The field of collaborative health planning faces significant challenges due to the lack of effective information, systems and the absence of a framework to make informed decisions. These challenges have been magnified by the rise of the healthy cities movement, consequently, there have been more...

Building e-health systems requires a good understanding of the range and characteristics of many relevant standards. These standards play an important role in the promotion of coordination amongst the key players in the technical and administrative areas of the e-health arena. Many entities...

Whilst healthcare is the biggest service industry on the globe it has yet to realise the full potential of the e-business revolution in the form of e-health. This is due to many reasons including the fact that the healthcare industry is faced with many complex challenges in trying to deliver...

This dissertation investigates the dynamics that underlie enterprise performance and takes a significant step toward showing how it might be predicted. In a novel approach, a comprehensive Enterprise System Architecture (ESA) is developed that introduces separate layers for strategic and...

Technologinės raidos paskatinti ekonominės globalizacijos procesai lėmė vis augantį spaudimą įmonėms mažinti sąnaudas, didinti kokybę bei greitinti gamybos ciklą. Šios ekonominės bei technologinės tendencijos sudarė prielaidų naujoms organizacijų valdymo paradigmoms atsirasti....

Economic globalization has put pressure on companies to strive for cost reductions, increases in quality and shorter production cycles. Similar economic and technological trends have stimulated and determined the emergence of new management paradigms. Business process integration (BPI) is...

This dissertation focuses on the re-use of business process reference models, available in a business process model warehouse, to enable the definition of more comprehensive business requirements. It proposes a business process model warehouse framework to promote the re-use of multiple business...

Changing the basis of competition, e-Business means doing business electronically by bringing together buyers and sellers. The growth of e-business moves businesses from the place to the space. The familiar components of the place: cash, checks, paper reports and documents, store fronts, and...