nowadays, organizations to success in global competition, to provide new and qualified products and services and employment of versatile workforce, in context of new public management, have restructured through reengineering, downsizing, and outsourcing processes. however, these developments have caused changes in psychological contracts, employment relationships and transition from permanent e...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe how process reengineering, combined with the use of modern process-oriented information technology, can lead to substantial improvements in terms of overall process quality. Design/methodology/approach – A real-life case study from the financial industry is used to show how process management can take place in a competitive business area. Four processes (ea...

Reengineering the user interface of a legacy system may involve redesigning the underlying computation. To increase interaction, data that is internal to a computation must be exposed so that it can be presented in a graphical interface, and the computation must be restructured to compute this data on demand. We investigate the use of demand-driven models of computation to support userinterface...

A software architecture has to enable the non-functional properties, such as flexibility, scalability, or security, because they constitute the decisive factors for its design. Unfortunately, the methodical support for the implementation of non-functional requirements into software architectures is still weak; solutions are not generally established. Recently, there are only few approaches that...

The rising number of mobile devices increase the interest in longer battery durations. To increase battery duration, researchers try to improve e.g. different hardware components, such as processors and GPS for lower energy consumption. Frequently, software optimization possibilities to save energy are forgotten. Hence, an approach is shown to reduce energy consumption of applications by reengi...

Software product lines have proved to be a successful and efficient means for managing the development of software in industry. The significant benefits over traditional software architectures have the potential to convince software companies to adopt the product line approach for their existing products. In that case, the question arises how to best convert the existing products into a softwar...

Executives are experts in managing their business systems, much in the same way Formula One drivers are experts in driving their cars. However knowing the behaviour of cars doesn’t tell one how they are constructed and could be improved with new technology. The same holds true for Reengineering Business Systems through Information Technology. If management wishes to redefine the organisation, t...