today, change is a definite phenomenon and organizations should make themselves aligned with requirements for survival and success in the competitive market and retain customers. one of the main components of any organization that is undergoing these changes is the business processes of that organization. in other words, in a dynamic business environment, business processes are changed at runti...

dynamic business environment enforces organizations to constantly update and reform their own strategic expectations. changing the embedded business rules in information systems is vital to fulfill strategic expectation. determining appropriate position to change business rule in information systems is regarded as a time-consuming and complex activity. therefore, it is necessary to identify and...

Concerns such as identifying ways to control costs, improve quality, increase effectiveness, and manage risk have become increasingly important for organizations as they face more and more pressure to gain and maintain their competitive edge. Business-IT alignment (B-ITa) is recognized as a solution to these concerns. Aligning IT with the business remains one of the top priorities for both busi...

Technological enablers such as interorganizational information systems (IOS) and business strategies such as supply chain management or virtual organizations facilitate the diffusion of business networks. The efficiency of joining and switching networks becomes an important competitive necessity and has been referred to as an organization’s networkability. Several researchers have already sugge...

The business world is improving dramatically, and Global competitiveness and the need to have competitive advantage drive companies to adopt new technologies and apply it into company’s processes. The development of information technology stimulates organizations to re-design its business processes to better support organization’s mission and reduce costs. This paper presents Crowdsourcing appr...

The increasing mobility due to Bologna process forces the academic partners to increase the inter-operability of their administrative processes, by interacting through a collaborative networks and therefore acting as an academic virtual organization. To facilitate the communication and the comprehension of the administrative processes between the components of the CN, the Business Process Model...

As business analytics (BA) evolves from a narrow decision support application to an enterprise capability with strategic importance today, a well-developed BA maturity model would help organizations assess their BA competency and guide them forward to achieve greater effectiveness in their BA efforts and closer alignment between business and IT. This study synthesizes and operationalizes the ex...

Business processes are difficult to plan successfully, and become more so with increases in complexity. However, certain types of business process are known to be more difficult to plan than others. One example is the process of product design, as followed during the development of physical artefacts for production [2]. This form of process is highly complex, uncertain, and non-repeatable; effe...

Virtual organizations are perceived as a means for achieving flexibility. However, shared inter-organizational business processes may pose additional constraints on the internal processes of an organization and reduce their flexibility. The paper builds on a conceptual model of business processes in a virtual organization. The model aimes at identifying a minimal process definition to support t...

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of individual and social action which is most closely connected with the attainment and with the use of the material requisites of wellbeing. Thus it is on the one side a study of wealth; and on the other, and more important side, a part of the study of man. For man’s character has been ...