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In order to utilize the contemporary advanced technology, business processes need sound software support. With respect to this, one frequent cause of software project failure is the mismatch between the business requirements and the actual functionality of the delivered software application. To solve this problem, it is necessary to build software stemming out from a business process model. Aiming at aligning business process modeling and software design in a component-based way, the proposed ...

How to become a Member of the Board of Directors? This is a pertinent question for many ambitious people across the world. Yet few find the right answer and much less use that valuable information to become a Board Member. If the real goal of asking this question is not to become a board member then any time spent on the question is purely academic in nature. Moreover, if somebody simply wants to attend a board of directors meeting then that is a separate discussion. Here I am putti

Design thinking brings creative techniques to business. The only problem? No one can agree on how to teach its methods. It's a scary time to be a new graduate. But some seem more optimistic than others. Around the world, graduates are emerging from interdisciplinary master's programs that integrate design, technology, and business. These professionals are trained in "design thinking." Sure, it's the latest trendy term to sweep the business world, but it's a technique that designers ...

The wow isn't just about technology; it's about process flexibility and reuse that will enable enterprises to quickly serve new customers and launch new lines of business. By Peter Fingar Peter Fingar We are witnessing a seismic shift in information technology, the kind that comes around every decade or so, and it will have a huge impact on business -- especially in today's economy. First things first: What the hell is Cloud Computing? Definitions and opinions of cloud ...

By Jeffrey Schwartz - 07/02/2009 Organizations embarking on business process management need to bring in IT architects earlier in the process, according to a report released last week. Only 52 percent of organizations classified as leaders have enterprise architecture teams leading their BPM efforts, a Web survey of 135 enterprises, showed. Of those described as followers, only 31 percent had enterprise architects leading the efforts. Read more.....

by George W. Brown The Value Chain Group together with partners have developed approaches and methodologies to support the process of successfully aligning business and IT strategies, architecture, design, execution, monitoring and management of the processes. But there has still been a considerable amount of discussion about value chains and related concepts like value streams, value nets and related concepts by those involved in business process change. Read entire article....

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Rise in R&D expenditures now matches sales growth. North American headquartered companies led the way with a 13% increase; India & China are rapidly boosting their R&D investment, but their share of total spending remains small. Customer focus yields performance gains. NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Booz Allen Hamilton's (www.boozallen.com) third annual analysis of the world's 1,000 largest corporate R&D spenders, released today, finds that these corporations increased their R&D ...

Interoperability and choice are key factors driving strong Open XML adoption in Europe and the U.S. REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IT managers at large organizations are increasingly interested in employing XML-based standards, including Open XML, among their document standards, according to a study of U.S. and European organizations commissioned by Microsoft Corp. The results of the survey, which polled 200 government and private-sector organizations to better ...

Experts agree that business process management (BPM) is a good practice, but say it can be tough to make happen if the people within your organization are more data-focused than process-focused. Read more......

This week we want to focus on one single aspect of Business Process Management - what skills are required of Project Managers responsible for managing a Business Process Redesign Project. Specifically, we want to focus on what's required to assure that a Business Process Redesign project progresses smoothly and achieves its objectives. First of all, we need to distinguish between improvement projects and redesign projects. Improvement projects are undertaken to make an existing process ...

BPM Methodologies and Process Maturity A business process methodology is a formal description of a procedure that a team can follow to redesign or improve a business process. Some prefer to describe such a procedure as a "framework" to suggest that it provides an overall description of how to proceed, but avoids being too prescriptive. Since we tend to use the term "framework" to refer to a template ...

In this thought provoking article, Andrew Feller, Dan Shunk, and Tom Callarman consider the nature of value chains and supply chains and discuss how companies can synchronize the two to optimize business performance. Download PDF

Federation is the logical goal of identity infrastructures, but achieving it takes more than just technology March 24, 2006 For years, companies have kept stores of identity information about employees, customers, and partners. These databases and directories are critical components of a company's identity infrastructure. But as businesses push to create new products and increase productivity, they have discovered that they often must cooperate to provide the services their customers and ...

Supply chains are going global, yet most firms' systems are designed solely for domestic orders. It's been a difficult time for Larry Merritt, director of global logistics at Lexington Home Brands, in Lexington, N.C. In less than three years, the $167 million home furnishings company has completely changed its business model. "We've gone from being a manufacturer to being an importer," Merritt says. The reason? Globalization. Read more here.

Hello, Welcome to the Value Chain Group newsletter. This month we review the research programs underway validating the Value Chain Operations Reference (VCOR) model. We highlight the Metrics Classification research program at Arizona State University, and update you on the Federated Enterprise Reference Architechecture (FERA) progress and the Integrated Process and Technology Framework (IPTF) formulation. We hope you find this newsletter ...

The Paper opens by mapping the changes in the global auto industry in the 1990's showing how the rapid growth in sales and production between 1990 and 1997 came largely from the emerging markets rather than the triad regions (North America, the European Union and Japan). However, for some of these markets the downturn that followed was substantial and prolonged. More

Because of its resource and labour intensity, the wood furniture sector presents an opportunity for developing countries and their firms to participate effectively in the global economy. This paper begins with a brief description of the global wood furniture industry and highlights the importance of exports wood furniture products for developing countries and emergin and transitional economies. The paper then maps the wood furniture value chain ...More

The paper uses the global value chain framework to explain the transformations in production, trade and corporate strategies that altered the apparel industry over the past decades and changed the conditions for innovation and learning in the industry. The apparel industy is identified as a buyer-driven value chain...More