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This paper investigates the impact of information accessibility on SMMEs in South Africa in the process of evaluation and adoption of new technology for the business. Information provides SMMEs to have an informed foundation on which to base their decisions on the new technology. The lack of information is perilous to the management of SMMEs, because it limits the ability to adopt, and the affinity...
The outsourcing of information systems has grown as an accepted business trend, with several reasons being cited for considering IS outsourcing. However, there is evidence that IS outsourcing threats may impact negatively on the initial intent to outsource, as well as the success of an IS outsourcing arrangement. Managing successful IS outsourcing relationships is concerned with exploiting outsourcing...
With the increasing adoption of business models and technologies related to cloud computing, the business of software as a service is a growing market. Distributed computing environments with multiple hosts often require complex configuration. In order to increase operational efficiency, configuration management tools use the concept of modules, which decrease repetition in the work of system operators...
The modification of ERP systems and adaptation of business processes is widely recognized as complicated and expensive during implementation and post implementation. While there is research focusing on the classification and impact of different ERP modification strategies, research addressing the cost implication of ERP modifications is still lacking. In this paper, we look at existing literature...
Context: Organizations act in a highly competitive markets, which forces them to be able to quickly adapt and optimize their processes. Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN) supports modelling run-time adaptation of partially structured business process models, but does neither allow selection nor sequence of tasks. Objective: Our goal is to develop an approach that computes sequences of tasks...
Strategic alignment among digital services and organizational objectives is crucial for IT, if the enterprise is to use it for competitive advantage. The motivation for the work presented in this paper is based on the need for the design of services that meet the challenges of alignment, agility and sustainability in relation to dynamically changing enterprise requirements. To this end, the paper...
Cloud computing is an emerging technology that offers opportunities for organisations to hire precisely those ICT services they need (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS). Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can benefit a lot from software services that are managed in a professional way. Cloud computing enables them to overcome restrictions from low budgets and limited resources for ICT. However, cloud adoption...
Increasingly modern organizations are confrontedby changes. Often these changes can be best characterized ascrises. Information is the key resource with which organizationscan get a better grip on these changes. Yet, information is alsorapidly changing. Information management has to be preparedto deal with issues arising around these changes. This article willshow that learning and adapting in such...
Cloud computing proved to offer flexible IT solutions. Although large enterprises may benefit from this technology, SMEs are falling behind in cloud usage due to missing IT-competence and hence lose the ability to efficiently adapt their IT to their business needs. This paper introduces the project idea of the H2020 project Cloud Socket, by elaborating the idea of Business Processes as a Service (BPaaS),...
The Swiss Federal Administration uses for its IT projects primarily the project management method HERMES 5, which has originally a sequential approach. With the introduction of the agile scenario 'customized IT application (agile)' the Federal IT Steering Unit answered on the increasing demand for agile software development with SCRUM. HERMES 5 and SCRUM are different methods and there are general...
Nowadays, more and more industrial organizations are using Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) for process modeling. Data collected during business process execution are used for deriving the key performance indicators (KPI) that allow continuous tracking of the process behavior and measurement of process-specific goals. KPIs evaluation leverages on business process monitoring solutions that...
IT leadership is blamed for being rigid and unable to service the evolving needs of their organisations. Theory guides management what technical skills the IT department requires. However it does not mention what people skills are required. Many management theories have been developed during the last century. The implementation of an effective and efficient IT department remains problematic for business...
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