measuring enterprise systems benefits in contractor companies procurement process, using action research strategy

Measuring the Benefits of Financial Services in Procurement Contracts

In this paper we investigate the interplay between operations and financial decisions within the context of a two-echelon supply chain. A retailer purchases a single product from a supplier and afterwards sells it in the retail market to a random demand. The retailer, however, is budget-constrained and is therefore limited in the number of units that he may purchase from the supplier. We invest...

Information Systems Procurement and Benefits Realization

Organizational information systems are acquired through numerous means: as service (cloud computing), as configurations to large enterprise systems, as packaged software, or through dedicated development. Despite of existing tracks of research on these topics, yet, according to Gartner reports and popular press articles, numerous information systems acquisition projects fail in terms of costs, ...

Benefits of Enterprise Integration Systems

Investigating Process Elicitation Workshops Using Action Research

We develop a workshop technique for process co-creation with domain experts called tangible business process modeling. After assessing the idea in a laboratory experiment, we started workshops with professionals in the field. This paper illustrates how we used action research in two subsequent studies in which groups modeled BPMN and EPCs using tangible tiles on a table. The practical result is...

Investigating Benefits and Limitations of applying e-procurement in B2B Automakers companies in Iran

Enterprise Microblog as a New Marketing Strategy for Companies: Enterprise Microblog Commitment and Brand Loyalty

With the emergence and bloom of microblogging, companies are showing their increasing interests in this platform and try to establish their own enterprise accounts (called as enterprise microblogs in this case) in it, which enables them to broadcast product information, interact with consumers, and promote their brands. Despite much work focusing on how virtual brand communities take effect on ...