Various strategies of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) have been developed to improve companies’ entire business process. From a more systematic viewpoint, these systems should be further organised under a unified value-added process, which covers all activities of a supply chain. Based on this understanding, a so-called business process reengineering system (BPRS) was proposed and develope...

today, change is a definite phenomenon and organizations should make themselves aligned with requirements for survival and success in the competitive market and retain customers. one of the main components of any organization that is undergoing these changes is the business processes of that organization. in other words, in a dynamic business environment, business processes are changed at runti...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are highly integrated enterprise-wide information systems that automate core business processes. The ERP packages of vendors such as SAP, Baan, J.D. Edwards, Peoplesoft and Intentia represent more than a standard business platform, they prescribe information blueprints of how an organisation’s business processes should operate. In this paper the scale ...

In order to support effective and efficient business process management, it is imperative that the process management lifecycle be integrated with risk management knowledge. In this regard, this article presents a knowledge-based approach to integrating risk management with business process management. The adopted approach is based on conversational case-based reasoning (CCBR) with the objectiv...

Business process management (BPM), business process reengineering (BPR), and business process innovation (BPI) have been the primary strategies adopted by several organizations to manage their business successfully along with IT. In the last few years, the concept of BPM, BPR, and BPI has been a hot topic among the IS community, which is evident in the degree of literatures devoted to it. Due t...

In e-business, addressing the technical issues alone is not enough to drive the evolution of existing legacy applications, but it is necessary to consider problems concerning the strict relationship that exists between the evolution of the legacy system and the evolution of the e-business process. In order to support the evolution, this chapter proposes a strategy for extracting the requirement...

The co-evolution of business processes and supporting software systems is needed for keeping them aligned and it requires managerial and technological effort for adequately planning it. In fact, any modification performed in the business process activities and/or supporting software systems may impact the process activities in terms of input/output and/or purpose of the software system and, the...

This paper seeks to develop a conceptual model that is inherently suitable for analyzing the complexity of B2B e-market and transaction performance in China. The case study of CCEC.com provides an insight on how one excellent B2B e-market has executed a successful strategy utilizing the existing source within the current business climate of China. The data from the case research illustrate e-co...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a promising technology for automated non-line-of-sight object identification. Traditional research of RFID middleware does not concern RFID related integration with enterprise information systems. Considering the requirements of RFID middleware and business process integration with enterprise information systems, an integration framework for RFID middlew...