Reuse has a reputation for being difficult if not impossible to achieve on any but the smallest scales. Can organizations really expect to reuse more than simple GUI components? This tutorial will use case studies to show how enterprises are succeeding with reuse today. The studies will highlight the key issues for success and show the pitfalls you need to avoid. Learn what it takes to implemen...

today, market orientation plays a vital role in determining customers’ needs and success of organizations. market orientation has also influenced various organizations’ measures including innovation. therefore the aim of this research is to study the role of market orientation in innovation of bodybuilding clubs of golestan province. the population of this study comprised all 170 managers of bo...

today, the effective inventory management plays an important role in the success of the organizations in the new business environment. it is not clearly possible for the organizations that store hundreds of inventory items to economically design an inventory management policy for each inventory item separately. moreover, various inventory items may play quite different roles in the business of ...

it is now more than four decades from providing and execution of iran’s first comprehensive urban plan. evaluation of this plan shows that the process of execution has not been successful. considering the literature review, field study as well as comparing the plan’s documents, it is thought that lack of coordination between the urban planning organizations, the manner of providing and executio...

Alignment between business strategy and IS strategy is relevant to most large organizations today. We build on the literature on alignment and strategic IS planning to study patterns of antecedents that explain planning decisions. When addressing misalignment risks: Are there systematic differences in the patterns of antecedents that explain decision-making across differing strategic orientatio...

The business value of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and in general large software implementations has been extensively debated in both popular press and academic literature for over three decades. Despite the positive motives for adoption, various organizations have reported negative impacts from these large investments. This ‘disconnect’ between large IS investments and firms’ org...

The global nature and impacts of information technology and strategy are particularly evident in the issue. Application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and resulting capabilities, strongly influence organizations, economies, and societies. This issue explores aspects of these influences and the implications for processes and planning of effective ICT use. The first three ar...

Software product release planning is a common activity in software development organizations. The planning problem is complex and difficult, but supporting tools have only emerged in the last few years. This paper presents a number of common planning challenges based on literature as requirements for tool support, and then examines four software tools from the perspective of these challenges. T...