The velocity of global business change is challenging the management of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. The growing speed of business changes mandates that software be managed with flexibility and agility. At the same time, system implementation success depends on an effective project management (PM) process. Notable problems associated with the implementation of an enterprise syste...

A requisitely holistic information support can help us improve our business operation, but such information is hard to attain and even harder to attain in virtual organizations presenting a specific, more fluid form of business systems. Important difficulties include complexity and complicatedness, time (real and future, and their difference from the past), information requirements (realistic d...

An integrated management of business processes demands a strictly process-oriented development of the supporting IT. Process-orientation is especially promoted by Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), where loosely coupled business services are being composed to executable processes. In this paper we present a model-driven methodology for a top-down development of a process-oriented IT support ...

Mobile devices offer great potentials for business process change and reengineering. However, realizing these potentials in practice still faces serious problems. While technologies are now widely mature, the problems still lie in the adoption and usage of mobile technology. In this paper, we analyze the contribution of user participation to the successful improvement of business metrics. This ...

Increasingly, policymakers look to the small business sector as a potential engine of economic growth. Policies to promote small businesses include tax relief, direct subsidies, and indirect subsidies through government lending programs. Encouraging lending to small business is the primary policy objective of the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) loan-guarantee program. Using a panel data s...

This paper contributes to our current knowledge about culture and e-business Web design by investigating Amazon and Taotao, two leading e-business platforms based in America and China respectively. It is revealed that the forms of cultural reification in the two Webs include categorization, representation and structuration. All of them vary from culture to culture and this variation can be capt...

Virtual Organisation Breeding Environments (VBEs) represent an emerging valued added strategy for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), to respond in a competitive way to changing market conditions, through the integration of their capabilities in the configuration of Virtual Organisations. The creation of sustainable VBEs is a challenge that requires new business models based on collaborative a...

Exploring the grand challenges for next generation eBusiness While Information Systems continue to transform organizations, organizational IT infrastructures and business models are themselves beginning to change. There is an increased focus on service orientation and performance levels of IT infrastructures and systems. Outsourcing and offshoring strategies are evolving to include utility base...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have been credited with providing competitive advantage in multinational business operations, to include supply chains. Multinational implementations of ERP involve added complexity. This paper uses case studies and other reports of multinational ERP implementation to identify implementation factors of importance. Four technical factors were identified...

The relationship between business and information systems engineering (BISE) and its main reference disciplines business administration and informatics has changed several times during the last decades. Despite some frictions during the 1980 s and 1990 s, the interplay between informatics and BISE is becoming much more constructive and has proven extremely fruitful. Important examples of this c...