Threats to information security are proliferating rapidly, placing demanding requirements on protecting tangible and intangible business and individual assets. Biometrics can improve security by replacing or complementing traditional security technologies. This tutorial discusses the strengths and weaknesses of biometrics and traditional security approaches, current and future applications of b...

In order to conduct business, organizations must try to assess and ensure compliance with privacy legislation, policies and regulations, as part of their IT governance initiatives. As well as these ‘data protection’ concerns, there may be an intangible value in proposing an ‘open’ approach to privacy compliance, for example by showing all privacy-relevant information as is done within the Googl...

E-learning markets have been expanding very rapidly. As a result, the involved senior managers are increasingly being confronted with the need to make significant investment decisions related to the e-learning business activities. The valuation of e-learning business activities is a challenging task since it is characterized by rapidly changing business and technology conditions. In this paper,...

Making a business process with information systems is the target of information systems methodologies. A business process is intangible system that human beings make artifically to satisfy some goals. It is a human activity system [1]. It consists of human activities, contains formal components such as datamodel and information systems, and is subject to achievement of its goal. Since a busines...

The management and valuation of intangible resources—also called intangibles—is undoubtedly a major business preoccupation. This is particularly true for knowledge-based resources, also known as intellectual capital (IC) (Hussi, 2004; Kaufmann and Schneider, 2004). A company’s intangible resources often account for a greater proportion of its overall total resources than its tangible assets do....

Before committing resources in developing Electronic Commerce (E-Comm) applications, organisations need to assess the bottom-line business benefits that E-Comm can deliver and compare them to the costs of the associated investments. However, the intangible nature of most E-Comm benefits may render the development of a business case very difficult in practice. In this paper we argue that compute...

The world and its economy is going through countless and significant changes. Intangible assets are one of these changes due to the economy and the society have a higher demand for information than before. Nevertheless, tangible assets are still important assets within the economy since no economy will function without tangible assets. Intangible assets and tangible assets can contribute to tha...

In the era of knowledge economy, the necessity of recognizing knowledge as a key and intangible asset makes the effective management of knowledge a priority. Business strategy is the most important context for guiding effective knowledge management. And, knowledge management (KM) is also a dimension of business competitive strategy. Based on Miles and Snow’s (1978) business strategy typology, a...