Mohd Zaidi Abd Rozan

UTM Technology Entrepreneurship Center (UTMTEC) · Department of Information Systems Faculty of Computing

Today's online businesses are trying to increase their customer base and attract lots of users incorporating different methods into their platforms, websites, and applications. One of them is gamification, which is applying game elements to a specific context. In e-commerce gamifying online shopping platforms resulted in significant advantages. As...

This study aimed to determine how well low-income household Bottom 40 (B40) students might generate income by utilizing the digital entrepreneurship ecosystem. Although several initiatives have been put in place to assist the B40 students in overcoming poverty, it has been shown that a number of factors influence their engagement in digital entrepr...

The positive impact of entrepreneurial competencies has sparked the attention of researchers from various industries and disciplines. Since academic scholars are becoming more interested in the practice of entrepreneurial competencies, thus it is required to gain a better grasp of the themes of interest and to expand collaboration networks in order...

Impact Digital Entrepreneurship Apprentice Program (IDEA@KPT) at Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia 2021 is a comprehensive nationwide six-month program. Forty-three teams consist of 43 Academic Supervisors, 129 institutes of Higher Learning students, and 43 Micro & Small Enterprises (MSE) owners conducted by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The p...

With the recent growth and popularity of the concept “Digital Nomads” (DN) in industry, practitioner’s outlets, and publications within the areas of information technology and tourism, this paper aims to address the question, “How academic research on Digital Nomads has developed within information systems discipline?”. To get a better understandin...

This study proposes a framework for matchmaking a mentor and mentee by exploring intentions of entrepreneurs towards mentoring. The framework based on Theory of Planned Behaviour, Institutional Theory and Social Exchange Theory were applied to explore factors that influenced intentions of IT-Entrepreneurs in Malaysia towards mentoring. It was appli...

Trend of rapid pace in earthworks has forced geotechnical laboratories to increase their productivity and performance at organizational as well as at individual level. Though geotechnical work involves numerous mobile work processes but the true potential of rapidly growing mobile computing technologies (MCT) has not yet been effectively exploited...

University Entrepreneurship Center Identity (UECI) is a set of meanings by which a UECI allows itself to be known, and through which it allows people to describe, remember and relate to it. There are many factors stated in many studies related to UECI, but their importance level is not mentioned. In this study, the UECI factors are ranked by using...

As knowledge-intensive firms, start-ups typically lack the knowledge, ability and strategies for communication to acquire it. Business incubators have emerged to enhance their access to such resources via external networking, and minimize their failure rate and affect their competitive advantages. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact...

The development of the Malaysian radiological medical emergency response simulator emphasized human factors according to the stakeholder's tacit and explicit knowledge. These human factors criteria were usability tested and analysed according to the socio-technical components. These analyses and interpretations were corroborated by the statistical...

The growth of entrepreneurship throughout the globe has forced policy makers to reconsider their plans. Universities have been pushed to change their missions and enforce their transition into entrepreneurial academia. When enterprise awareness is formed in students, they are preferably to develop entrepreneurial mindset and behave in enterprising...

The Small and Medium Enterprise industry is experiencing a major transformation towards cloud ERP systems. These systems can organize, and maintain data remotely, accept a pay-as-you-use method and enhance related information through a cloud computing platform. Hence, this makes the cloud ERP system crucial for their sustainability and enables them...

Disastrous radiation and nuclear meltdown require an intricate scale of emergency health and social care capacity planning framework. In Malaysia, multiple agencies are responsible for implementing radiological and nuclear safety and security. This research project focused on the Radiological Trauma Triage (RTT) System. This system applies patient’...

In the mobile banking technology, the electronic payment systems need to be assessed from different viewpoints to boost the performance of these systems. Therefore, in this research, a multi-criteria decision making model is developed comprising the key factors that impact the mobile banking usage in the Iranian banks. From the literature, we devel...

Objective: Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems provide generic benefits to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). However, SMEs motivation to adopt this system is low. Our study aimed to explore the challenges faced by SMEs to adopt the system. Methods/Statistical Analysis: To achieve this objective, exploratory research approach was use...

Nowadays the concept of knowledge mapping has attracted increased attention from scientists in a variety of academic disciplines and professional practice areas. Among the most important attributes of a knowledge map is its ability to increase communication and share common practices across an entire organisation. However, despite being a promising...

The evolution of current Radiation and Nuclear Emergency Planning Framework (RANEPF) simulator emphasizes on the human factors to be analyzed and interpreted according to the stakeholder’s tacit and explicit knowledge. These human factor criteria are analyzed and interpreted according to the “sense making theory” and Disaster Emergency Response Man...

Nowadays one of the most important phenomenons in organizations is their ability to make the available knowledge internally visible in a formal way. Most organizations are facing difficulty in making important knowledge visible as part of their knowledge management effort. Knowledge maps make it easier to locate this knowledge, capture it and make...

