<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The innovativeness of an organization has an important impact on its profitability as well as on the competitiveness of a country's economy as a whole. Since the innovativeness of Slovenian organizations is low, it is important that managers and industrial policy makers know which factors influence an organizations' innovation. One of these factors is supposed to be the organizational absorptive capacity. Absorptive capacity is one of the most important concepts that have emerged in the field of organizational research in the past years. Absorptive capacity is defined as the set of organizational routines and processes through which an organization identifies and values new external information, and then acquires it, assimilates it and applies it to commercial ends. The results of this research confirm the strong and positive impact of Slovenian organizations' absorptive capacity on process innovation and the even bigger positive influence on the organizations' product innovation.</abstract>

Institute for Economic Research, Kardeljeva pl. 17, 1000 Ljubljana

Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Kardeljeva ploščad 17, 1000 Ljubljana

The Influence of Organizational Absorptive Capacity on Product and Process Innovation

<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This paper presents the results of a research project financed by the Chamber of commerce and industry of Slovenia. The main purpose of the project was to propose a model for useful suggestions management, including concrete suggestions for businesses. This is based on (a) an in-depth literature review, (b) case studies of three innovative, export orientated Slovenian companies and (c) the results of the implementation of this model in two Slovenian companies (as a pilot project). Concrete suggestions for businesses regarding the useful suggestions management process, the implementation itself, the rewarding and monitoring of useful suggestions activity and potential adaptations of the model to changes within the company are presented. Since the paper focuses on the implementation of useful suggestions management, offering a rich insight into the concrete processes involved in both developing such policies and carrying them out, companies may achieve great business value by implementing this proposed model.</abstract>

Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Kardeljeva ploscad 17, 1000 Ljubljana

PS Center d.o.o., Ulica bratov Učakar 70, 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia

A Best Practice Model for Useful Suggestions Management

<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This article presents a new business excellence model for PUC (communal), especially in countries in transition as one way to business excellence. The new model has proven successful in a multinational company's daughter company in Slovenia in practice as well as in comparison with companies performing the same activity. We are aware that there are no universal models for success, but there are tools which make it easier to reach. Of course, one single tool will not make a company successful. It must have a unique (original) and requisitely holistic business model to succeed. And talking about unique, i.e. different from others, brings us to innovativeness - the main topic of this research as the background of business excellence, including the PUC. The presented new model has been evolving over ten years and proved successful in practice.</abstract>

Saubermacher&Komunala d.o.o., Kopališka ul 2, SI-9000 Murska Sobota, Slovenija

Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Razlagova 14, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenija

Innovativeness as Precondition for Business Excellence in Public Utility (Communal) Companies

<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">We describe an example of partnership between a university and some major IT companies - IBM and Microsoft - to teach a course on information systems technology. The course is taught in the fifth (final) year of the university undergraduate program when students have already mastered the basic theoretical knowledge of information system development. For this reason, the course content was restructured to pay more attention to practical experience and the learning opportunities available within the environment of professional industry. During the course, students get acquainted with IBM and Microsoft products and the tools that support the development of online information systems. Special attention is devoted to group project work, which is not just intended for the improvement of technical skills, but also for the aqusition of transferrable skills such as teamwork, management/leadership, planning and organizing, presentation and documentation, searching for information, etc. We describe our experience from teaching the course in the academic years 2005/06 and 2006/07. A description of the course content is given and the results of a survey among the students are presented. Students responded favourably to the new approach and found the course very useful and interesting.</abstract>

Teaching Information System Technology in Partnership with IT Companies

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