The study is aimed at assessing the strategic importance of a business processes for achieving sustainable competitive advantage, therefore, in this article the theoretical approach for measuring the strategic contribution of a business process to an enterprise’s business system is presented.  For evaluating of a business process strategic importance the study proposes the system of economic an...

MARCH/APRIL 2015 | IEEE SOFTWARE 3 RELEASE ENGINEERS are building pipelines to deliver software products from the developers to the end users. This is the apt metaphor that John O’Duinn used to dene release engineering. O’Duinn, who was Mozilla’s director of release engineering for more than six years, was delivering a keynote on release engineering’s value as a force multiplier at the 2014 USE...

Worldwide the belief is shared that software reuse is needed to cope with the ever increasing amount of software. Software reuse is one part of addressing the amount of software, which is often overhyped and underestimated. Reuse of software is discussed via 8 statements, addressing: the need for reuse, the technical and organizational challenges, integration issues, evolution, reuse of know ho...

Strategic alliance is an agreement between two or more organizations to cooperate in a specific business activity, so that each benefits from the strengths of the other, and gains competitive advantage. The formation of strategic alliances has been seen as a response to globalization and increasing uncertainty and complexity in the business environment. Strategic alliances involve the sharing o...

Software is a strategic differentiater in many markets so it is not surprising that software engineering is of strategic importance in many companies. Given the current global economic climate that importance is magnified. Strategy is long term and broad in scope within an organization. As such its importance is often lost as it is segmented across lines of responsibility and areas of specializ...

conclusions due to the correlation between strategic thinking and productivity, we recommend educating and training managers in the use of strategic thinking, and that they understand its importance to productivity. managers should understand that increasing efficiency in a competitive environment today is a necessity for survival. background using different methods of strategic thinking is ess...