Today, more and more business processes are distributed in nature, involving business processes of other organizations that are exposed as services. Since a business process can be very complex in general, there is a need for automated support for checking whether a business process complies to organization’s policies. On the other hand, the fast growing market of services and the need for cont...

In the pursuit of enhanced competitiveness organisations are today searching for innovative business models in order to foster economic benefits. In Slovenia, several clusters are being formed, including the Slovenian Transport Logistics Cluster (STLC) as one of the most important. The STLC is currently in the stage of dynamic growth, demanding business model formation and adequate informatisat...

ith the evolution of the Internet over the last few years, e-business has become more than just a buzzword: It has become one of the most important strategic issues companies face today. In fact, industry analysts are predicting that e-business is the future of business: For example, International Data Corp. (IDC) predicts that the amount of commerce conducted over the Internet will exceed U.S....

The increasing velocity of international transactions; the technology-enhanced growing interconnectedness people, business, and societies; and, finally, escalating density day-to-day business interactions are key sources challenges that organizations, both in public private sectors, facing today [...]

Patriarchy, it seems today, has always been an integral part of the Indian society. A slight glance at the status of women in India today makes one think that women have always been considered inferior to men. History, however, says otherwise; women in India have historically had a greater role to play and have commanded far greater respect than they do today. It will therefore be justified to ...

The ever greater pressure of competition to which enterprises are subjected has made the process continuous improvement a crucial issue today. For this reason it should be useful to compose the business processes reusing previously modeled business process parts characterizing them according to the current market needs. This work presents an approach based on the use of Business Process Lines (...

Business Process Management (BPM) is a topic with growing relevance for businesses as well as public organisations. Until today, the analysis part of a BPM cycle is mostly done manually. Process modelling methods are not designed to allow for automated analysis. Our aim is to show that meaningful weakness patterns that support semi-automatic analysis of business process diagrams (BPD) can be de...

Today, many forms of business intelligence coexist in organizations. This situation often leads to a misunderstanding of what business intelligence (BI) is. This purpose of this study is to propose a taxonomy of BI strategies. Based on the BI literature and professional case studies, we created a taxonomy of BI strategies. We developed this taxonomy iteratively with seven BI professionals, usin...

The fast growing development of electronic commerce within the past few years and the increasing number of multimedia applications for the Internet contribute to traffic congestion and bottlenecks on the Internet. Since bandwidth is and will remain a scarce network resource in the future, the demand for charging and accounting mechanisms for the Internet arose. Besides from the implementation o...

It may well be of benefit to maternity services if all providing care within it viewed their service as a family business. How would you as a midwife expect your business to run? How would you ensure you had the right staff in place at the right time to deliver first-class quality services to all your customers? How would you ensure you attracted enough business to make your service viable and ...