Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of three strategies - organisational, business and information system – in post implementation of technological innovations. The findings reported in the paper are that improvements in operational performance can only be achieved by...

Measurement of the alignment between business strategies and information systems (IS) has demonstrated positive impact for the organizational performance. The factors that have proved relevant when assessing the maturity level of alignment are: communication, competency/value measurement,...

This research examines information systems strategic planning (ISSP) in multinationals from the perspective of the subsidiaries. The research was carried out through interviews with the IT and business managers in subsidiaries of nine large American, European, and Japanese multinationals. The...

Information explosion, globalisation and the reduction of trade barriers have led to theemergence of global production markets and broader access to a range of products forcustomers. For manufacturers this has led to managing fragmented networks to dealwith more polarised markets with wider...

The aim of this study is present a framework for strategic planning. On this basis, the oil industry was selected as the spatial domain. In this study, in order to implement the strategic planning, since IT is an inevitable part of today's businesses, we focused on aligning business strategic...

The North Texas PC Users Group is a non-profit that is struggling with their existing membership process. This thesis explores the analysis of a new membership process and discusses the resulting new architecture and system design to implement it. The implementation of this new business process...

Purpose: Managing the corporate reputation of hybrid firms (organizations that act commercially to pursue social agendas) involves particular challenges because of competing stakeholder interests. With reference to the Trappist beer market, the paper seeks to identify the value of message...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a model of cause-related marketing (CRM) for both profit-driven (PD) and non-profit (NP) organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The model consists of two parallel internal and external organizational processes – one representing the...