Organisational action is performed by someone for someone. Thereby it has become popular to use different customer-oriented approaches focusing on business processes for studying organisational action. In order to address the aspects framed by a certain business process, different prefixes have evolved for characterising a certain business process type. There is however a lack of criteria for d...

The report develops best practices to guide local governments in implementing business intelligence (BI) systems. Fifteen academic sources were reviewed and categorized as: challenges in BI implementations, best practices in BI implementations, and lessons learned from local government IT projects. The sources examine BI from the private and public sector. There are limited sources specific to ...

The unprecedented growth in service-based business processes over a short period of time has underscored the need for understanding the mechanisms and theorising the business models and business process management adopted across many organisations today. This is more evident within the Irish health sector. This research summarises a survey of the literature and argues that the inability of curr...

The rapid evolution of the markets and the changing client’s demands determined enterprises to adapt their business from traditional business practices to e-business, and new forms of collaboration (such as supply chain enterprises, extended enterprises or virtual enterprises) were created. Technologies such as Peer-toPeer, Web services, intelligent agents, Workflow become core technologies sup...

Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology which defines best strategic practices for business process redesign (BPR). Design/methodology/approach – A total of 29 best practices are studied and evaluated from the literature. The philosophy of TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method is applied in recognizing the alignment of be...

PROBLEM Fresh market berry production workers are exposed to physical risk factors for musculoskeletal injury. METHOD We disseminated information through trade publications and other sources to berry managers in seven U.S. states about five prevention through design practices that were both safer and more profitable than traditional methods. We administered mail evaluation questionnaires prio...

The adoption of e-business innovation requires a framework guiding sustainable business development. The required elements and construction of a business model, particularly in the area of e-business is still an insufficiently addressed topic. In this paper, we draw on theoretical constructs relevant to the transformation introduced to value creation by the adoption of e-business practices to p...

Over the years, we have developed IT best practices for each stage of the PC lifecycle. These best practices enable us to deliver increasing business value to the company. Executive Overview To deliver improved services and invest resources in new infrastructure and business capabilities, Intel IT has streamlined our PC lifecycle management processes, boosting both employee productivity and IT ...

EAP courses for various disciplines are designed as a conduit between academic research and practical applications (Paltridge & Starfield, 2013, p. 175). On the other hand, one of the main missions of ESP practitioners is to prepare learners for realities of English on the job (Paltridge & Starfield, 2013, p. 185). This study aimed to provide a profile of target professional English needs of Ir...