In recent years, several smart card solutions for transportation services of cities with different technical infrastructures and business models has emerged considerably, which triggers new business and technical opportunities. In order to create a unique system, we present a novel, promising system called Multifunctional City Smart Card System to be used in all cities that provides transportat...

New business models, constant technological progress, as well as ever-changing legal regulations require that companies replace their business applications from time to time. As a side effect, this demands for migrating the data from the existing source application to a target application. Since the success of the application replacement as a form of IT maintenance is contingent on the underlyi...

This paper provides a key driver-based conceptual framework that can be used to improve a firm’s success in commercializing technology and in new product innovation resulting from collaboration with other organizations through strategic alliances. Based on a qualitative study using an interview approach, strategic alliances of entrepreneurs in the food processing industry in Thailand are explor...

In this paper a short chronology of evolution of workflow management systems is given. Classifications according to different criteria of software tools supporting modeling and execution functionalities of workflow management systems are presented. Keywords—Automation systems, business processes, web services

Recent court decisions, starting with the State Street decision in 1998, allow business methods to be patentable and now give …nancial institutions the option to seek patent protection for …nancial innovations. This new patentability paradigm and the heterogeneity of characteristics associated with …nancial innovations, poses an immediate decision problem for senior management: what to patent. ...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a new trend of business governance. Few research studies on CSR published in Taiwanese academia, especially for medical settings, we were interested in probing the relationship of CSR and financial performance in medical settings in Taiwan. The results illustrate that: (1) a time delay effect exists with a lag between CSR effort and its performan...

Making the customers most preferable and building consumer centric structured models lead to the business process profitable. This paper mainly focuses on increasing customization features of service based business processes with the knowledge of existing web services. We present customization by a new Web Ontology Language (OWL) based on the semantic markup language for web based information. ...

Globalization, supported by information and communication technologies, changes the rules of competitiveness and increases the significance of information, knowledge and network cooperation. In line with this trend, the need for efficient trust-building tools has emerged. The absence of trust building mechanisms and strategies was identified within several studies. Through trust development, pa...

Business Processes (BPs) are the key instrument to understand how companies operate at an organizational level, taking an as-is view of the workflow, and how to address their issues by identifying a to-be model. In last year’s, the BP Model and Notation (BPMN) has be come a de-facto standard for m odeling processes. However, this standard does not incorporate explicitly the ProblemSolving (PS) ...