Business Process Management (BPM) has been an important research field for decades. Latest technological advances have increased the transparency that can be created over processes. Although associated to various advantages, organizations struggle to identify processes for which investments in visibility-creating technologies are profitable. Existing research has largely investigated the outcom...

This work introduces the CRUDI Framework for management and decision support in Information Systems investments, based in the proposed CRUDI Matrix. The CRUDI Matrix is an abstraction idealized from the CRUD Matrix which was extended by an extra dimension: the Importance dimension. The CRUDI example application presented in this paper generates relevant information regarding issues such as the ...

Managers face a critical task in making firm investment decisions that are targeted toward creating and appropriating value. As managers weigh their resource investment decisions, we argue that these investments have a direct impact on the growth and volatility of the firm’s industry. With data covering 377 industries across 16 years, we investigate relationships for aggregate firm investments ...

We study the investment analyses of 67 portfolio investments by 11 venture capital (VC) firms. VCs describe the strengths and risks of the investments as well as expected postinvestment actions. We classify the risks into three categories and relate them to the allocation of cash flow rights, contingencies, control rights, and liquidation rights between VCs and entrepreneurs. The risk results s...

The evaluation and appraisal of investments in Information Technology is one of the earliest problems of IS/IT management and continues to be one of the most puzzling ones. This paper briefly reviews the inherent difficulties of evaluating IT investments and identifies measurement as one of the most important. We focus on the quantitative measurement of the expected benefits of Information Syst...

Achieving peace and building the institutions that will make it last require much time and e¤ort on the part of adversaries. While making this e¤ort, the likelihood of peace is uncertain and preparations forcon‡ict are on-going. We examine a setting that takes such considerations into account. Adversaries divide their resources between “guns,”“butter,” and investments in con‡ict management. Eve...