In this article a new branch & bound method is described. It uses an artificial target to improve its bounding capabilities. Therefore the new approach is faster compared to the classical one....

Project risk management has become an important area of interest in project management practice over the past decade. Numerous best practice standards, tools and techniques have been developed focussing on a more effective risk management process. This process consists of four main phases:...

Modern enterprises face a strong economical pressure toincrease competitiveness, to operate on a global market, andto engage in alliances of several kinds. In order to meet therequirements and challenges of participating in suchalliances, companies must be able to cooperate effectivelyand...

Companies are more and more focusing on their core competencies,outsourcing business tasks to their business partners. In order to support collaboration between business partners, adequate information systems need to be built automating inter-organizational business processes. The bases for such...

Global enterprise resource planning (ERP) programmes are usually initiated top‐down, butthe ubiquitous access to company process information leads to the empowerment of trainedemployees at all levels of the company. The success of current global ERP programmes dependson a wide range of...

Support of processes by appropriate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a key requisite to persist in an environment characterised by high specialisation and cooperative service production – also in the public sector. This paper describes a method for pattern-based semantic...

One of the challenges in manufacturing companies nowadays is to enableappropriate IT support of production planning and execution. Integrated solutionsneed to cover company‐wide and even cross‐company business processes (fromorder receipt to product distribution) and at the same time live up...

Modern enterprises face the challenge to survive in an ever changing envi-ronment. One commonly accepted means to address this challenge and further enhance survivability is enterprise architecture (EA) management, which provides a holistic model-based approach to business/IT alignment. Thereby,...

Introduction - Remark; Power of Direct Marketing; Life Cycle Marketing; Lead Generation Programme - A Multi-Channel Experience; Proactive Retention Management, Key Success Factors for Multi-Channel Distribution...

Primary responsibility for risk and risk management with the business, Responsibility for risk management assigned to individual "risk owners", Support to and control of the business by specialized expert functions...