BACKGROUND September 11, 2001, will be indelibly stamped upon all our memories. It taxed our emotional foundation and tested the very mettle upon which our country was built. It also provided a most compelling reason for having a viable and executable business continuity planning (BCP) process. No longer will most corporate executives question the need for recovery planning. In fact, the very o...

Copyright © 2003, Idea Group Inc. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of Idea Group Inc. is prohibited. ABSTRACT The events of September 11, 2001 have markedly increased the level of awareness in organisations of business continuity management (BCM). Businesses can choose to adopt a risk management (reactive), or the more expansive crisis management a...

Societal security, continuity scenarios and methodological cycling approach explained in this article. Namely societal security organizational challenges ask implementation of international standards BS 25999-2 & global ISO 22300 which is a family of standards for business continuity management system. Efficient global organization system is distinguished of high entity ́s complexity, connectivi...

Software vendors claim in their marketing brochures that business processes and interoperability can be optimised through the use of business software. Business literature emphasizes the various benefits companies can gain from the targeted use of IT systems. Academic literature has, however, paid scant attention to the relationship between business process excellence and the use of ERP systems...

The ERP industry has undergone dramatic changes over the past decades due to changing market demands, thereby creating new challenges and opportunities, which have to be managed by ERP vendors. This paper inquires into the necessary evolution of business models in a technology-intensive industry (e.g., develop new offerings, engage in partnerships, and the utilize new sales channels). This pape...

As pre-packaged solutions developed for a generic customer, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems cannot satisfy ‘out of the box’ all the specific requirements of every entity where they are deployed, due to differences between the ERP application and the business model. The identification of disparities between the organization requirements and the ERP system capabilities allows determini...

Many large organisations are spending considerable amounts of money to IT enable their business processes, in order to be competitive in the emerging global economy. Either they develop in-house solutions or purchase Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications developed by a third party [1]. The aim of these packages is to integrate information-based processes within and across functional a...

Businesses that purchase packaged application software – for example, an Enterprise Resource Planning system – must make choices about customization. Packaged software vendors, anecdotal evidence, and practitioner-oriented research all recommend that businesses should customize software as little as possible, and instead adapt their processes to meet the “best practices” of the software. Howeve...

As weak forms of continuity in topological spaces, weak continuity [I], quasi continuity [2], semi continuity [3] and almost continuity in the sense of Husain [4] are well-known. Recently, the following four weak forms of continuity have been introduced: weak quasi continuity [5], faint continuity [6], subweak continuity [7] and almost weak continuity [8]. These four weak forms of continuity ar...