The use of the Internet for communicating and transacting with customers has been growing rapidly in the worldwide tourism industry. However, there is a large variation in the intensity of use of e-commerce in the travel and tourism industry. While the Internet usage varies across countries, even within a country there are large variations amongst enterprises. These variations are mainly due to...

Enterprise architecture is an important instrument to address company-wide integration both from a business and an IT point of view. Companies that choose to implement an Enterprise Architecture initiative often believe that if a description of the company’s architecture exists it will automatically generate value to the company but sadly, this is usually not the case. Even if companies know th...

Manufacturing enterprise decisions can be classified into four groups: business decisions, design decisions, engineering decisions, and production decisions. Numerous physical and software simulation techniques have been used to evaluate specific decisions by predicting their impact on either system performance or product performance. In this paper, we focus on the impact of production decision...

ERP systems are widely used by large enterprises for managing functional areas of the enterprise. However, recently ERP systems have also been introduced to the small enterprise market. ERP systems are now considered an important small enterprise management aid that may contribute to the sustainability and growth of the small enterprise. Although there are several acceptance factors that may im...

the desire and drive for excellence in any endeavor in life requires an effort from the individual; in addition it requires a constellation of features around such individuals that help them to become successful. for surgeons, it is the operating room staff, the administrative and medical assistants and our residents and fellows. however, perhaps the most important contribution to a physician’s...

Inappropriate communication is a major threat to enterprise transformations. While enterprise architecture (EA) models may be helpful to support communication, these models are often tailored to the needs of specialists like enterprise architects. Based on empirical data from 12 expert interviews, we analyze how EA models can become boundary objects that span knowledge boundaries and alleviate ...

The emergence of the extended manufacturing enterprise, a globally dispersed collection of strategically aligned organizations, has brought new attention to how organizations coordinate the flow of information and materials across their w supply chains. This paper explores and develops the concept of enterprise logistics Greis, N.P., Kasarda, J.D., 1997. Ž . x Enterprise logistics in the inform...

the importance of concerning happiness and happiness- making items in organizations and enterprises comes from the fact that it can positively affect productivity through increasing personnel positive emotions and decreasing their negative emotions. as such, the current research has been developed in order to evaluate the status of happiness in one of the research-oriented enterprises. in the c...

Many enterprises around the world attempt to satisfy new integration functionality requirements. These are originated by issues such as the use of legacy systems and heterogeneous technologies, high communication development through the Internet that increases the business between enterprise and enterprise–consumer, dynamics of business groups nowadays such as join ventures, organizational merg...

An ERP (enterprise resource planning) is an information system that makes it possible to manage and monitor on a daily basis all the operational services of company. It able effectively reduce cost products, improve customer service experience, increase business competitiveness. However, implementation rate much lower than originally planned, many companies have not achieved intended objectives...