Die Verlagerung von On-Premise Infrastruktur und Workflows in die Cloud ist schon lange kein Trend mehr, sondern eine gängige und notwendige Unternehmenspraxis. Die Covid-19 Pandemie hat vielen Unternehmen gezeigt, was für eine zentrale Rolle die Nutzung von Cloud-Services heutzutage spielt....

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Journal of Strategic Information Systems , published by and copyright Elsevier.

There are more requirements for business to be able to run its operations successfully in terms of legal compliance and revenue streams optimisations. Businesses are placing high demands on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to adapt to changing conditions. However, ICT organisations...

Change is inevitable for any organisation to ensure effectiveness and to stay competitive in today's business environment. Change should be managed proficiently to ensure that the required outcomes are achieved. Conversations with employees of ABSA Bank in the Northern Cape region revealed that...

Diversity initiatives have evolved from a focus on compliance-oriented training to a systematic approach which integrates the many dimensions of diversity in all aspects of business to enhance performance through the practice of organization development (OD) (Bendick, Egan, & Lofhjelm, 2001)....

Purpose – Although there is substantial practitioner evidence for changes in therole and functioning of sales in the twenty-first century, there is littleacademic research charting new directions for the sales function in a business-to-business context. This paper aims to report on four case...

The strategy and change management fields have developed new perspectives in recentyears. Studies show that a high percentage of strategic change efforts fail and it wasargued that one problem was the unsuccessful communication of the vision and strategyto employees. This exploratory research...

The paper aims to question the post-rational observations and traditional constructions of strategy in terms of what they achieve and what they fail to achieve, and seeks to reconstruct strategy as a multi-dimensional, dynamic concept. For this purpose, the study uses and interrelates the...

Architecting and implementing e-Business supply chain solutions across and within the modern day enterprise, is now becoming a necessity in order to maintain competitive and be adaptable to market needs. As such, the integration of information and processes is a vital step, using technologies...

Information Systems (IS’s) have provided organisations with huge efficiency gains and benefits over the years; however an outstanding problem that is yet to be successfully tackled is that of the troublesome maintenance phase. Consuming vast resources and thwarting business progression in a...