Considering the major change occurred in business cells from plant to “chain” and the critical need to choose the best partners to form the supply chain for competing in today’s business setting, one of the vital decisions made at the early steps of constructing a business is supplier selection. Given the fact that the early decisions are inherently strategic and therefore hard and costly to c...

web 2.0 is not a single technology or standard but rather a set of concepts and features. web 2.0 concepts and features call for further attention. since, previous studies have only addressed only some of these concepts and features. in order to give a comprehensive view of web 2.0, these features are collected through literature review and a framework of web 2.0 features is presented. also, du...

Providing effective IT support for business processes has become crucial for enterprises to stay competitive in their market. Business processes must be defined, implemented, enacted, monitored, and continuously adapted to changing situations. Process life cycle support and continuous process improvement become critical success factors in contemporary and future enterprise computing. In this co...

Playing a business game needs to be both educational and entertaining. Thus, evaluation of the experience of playing games needs to incorporate both effective and affective dimensions. This experiment compared the experience of playing the conventional MIT beer game with a prototype electronic version, which had been developed to reduce the complexity and costs associated with the original game...

Annually, approximately 2 million patients suffer with healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in the USA, and nearly 90,000 are estimated to die. The overall direct cost of HAIs to hospitals ranges from US$28 billion to 45 billion. While the range is wide, HAIs are clearly expensive. In addition, most HAIs are thought to be preventable; however, published guidelines are not congruent. Importan...