reduce business and IT expenses, but also to generate revenues from IT innovations. While IT budgets for hiring, and salary increases are on the rise, these increases are less than last year’s when organizations were more optimistic that the economic conundrum was ending. There is also greater attention to reducing IT budgets through IT infrastructure spending (especially Cloud) and sourcing (especially offshore). Jerry Luftman Global Institute for IT Management (U.S.) Barry Derksen Business & IT
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profitability and market value, ROLM merged with Siemens. Under Siemens management, ROLM took major steps to reshape and reengineer the structure of the entire organization. We will now evaluate the processes according to Hammer’s PEMM framework. The evaluation includes five process enablers and four enterprise capabilities. Evaluation of the enterprise capabilities: Leadership: leadership can be defined as the ability of company management to implement and support the idea of processes. In an organization
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How to integrate technology-enhanced learning with business process management Nicola Capuano, Matteo Gaeta, Pierluigi Ritrovato and Saverio Salerno Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose an innovative approach for providing an answer to the emerging trends on how to integrate e-learning efficiently in the business value chain in medium and large enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed approach defines methodologies and technologies for integrating technology-enhanced
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Revolution Handbook Automating your manual (and paper-centric) processes will revolutionize your business—making it faster, flexible, and more responsive Edited and written by Betsy Fanning and Bryant Duhon Introduction Let’s get this straight from the beginning; using less paper isn’t just about “going green” or saving the rain forest. Using less paper in your business processes will revolutionize your business—making it faster, flexible, and more responsive to the needs of your customers. At least
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University, USA Cisco systems: ExECutivE suMMary This case illustrates the importance of vendor selection, top management support, and team structuring in implementing a complex ERP system. While most organizations choose the de-facto brand as their product, Cisco and its consulting partner, KPMG, went against this perception and selected Oracle who was a newcomer in ERP business. For Oracle this was a golden opportunity to enter a market dominated by SAP and get its ERP modules litmus tested
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The ABCs of ERP Compiled from reports by Christopher Koch, Derek Slater and E. Baatz (From CIO on December 22,1999) What is ERP? Enterprise resource planning software, or ERP, doesn’t live up to its acronym. Forget about planning it doesn’t do that and forget about resource, a throwaway term. But remember the enterprise part. This is ERP's true ambition. It attempts to integrate all departments and functions across a company onto a single computer system that can serve all those different departments’
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OFFICE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT S T A T E O F W A S H I N G T O N PERFORMANCE MEASURE GUIDE BUDGET DIVISION AUGUST 2009 Table of Contents What is a performance measure? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Why do we need performance measures? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 What are characteristics of good performance measures? . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Coordinating the role of IT with business processes. he language-action perspective (LAP) has contributed to several models of coordination of work. In the seminal work of Winograd and Flores [12] the conversation-foraction (cfa) scheme was introduced. This scheme describes, as a kind of generic construct, how two actors come to an agreement about what is to be done. There is someone who asks for the work and someone to perform the work. There are several approaches to business modeling following the
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Measuring depths with echosounders and sonars 1)Leadline 1 - 2,000 soundings per survey 2)Single Beam 500,000 - 750,000 soundings per survey 3)Multi Beam 4,000,000 - 100,000,000 soundings per survey Echosounder An echosounder sends sound pulses through water to measure water depth. The water’s depth is calculated by recording the time between the emission of the sound and the reception of an echo as well as the speed at which the sound travels through water. The echosounder first
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platform for content management, and it is currently being targeted towards finance, insurance, government, telecommunications, utilities, and manufacturing industries.(VARbusiness) Acenza permits linkage to customers, partners, and employees through a variety of applications. Brightspire provides the business integration framework. (Delphi) More extensive research on Brightspire may be of value because FileNET’s description of the product, in its press release cited by Business Wire, makes it sound
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