The concept of knowledge management is not new in information systems practice and research. However, radical changes in the business environment have suggested limitations of the traditional information-processing view of knowledge management. Specifically, it is being realized that the programmed nature of heuristics underlying such systems may be inadequate for coping with the demands impose...

This paper uses the principles of business ecology to analyze the problems in China’s e-business construction and probe in the ways for enterprises in different niches to carry out e-business construction. The ebusiness construction is not the isolated behavior of certain one enterprise and full consideration should be taken into the relations between upper stream and down stream enterprises to...

Business processes play an important role in E-commerce Web applications as they form an important part of the B2C domain and dominate the B2B domain. However, E-commerce application modeling and design techniques have eluded the special characteristics of business processes by treating them just as a special case of navigation. As a consequence, the resulting E-commerce applications have desig...

Business intelligence is a business management term that indicates the capability of adding more intelligence to the way business is done by companies. More precisely, it refers to a set of tools and techniques that enable a company to transform its business data into timely and accurate information for the decisional process, to be made available to the right persons in the most suitable form....

In this paper we address the concept of business architecture. We explain the concept and, based on a case study, discuss its relevance, operation, relationship with strategy and business models, and value for an organization. Business architectures contribute to clarify the complexity within an organization and form a useful starting point from which to develop functional, information, process...

The analysis of business processes is often challenging not only because of intricate dependencies between process activities but also because of various sources of faults within the activities. The automated detection of potential business process anomalies could immensely help business analysts and other process participants detect and understand the causes of process errors. This work focuse...

PNMsoft Sequence is an iBPMS (Intelligent Business Process Management Suite). This demonstration will show how PNMsoft Sequence’s HotChange® technology enables BPM customers to change processes which are already being run in the production environment. HotChange® enables modifications to all aspects of a process including: flow, business rules, form fields, new activities, permissions, devices,...

dynamic business environment enforces organizations to constantly update and reform their own strategic expectations. changing the embedded business rules in information systems is vital to fulfill strategic expectation. determining appropriate position to change business rule in information systems is regarded as a time-consuming and complex activity. therefore, it is necessary to identify and...

business aspects through attending practice meetings, the occasional tutorial and reading through the weekly rags. What I feel would be invaluable to all registrars would be to incorporate business management in the nMRCGP. This may take the form of an OSCE or viva station exploring common business dilemmas within the clinical skills assessment (CSA) component or integrated into the workplace b...

Business process management is often considered as a top-downmanagement activity. This view is inconsistent with the observation that information infrastructures are at drift, outside top-downmanagement control. To reconcile both views, a meta-framework is presented that frames the interplay of the design and emergence of business processes. Business processes are identified as a particular for...