Plan-Making Process with Strategic Choice Approach

Making Research Cyberinfrastructure a Strategic Choice

The commoditization of low-cost hardware has enabled even modest-sized laboratories and research projects to own their own “supercomputers.” We argue that this local solution undermines rather than amplifies the research potential of scholars. CIOs, provosts, and research technologists should consider carefully an overall strategy to provision sustainable cyberinfrastructure in support of resea...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR): A Strategic Choice

This article reviews the Business Process Reengineering (BPR) vision of radical business process change, focusing upon the use of information technology, to facilitate a shift away from linear work organization towards parallel processing and multidisciplinary team working. To approach such a change, by focusing on the technologies aspect to the detriment of a regard on managerial, technologica...

Strategic Decision Making: Process, Models, and Theories

Understanding Managers' Strategic Decision- Making Process

This goal of this paper is to establish a research agenda that will lead lo a stream of research that closes Ihe gap bclwcen actual and normative strategic managerial decision making. We start by distinguishing strategic managerial decision making (choices) from other choices. Next, we propose a conceptual model of how managers make strategic decisions ihat is consistent with the observed gap b...

Examining the Implications of Process and Choice for: Strategic Decision Making Effectiveness

Most strategic decision-making (SDM) approaches advocate the importance of decision-making processes and response choices for obtaining effective outcomes. Modern decision-making support system (DMSS) technology is often also needed for complex SDM, with recent research calling for more integrative DMSS approaches. However, scholars tend to take disintegrated approaches and disagree on whether ...