An organization's information technology architecture must provide a virtual representation of how information technology can be employed to enable specific business objectives, processes, and cross-functional operations. This strategic management article describes a reengineering-oriented approach to developing the IT architecture. IS management can use this approach as a road map and a contex...

Controlling the movement of a mobile robot in real-world unstructured environments requires the ability to pursue strategic goals under conditions of uncertainty, incompleteness, and imprecision. The paper presents a fuzzy controller for a mobile robot that can take multiple strategic goals into consideration. Through the use of fuzzy logic, goal-oriented behavior and reactive behavior are smoo...

In this essay the situation of petroleum knowledge creation and dissemination in Iran oil industry and its technological capabilities have been investigated. This configuration and trend has been studied by a documentary method and content analysis of the scientific articles that published in  a distinguished  journal of Iran oil industry  and so the related structures during  1979-1908.the res...

The new economy is based on the sphere of services, which are created by intellectual creative work. Key factors in this knowledge, innovation, scientific achievements and technologies modern progressive post-industrial society. In way, work turns into leading driving force economy. purpose to determine key areas development As a result research, it was established that includes hundreds sphere...

The healthcare industry is presently using information technology to transform itself. New strategies and tactics to increase efficiency and quality through the use of IT are being developed and implemented. Through this process, firms have to adapt to environment properly for their survival because environmental uncertainty can become either crises or opportunities and understanding environmen...

The necessity of data interoperability is very important for the oil and gas enterprise environment. Different information systems and applications cover the range of the IT infrastructure and need to interoperate. Most of the industrial companies do not have common rational strategy for their automation. That leads to the lack of integration between purchased and implemented software that is n...

Research literature in strategic management indicates that firms may gain a competitive advantage in rapidly changing market environments by concentrating on their dynamic capabilities – i.e., product flexibility and agility in organizational transformation in response to rapidly changing market conditions and customer requirements. Service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged as an architectur...

The strategic management represents current direction of management. It is applied in all types of enterprises, including small and medium sized ones. Using principles of process management within SMEs has its limitations caused mainly by size of the enterprise and the related focus on operational management. Other specificities are function accumulation, informal leadership, preference for ora...