Decision making inside a company is usually performed by means of decision support tools at three different levels (strategic, tactical and operational) according to the working horizon. Unfortunately, the consequences of any decision at the strategic level are propagated to the tactical and even the operational levels. In order to support highly efficient flexibility while avoiding infrastruct...

In recent years, an increasing number of companies have been struggling to justify strategic technology investments using traditional capital budgeting systems. The existing accountingbased decision models (such as discounted cash-flow) are said to be no longer adequate to help evaluate investments in technological innovation, mainly because of the strategic, intangible nature of the benefits i...

organizations need to evaluate project proposals and select the ones that are the most effective in reaching the strategic goals by considering sustainability issue. in order to enhance the effectiveness and the efficiency of project oriented organizations, in this paper a new multi-objective decision making (modm) approach of sustainable project portfolio selection is proposed which applies in...

We investigate the economic ramifications of strategic IT security information sharing among firms in the financial services industry. An IT security information sharing system can potentially minimize security breaches. However, although the Presidential Decision Directive/NSC-63 encouraged the establishment of such a system in the form of industry based information sharing and analysis center...

The strategy represents a unique set of vision, policies, goals and main action plans activities that ensure the development progress an organization. Sophisticated IT technology tools, today, help managers make right decisions quality strategic plans. A is planning decision specifies ways to achieve goals. It starts from given state organization, needs possibilities, opportunities prevail in e...

Computer technology is transforming strategic management and swalegic decision making. One important area of strategic management work, from a competitive viewpoint. is benchmarking. Competitive benchmarking is a company-internal process in which the activities of a given company are measured against the besr practices of thz best-in-class companies using financial andtor non-&an&l yardsticks. ...

strategic control can provide performance support from decision and strategy. now, appropriate and role of operations research (or) for strategic support is proved and model is useful tool for fulfill this role. new field of performance and strategy linkage have suitable capacity for this type of modeling. this paper is tried with using case study research method in the fields of performance me...

Strategic use of IT has been the subject of considerable interest among researchers and practitioners, spurred by Carr(2003) and research about ‘IT productivity paradox’. The gist of debate is whether IT investment leads to competitive advantage or not. Even though IT is consist of multiple dimensions, previous studies consider the IT as one unit and oversimplify it. We examine how IT is strate...