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The success of a software project depends on the quality of the software requirements specifications. Business process models are frequently used for eliciting software requirements; therefore, it is critical to produce high-quality business process models. To achieve this, the use of multiple levels of abstraction has been suggested in the literature as a modeling strategy. This paper presents the...
Design decisions are made throughout the design process of a new software system or the evolution of an existing system. The context in which a system is developed influences these decisions themselves and the way they are made. There are only a few empirical studies regarding architectural decision-making or concerning how the decision-making process is executed. In this paper, we report an analysis...
The Metrics Grimoire system is composed by a set of tools designed to retrieve data from repositories related to software development. Their aim is to produce organized databases suitable for easy querying with research and industrial purposes. The data in those databases have a similar structure, to easy cross-database studies, and can be enriched with information such as linkage of the multiple...
Stakeholder Relationship Management Systems (SRMS) are conventionally analyzed by a static way, which hides the interconnections of the system. Authors investigated a novel approach to make the evaluation of the interconnections of the SRMS and their behavior achievable. The Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) is a proper tool to investigate the properties of SRMS. The simulation of SRMS with FCM supports...
The on-going paradigm shift in value creation (individualized production, co-creation experience, production networks etc.), initiated by new technologies: information and communication technologies (ICTs) as well as manufacturing technologies, results in new business models and, thus, changed organizational structures in economics. Furthermore, organizations in other societal subsystems are changing,...
The main objective of this research is to find out the economic impact of adopting green practices to the supply chains of manufacturing companies in Sri Lanka and the competitiveness gained through it. Greening the supply chain is looked at from three perspectives in this research namely, greening the inbound function, greening the production function and greening the outbound function where the...
The need to maximise the number of innovative trust and security (T&S) research project outputs impacting the marketplace is an important priority in the EU ICT Security Research Domain. This paper highlights supporting key activities and the CSP Forum initiative that strives to promote and encourage collaboration amongst the relevant security research actors and the wider community. Effective...
Just in time is an advanced manufacturing philosophy, which is practiced all over the world by organizations to achieve excellence in their performance. As most of the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) are managing their supplies on JIT basis, their vendors are under tremendous pressure to adopt JIT. The JIT principles seems easy to adopt, yet many organizations fail to implement it. The implementation...
Firms world-wide are actively engaged to achieve internationally accepted quality levels to ensure their position in the emerging international market especially those from developing economies. Unfortunately the construction industry, generally, has lagged behind other industries in implementing Total Quality Management (TQM) which provides excellence in customer satisfaction through continuous improvements...
This paper discusses the suitability for Business Excellence Models (BEMs) to include Corporate Sustainability on business model criteria. The conceptual paper brings discussion of what sort of measures are required to fit organizations' needs in measuring performance in terms of economic, social, and environment bottom-lines. A literature review has been conducted for BEMs that includes the EFQM...
Quarterly Earnings Calls by public companies represent an example of a rich digital data stream. In this study, we intercept this data stream and use it to create a new business confidence index, the P&W Index TM. This index correlates with existing business confidence indices, both consumer and business, and correlates with US GDP percentage change. The main advantage is that it can be updated...
Owing to growing complexity and rising costs of organizational information technology, standards are essential for companies to manage and maintain control over their IT. Insights from practice indicate that the crucial aspect regarding the success of IT standards is their implementation and enforcement. Thus, we derive the following research question: Which factors influence the intention to accept...
Although disclosure has long been considered as a solution to internalize externalities, mandatory security information disclosure is still in debate. We propose a mandatory disclosure mechanism based on existing data. The information is disclosed as straightforward rankings of organizations for users to understand, interpret, and make comparisons. As a result, the disclosure can influence organizations...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems are standardized software packages intended to support the majority or all of an organization's processes. Customization of an ERP system is usually required to achieve fit between system and business processes of an organization. Customization options ranges from setting parameters in the system to developing new functionality by modifying source code. Models...
Cloud computing (CC) is becoming a global market trend that all businesses, sooner or later, will go for. Moving to the cloud is a long journey for developing countries that became aware of its importance to their economic development. Egypt started this journey with collective efforts from all stakeholders (i.e., Government institutes, national and international cloud providers, private businesses,...
The use of software reference architectures plays a fundamental role in software development, as it could bring several benefits such as providing means to design applications' software architectures with higher productivity and quality. However, many organizations still find scarce the existing empirical evidence about the benefits and drawbacks of software reference architectures. Organizations...
Researchers have found that approximately 70% of information systems (IS) development projects in Japan have failed, thus increasing the demand for solutions that will increase expected project success rates. One study that explored the identification of factors that affect project performance found that six factors of organizational culture influence the project outcome for information technology...
Organizational relationships are usually very complex in real life. It is difficult or impossible to directly measure such correlations among different organizations, because important information is usually not publicly available (e.g., The correlations of terrorist organizations). Nowadays, an increasing amount of organizational information can be posted online by individuals and spread instantly...
Empirical findings have shown that Innovation is the main driving factor in the economic growth in all the industries and Information Technology in particular at present scenario. So in this era of competition Innovation gives an edge to a company over the others and it becomes its sole survival factor. Despite all the interest and importance researchers still lack the fundamental understanding of...
This paper proposes a new approach to integrate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in requirements elicitation process that are derived from organization goals. KPIs can then be used to control and reduce user requirements risk that caused by user interests. The proposal utilize goal oriented requirement engineering technique to elicit the requirements from organization. An information system project...
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