In this paper we contribute to the research on the valuation of business process flexibility. Thisflexibility provides the ability for companies to select the most appropriate execution path for eachprocess instance at runtime from alternative execution paths. Therefore, we introduce a model...

The current financial crisis forces companies to allocate IT budgets more effectively and thusincreases the demand for suitable methods to evaluate the financial impact of IT investments. Thisespecially applies to service-orientation, a design paradigm which facilitates the standardisationand...

Financial consulting is a demanding task. Due to the complexity and fuzziness of customers’financial problems on the one hand and the amount of possible products that may be consideredto configure solutions to these problems on the other hand, an adequate DSS is essential. Amodel is presented...

Increasing importance of information andcommunication technologies (ICT), new regulatoryobligations (e.g. Basel II) and growing external risks(e.g. hacker attacks) put Security Risks in themanagement focus of banking companies. Themanagement has to decide whether to accept ExpectedLosses or to...

Due to the immateriality of financial services and products they lend themselves handsomely for sale on the WWW.This may be one of the main reasons why the financial services industry has gained a cutting edge in the net with respectto other industries. Thus, at the beginning of the third...

At the beginning of the new millennium, the financialservices market is experiencing a fundamental shift. Moretransparent and global markets through new means ofcommunication on the one hand and better informed andmore demanding customers on the other hand have led toa dramatically intensified...

Generally and especially in EC, customers are confronted with a greatvariety and quantity of products and / or services. However, the time and effort acustomer can spend on searching for his preferred products and deciding aboutthe most preferred one based on his needs and preferences is the...

Especially in the Financial Services Sector we can see a strategic shift towards implementing CustomerRelationship Management (CRM) strategies. The basic assumption of this strategies is that customers who are lockedinto a stable relationship will be willing to pay premiums and by this generate...

In a world of enormous technological developments and increasing competition between financial servicesproviders customer acquisition and customer retention becomes more and more important. In this paper the authorsuse a micro-economic model to analyze the circumstances when and why customers...