Increasing global competition and advances in Internet technologies have led organizations to consider e-business strategies. However, evolving e-business strategies have been identified as a critical issue faced by corporate planners. The relevance and the use of IS (Information Systems) strategy planning practices in the context of e-business have been argued among researchers. In this paper,...

Practitioners have long stressed the need to teach professional commumcations skills to planning students. This paper describes ten years of experience in teaching a course in which communications skills and techniques of gathering and analyzing information are taught concurrently while investigating a problem of importance in the community. The course involves an ongoing collaboration, a "marr...

Disaster simulation exercises are used to test the staffing, management, and decision making aspects of both the computer and non-computer related aspects of an organization's business resumption plans. A proven approach to designing and conducting these simulation exercises is presented, including the full script of an actual simulation exercise. A film of the exercise is available. During the...

Executive Summary In the rapidly changing field of Information Systems, educational programs must be continually reevaluated and revised. This can be a daunting task. To make this process more manageable and to create programs that more accurately reflect the demands of the marketplace, a curriculum revision process is presented. As part of the curriculum revision process, a study was conducted...

Mutually connected business processes have both logistics process and planning and control components. The Little's theorem describes that for a queuing system in stationary situation, average demand rate multiplied by average number of inventory is average lead time. This paper shows what role a planning and control component plays in forming such a dynamic property of a business process as a ...

Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning paradigm has been widely used during the last decade to model and solve planning and scheduling problems, and it has proved to be very useful in the planning and coordination of human tasks. At the same time, Business Process Management (BPM) tools are being increasingly used in the modeling of organizations business practices and processes, but their li...