Inter-organisational asset management: linking an operational and a strategic view

Strategic Supply and the Management of Inter and Intra Organisational Relationships

As companies attempt to shed old habits and begin to view procurement as a strategic resource from which a competitive advantage can be gained, there is a great deal of corporate baggage that must be shed. More importantly, there is a new mindset that must be instilled both in procurement and across the firm. Strategic supply symbolizes the importance of enterprise wide thinking where functiona...

Automated Management of Inter-Organisational Applications

Inter-organisational applications require improved support from middleware services. This paper analyses the management requirements of multidomain applications, covering both technological domains and organisations (administrative business domains). The analysis leads to a suggested middleware solution for these needs, presenting a group of cooperative, pervasive management services that use a...

Inter-organisational knowledge management with internet applications

Learning processes do not occur only within, but also between enterprises. There is, therefore, a need for inter-organizational in addition to intra-organizational knowledge management. Since much of the communication and interaction among organizations takes place on the internet, it is logical to use internet applications to support the relating knowledge management tasks. The paper derives t...

Strategic asset management of power networks

Linking Strategic Planning and Management Manpower Planning

A well-developed strategic plan is merely an expensive report. It becomes a viable tool when it is placed in the hands of a manager competent to execute the plan. While the link between corporate strategic planning and management manpower planning seems obvious, a recent Business Week article suggests that companies are only now seriously trying to develop formal ties between the two systems. ̂ ...