The Link between BPR, Evolutionary Delivery and Evolutionary Development

In this paper we intend to show how the challenges of managing a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project are consistent with the ones of a Systems Development project. As traditional management techniques were no longer appropriate in the changing business environment, companies employed BPR to achieve elevated business performance. Similarly, as traditional systems development approaches delivered disappointing results, system developers experimented with other models, including Evolutionary Delivery and Evolutionary Development, in order to enable successful technology exploitation by businesses. Both these business and systems initiatives embrace elements of cultural change, management flexibility, empowerment, organisational readiness, and technology introduction in a changing environment. We will present the similarities of the two initiatives and show how progress in one initiative could contribute in the progress of the other

Making the market: How U.S. Policy influences near term agriculture and biofuel industry production and profitability under technology adoption

The beneficiaries of technology adoption in agriculture and biofuels markets in the United States are heavily influenced by domestic biofuel policies and market context. Biofuel mandates, one of the key pillars of domestic biofuel policies, may significantly alter the elasticity of demand for biofuels as well as the derived demand for maize used to produce a significant share of ethanol in the United States. Using a stochastic agriculture and biofuels model, we assess how the introduction of technology may affect the crops and biofuel markets under binding and non-binding biofuel mandates and discuss the implications for analysis of EU biofuel policies.biofuels, policy, technology adoption, mandates, Agricultural and Food Policy, Farm Management, Land Economics/Use,

MIS 301 Introduction to Management Information Systems

Course syllabus for MIS 301 Introduction to Management Information Systems Course description: Provides an overview of business data processing and management information systems. Covers introductory concepts of computer technology, nature of computer application in business systems analysis techniques, and problem solving. Includes introduction to and use of Basic computer programming for business related problems

MIS 301 Introduction to Management Information Systems

Course syllabus for MIS 301 Introduction to Management Information Systems Course description: Provides an overview of business data processing and management information systems. Covers introductory concepts of computer technology, nature of computer application in business systems analysis techniques, and problem solving. Includes introduction to and use of Basic computer programming for business related problems