In this paper we report on our experience in the application of the assembly-based situational method engineering approach in practice. In particular, we demonstrate the construction of a situation-specific method for a small size company operating in the domain of e-commerce. The aim of this work was to help the company to specify its business model and activities in order to gain in common un...

Industrial companies evolve in a highly competitive economic environment in which economic constraints require permanent adjustment. Whatever the size of the company, it has to manage and optimize in continuous way business processes in order to innovate with respect to the environment. These requirements make information systems at the heart of this issue as far as these systems manage and adj...

Using a twenty-four (24) month period of single-dimensional sales data reported in a recent published article, our analysis shows that 'Marketers should not solely rely on a commercial forecasting package to make their forecasting estimation. Indeed, small and mid-size business managers can achieve significant savings by wisely utilizing their educated business experience along with a spreadshe...

Warp 10 is a novel approach to B2B-integration combining concepts from semantic data modeling, Natural Language Processing and Schema Matching to define a consolidated data model termed canonical model. The canonical model is built up semi-automatically and grows in size and complexity upon matching with schemas provided by a business community. The business context of a matching task allows fo...

Teamwork contributes to a considerable improvement in quality and quantity of the ultimate outcome. Collaboration and alliance between team members bring a substantial progress for any business. However, it is imperative to acquire an appropriate team since many factors must be considered in this regard. Team size may represent the effectiveness of a team and it is of paramount importance to de...

The aim of this research was to understand the strategic uses of e-business systems and technologies by classifying companies and particularly small and medium businesses according to demographics as well as e-business behavior variables.The study was based on data from a large quantitative survey of European E-business W@tch for the period 2007 using questionnaire interviews (N=409). We employ...

This article investigates the competences deemed necessary both at top managerial and individual levels for the successful adoption and assimilation of business-to-business e-services in small and medium size enterprises. To this end, an in-depth case study of a business-to-business e-service system, a Web-based travel reservation system, was conducted. The results show that three main competen...

Achieving business-IT alignment is one of the main purposes and also challenges of organizations. Many studies have indicated the importance of aligning information systems (IS) function with other business functions. The main purpose of this survey is evaluating business-IT alignment focusing on social and technical dimensions of business-IT alignment in Bank Mellat. The data was collected thr...

 Korea’s youth unemployment problem has continued to worsen since 2004. According to an E24, J64, an analysis of raw data from Statistics Korea’s Economically Active Population Survey and Supplementary Results of the Economically Active Population Survey on Youths to confirm whether youth unemployment affects all youths, more youths were delaying graduation or taking leaves of absence due t...

In today's business environment in which coordination and adaptation with constant changes are the only ways of survival, real-time monitoring of activities and making the decisions accordingly are necessary. Since performance measurement cannot be managed independent of business processes, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) systems should monitor performance metrics based on business processes...