Business collaboration encompasses the coordination of information flows among organizations as well as the composition of their business processes toward mutual benefits. While integrating business processes of different organizations seamlessly, it brings great challenges to keep participating organizations as autonomous entities. To address this issue, we propose a new perspective on modelin...

Business process management (BPM) has emerged as an important enabler for managing risks. Organizations use BPM techniques such as process modeling to create transparency and to identify process-related risks. Existent risk management frameworks distinguish between different types of risk, such as people, technical, and management risk. Our study suggests that creativity in business processes l...

Internet based B2C e-Commerce is flourishing, but not so much in the area of business to business. For over 20 years, EDI has established VAN based solution of exchanging business information in electronic form. However EDI solutions are only accessible to large organizations due to the cost factor. Moreover lack of well accepted B2B business process standards is hindering the success in promot...

Nowadays businesses organisations increasingly want to be interoperable so that they can collaborate with other organizations. This interoperability can be achieved through the use of business transaction standards, by which those organizations that use these standards collectively form a value added network. However the effectivity of these standards is largely dependant on the number of organ...

Organizations worldwide have been exploring ways to improve business practices to gain competitive edge. One of the most important technological innovations of the last decade has been the emergence of ERP solutions. But implementation of ERP is not just a technological challenge. It’s a socio-technological endeavor, which mandates modifying existing applications and redesigning critical busine...

CrossFlow is an ESPRIT/IST project for support of cross-organizational workflow management in dynamically established virtual enterprises. The business paradigm of CrossFlow is that of dynamic service outsourcing, in which one organization (service consumer) outsources part of its business process to another organization (service provider). Service consumer and provider find each other through ...

Many organizations use digitized policy manuals to help govern their business operations. However, many business processes are often not synchronized in a timely manner with the business policies because of the high costs of redesigning business process models in the face of frequent policy changes. As such, there is a great need for more efficient ways to maintaining the alignment between busi...

The presence of digital infrastructures fundamentally changes market conditions, business and IT strategy, and consequently organizational structures. This research investigates how the concept of a digital business strategy leads to increased organizational innovativeness and firm performance. We demonstrate how IT capabilities contribute to organizational innovativeness and induce the CIO’s p...

RAPID ECONOMICAL, SOCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS require ever increasing flexibility and alertness of companies. New organizational forms, such as internal and external network organizations are required. Furthermore, companies need to apply information technology (IT) proactively instead of reactively. This means that existing organizational characteristics, such as business strategy, o...