For nearly 30 years, since its introduction onto corporate management scene in the early 1970s, strategic planning has been on a roller coaster ride. Nearly a decade later strategic information systems planning was put on the same track but that does not mean we have to stay on the same track or that we have to take it at the same speed. If we know what is ahead we can speed up and if we know w...

The enterprise information security policy is derived from the strategic requirements for risk management and corporate governance. Consistent alignment between the security policy and the other corporate business policies and strategies has to be maintained if information security is to be implemented according to evolving business objectives. There are however limitations in current approache...

Social media has become an important component of corporate information technology for some organizations. The extant literature is replete with frameworks and methodologies for successful social media strategic planning. However, there is a gap in the literature in terms of making sense of the challenges to adoption and to this end the paper provides a framework for social media non-adoption. ...

Large Corporate and Small and Medium Enterprises are still going through deep innovation and re-engineering processes. Organisation should became leaner and more efficient. Even planning and scheduling should be integrated in order to yield feasible and robust plan in an automatic way by continuous planning, from forecasting to daily line load. We present a framework for weekly plan validation ...

Many software applications consist of a number of interdependent steps and are executed under the supervision of a human administrator or operator. The administrator responds to error conditions and checks to see that the dependencies between steps has been satisfied before allowing the application to continue. AI planning systems, because they have the capability of responding to a dynamically...

The decision makers, in the sectors like financial and corporate planning, production planning, marketing and media selection, university planning and student admissions, health care and hospital planning, etc. often face problems to take decisions that optimize department/equity ratio, profit/cost, inventory/sales, actual cost/standard cost, output/employee, student/cost, nurse/patient ratio e...

In the current economic climate, for many businesses it is generally no longer sufficient to pursue exclusively economic interests. Instead, integrating ecological and social goals into the corporate targets is becoming ever more important. However, the holistic integration of these new goals is missing from current factory planning approaches. This article describes the conceptual framework fo...

The rapid proliferation of personal computers, offering tremendous productivity gains for knowledge workers, often creates new application maintenance tasks. Specific concerns include security, data integrity, and access authorization. Distributed networks require security and communication systems. Distributed data entry requires file servers, network support personnel, and synchronization met...