Service oriented architecture (SOA) is currently the most discussed concept for engineering enterprise IT architectures. True SOA is more than web services and web services style of communication. In the first place, it is a paradigm for structuring the business of an enterprise according to services. This allows companies to flexibly adapt to changing market demands. Subsequently, it is a para...

Crisis management is a comprehensive inspection of enterprise management ability in special situation. his paper researches on how to deal with enterprise crisis from the perspective of knowledge management. According to the life cycle theory, enterprise crisis is divided into six periods, then the knowledge which is required in each period of life cycle crisis management is analyzed. A crisis ...

This study analyzes the relationship between the three main enterprise systems (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and labor productivity. It reveals the performance gains due to different combinations of these systems. It also tests for complementarity among the enterprise systems with respect to their interacting nature. ...

Due to the ISO9001:2000 requirement for modelling business processes and the need to share business process models in Enterprise Networks, many enterprises will be looking at sharing and reusing existing enterprise models. This article identifies measures to ensure that enterprise models are interpreted as intended, thereby controlling the quality of processes using and reusing enterprise model...

With the rapid development of internet and emerging of global economic, risk management for enterprise under EC (Electronic Commerce) environments has drawn attentions of many researchers. In this paper, the characteristics of risk for EC enterprise are analyzed. Further, focused on the project organization mode and the uncertain factor of the enterprise under EC, which are main different chara...

In future, the so called ”sensing enterprise”, as part of the Future Internet, will play a crucial role in the success or the failure of an enterprise. We present our vision of an enterprise interacting with the physical world based on a retail scenario. One of the main challenges is the interoperability not only between the enterprise IT systems themselves, but also between these systems and t...

Enterprise Modeling (EM) is currently in operation either as a technique to represent and understand the structure and behavior of the enterprise, or as a technique to analyze business processes, and in many cases as support technique for business process reengineering. However, EM architectures and methods for Enterprise Engineering can also used to support new management techniques like SIX S...

Enterprise systems have the potential to bring immense benefits to organizations, but are often seen as falling short of that promise. This paper reports an on-going research project that relates the fit between enterprise systems and the nature of intraorganizational workflow interdependencies. Using task-technology fit theory, we propose that enterprise systems are best suited to organization...

Internal control has been becoming a hot topic in the modern enterprise management, and the internal control’s effectiveness is the important guarantee for enterprise to realize its goal. The article made regression analysis on the experience data of 200 manufacturing listed companies in 2009 based on the theoretical analysis of the correlation between the internal control and enterprise value....

Increasingly, organizations make use of enterprise architectures to direct the development of the enterprise as a whole and its IT portfolio in particular. In this paper we investigate the regulative nature of enterprise architecture. We aim to develop a fundamental understanding of the regulative needs that underly an enterprise architecture, and then take these needs as a starting point to ar...