Leading an enterprise requires, obviously, decision making. However, these decisions require explanations in order to make it possible for stakeholders to get an understanding about the enterprise’s strategic direction. This is even more important when these stakeholders are in charge to transpose such strategic decision into their tactical or operational work. Enterprise modelling may be capab...

The strategic use of Information Technology (IT), better known as strategic alignment, has significantly increased, as a result of the strong dependence of organisational activity on Information Systems (IS) and their related technologies. Strategic alignment is considered as a key element to improve performance on organisations, enhance efficiency and allow organisations to be more competitive...

Strategic planning in each organization identifies its orientation and coming priorities as all decisions to be adopted respect to the ensuing outcomes. Strategic decisions considering crucial and irreversible results should not be based on experience and judgments. This paper uses analytic network process (ANP) method for prioritization in strategic planning. ANP is mostly analogous to analyti...

The success of the strategy formulation process is strictly contingent on the reliability and exhaustiveness of the information a strategist relies on. This paper investigates the Internet as a potential resource of the strategically important information and software intelligent agents as a tool for information retrieval. Though the potential usefulness of the Internet is recognized by the bus...

The research, based on an interdisciplinary literature review, highlights the strategic choices, various profiles and salient factors of electronic procurement (eprocurement). The authors identify some factors which are important when adopting a strategic, rather than a tactical e-procurement perspective. The article proposes a broad framework for assessing the e-procurement performance relatio...

Manufacturing outsourcing is a key industry trend towards greater operational efficiency and is related to the discussion of strategic core competencies. We study the issue of contract manufacturing at the strategic-tactical level and approach the topic from a multi-criteria decision-making perspective, since service, cost, quality, and more long-term value-related aspects are involved. To arri...

The paper provides empirical insight on how changeable and reconfigurable manufacturing system concepts can be developed to meet requirements in companies, as well the related organizational technical challenges. findings reveal that there are still strong barriers towards wider implementation of reconfigurability a paradigm shift industry is required, e.g., terms managing stepwise investments,...