The paper extends the work presented previously on the application of generic process models in Business Process Re-engineering (Childe et al 1995). The construction of business process models is contextualised by a five stage composite methodology for BPR. Following an analysis of various process architectures the potential of generic process models is presented. The development of such a mode...

A discussion of the interrelations between food, health, and the environment is extremely topical today. Rising food prices together with the price of oil and a series of so-called "natural" catastrophes dominate the news every day. At the same time, there is a lot of confusion. Why are world food prices increasing so quickly and dramatically? Why is world hunger rising again after a long stead...

This paper proposes that a major reason for the lack of change in education is not due to lack of ideas about learning on a micro or individual level, but rather is due to a lack of models for growth and change at a macro or systemic level. We critique existing models of growth and provide examples of broad social change in other fields. We look at their properties and use those as a guide to t...

abstract: new approaches to strategy have accepted strategic thinking as a complement or even an alternative for strategic planning. indeed, strategic thinking capability has been recognized as a characteristic of successful top managers in organizations. moreover, the extant literature emphasizes the fact that top level managers can be taught to think strategically. however, there is no compre...

Market analysts and marketing strategists stress understanding the fundamental dynamics of a market but how deeply do they think about the interplay of such fundamentals and what frameworks do they use in such thinking? How do business schools teach managers to think this way? The premise of this paper is that in their strategizing, senior marketing executives, boards of directors, consultants ...

The vital importance of change management in today’s competitive climate has been widely investigated. While the need for successful change management is intensively proclaimed by ‘expert’ consultants, the response for some time has been regarded as falling short of what is required. The heavy emphasis in the literature on a rational-linear approach to understanding organisational change overlo...

Understanding the systemic nature of the economic, social and environmental challenges we face today is an integral part of developing solutions for progressing towards sustainability. Yet there remains much confusion around how to define and understand systems, and much more around the notion of ‘systems thinking’. In recognition of this, the Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise (APC...

In this paper we are concerned with innovation in the development of mobile applications. In particular, we address how we may come to think systematically about innovative aspects of mobile applications. We suggest that there is not enough support for this in the mobile systems literature and we hence suggest a framework that supports the thinking about the possible innovative features of a mo...

The Swiss Cheese Model (SCM) is the most popular accident causation model and is widely used throughout various industries. A debate exists in the research literature over whether the SCM remains a viable tool for accident analysis. Critics of the model suggest that it provides a sequential, oversimplified view of accidents. Conversely, proponents suggest that it embodies the concepts of system...