Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) models are gaining acceptance but their business value has largely been conceptual or anecdotal. In this paper, we empirically examine the role of SaaS in IT-enabled innovation of the firms and the role of organizational complementarities in augmenting the impact. We argue that SaaS can support IT-enabled innovation and that complementarities like learning from past...

Business-IT alignment is pervasive today, as organizations strive to achieve competitive advantage. Like in other areas, e.g., software development, maintenance and IT services, there are maturity models to assess such alignment. Those models, however, do not specifically address the aspects needed for achieving alignment between business and IT in inter-enterprise settings. In this paper, we p...

E-commerce is a dynamic, quickly changing phenomenon. This implies that e-commerce firms are constantly evolving from one model to another very rapidly. There would be many ways to explain the dynamics of e-commerce models, including economics, configuration, and maturity. This paper presents an economic model to explain the adoption, growth, and withdrawal process of a new business model.

In the recent past, software product line engineering has become one of the most promising practices in software industry with the potential to substantially increase the software development productivity. Software product line engineering approach spans the dimensions of business, architecture, software engineering process and organization. The increasing popularity of software product line en...

Business analytics in supply chains – the contingent effect of business process maturity. Expert Systems with Applications, 2012, in press. The draft of the paper is provided for non-commercial use. The final published version as it appears in the journal (PDF and HTML) will be available on the Elsevier site. Abstract The paper analyzes the effect of the use of business analytics on supply chai...

This paper addresses the following problem: given two business process models, create a process model that is the union of the process models given as input. In other words, the behavior of the produced process model should encompass that of the input models. The paper describes an algorithm that produces a single configurable process model from a pair of process models. The algorithm works by ...

1 Jyrki Kontio is also affiliated with Helsinki University of Technology. There he can be reached at Otakaari 1, 02150 Espoo, Finland, E-Mail: [email protected]. Abstract Process maturity models are currently used not only to assess the capability of software development organization but also as a tool to identify areas that needs improvement. These models, however, may not be applicable t...

While the maturity of process mining algorithms increases and more process mining tools enter the market, process mining projects still face the problem of different levels of abstraction when comparing events with modeled business activities. Current approaches for event log abstraction try to abstract from the events in an automated way that does not capture the required domain knowledge to f...

With the increasing acceptance of testing/QA as an independent function; the focus on building mature testing practices has become critical for organizations, as quality has a profound effect on business outcomes. This in turn has necessitated the need for a model that can assess the maturity of the current test organization and also work as a reference model for selective improvements. In the ...