With the emergence and bloom of microblogging, companies are showing their increasing interests in this platform and try to establish their own enterprise accounts (called as enterprise microblogs in this case) in it, which enables them to broadcast product information, interact with consumers, and promote their brands. Despite much work focusing on how virtual brand communities take effect on ...

Despite the hype surrounding enterprise architectures, they have delivered little on their promise. In this paper, we argue that enterprise architectures built using component-based frameworks are fundamentally flawed, in that they model the enterprise as a set of independent structures with discrete boundaries. Disparate concrete metaphors are used to describe each of these structures, with th...

Large enterprises find success through the collaboration among the members of the enterprise. It thus becomes a specific business goal to increase collaboration. By thinking of the enterprise as a network one can model interactions over time, and characterize interactions, frequency, and type and marry this to a set of outcomes. Beyond descriptive analytics, one can engage in predictive and pre...

Enterprise search allows users in an enterprise to retrieve desired information through a simple search interface. It is widely viewed as an important productivity tool within an enterprise. While Internet search engines have been highly successful, enterprise search remains notoriously challenging due to a variety of unique challenges, and is being made more so by the increasing heterogeneity ...

Interdependence between the subsystems of an enterprise is one of the driving reasons for integrating the enterprise. Integration attempts to manage those interdependencies so all subsystems work harmoniously together to achieve the enterprise goals. Prior to embarking on an enterprise integration project the interdependencies need to be analyzed. Unfortunately, interdependence between subsyste...

This paper extends the definition and role of Enterprise Modelling (EM), and describes recent research results that have lead to the definition of the next generation of what the authors call Visual Enterprise Scenes (EVS). The focus is on the transition from EM to EVS and what the implications will be for industry, developers of solutions, system providers, future users and user communities, a...

Several developments, such as the success of cloudcomputing show that not the ownership of IT resources but their management is the foundation for sustainable competitive advantage [1]. According to [2], smart companies define how they (will) do business (using an operating model) and design processes and infrastructure critical to their current and future operations (using an enterprise archit...

this qualitative research was carried out with aim to diagnosis ethical milieu of entrepreneurship and enterprise development. this applied research was done through descriptive phenomenology method. semi-structured interviews were implemented in order to collect data. statistical population of this research consisted of all entrepreneurs and enterprise’s managers of in golestan province. throu...

Enterprise risk management is a critical concept in the current business environment that supports use of tools and processes directed toward monitoring and mitigating organizational risks. Many organizations have embraced enterprise systems (ESs) technology for improving organizational efficiency and effectiveness. ESs provide value by identifying opportunities in operations and assist in mana...