint Venture relationship & Outside-In process) follows JV-C with 124 cases(35.2%). No significant change has been found in the number of cases after 2003 when open innovation firstly suggested. However, the number sharply increases in 2009 by boom in JV-C and JV-O. These results show the importance of partner relationships and preference toward Joint Venture relationship in open innovation, while the conventional approaches has just focused on value-chain partnership. We find remarkable collaboration cases contributed by universities and government invested research centers, so the role of non-profit R&D organizations has also been discussed.

• Fiber Technology and Industry
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.103-109
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• 2004

첨단섬유의 기술개발은 기술개발의 혁신화로 볼 수 있는데, 혁신화 방향은 생산프로세스 혁신화와 신제품 개발 등 2가지로 볼 수 있다. 생산프로세스 혁신화는 성력화, 에너지절감, 고품질화, 다품종화를 목적으로 한 고속화, 연속화, 자동화, 고 효율화 등으로 진행되어 왔다. 또 신제품 개발에 대해서는, 소비자, 사용자의 요구가 점점 다양화, 고도화하는 가운데, 그것에 대응하는 차별화, 고부가가치화제품의 개발과 새로운 고기능, 고성능소재의 개발에 중점을 두고 있다. (중략)

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.157-175
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• 2012

It is difficult to evaluate the performance of process innovation of e-procurement which has large scale and complex processes. The existing evaluation methods for measuring the effects of process innovation have been mainly done with statistically quantitative methods by analyzing operational data or with qualitative methods by conducting surveys and interviews. However, these methods have some limitations to evaluate the effects because the performance evaluation of e-procurement process innovation should consider the interactions among participants who are active either directly or indirectly through the processes. This study considers the e-procurement process as a complex system and develops a simulation model based on MAS(Multi-Agent System) to evaluate the effects of e-procurement process innovation. Multi-agent based simulation allows observing interaction patterns of objects in virtual world through relationship among objects and their behavioral mechanism. Agent-based simulation is suitable especially for complex business problems. In this study, we used Netlogo Version 4.1.3 as a MAS simulation tool which was developed in Northwestern University. To do this, we developed a interaction model of agents in MAS environment. We defined process agents and task agents, and assigned their behavioral characteristics. The developed simulation model was applied to G2B system (KONEPS: Korea ON-line E-Procurement System) of Public Procurement Service (PPS) in Korea and used to evaluate the innovation effects of the G2B system. KONEPS is a successfully established e-procurement system started in the year 2002. KONEPS is a representative e-Procurement system which integrates characteristics of e-commerce into government for business procurement activities. KONEPS deserves the international recognition considering the annual transaction volume of 56 billion dollars, daily exchanges of electronic documents, users consisted of 121,000 suppliers and 37,000 public organizations, and the 4.5 billion dollars of cost saving. For the simulation, we analyzed the e-procurement of process of KONEPS into eight sub processes such as 'process 1: search products and acquisition of proposal', 'process 2 : review the methods of contracts and item features', 'process 3 : a notice of bid', 'process 4 : registration and confirmation of qualification', 'process 5 : bidding', 'process 6 : a screening test', 'process 7 : contracts', and 'process 8 : invoice and payment'. For the parameter settings of the agents behavior, we collected some data from the transactional database of PPS and some information by conducting a survey. The used data for the simulation are 'participants (government organizations, local government organizations and public institutions)', 'the number of bidding per year', 'the number of total contracts', 'the number of shopping mall transactions', 'the rate of contracts between bidding and shopping mall', 'the successful bidding ratio', and the estimated time for each process. The comparison was done for the difference of time consumption between 'before the innovation (As-was)' and 'after the innovation (As-is).' The results showed that there were productivity improvements in every eight sub processes. The decrease ratio of 'average number of task processing' was 92.7% and the decrease ratio of 'average time of task processing' was 95.4% in entire processes when we use G2B system comparing to the conventional method. Also, this study found that the process innovation effect will be enhanced if the task process related to the 'contract' can be improved. This study shows the usability and possibility of using MAS in process innovation evaluation and its modeling.

• Journal of Information Technology and Architecture
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.45-52
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• 2014

Recently, more and more hospitals have become interested in the innovation of healthcare services and processes through IT convergence based on RFID, NFC, smart devices and so on. This paper presents a case of process innovation by implementing a smart health checkup system using these advanced information technologies. The existing inefficient health checkup process based on the paper chart and manual work has been innovated using the advanced information and communication technologies. The newly developed smart health checkup system has been used successfully in a tertiary university hospital named Samsung Medical Center since April 2013. The contributions of the system include improvement of service quality, enhancement of customer satisfaction, reduction in workload of staffs, improvement of work accuracy, and accordingly reinforcement of the competitiveness of the hospital.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.301-313
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• 2015

Robot technology has become a crucial part of today's business operation. In fact, more manufacturing firms have been utilizing robot technology in order to increase operational efficiency and productivity. Thus, this study develops the research model investigating firms; behavior for process innovation with intelligent robot. Three categories - Technical, Entrepreneur, and Environmental characteristic - are proposed in the research model as determinants of process innovation. These three characteristics include six variables(Perceived Direct Usefulness, Perceived Indirect Usefulness, Innovation, Risk Senstivity, Perceived Industry Pressure, and Perceived Government Pressure) as influencing factors on process innovation. The data from 77 employee at manufacturing firms were analyzed to test proposed hypotheses. The results reveal that all variables with exception of Perceived Government Pressure have a significant influence on process innovation. Based on the study results, theoretical and practical implications for process innovation with intelligent robot technology are discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.160-165
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• 2004

최근 각 기업에는 6시그마, PI등 여러 가지 혁신 활동이 차별화 되지 않고 도입되는 경향이 있으며, 기업 내부에서도 바람직한 혁신활동 연계방안에 대해서 많은 고민을 하고 있는 실 정 임. 따라서 이러한 혁신활동을 잘 이해하고 통합할 수 있는 방안이 필요 할 것이며, 여기에서는 이것들을 연계한 경영 전략을 제시하고자 한다. 6시그마와 PI의 특징을 살펴보면, 비즈니스 리엔지니어링은 급격하게 변화하는 프로세스의 구성을 의미하는 것으로 볼 수 있으나 PI는 보다 포괄적인 개념이다. 즉, 새로운 작업전략(Work Strategy)의 비전설정과 실질적인 프로세스 디자인 활동을 포함한다. 또한 기술적 차원, 인간적 차원, 조직적 차원등 다차원적 변화의 추진과 실행을 의미한다. 반면에 6시그마는 고객의 요구(Customer Requirement)를 명확히 이해하고 이에 대응하는 기업의 모든 활동을 Top Down시각에서 합리적인 전사 표준을 통해 측정, 평가 후 도출되는 문제점 및 개선 사항에 대해 개선 프로세스에 따라 TFT(Task Force Team) 활동을 지속적으로 전개함으로써 총체적 고객만족을 구현하는데 궁극적인 목적을 둔다. 이러한 경영혁신 활동은 구성원의 참여를 기반으로 하며, 이에 대한 권한 위임과 더불어 지속적인 지원을 바탕으로 제품 및 서비스에 영향을 미치는 모든 부문에 걸쳐 영역 제한 없이 실시하는 것을 의미한다. 따라서 6시그마는 결코 PI를 대체할 수 없으며 상호 보완적 관계로 연계시켜 추진하는 것이 바람직하다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.112-121
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• 2013