One key perspective when dealing with Business Process Management (BPM) is time. All business experts agree upon the fact that time is a key resource for each business process within an organisation. Indeed, time managing is an effective cost and error reduction strategy and thus ensures profit maximization for the organisation. As a result, business managers, researchers, and academicians in m...

Business process modeling, simulation, and an evaluation of different alternative scenarios for improvement has been proven to be promising tools for decreasing the risk related to business process reengineering projects. Business renovation as the highest level of strategy for managing change in an organization is the key element of electronic business orientation. Business process simulation ...

The success of a software project depends on the quality of the software requirements specifications. Business process models are frequently used for eliciting software requirements; therefore, it is critical to produce high-quality business process models. To achieve this, the use of multiple levels of abstraction has been suggested in the literature as a modeling strategy. This paper presents...

Increasing adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) in information system engineering has led to the emergence of different OSS business strategies that affect and shape organizations’ business models. In order to obtain the specific organizational model for a concrete organization that is adhering to a specific OSS business strategy, we need to instantiate the general knowledge included in this ...

In today’s fast-paced and rapidly changing business environment, companies has deeply modified their strategies to integrate technology into the business planning process. Technologies are now everywhere in the firm’s value chain. Thus, it is necessary for firms to adapt their strategic process as technology is pervasively important as part of business function. This implies the need to study a...

If structured around an appropriate combination of business processes, knowledge and technology, Information Systems can become a very powerful business strategic lever. With this holistic perspective in mind, we redesigned the dysfunctioning IT project portfolio management process of one of the FTSE 100 global companies. The new process aims at better identifying, evaluating and balancing proj...

Abstract: This paper explores the desirable relationship between business strategy and environmental strategy on both a product line and process line basis. The work uses the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to do a pair-wise comparison between business and environmental benefits and importance. Subsequently, the Product Profile Matrix is used to conceptualize the findings generated from the ...

Dynamic Balanced Scorecard (DBSC) is an effective business performance management control tool for dealing with business uncertainty, performance monitoring, evaluation and forecasting. DBSC has been proposed and utilized extensively over the years as an effective tool to manage and control the dynamics of business processes (BP) and their performance. However, there is little evidence of its a...

In this paper we address the concept of business architecture. We explain the concept and, based on a case study, discuss its relevance, operation, relationship with strategy and business models, and value for an organization. We also shortly discuss the approach that was taken to create the business architecture; how it was based on and derived from the business strategy. Business architecture...