Improving Performance in Core Business Classes

Improving XML Query Performance Using Social Classes

In a state-of-the-art XML database, an XML query is evaluated as a sequence of structural joins in which positions of data nodes are used to perform each individual structural join. In this paper, we define the notion of social classes of data nodes and present a framework of query evaluation in which both positions and social classes of data nodes are used with structural joins to further impr...

Improving the Performance of Business Networks in E-Government

Strategic alignment between business and IT is known to be important for achieving good business performance in one organization. It is not clear how strategic alignment influences the performance of a business network consisting of multiple organizations. This paper presents a method to assess inter-organizational Extended Strategic Alignment (ESA) based on the analysis of inter-organizational...

Improving the feedback loop between the knowledge business and the core business

Knowledge management (KM) and process orientation (PO) constitute two important parts of developing an organisation, being the knowledge business part and the core process part. In order to stay competitive and to increase the customer value of their products, organisations must maintain close links between these two parts. This can be made by establishing a feedback loop, and this loop must be...

Firm Core Business Processes and the Effect on Performance

Improving performance aligning business analytics with process orientation

How to align business analytics with process orientation initiatives and how management can influence a synergistic accomplishment of these two elements in order to streamline organizational performance is a foremost managerial issue. By means of a quantitative research effort, a study was designed to investigate the relationships among these constructs. Empirical data were collected in 2011 fr...