Architectural considerations play a key role in the success of any software-based development project. Architecture evaluation is an early risk reduction method for identifying risks that prevent a system or product line meeting the organization’s business goals and customer needs. This paper introduces a tool that supports architecture evaluation. It gives an overview on its information manage...

Enterprises cooperate more extensively with other enterprises in various forms. To enable the cooperation of multiple organizations in supply chains or virtual enterprises, configuration and set-up tools need to define the relations between partnering enterprises. In the one-of-a-kind industry, enterprises collaborate within a Virtual Enterprise (VE). For the definition of relationships among p...

Westfield Insurance is undergoing unprecedented change to its organizational and technological processes for claims. In an effort to improve the customer experience and increase adjuster efficiency, the organization is implementing a paperless environment for claims documents. Converting paper documents to electronic content is the responsibility of the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) depar...

According to the Resource Based View of the firm, strategic assets contribute to a firm’s competitive advantage. Strategic assets are characterized as Valuable, Rare, Inimitable, and they involve Organizational Support. These four characteristics have been theorized to result in competitive parity, temporary competitive advantage, or a sustainable competitive advantage for a company. This paper...

The objective of this study was to extend the prior literature and examine the link between the corporate management strategies in view of resource availability uncertainty with practices in civil aviation business. The collection of data for the analyses of the hypotheses has been gathered by interviews that were held with the high level executives from TAV Airport Holding: TAV companies pract...

Many problems in cyber trust exist at least partially because the people and institutions involved are not properly motivated to solve them. The incentives are often perverse, misaligned, or missing. By improving economic, social, and personal incentives, cyber trust can be significantly improved. The incentive-based approach is based on modern enterprise risk management methods and experiences...

Maintenance is one approach to manage risk by a reduction of the probability of failure of technical systems and/or the consequences of their failure. However, history has shown that erroneous maintenance also can lead to reduced quality, incidents and accidents with extensive losses. Today, eMaintenance promises great opportunities for a paradigm shift from a rather narrow condition-based main...

Virtual enterprise is the potential mode of future enterprise under global economic environment and the risk management for it is a popular research area recently. Risk identification is the key phrase of risk management. Considering the risk identification problem in the virtual enterprise, a new identification method based on the BP network is provided in this paper. Using this method and the...

Process mining research has mainly focused on the development of process mining techniques, with process discovery algorithms in the center of attention. However, far less research attention has been paid to the actual applicability of these process mining techniques in common business settings. Consequently, there only exists a partial fit between the existing process mining techniques and the...