Since 9/11, many western nations have re-framed their national security decisions in terms of strategic risk management. All have undertaken risk assessments, but valid translation into capability priorities has been abdicated largely by transferring priorities directly from risk magnitudes. Treatment priorities should be determined from risk reduction benefits in relation to costs, but a metho...

This paper presents an approach where the process of RE is seen as a business process, and introduces principles of Business Process Management (BPM) in order to increase its performance. Initially, the traditional process of ER is considered, according the SWEBOK, as the initial model (As Is). Then a desirable process (To Be) is defined and modeled, with the introduction of strategic and perfo...

This paper studies the exertion of market power in large buyer groups confronting an incumbent monopolist and a potential market entrant in a repeated trade situation. In the experiment, buyer power can either occur as demand withholding when only the incumbent is present in the market, or it can take the form of buying at higher prices from the entrant in order to foster future re-entry. Compa...

The improvement of business processes is a perennial top priority of chief information executives (Gartner Group: Leading in Times of Transition 2010). When seeking to re-design business processes to improve operational efficiency, increase compliance or foster business innovation, managers increasingly turn to Business Process Management (BPM) (Smith and Fingar 2003). The attraction of BPM lie...

This article aims at strategic vision to technology and suggests a strategic planning for this purpose. The main emphasis in this article is on strategic report compilation in the framework of strategic vision and covers issues such as identification of strategic planning dimensions and strategic vision levels, technology priority setting, environment monitoring, focus on costumer needs, method...

Cost of energy per unit of goods or services may evolve as a key differentiator of economic growth. The debt of nations will be re-structured. Corporations, big or small, may not escape from managing their energy supply chains or their carbon footprints. Energy supply chains may disrupt traditional physical and financial value networks so much so that different business models with quite divers...

After 20 years of a static clinical ladder program at our institution, the clinical ladder program was completely redesigned using a staff nurse-led shared governance structure to re-envision the program as an innovative, staff leadership model to meet our organizational nursing mission and vision strategic plans around retention and professional development. The literature demonstrated a lack ...

Drawing from archival and qualitative data from the UK building construction industry, we develop an inductive framework that explains why industries gravitate for long periods around vertical specialization; and how and why they shift from specialization to reintegration. First, we observe that various industry groups, including professionals and their associations, play an active role in shap...

This paper concerns the design of decision support systems (DSSs) which help financial managers in evaluating proposals for strategic and long-range planning. With the proposed two-phased DSS, projects are first selected from a given pool according to greedy heuristics based on the project’s preferences as well as the project’s efficiency. Then, integer programming with an approximation algorit...