A s the role of information technology continues to grow, firms are frequently turning to information systems outsourcing to achieve operational and strategic goals. When outsourcing succeeds, firms can enjoy significant operations savings, access to new technologies, and flexibility in strategic decisions. This success, however, is by no means guaranteed—the Gartner Group estimates that half t...

IntroductIon The integration of enterprise systems and the supply chain to an organization is becoming more critical in an ever-changing, globally competitive environment. Quick response will require close relationships, especially communications and information sharing among integrated internal functional groups as well as the suppliers and customers of an organization. Texas Instruments (TI),...

Increasing the transparency of an organisation’s strategy relating to M&A (mergers and acquisitions) by engaging in voluntary communications with investors may provide benefits to both companies and investors. This study theorises and tests two factors that increase the likelihood of organisations engaging in open strategy when considering an M&A deal: strategic variation (departure from the or...

Increasing the transparency of an organisation’s strategy relating to M&A (mergers and acquisitions) by engaging in voluntary communications with investors may provide benefits to both companies and investors. This study theorises and tests two factors that increase the likelihood of organisations engaging in open strategy when considering an M&A deal: strategic variation (departure from the or...

This paper is an exploration of how sensemaking patterns amongst management groups influence the actual practices of strategising over extended periods of time. Using an eight-year longitudinal case study of a single strategic issue, (a strategic marketing innovation in a division of a global financial services company), the paper aims to advance the work of Gioia and Chittipeddi (1991) by expl...

Increasing the transparency of an organisation’s strategy relating to M&A (mergers and acquisitions) by engaging in voluntary communications with investors may provide benefits to both companies and investors. This study theorises and tests two factors that increase the likelihood of organisations engaging in open strategy when considering an M&A deal: strategic variation (departure from the or...

Strategic planning and decision-making require that a strategic plan and an action plan be established, while the establishment of an innovation strategy plays a major role in an enterprise’s continued operation over the longer term. In this study we will use the value-focused thinking model and will combine the random-word method, SWOT analysis, the TOWS matrix and AHP analysis to examine the ...

Over the past several decades, advances in technology have transformed communications and the ability to acquire, disseminate, and utilize information in a range of environments. Modern societies and their respective militaries have taken advantage of a robust information space through networkcentric systems. Because military and commercial operations have increasingly converged, communication ...

organizations are networks of unites and individuals enhancing organizational performance through cooperation and synergy. it is achieved by developing meaningful and purposeful communications of unites and individuals .thus, it is essential to make organizational communications efficient in order to achieve organizational purposes. in this essay, we examined the variables and factors affecting...

Probabilistic model checking is an automated technique to verify whether a probabilistic system, e.g., a distributed network protocol which can exhibit failures, satisfies a temporal logic property, for example, “the minimum probability of the network recovering from a fault in a given time period is above 0.98”. Dually, we can also synthesise, from a model and a property specification, a strat...