eBPS: A Strategic Framework for Successful Blueprint of E-Business Development

Today’s rapidly evolving e-Business environment demands a higher level of collaboration and integration within the enterprise and throughout the extended trading network. Many software vendors have proposed e-solution for e-Marketplace that optimize business processes and link trading partners via the web. However, understanding how to integrate e-Marketplaces with back-end business processes to capture the advantages of supplier relationship management, supply chain integration, pricing and revenue optimization and customer management relationship is not sufficient. Over the past few years, leading companies are aiming for a leadership position with regard to electronic Business (e-Business) in their own industries. They are targeting for the position of being the e-Sponsor rather than being the e-Partner in their portal. In virtual market with global trading via cyberspace, giant enterprises are encountering many obstacles in even starting to convert their traditional business model to an e-Business model. It is therefore important to address the Business to Business (B2B) e-Commerce successful factors initially and how they pose challenges for multinational organisations. This paper focuses on the planning issues in managing an e-Business initiative and proposes an eBPS (e-Business Partners System) model for strategic planning of e-Business project in a multinational company. This model provides a framework to for organizing a design plan of a customer-effective B2B e-Store

Platforming Gamification as a Means of Engagement in Employee Recruitment and Onboarding

Gamification, generally understood as the application of game elements and design concepts in non-game contexts, is a field of academic study and multibillion-dollar business tool whose popularity is growing as a means of employee engagement, education and training, and talent selection. While there are companies that attempt to gamify separate processes within the employee life cycle, no company exists that gamifies the stages surrounding talent selection: attraction and recruitment of applicants and onboarding of final candidates. To this end, this thesis proposes a software and consulting company, GameON Business Solutions, that will work with small and medium enterprises to expand and diversify the talent pool and prepare new employees for working at the company

Perioperative Patient Transparency and Accountability via Integrated Hospital Information Systems

The push for value-driven healthcare has resulted in numerous calls for increased transparency and accountability across thehealthcare industry. This paper provides an a priori perspective to perioperative process transparency and accountabilitywithin a hospital environment by describing, examining, and discussing case-study research across a hospital’s perioperativeand auxiliary services. Based on a 66-month longitudinal study of a large 909 registered-bed teaching hospital, this paperinvestigates how the complexity of technological change dynamics, integrated information systems, and a patient-centricperspective contribute toward opportunities for patient transparency and accountability within a hospital’s perioperativeprocesses. This paper also provides theoretical and practical implications, as well as study limitations

ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks: a literature review

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation is a complex and vibrant process, one that involves a combination of technological and organizational interactions. Often an ERP implementation project is the single largest IT project that an organization has ever launched and requires a mutual fit of system and organization. Also the concept of an ERP implementation supporting business processes across many different departments is not a generic, rigid and uniform concept and depends on variety of factors. As a result, the issues addressing the ERP implementation process have been one of the major concerns in industry. Therefore ERP implementation receives attention from practitioners and scholars and both, business as well as academic literature is abundant and not always very conclusive or coherent. However, research on ERP systems so far has been mainly focused on diffusion, use and impact issues. Less attention has been given to the methods used during the configuration and the implementation of ERP systems, even though they are commonly used in practice, they still remain largely unexplored and undocumented in Information Systems research. So, the academic relevance of this research is the contribution to the existing body of scientific knowledge. An annotated brief literature review is done in order to evaluate the current state of the existing academic literature. The purpose is to present a systematic overview of relevant ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks as a desire for achieving a better taxonomy of ERP implementation methodologies. This paper is useful to researchers who are interested in ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks. Results will serve as an input for a classification of the existing ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks. Also, this paper aims also at the professional ERP community involved in the process of ERP implementation by promoting a better understanding of ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks, its variety and history

E-Commerce Adoption by Small and Medium Enterprises in Nigeria

The future survival of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is inextricably linked to their implementation of e-commerce systems. The lack of e-commerce strategies among SME business owners has contributed to a low level of e-commerce adoption by SMEs. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the strategies that Nigerian SME business owners used to implement e-commerce systems. The population consisted of retail SMEs in Lagos, Nigeria, that have functional e-commerce systems. The conceptual framework supporting the study was dynamic capabilities framework. Data for the study were derived from semistructured interviews of 4 SME business owners/managers and documentation from the case companies. Data analysis entailed coding of the interview transcripts and analysis of documentary data to identify themes. Member checking and triangulation ensured the credibility of the study. The main themes that emerged from data analysis include service delivery strategies, dynamic marketing strategies, and learning and adaptation. The implications for social change include the potential to contribute to increased wealth creation opportunities for the business owners, their employees, and the local communities in Nigeria

“I’d like to thank the Academy”: an analysis of the awards discourse at the Atlantic Schools of Business conference

The awarding of prizes has become embedded in all aspects of our society, including academic conferences. This paper views the awards discourse at the Atlantic Schools of Business Conference through a poststructural lens with an eye to understanding how the presentation of awards at the conference can aid in, or possibly detract from, the continued success of this long-lasting, unique, and much-loved academic event