As the business environment gets more complicated, organizations must be able to respond to the business changes and adjust themselves quickly to gain their competition advantages. In our prior research (Lin and Lin, 2004), a novel framework was proposed, which integrates simulated and physical agents to provide an efficient way for organizations to meet the challenges in forming dynamic busine...

Game development is an interdisciplinary concept that embraces software engineering, business, management, and artistic disciplines. This research facilitates a better understanding of the business dimension of digital games. The main objective of this research is to investigate empirically the effect of business factors on the performance of digital games in the market and to answer the resear...

Game development is an interdisciplinary concept that embraces software engineering, business, management, and artistic disciplines. This research facilitates a better understanding of the business dimension of digital games. The main objective of this research is to investigate empirically the effect of business factors on the performance of digital games in the market and to answer the resear...

Since some years ago, an increased competition forces organizations to concentrate on core competencies and to collaborate closely with other organizations. The paper proposes a model-driven approach to design collaborative systems. This approach focuses on the collaborative business process modelling and the generation of the partner’s private process models. To do so, we propose a framework w...

Organizations are increasingly using social media as an important competitive tool that enables them to actively participate with key stakeholders. Recent studies demonstrate how business-to-consumer (B-C) organizations can benefit by engaging with consumers through social media.2 To date, however, there is little guidance on how business-to-business (B-B) organizations can engage with stakehol...

Monitoring system usage Organizations should monitor end users’ usage of KMSs to enhance the acceptance and use of the systems. Promoting success stories and best practices Through promoting success stories and best practices arising from the use of KMSs, more and more end users will be encouraged to get involved and be part of the systems. Satisfying needs continuously Organizations should kee...

Resource management systems enable organizations to track, control, and utilize their assets. Managers rely on such systems to obtain useful information about organizational resources and make the right business decisions. However, in order to fully utilize resource management systems for improving operational efficiency and building competitive advantage in the market place, organizations must...

Most organizations use an increasing number of applications and services to solve specific business problems. In many cases, these applications and services exist on different platforms and were created at different times. The challenge that most organizations now face is to provide a method by which these applications can work together to address business goals that constantly evolve. This pap...

Introduction Historically, decision support systems have been used in organizations to facilitate better decisions. Business Intelligence has become important in recent years because the business environment is more complex and changes faster than ever before. Organizations have started to realize the value of existing information in operational, managerial, and strategic decision making. By us...

For over 25 years, organizations have used Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems to handle business transactions. However, EDI is neither cheap nor simple and is based on private networks. It forces organizations into long-term, tightly coupled trading relationships with their business partners. EDI does not stand for a free exchange of information and transactions. Electronic Business XML ...