Strategic reasoning about business models: a conceptual modeling approach

Strategic reasoning about business models is an integral part of service design. In fast moving markets, businesses must be able to recognize and respond strategically to disruptive change. They have to answer questions such as: what are the threats and opportunities in emerging technologies and innovations? How should they target customer groups? Who are their real competitors? How will competitive battles take shape? In this paper we define a strategic modeling framework to help understand and analyze the goals, intentions, roles, and the rationale behind the strategic actions in a business environment. This understanding is necessary in order to improve existing or design new services. The key component of the framework is a strategic business model ontology for representing and analyzing business models and strategies, using the i* agent and goal oriented methodology as a basis. The ontology introduces a strategy layer which reasons about alternative strategies that are realized in the operational layer. The framework is evaluated using a retroactive example of disruptive technology in the telecommunication services sector from the literature.     

一种BPEL流程数据竞争检测方法

对使用业务流程执行语言(BPEL)组织流程中存在的数据竞争问题进行了研究,根据BPEL特性提出了一个静态分析和动态监控相结合的有效检测方法.实验结果表明,该方法能够准确检测出流程中存在的数据竞争,提高了流程的可靠性.     

云南安通实业公司建设警体文化中心业务综合管理系统中网络系统解决方案

进入21世纪,全球经济正逐步走向一体化,信息交流日益频繁,企业信息化已经成为企业成功的一个必要因素。企业利用信息技术(包括计算机技术、网络通信技术和自动化技术等)改善企业的经营、管理、生产的各个环节,提高生产效率,提高产品质量,降低消耗,提高企业的创新能力,是提高企业现代化生产和科学组织管理的有效途径。本文根据云南安通实业公司建设警体文化中心业务综合管理系统解决方案。重点论述网络系统解决方案。     

基于DW和OLAP的税务决策支持系统的方案设计

目前税务部门都建立起了面向事务处理的税收征管信息系统(OLTP系统).但这些系统缺乏对历史数据的有效分析和利用,很难为决策者提供综合的、高效的辅助决策信息,因此提出了采用数据仓库技术和联机分析技术实现税务征管信息化的解决方案.为税务部门决策科学化、理性化提供可靠保障.提升税收工作的计划、决策、执行、监控和管理能力.     

Disciplined autonomy: How business analytics complements customer involvement for digital innovation

The rise of big data and the fluid boundaries of digital products are driving companies to use business analytics (BA) to power their customer involvement. The complementarity view offers unique competence to generate value from BA because capability complementarity is less likely to be replicated or imitated. Unlike prior studies on BA-enabled value realization, our research investigates the interactions of BA and customer involvement capabilities using the complementarity view. We tested our model using data collected from 317 IT companies in China. Our results suggest that BA value realization requires both a top-down mechanism in which BA skills provide global guidance for alignment with a company’s goals and a bottom-up mechanism in which BA culture empowers local autonomy for adaptation to ever-changing needs. Our BA-complemented mechanisms provide research and practice with a way to concurrently use BA and customer involvement capabilities to address the duality of digital innovation. We further suggest that BA skills are necessary but insufficient for digital innovation because BA culture demonstrates a stronger effect in complementing organizations’ existing capabilities than BA skills do.     

Strategic innovation through outsourcing – A theoretical review

Competition in the Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry is increasingly moving from being motivated by cost savings towards strategic benefits that service providers can offer to their clients. Innovation is one such benefit that is expected nowadays in outsourcing engagements. The rising importance of innovation has been noticed and acknowledged not only in the Information Systems (IS) literature, but also in other management streams such as innovation and strategy. However, to date, these individual strands of research remain largely isolated from each other. Our theoretical review addresses this gap by consolidating and analyzing research on strategic innovation in the ITO and BPO context. The article set includes 95 papers published between 1998 and 2020 in outlets from the IS and related management fields. We craft a four-phase framework that integrates prior insights about (1) the antecedents of the decision to pursue strategic innovation in outsourcing settings; (2) arrangement options that facilitate strategic innovation in outsourcing relationships; (3) the generation of strategic innovations; and (4) realized strategic innovation outcomes, as assessed in the literature. We find that the research landscape to date is skewed, with many studies focusing on the first two phases. The last two phases remain relatively uncharted. We also discuss how innovation-oriented outsourcing insights compare with established research on cost-oriented outsourcing engagements. Finally, we offer directions for future research.     

Technology landscape and a short patentometric review for antibiofilm technologies

This study presents an overview and a short critical review of patented antibiofilm technologies. Patent information was used to determine scenarios that could be used by decision-makers or business intelligence. The study found that academia, mainly from the USA, has been applying for the most patents since 1997. Based on the S-curve analysis, the maturity of this technology sector is emerging. The technological specialization for the 10 most prominent patent applicants and state-of-the-art antibiofilm patents are presented.The high dispersion of patent applicants, the presence of universities among the most active patent applicants, and the content of the patents analyzed are good indicators to infer that developed technologies are close to the academic level. Moreover, many efforts are necessary to bring these technologies into the market.Polymers-N-based, amino acids and peptides, P and S compounds, chelating agents and organometallic complexes, nanoparticles, or composites are claimed to be active against biofilm formation. Such compounds are presented in this work, and in rare cases, they are described as compositions ready for use as marketable products.     

Management Systems: the End of the Beginning?

For many years quality managers have been striving to merge the requirements of management systems into business as usual. Traditional paper-based formats have made this very difficult to achieve. However, the advance of technology and the transfer of information to the electronic medium have provided new opportunities. In the new medium the EFQM Business Excellence Model may be used as a navigational tool to finally solve this problem.     

Challenges in business systems integration

Four main frameworks for intercompany relationships (SCOR, CPFR, ISA95 and OAG) are discussed and compared. The link between the frameworks and different supply chain integration applications such as ERP, CRM and VMI are pictured. Finally the state-of-the-art, future state and challenges of the supply chain integration applications are discussed. It is concluded that the main challenge with respect to frameworks supporting business systems integration is to extend them with implementation functionality to better support business system application development. An example of this is customer requirement fulfillment processes such as product development and order fulfillment. Not only do they cross the borders of the company's departments (sales, logistics, purchasing, etc) but also various companies in the supply chain. In spite of this development, business integration across systems and borders are still not matured and to a large extend based on human interaction.     

Activity labeling in process modeling: Empirical insights and recommendations

Few studies have investigated the factors contributing to the successful practice of process modeling. In particular, studies that contribute to the act of developing process models that facilitate communication and understanding are scarce. Although the value of process models is not only dependent on the choice of graphical constructs but also on their annotation with textual labels, there has been hardly any work on the quality of these labels. Accordingly, the research presented in this paper examines activity labeling practices in process modeling. Based on empirical data from process modeling practice, we identify and discuss different labeling styles and their use in process modeling praxis. We perform a grammatical analysis of these styles and use data from an experiment with process modelers to examine a range of hypotheses about the usability of the different styles. Based on our findings, we suggest specific programs of research towards better tool support for labeling practices. Our work contributes to the emerging stream of research investigating the practice of process modeling and thereby contributes to the overall body of knowledge about conceptual modeling quality.