• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.147-156
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• 2005

In developing the ubiquitous computing technology based services (ubiquitous services), evaluating how much value of those services is created or added is very crucial. The efforts to evaluate the ubiquitous services have been progressed in two perspectives - technical perspective and behavioral perspective. Despite its importance, however, the methodologies which integrate both perspectives have been still very rare. Hence, this paper aims perspectives have been still very rare. Hence, this paper aims to propose an integrated ubiquitous service valuation methodology based on the multi-layered approach including technical and behavioral perspectives. To do so, we conducted a case study with currently existing location based service (LBS) such as navigation systems by conducting focus group interview (FGI) and field survey.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.269-285
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• 2008

Design productivity can't be easily measured since there are so many different design productivity factors but such a few meaningful design product units. It's very difficult to evaluate the performance of design activities. Performance measures are not defined easily and are not measured correctly in many cases. So, in this paper the value added productivity is used to measure and analyze design productivity. Some issues are analysed to assess real productivity level of Korean service industry. And then we propose a few ways to Improve design productivity including the use of scientific approach at design processes and the change of the industry structure. It seems that the higher the level of IT(Information Technology) usage at a design industry is, the higher the design productivity is. Further research will be needed to investigate scientific approaches to increase design productivity.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.187-199
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• 2002

Global economy these days is characterized with an unlimited competition due to Globalization and Information Age. Expansion of E-business accelerates informationized and globalized society and also intensifies market competition. As a result, global economy gradually develops to knowledge-based economy, and Business Service Industry becomes essential to the production increase in the manufacturing industry as well as its high added value comes into the spotlight as one of rapidly growing business industry. Business Service Industry has not yet been academically established, however, it may be defined as the industry of which production is a mediating service in the production process rather than in the final consumption. The export of the manufacturing industry has traditionally played mainstream role in Korea where economic development has been centered on the manufacturing export. However, as with increasing emphasis on the role of service sector and highly developed industrial field in the national economy, not only the relationships between manufacturing industry and service industry becomes rapidly more involved, but also the importance of highly competitive service industry becomes emphasized in accordance with open global economy after WTO system takes off. Now it is time we come to the realization that service is in the center of national competitive power as a result of global door open in all service industry.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.306-310
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• 2002

이동 통신의 급격한 발달로 다양한 부가가치서비스가 등장하고, 이러한 서비스를 좀더 편리하고 안전하게 사용하고 싶어하는 사용자와 부가가치서비스를 제공하는 VASP(Value -Added Service Provider) 사이의 보안이 필수적인 것이 되었다. 이를 위하여 이동 통신 환경의 한계인 제한된 자원과 제한된 계산력을 극복할 수 있도록 적은키 길이를 가지고 보다 안전한 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 타원곡선 암호시스템(ECC)를 기반으로 하여 부가가치서비스에 효율적인 인증 및 키 합의 프로토콜을 제안하고, 차세대 이동통신시스템에 적용해본다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.185-188
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 차세대 이동통신 환경에서 모바일 이용자가 자신의 단말기를 이용, 부가가치 서비스 제공자(VASP, Value Added Service Provider)에게 접근하여 서비스를 받을 경우에 대한 과금 문제를 다루고자 한다. 또한 이 과정에서 발생할 수 있는 모바일 이용자와 부가가치 서비스 제공자사이에 인증문제, 상호간에 분쟁이 발생했을 경우에 대한 해결, 모바일 사용자의 위치 정보에 대한 프라이버시 보호 그리고 모바일 사용자의 신분에 대한 익명성 보장문제 등을 암호학적인 프리미티브들을 이용하여 아울러 해결하고자 한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1379-1383
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• 2005

Introducing the market into the electricity industry lets the multiple participants get into new competition. These multiple participants of the market need new business strategies for providing value added services to customer. Therefore they need the accurate customer information about the electricity demand. Demand characteristic is the most important one for analyzing customer information. In this study load profile data, which can be collected through the Automatic Meter Reading System, are analyzed for getting demand patterns of customer. The load profile data include electricity demand in 15 minutes interval. An algorithm for clustering similar demand patterns is developed using the load profile data. As results of classification, customers are separated into several groups. And the representative curves for the groups are generated. The number of groups is automatically generated. And it depends on the threshold value for distance to separate groups. The demand characteristics of the groups are discussed. Also, the compositions of demand contracts and standard industrial classification in each group are presented. It is expected that the classified curves will be used for tariff design, load forecasting, load management and so on. Also it will be a good infrastructure for making a value added service related to electricity.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.127-153
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• 2013

The trend of China's industry has been changed from manufacturing industry based on cheap labor market to service industries gradually as a whole. The investment of Korean corporations toward Chines service industry is gradually being increased. The importance of Chinese service industry related taxations such as business tax and value-added tax are growing. This study, therefore, examines the changes of investment environment and does the business tax and VAT of growing importance in China. From the point of view that the taxation on services is mainly related to the business tax or VAT, this study, also, examines the changes of present condition of investment and corresponding trends of the Korean corporations, in accordance with the domestic investment environment changes tied to the business tax and the VAT in China. With regard to the business tax and the VAT, this study looks into their features and tax requisition and also makes comparison between them and VAT of Korea. This study examines the problems and situations from the cases of separation, integration and trial integration of the business tax and VAT, and also does the development direction of the above two taxation and the corresponding strategy of Korea and her companies The purpose of this study is to provide information about the changing trends of investment environment and the business tax and VAT and to present corresponding plan for the corporations advancing into China.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.161-179
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• 2014

Added value of music industry in Korea is not distributed and calculated properly, and this obstacle brings various problems in a creative environment. Meanwhile, a new business model such as Open Collaboration, Crowdsourcing and platform that makes decisions and innovation from external resources has been appeared in commercial area. This new model like a composer delivers to consumers directly through Youtube.com, and multi collaboration is applied to the music industry, and it enables a new type of mechanism for creation, distribution, division, and calculation of music. However there are not enough empirical study of the music market because existing relative researches has been centered around fundamental concepts and application methodologies. This research defines Open Collaboration Platform in the music industry, and studies affecting factors of Participation Intention for example Justice, Information System Quality and Perceived Value. For a survey we apply PLS(Partial Least Square) to analyse Equity, Information System Quality and structural equation between Perceived Value and Participation Intention. Analysis results show Distributive Justice and Procedural Justice affects Platform Trust, and Service Quality, Economical Value and Emotional Value affects Platform Usefulness. Also Platform Trust and Platform Usefulness affects Platform Participation Intention. We discussed academic and practical implication based on research results.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.287-294
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• 2005

In Korea an Internet Home Tax Service has started from the year of 2000 with a value added tax system and has been expanded to a corporate income tax and an individual income tax in 2004. Therefore most of the important tax items have been systemized with Home Tax Service. In this paper, 9 variables which contain 41 issues are used to testify a tax payer satisfaction grade. Those 9 variables include quality of system, quality of information, legislative area, systematic area, mental area, user satisfaction, effectiveness of the information projects, and tax compliance grade.