Considerations of the Relationships among Software Engineering Capabilities and Business Performance of Japanese Software Firms through Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Analyses
This study aims at better understanding the relationships among software engineering capabilities and profitability, as a representative business performance, of software vendors in the drastically changing Japanese IT industry in Japan. To do so, we designed a survey on software engineering excellence (SEE) and administered it in 2005, 2006 and 2007 with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Then, we measured the SEE survey results with regard to seven factors: deliverables, project management, quality assurance, process improvement, research and development, human development, and customer contact. First, through a cross-sectional analysis of the SEE data in 2006 and 2007, we found superior deliverables and business performance to be significantly correlated with the effort expended on human resource development, quality assurance, research and development, and process improvement. Second, based on the longitudinal modeling of the three-year SEE data and ten-year operating profit ratio of the 151 respondents to the SEE surveys, we significantly verified that IT firms who have excellent software engineering capabilities tend to improve their business performance in a medium- and long-term standpoint.
enterprise management information systems statistical analysis
Yasuo Kadono
Tokyo University of Technology
国际会议
The Tenth International Conference on Information and Management Sciences(IMS)(第十届信息与管理科学国际会议)
拉萨
英文
202-206
2011-08-06（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）