Although knowledge management has been investigated in the context of decision support and expert systems for over a decade, interest in and attention to this topic have exploded recently. But integration of knowledge process design with knowledge system design is strangely missing from the knowledge management literature and practice. The research described in this chapter focuses on knowledge...

The complexity of planning and scheduling is determined by the degree to which activities contend for resources. Accordingly this requires any application to have the ability to reason about the nature of the resource and its availability. This paper presents a generic enterprise resource ontology. The ontology described in this paper is one of many that is being created by the TOVE project in ...

Enterprise architecture management requires an extensive amount of information which concern distinct domains like company strategy, business processes, and IT-systems. To support management with essential information enterprise architecture models are reckoned almost indispensable. However, the creation and maintenance of an encompassing enterprise architecture model has proven to be a challen...

Mohammed Ben Alhocain, in an Arab manuscript of the 10th century, stated that the principal object of the theory of rational right triangles is to find a square that when increased or diminished by a certain number, m becomes a square [Dickson LE (1971) History of the Theory of Numbers (Chelsea, New York), Vol 2, Chap 16]. In modern language, this object is to find a rational point of infinite ...

This article provides an overview of perspectives associated with information and knowledge resource management in systems engineering and systems management in accomplishing enterprise resource planning for enhanced innovation and productivity. Accordingly, we discuss economic concepts involving information and knowledge, and the important role of network effects and path dependencies in influ...

Empirical evidence, especially in case studies, shows that individual leaders often have a crucial role in successful enterprise transformation in transition economies. Conventional economic analysis alone cannot explain this role of leadership. In this paper we use coordination games to analyse transitions from one Nash-equilibrium to another. We argue that the creation of common knowledge amo...

In modern times markets are very dynamic. This situation requires agile enterprises to have the ability to react fast on market influences. Thereby an enterprise’ IT is especially affected, because new or changed business models have to be realized. However, enterprise architectures (EA) are complex structures consisting of many artifacts and relationships between them. Thus analyzing an EA bec...

rural micro-enterprises are an important factor in sustainable rural development in post-transitional Eastern Europe. This paper deals with determining the key factors influencing profitability in rural micro-enterprises in Poland. The research design was based on a questionnaire survey of 300 rural micro-enterprises in the food-processing sector in rich and poor Polish provinces. The analysis ...

While Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system demand in China has been steadily increasing, many of such implementation projects failed. Keda Industrial Co. Ltd (600986: Shanghai Stock Exchange), a manufacturer of large scale machinery in China, however, was one of the few that successfully deployed its ERP solution in 2005. In this case study, we document the ERP initiative of Keda from its ...

The recent advent of what is commonly known as Business Intelligence (BI) systems has highlighted the importance of these systems in providing important decision-making information. BI systems are highly reliant on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems functionality and the vast amount of transactional data that ERP systems generate. Indeed, many companies have implemented BI systems as an...