Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is increasingly applied in the logistics domain. As with other emerging technologies it is complex whether, when and how an organization should invest in RFID. In this paper the decision to adopt RFID in the logistic domain is explored. The authors take a business/IT-alignment approach and investigate the relation between business/IT-alignment principles an...

Due to fast evolution on the services provided by telecommunication companies, the Information Technology (IT) environment has been gaining an increasingly importance inside organizations. It is no more a silent partner, involved only on the daily’s operations, without any influence on the company’s strategy and management. In the recent years, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITI...

Adaptive Profiling (APL) and other biochip companies aim to harness the power of microsystems technology together with advances in chemistry and molecular biology, to become service and technology providers to organizations involved in pharmaceutical research and development. By supplying a unique range of decision-making tools that aid an earlier identification of qualified drug candidates for...

As organizations increasingly depend on information technology for their operation, complexity of information systems becomes an important issue for management in the context of organizational engineering. This paper shows how the combination of cybernetics with conceptual modelling contributes to the measurement of complexity for the analysis and design of information systems and organizations...

Increasingly, organizations are looking to employ Social Technology (ST) to enhance their capability with Business Process Improvement (BPI). However, little is known about how the characteristics or qualities of ST actually influence an organizations' capability at Business Process Improvement (BPI). This paper discusses the potential role of ST in process improvement by presenting an a-priory...

An important current trend in the business environment is the tendency for applications of technology to be 'bundled' together with legitimating discourses aimed at senior management. For example, many applications of Information Technology (IT) in the early and mid-1990's were either stimulated or justified by a discourse of Business Process Reengineering (BPR), which held that old functional ...

Currently, organizations move from the need to produce high rates of profitability, by the satisfaction of their customers, partners or employees, and by the maintenance of high levels of competitiveness to enable them to face competition and ensure their survival. With the evolution of Information Systems and the Information Technology, increasingly organizations based its activities on these ...

New business condition and current economical situation are forcing companies to rethink their way of operating. The rapidity of managing changes has become increasingly important. To be more competitive, companies are forming Virtual Organizations (VO) where short-term spontaneous collaboration activities are rather common. Such interoperability leads to increasing organizational architectural...

Information technology (IT) is increasingly important to organizations and has become essential the development of sustainable business growth. It therefore necessary adopt IT governance (ITG) mechanisms ensure better solutions, growth, decision-making. As employee behavior a competitive differential, this work focuses on behavioral expression ITG. aims at analyzing ITG institutionalization's e...