‘Business Intelligence’ (BI) has been widely used to describe the process of gathering, analyzing and transforming large amounts of data into information useful for decision making. This paper examines BI from a decision-maker's perspective in an IT governance context through a case study of a large Scandinavian financial institution. The key findings indicate that BI is primarily used to infor...

This paper focuses on the practice of Corporate Foresight within a multinational automotive company. It portrays how the early detection of mediumto long-term developments in the broader business environment, including social and market developments, is integrated into innovation and strategy processes. The objective of the paper is to portray the genesis of Corporate Foresight, major working a...

Business operations are becoming more and more integrated with the realtime intelligence. Core business activities are being carried out through OLTP systems that provide limited monitoring capabilities of the running process instances. The article shows how to turn the gap between the classic transactional system and the processcentric approach into an organization that provides more accurate ...

The evolution of the climatic changes from the recent years has raised new challenges for the researchers in the environmental sciences that has to find new solutions to the environmental problems. Artificial intelligence can provide efficient tools for most environmental problems of monitoring, analysis, interpretation, forecasting, management, and control. The development of interdisciplinary...

For healthcare organizations to survive in these increasingly challenging times, leadership and management must face mounting interpersonal concerns. The authors present the boundaries of internal and external social networks with respect to leadership and managerial functions: Social networks within the organization are stretched by reductions in available resources and structural ambiguity, w...

It is argued that astrobiology in general, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in particular, are of foremost importance for the transhumanist endeavor. It is sketched how one can show incompleteness, at best, of the arguments usually cited in support of the uniqueness of human intelligence in the Galactic context. In addition to the arguments conventionally cited in support of SET...

Supplier intelligence represents an important type of competitive intelligence essential to organizational strategic planning and analysis, because the moves that the suppliers of a firm make will affect the business network’s health, which in turn will impact the performance of the firm. Central to supplier intelligence is to identify who the suppliers of a focal firm and its competitors are. ...

There has been growing corporate interest in business intelligence (BI) as a path to reduced costs, improved service quality, and better decision-making processes. However, while BI has existed for years, it has difficulties reaching what specialists in the field consider its full potential. In this paper, the authors examine disparities in how the constructs of business intelligence are define...

Organizations increasingly rely on teams to formulate plans and respond in critical situations. However, current models of team process are insensitive to the effects of team strategic orientation. This paper expands existing work on team process and strategic orientation to introduce and explicate the constructs of offensive and defensive strategic orientations in teams. It takes advantage of ...