Today’s organizations are struggling with increasing business process complexity and face serious problems when standardizing business processes. A possible strategy seems to be to enhance standardization efforts in order to ensure standardization success. In this paper, we analyze the...

Agile systems development (SD) is described as a cooperative game of invention and communication, in which teams are characterized by relying heavily on informal communication mechanisms such as face-to-face conversations. Our current state of knowledge about the actual communication process in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the management of supply chains within the construction industry. Supply chains in this sector evidence a marked tendency to waste and inefficiency. One approach to improving this situation, which is the subject of intense discussion by both...

Electronic Health (e-Health) increasingly strives to provide health information and services to healthcare stakeholders via the Internet, and to actively involve patients in their care. One major chance for these participatory healthcare and patient-centered approaches that integrate patients in...

Das Handbuch stellt speziell für Entscheidungsträger die Nutzungsmöglichkeiten von Data-Warehouse-Konzepten und Technologien vor. Neben den Data-Warehouse-Grundlagen werden vor allem die Einsatzgebiete, verfügbare Lösungen und praktische Erfahrungen beschrieben. Durch den kompakten...

Die Entwicklung von Führungsinformationssystemen (FIS) ist ein zentraler Untersuchungsgegenstand der Betriebswirtschaftslehre. Ebenso ist die Unterstützung von Führungsaufgaben wichtiger Bestandteil der Einführung von Informationssystemen. Jedoch scheitern auch heute noch zahlreiche Projekte...