"This book focuses on business process improvement, a key element of the most influential management movement since the 1980s, and how process improvement affects organizational knowledge sharing"--Provided by publisher.

Cases on Information Technology Planning, Design and Implementation brings together a variety of real-life experiences showing how other companies and organizations have successfully, or not so successfully, planned, designed, and implemented different applications using information technology....

Commercial systems built today are increasingly using XML technologies for storing any amount of text or data. This book collects the latest research for academicians and practitioners that describes the use and synergy between data structure technologies. It explores and investigates various...

"This book provides an overview of theoretical and empirical research on knowledge management generation in the Web 2.0 age, highlighting knowledge management evolution with a global focus and investigating the impact knowledge management 2.0 has on business models, enterprise governance and...

Data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) are emerging key technologies for enterprise decision support systems. They provide sophisticated technologies from data integration, data collection and retrieval, query optimization, and data analysis to advanced user interfaces. New...

"This book presents the most current research on existing and emergent trends on conceptual modeling and information systems engineering, bridging the gap between research and practice by providing a much-needed reference point on the design of software systems that evolve seamlessly to adapt to...

This book blends theory and practice to provide practical knowledge and guidelines to enterprises wishing to understand the importance of managing documents to their operations along with presentation of document content to facilitate business planning and operations support. This book gives...

In the new millennium, the competence of most organizations will depend on innovative deployment of new technologies for effectively managing knowledge networks for organizational performance. Many such "virtual" organizations using information and knowledge as their fundamental bases are...

This book addresses flexibility of both business and information systems through component technology at the nexus of three seemingly unrelated disciplines: service-oriented architecture, knowledge management, and business process management. It presents research on agile, adaptive processes and...

Current IT developments like component-based development and Web services have emerged as effective ways of building complex enterprise-scale information systems and providing enterprise application integration. To aid this process, platforms such as .NET and WebSphere have become standards in...