As the knowledge economics grows rapidly, the value of intangible assets is more emphasized in business nowadays. Intangible assets include intellectual capital and intellectual property. Intellectual property is often protected by patents, which are the claims for intellectual property. Since the enterprise is willing to pay the patent for the sustainable growth, we propose an objective scorin...

The term Enterprise 2.0 (E2.0) describes a collection of organizational and IT practices that help organizations establish flexible work models, visible knowledge-sharing practices, and higher levels of community participation. E2.0 parallels and builds on another term commonly being used in the industry – Web 2.0. E2.0 represents also new packaging for strategic collaboration and Knowledge Man...

ERP systems are widely used by large enterprises for managing functional areas of the enterprise. However, recently ERP systems have also been introduced to the small enterprise market. ERP systems are now considered an important small enterprise management aid that may contribute to the sustainability and growth of the small enterprise. Although there are several acceptance factors that may im...

Enterprise systems (and their primary form, enterprise resource planning systems (ERPS)) have fundamentally re-shaped the way business event data is collected, stored, disseminated and used. This change in information processing orientation fundamentally affects every area of accounting and should drive radical changes in audit processes. Yet, the extant research in accounting has largely ignor...

INTRODUCTION With the rapid growth in the modern day enterprise comes explosion of information, diversity in formats and the sources where they are located. Present day Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Systems manage this disparity through what is known as Syntactic Integration. This is done through techniques like Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Enterprise Information Integ...

The process systems engineering (PSE) as well as the operations research and management science (ORMS) literature has hitherto focused on disparate processes and functions within the enterprise. These themes have included upstream R&D pipeline management, planning and scheduling in batch and continuous manufacturing systems and more recently supply chain optimization under uncertainty. In reali...

Previous evolution models have an intuitive logic and attempt to delineate an organic approach to organisational development and growth. They fail typically, to look at the recognition and release of individual talent and organisational capability. This paper reviews the position taken by these approaches and presents an alternative model of organisational growth. The paper demonstrates that th...