Intervention forces are special, often state-run organizations that are in charge of surveillance and intervention tasks. Examples are police, medical emergency services, civil defense, and security firms. From a business processes view, intervention forces are a subset of organizations whose operational business is mobile. The contribution analyzes the potentials and limits of mobile business ...

Background: Business process management systems (BPM) can automate all processes in an organization. These systems provide the possibility of identifying, modeling, deploying, implementing, function managing, integrating with other information systems, monitoring and improving an organization's business processes in a standard form. As far as the authors know, no related resear...

Electronic business provides many benefits to organizations that embrace on it. It is true that ebusiness improve business processes, integrate business processes and its corresponding value chain, give speed to internal and external organizational activities etc, but it poses the greatest challenge to today’s organizations to transform their traditional businesses into electronic business. To ...

Nowadays, globalization and information and communication technologies are main issues on organizations and societies, changing the way how people and organizations interact. These issues brought new and more challenges to people, organizations and societies, forcing them to change their perceptions of reality and consequently adopting new business solutions. In this context, people, capabiliti...

according to rapid changes in information age, iranian organizations should move faster toward optimization of e-business. in order to achieve this strategic goal, recent study develops a conceptual model for presenting the factors affecting e-business diffusion (internal integration and external diffusion) based on toe framework. the purpose of this model is examining the influence of technolo...

Acquisitions are standard components of the growth strategies of many organizations. Frequently, acquisitions raise important questions concerning how and to what extent the acquisition’s information technology (IT) needs to be integrated into the IT of the acquirer. We investigate how the initial conditions of business and IT alignment in the acquirer and the acquisition affect the complexity ...

The introduction of the idea of Business Process Re-engineering in the late 1980’s has resulted in an explosion of the literature. In practice the success rates of re-engineering projects is low since the majority of the approaches are founded on a functional understanding of business systems. To be really effective however, business system transformation needs to be founded in a constructional...

Widespread implementation and use of electronic health record (EHR) systems has been recognized by healthcare leaders as a cornerstone strategy for systematically reducing medical errors and improving clinical quality. However, EHR adoption requires a significant capital investment for healthcare providers, and cost is often cited as a barrier. Despite the capital requirements, a true business ...

In all industries, competition between business organizations is vital to utilize collaborative logistics for planning, forecasting and efficient customer response to optimize the supply chain. Consequently, numerous business organizations build coalitions among themselves making their partnerships