Modern business organizations have continued to increase in not only size but also complexity of operations. This has resulted the need for strategic dimensional growth According Cole (1994), “Strategic management is a process, directed by top management, determine fundamental aims or goals organization, and ensure range decisions which will allow achievement those long term, while providing ad...

Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMdes) are business entities who’s entire or most of the capital is owned through direct participation originating from separated village assets to manage service and other businesses for excellent welfare community. However, usually, BUMdes administrators tend experience uncertainty when starting their business. Therefore, we need a work plan made by in field entrep...

Planning is concerned with the automated solution of action sequencing problems described in declarative languages giving the action preconditions and effects. One important application area for such technology is the creation of new processes in Business Process Management (BPM), which is essential in an ever more dynamic business environment. A major obstacle for the application of Planning i...

Information systems planning (ISP) work has changed tremendously during the last twenty years. Previously as a work of IT/IS professionals it has now changed towards a collaborative planning challenge of several stakeholders, such as top managers, business unit managers, IT/IS professionals and even external stakeholders such as customers, partners etc. In addition to that it is very often labe...

In a world where continuous operations are essential for business survival, action must be taken to ensure information and the business processes that use the information are continuously available. This usually involves the selection and implementation of a suitable Business Continuity Planning (BCP) methodology. Implementing a methodology is however not always a simple task. This especially h...

Today’s information-rich and knowledge-based business society relies heavily on information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) design to enable the business to operate effectively and create a competitive advantage. Firms must align their IS design and performance with the core business competencies and business goals of the firm. There are multiple paths toward this end, and ineffici...

Business to Business (B2B) relationships in Ecommerce are becoming increasingly important. However, there is little guidance available for managers about how relationships should be formulated or managed. Further, requirements analysis for information technology support of B2B interorganisational relationships (IORs) depends on the business model of the relationship, and needs a predictive basi...

This work presents an object-oriented approach to model business processes in production systems using workflow concepts. We define an object reference model called C-Wf that represents the structural and functional enterprise elements involved in the business processes, such as enterprise activities, human resources, machines, etc. Through the C-Wf reference model classes it is possible to bui...