Enterprises today continue to invest in business intelligence (BI) initiatives with the hope of providing a strategic advantage to their organizations. Many of these initiatives are supporting the tactical goals of individual business units and not the strategic goals of the enterprise. Although this decentralized approach provides short term gains, it creates an environment where information s...

Nowadays, digital technologies (e.g., big data, cloud and mobility) have changed the firms’ activities. Many firms begin to utilize digital resources to formulate and execute digital business strategy. However, there is little empirical research focusing on explaining this novel phenomenon. In this paper, we proposed a framework which describes the value creation and appropriation process of di...

Communities of Practice (CoP) have long been considered powerful Knowledge Management (KM) mechanisms. CoP, however, are often viewed independently from organizational goals and structures, as they are primarily seen as a means of individual knowledge sharing and learning. In this paper, we argue that CoP supported by social media have great potential to contribute to organizational goals, such...

1ms article concentrates on the development of an infonnation security strategy. An information security strategy needs to focus on an overall objective. usually the objectives laid out in an organization's business strategy and its derived information technology strategy. where it takes the status quo and reflects the main objectives derived and postulates how and when to close the identified ...

This paper focuses on demand chain management, which accomplishes the synchronization of demand with supply through collaboration of buyer and supplier across the chain. And the purpose of it is to find the relationship between four integration strategies produced by combining supply integration and demand integration and its impacts on two performances, operating efficiency and customer satisf...

Modern enterprises rely on information systems (IS) both to support their operation and provide information required to endorse strategic decisions. Because of their increasing complexity, such systems are usually constructed by integrating software components of different nature and origins, into hybrid systems, for which architectural design plays a fundamental role. If well engineered, it be...

This paper proposes a conceptual modeling approach for requirements engineering for e-business systems that enables alignment of systems requirements with business strategy. Jackson problem diagrams and goal modeling are employed to capture business strategy. As a means of linking abstract, high-level business requirements to low-level system requirements, we leverage the paradigm of projection...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Channel governance structure Marketing strategy Business to business marketing This study tries to find an answer to the question: Are different marketing channel governance structural dimensions equally conducive for different marketing strategies? The results from an empirical study suggest that different dimensions of channel governance structure may not be eq...