Objectives: This paper proposes a new mobile agent based cloud security framework comprising four different security and authentication layers to establish the trust relationship between two entities before using cloud services. Methods / Analysis: The proposed framework is divided into four layers with each layer performing authentication, verific...

An integrative group decision-making method is developed to tackle the problems in arranging group decision making sessions and also use the advantage of networking hidden in a former method. Based on grounded-group decision making (GGDM), an adapted multiple criteria group-decision-making method has been used which reduces constrains and improves...

A mentor plays an important role in entrepreneurial development of an individual. He guides entrepreneurs from conception of business to product development and business growth. Previous literature on entrepreneurial learning is disseminated and not properly organized; it is difficult to even find pertinent and comprehensive articles on entrepreneu...

Enterprise resources planning (ERP) systems are rapidly becoming a de facto standard in business process and activity. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have shown interest in adopting and using ERP packages to enhance competitiveness. While big companies have the luxury to afford proprietary ERP solutions, SMEs struggle with resource limitations...

The environmental footprint of ICT continues to increase. Data centres are key contributors of greenhouse gas emissions that pollute the environment and cause global warming. All data centres are overwhelmed with numerous servers as the major components of processing. These servers and other equipment consume high amounts of power, thereby emitting...

Organizations today operate in a complex, unpredictable, competitive and global business environment. These demand utilizing Internet-based tools to support more collaborative activities and allow the integration of business processes and the sharing of information. It is often that large organizations have more financial and technical resources co...

Prior investigations indicated that Malaysian radiation and nuclear emergency plan stakeholders were not satisfied of having two-quarter of organizational issues in organizing and managing the indicated disaster scenario. Therefore, any organizational enhancement and improvement along the current radiation and nuclear emergency plan will give a pos...

Nowadays, the most important phenomenon in software development organizations is their ability to make the available knowledge internally visible in a formal way. Most organizations are facing difficulty in making important knowledge visible as part of their knowledge management effort. Knowledge maps make it easier to locate this knowledge, captur...

Responses to disastrous radiation and nuclear meltdown incidents require a large and complex emergency health and social care capacity planning framework. Incompleteness, inconsistency, and infeasibility of the provided requirements of the proposed planning framework might create unnecessary conflicts during the system development. In this paper, w...

A knowledge map has emerged, as a powerful source of competitive advantage, and plays an important role in managing an organizational knowledge. The definition, purposes, benefits, types and principles of knowledge map have been already provided and well explored by many scholars and researchers. However, predictors for a knowledge map adoption hav...

Since the arising on safety and maintenance issues due to post-Fukushima disaster, as well as, lack of literatures on disaster scenario investigation and theory development. This study is dealing with the initiation difficulty on the research purpose which is related to context and problem setting of the phenomenon. Therefore, the research design o...

In disaster situation, it is common that specific government agencies are obliged to manage response and recovery, whereas, the participation of common people are somehow limited only if the people in the community are affected by disaster. The ubiquitousness of technology has empowered common people to become human sensors by providing voluminous...

Cryptography refers to protecting transmitted information from unauthorized interception or tampering, while cryptanalysis is art of breaking such secret ciphers and reading information, or perhaps replacing it with different information. The research highlights a new encryption technique called randomized text encryption. The algorithm proposed in...

Entrepreneurial mentoring may not only help entrepreneurs to survive, but can also help them to avoid having to compromise their own responsibilities in a better and more sustainable environment, rather than simply pursuing a quest for profit. New start-ups will be more focused on using green technologies while developing their products at the same...

Software change impact analysis is defined as a process of identifying the potential impact of disruption caused by a change to one or more components in the data center on other components. Change impact analysis is defined as identifying the potential consequences of a change or estimating what needs to be modified to accomplish a change. The ter...

Thereafter the Fukushima setback, different resolutions are on-going to improved arrangements among agencies responsible for the safety of such facilities and jointly developed reasonable precautions that will mitigate future calamities. This paper accomplished to recognize and represent suggested business processes for the Malaysian Nuclear Power...

Reducing the impact of greenhouse gases on climate change is an attempt to tackle global warming issues. It is a challenge many companies and businesses are trying to undertake. The research proposed in this paper discusses online delivery of mails through online postal services to deliver mails electronically later be printed by service providers...

The development of entrepreneurial skills within the education system increases the possibility of producing more entrepreneurs in future. Many economists now believe that entrepreneurship plays an important role in economic growth of a country. Entrepreneurial education can be used as a mediation tool for impacting attitude of people towards entre...

Efficient and effective energy management are a prominent factor in the new global economy. The implementation of a Nuclear Power Program (NPP) in Malaysia is under examination for appraisal. Nonetheless, the safety issue has become pivotal in the light of public concern. This research is a feasibility study on the NPP in order to address the perce...

