Organizations are under competitive pressure to innovate and at the same time efficiently execute their strategy, and have been implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to aid in the achievement of their goals. Sambamurthy, Bharadwaj, and Grover (2003) describe the capability of simultaneous innovation and efficient execution as agility, and they propose a model of information ...

Conditions of information independence are important in information economics and game theory. We present notions of partial independence in Bayesian environments, and study their relationships to notions of common knowledge.

Paper Contact Details Abstract This paper is a brief case study of the establishment and progress of Business Ventures, the business arm of Eccles College. It is structured to reflect work on the role of retrospective rationalisation in management thinking. I propose to consider the situation of establishing the Business Ventures Unit in terms of the garbage can model and associated loose coupl...

Previous theories and empirical formulas for the lift of flat planing surfaces are reviewed, and the resemblance of the planing surface to the airfoil noted. A simple expression, which converges to the correct limits for exactly known cases, is assumed for the ratio of planing to airfoil lift, and the planing lift is then estimated by using airfoil experimental data. The resulting calculated va...

The objective of the present study is twofold. First, the study aims to review the literature about the concepts of IT competencies and business competencies. Second, a theoretical model is proposed in order to understand how and why some firms gain sustained competitive advantage through the implementation and use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, while others firms fail to do so....

Periodization theory has, over the past seven decades, emerged as the preeminent training planning paradigm. The philosophical underpinnings of periodization theory can be traced back to the integration of diverse shaping influences, whereby coaching beliefs and traditions were blended with historically available scientific insights and contextualized against pervading social planning models. S...

We study a subclass of POMDPs, called Deterministic POMDPs, that is characterized by deterministic actions and observations. These models do not provide the same generality of POMDPs yet they capture a number of interesting and challenging problems, and permit more efficient algorithms. Indeed, some of the recent work in planning is built around such assumptions mainly by the quest of amenable ...

Design Science Research has been well accepted as part of Information Systems Research. The discussion about the research process and the structure of design theories has been going on for some time. While research has been done on the relation between design theories and other types of theories, not much has been said about how design knowledge can be re-used. Other disciplines refer to such r...

In most of the constraint-based approaches to planning, the problem is unfolded over a given number of steps. Because this unfolded CSP encoding is very time and memory consuming, we propose on top of the CNT framework (Constraint Networks on Timelines) a more efficient slice CSP encoding which allows only a limited number of steps to be considered at each step of the search.