Organizations have an increasing need to adapt faster their Information Systems (IS) to technical, functional or legal changes. Orange, a French telecom operator, works on the adaptation and the improvement of their business processes (BP), especially those related to Customer Relationship Management (CRM). One of the challenges is to help a business expert to efficiently and quickly adapt a BP...

There exist a great number of business rules engines in the market, each one with its own rules language. As a result, the need of a standard rules definition language is obvious. In this demo paper, the application of a combination of standard business rules languages to develop a business rules management tool, K-Site Rules, is explained. The main goals of this tool are: first, to integrate t...

Strategic alignment is deemed crucial in understanding how organisational performance can be improved through supporting business strategy with other organisational strategies. Whilst previous alignment literature has provided foundations for identifying the dimensions and performance impacts of the strategic alignment, it is mainly based on dyadic relationships between, for example, business a...

Dynamic assembly of complex software is possible through automated composition of web services. Coordination scripts identify and orchestrate a number of services to fulfil a user or business goal. The automated process begins at the business requirement stage, thus there exists a need for expressing high level business requirements, in such a way that is accessible by businesses. Current solut...

Vladimir Pucik is Assistant Professor of International Business and Organizational Behavior at the School of Business, The University of Michigan. He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia where he studied international economics, law, and political science. Later, he received a master's degree in international affairs specializing in East Asia and a Ph.D. in business administration from Columbia U...

In this paper, we define a set of metrics for the evaluation of conceptual models of business processes. The proposal supposes the adaptation and extension of the FMESP framework (Framework for the Modeling and Evaluation of Software Processes). This adaptation can be carried out thanks to the similarities that exist between both types of processes (software and business). FMESP includes a set ...

Investment in information technology (IT) infrastructure has in recent years become a strategic organizational choice. Yet, there exists little understanding of the organizational factors that determine IT infrastructure capabilities and investment requirements. Using a filed survey of both business and IT executives, this study tests a research model that links a set of organizational factors ...

Virtual Organisation Breeding Environments (VBEs) represent an emerging valued added strategy for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), to respond in a competitive way to changing market conditions, through the integration of their capabilities in the configuration of Virtual Organizations. The creation of sustainable VBEs is a challenge that requires new business models based on collaborative a...

The increasing pressure for enterprises to join into agile business networks is changing the requirements on the enterprise computing systems. The supporting infrastructure is increasingly required to provide common facilities and societal infrastructure services to support the lifecycle of loosely-coupled, eContract-governed business networks. The required facilities include selection of those...

The increasing pressure for enterprises to join into agile business networks is changing the requirements on the enterprise computing systems. The supporting infrastructure is increasingly required to provide common facilities and societal infrastructure services to support the lifecycle of loosely-coupled, eContract-governed business networks. The required facilities include selection of those...