This paper presents a framework for analysis of how IT systems add business value by causally affecting the structuring of organizations. To aid our understanding of IT benefits related to organizational structure, we put the well established theory of organizational behavior developed by Mintzberg to use. Combining Mintzberg with more recent research on the business value of IT, the result is ...

Algorithmic skeletons in conjunction with list homomorphisms play an important role in formal development of parallel algorithms. We have designed a notion of homomorphism dedicated to bulk synchronous parallelism. In this paper we derive two application using this theory: sparse matrix vector multiplication and the all nearest smaller values problem. We implement a support for BSP homomorphism...

In recent years, the business process modelling is matured towards expressing enterprise’s organisational behaviour (i.e., business values and stakeholder interests). This shows potential to perform early security analysis to capture enterprise security needs. Traditionally, security in business processes is addressed either by representing security concepts graphically or by enforcing these se...

The structural embeddedness theory posits that a company’s embeddedness in a business network impacts its competitive performance. This highlights the theoretical and practical values toward business network mining and analysis. Given the fact that latent business relationships exist among companies, and these relationships continuously evolve over time, a manual approach for the discovery and ...

A business model is a representation of an organization with a particular point of view. It is common to find different types of models to describe the business. However, methods to create business models representing an economic point of view have only emerged over the last few years in the scientific community. Such methods aid business specialists improving the economics understanding of the...

the best deal. nowhere is more real than today business environment which affect the success or otherwise of any business venture. several authors have attributed failure of businesses particularly small and medium scale enterprises to various factors ranging from training of the entrepreneur to exposure and experience while some analysts opined that business environment could impact on small a...

Access control is a key challenge in software engineering, especially in relational database applications. Current access control techniques are based on additional security layers designed by security experts. These additional security layers do not take into account the necessary business logic leading to a separation between business tiers and access control mechanisms. Moreover, business ti...