Indian manufacturing firms operating in rapidly changing and highly competitive market, over the last few decades, have embraced organization-wide transformation to achieve cultural and operational excellence. In recent years, numerous approaches have been proposed to improve business and manufacturing performance. Lean practices in particular, Total Productive Management (TPM) and Total Qualit...

Virtual Enterprises (VEs) bring together expertise and processes of different companies to react to a market opportunity. Here we propose a novel approach to support the collaborative construction and evolution of such VEs and their business processes, comprising a model of the VE, and a set of model construction rules and operators. Our approach is based on the principles of iterative elaborat...

This article addresses issues of the Service-Oriented Architecture Modeling (SOAM). SOAM comprises gathering requirements, analyzing the requirements to identify services and business processes, and finally implementing the services and processes. It is a heterogeneous approach that combines a number of well-established practices. The key question in SOAM is how to integrate these practices to ...

This paper deals with Service-Oriented Analysis and Design (SOAD). SOAD comprises requirements elicitation, analysis of the requirements to identify services and business processes and finally implementation of the services and processes. It is a heterogeneous approach that combines a number of well-established practices. The key question in SOAD is how to integrate the practices to model a tru...

In the EU, most large firms use e-business applications, such as enterprise resource planning and online procurement. Based on e-business watch data for EU-4 (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom) we find that the actual use of enterprise resource planning and online procurement is positively correlated with labour productivity growth. Furthermore, we find that certain e-business appli...

This paper compiles the findings of an international study which primary objective was to investigate the relationships between Internet utilization in business-tobusiness relationships, collaborative efforts and their impact over supplier and customeroriented processes performance. It highlights the Internet as an important enhancer of collaboration in supply chains and addresses the effects o...

This paper empirically examines some environmental scanning practices of high, medium and low growth Australian manufacturing SMEs. Building on McMahon’s (2001) work, the study applies scanning related variables from Australia’s Business Longitudinal Survey to the three growth paths identified. The study finds significant differences between the scanning practices of SMEs from each of the growt...

Shared responsibilities such as mentoring, instruction, learner monitoring and classroom management enable the peers to observe, review, reflect on and learn from the overall practical professional expertise of one another through collegial instruction experience. The present exploratory case study has The present exploratory case study has attempted to study collegial teaching as an innovative...

A business process maturity model provides standards and measures to organizations in assessing, defining and improving business processes, thereby guiding them to achieving business goals and values. In this paper, we present a business process maturity model called Value based Process Maturity Model (vPMM) that overcomes the limitations of the existing models. The vPMM is a model that can be ...

E-Gov projects have an increasing influence on how government business processes evolve and change. While early e-Gov projects focused on government-to-public information and interaction, the second and third wave of e-Gov projects also emphasize internal effectiveness and efficiency along with intraand interdepartmental as well as intraand inter-branch integration. With these increases in scop...