Software Change Impact Analysis (SCIA) has defined as a process of identifying the consequences of the software changes requests. Almost no major corporations are free from the challenge of developing and implementing successful strategies for managing change. Different studies have been conducted in this subject for the last two decades, several a...

Project changes are difficult since the impacts of the changes are not readily known in advance. Changing customer needs and technology are driving factors influencing project evolution. Consequently, there is a need to assess the impact of these changes on existing software systems. For safety-critical system, the changes can even introduce hazard...

Efficient and effective energy management is an important factor in the new global economy. The Malaysian government is fulfilling this ambition by implementing a Nuclear Power Programme (NPP) to provide sustainable energy for the country. However, the safety issue has become important in the light of public concern. The focus of this paper is to e...

Malaysia is in advancement towards the establishment of effective and efficient energy mix plan within its Nuclear Power Programme (NPP) resulting from current governance acceptance and support. Prior precautions have been inculcated in order to comprehend nuclear energy accountability in striving high income economic growth and energy security. Th...

Nuclear energy development in Malaysia is improvised recently as a result of governance acceptance and support since 2000 in order to solve energy crises in consideration on key public acceptance and risk perception. Methods of research are based on critical analysis of literatures and Soft System Methodology (SSM) in order to understand and invest...

Risk Assessment Tool (RAT) is an expert system that assesses, monitors, and gives preliminary treatments automatically based on the project plan. In this paper, a review was taken out for the current project time management risk assessment tools for SME software development projects, analyze risk assessment parameters, conditions, scenarios, and fi...

The importance of having information technology (IT) in every single part of any organization is undeniable, however the systems integrated with it may face some threats, hazards and risks. One of the most suitable methods to prevent or recover from risks is Business Continuity Planning. BCP first was introduced in IT department but since IT has be...

The widespread use of communication tools on the Internet has provided greater possibilities as well as increased flexibility for orthographic reforms. As a result, spellings have been established that are closely matched to 'written speech', which emulate verbal expression plus the elegant addition of letters from foreign languages. This study wil...

Internet Evolutionized Malay (EM) is a newly formed language variety that has gained popularity within online text-based Malay communities. This paper discusses a study that utilized nine EM words and five of their corresponding Standard Malay (SM) words as word stimuli, with responses of 56 respon- dents towards 15 adjective pairs. The expressive...

The popularity of web forums has led to the creation of evolutionised bahasa Melayu (BM) known as sembang language. Greatly accepted as common and sensible vocabularies for its communities, sembang language has emerged as an avenue that supports knowledge-sharing-procreation practice. In this paper, we are trying to explore the fact that bahasa sem...

While entertainment web forums provide dynamic medium for interaction, not many researchers feel the need to go deeply into the contents. One of the reasons behind this attitude lays on a widely perceived assumption that web forums does not deal with knowledge matter and has the inclination to take place only as a small talk. In this paper, we will...

The first part of the paper provides a brief description of the Language Observatory Project (LOP) and highlights the major technical difficulties to be challenged. The latter part gives how we responded to these difficulties by adopting UbiCrawler as a data collecting engine for the project. An interactive collaboration between the two groups is p...

Ubiquitous learning challenges students to become adept at information retrieval, management and synthesis from a variety of sources. This sparks discovery activities that are student-centred and personalized. Personalized means that the learning is best conducted in the natural language of the student. Language is an important tool for human commu...

E-Commerce has been the idiom of many enterprises since the last few decades. The efforts to provide commercial contents via the Web are revolutionizing, triggered by the increase of opportunity to grasp more customer in the cyber world. According to the Computer Industry Almanac as quoted in Clickz.com1 website, currently there are 934 million onl...

Risk Assessment Tool (RAT) is an expert system that assesses, monitors, and gives preliminary treatment options systematically based on the project plan. Software risk assessment is the process of identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing risks. Software projects that each of them can have an effect on a risk need to have an assessment of the entire...

Words of doubt such as "What benefit can one get from web forums?" or "Web forums are meant just for small-talk" are examples of beliefs that were held by many individuals and researchers for a long time. Based on our observation of a web forum (http://asamboi.org), we found that at least quite a number of topics are dealing with deep knowledge con...

Every country in this world has own political issues. In Malaysia for example, political issues played an important role that can influence other factors such as social and economy. As we all know, political factor can give positive and negative effect to a situation in Malaysia. The frequent usage of computer nowadays by Malaysian people helps in...

The purpose of the study is to investigate entrepreneurial intention among information technology technopreneurs. The model of the study is based on Shapero’s model of entrepreneurial event. Variables included in this model are Perceived Desirability, Propensity for Proactive Behaviour and Breadth and Positiveness of Past Entrepreneurial Experience...