We analyze the competitive and economic implications of information system design, allocation of decision rights, and task bundling during business process reengineering. The popular reengineering literature advocates employee empowerment — decentralizing decision authority and consolidating tasks — as complementary process redesign strategies. Our analysis reveals, however that decentralizatio...

in today's business world, proper identification of customer’s requirements and a quick response to these requirements is a key to commercial success. increasing customer loyalty affects the profitability and organizations can ensure their long-term interests by means of planning. in today's competitive world, the services provided by the competing company have to be more similar to e...

Information systems were developed in early 1960s to process orders, billings, inventory controls, payrolls, and accounts payables. Soon information systems research began. Harry Stern started the “Information Systems in Management Science” column in Management Science journal to provide a forum for discussion beyond just research papers (Banker & Kauffman, 2004). Ackoff (1967) led the earliest...

This study focuses on identifying the key elements that managers consider when making the decision to upgrade and integrate supply chain management system that are already in use. A survey of information systems managers is used to evaluate the proposed framework and the results of the survey suggests that managers use certain key elements when deciding on upgrading and integrating supply chain...

The first paper, Quality-Driven Decision Making Methodology for System-Level Design, by L. Joiwiak and S.A. Ong, proposes a methodology allowing quality-driven analysis and evaluation of alternative solutions for system-level design and hardware/software partitioning problems. A model for the design decision making process and for specifying and analyzing utility functions is discussed and an e...

one of the most important strategies for governments to increase the efficiency of different economic sectors, including public services such as water, is to protect and strengthen the private sector. bot and boo contracts are among the most common and popular procedures of development of participation and investment from private sector. in this context, providing a good basis for the selection...

Dynamic rescheduling decision-making problem is an important issue in modern manufacturing system with the feature of combinational computation complexity. This paper introduces a multi-agent based approach using the detailed process, provided by Prometheus methodology, which used for the design of a simultaneous dynamic rescheduling decision making for flexible flow line manufacturing system t...