To remain competitive many businesses in the 1990s have undertaken business process re‐engineering (BPR) projects re‐organizing and re‐structuring their business operations. At the same time the need for an IT business solution has enabled integrated business packages such as SAP’s R/2...

To remain competitive many businesses in the 1990s have undertaken business process reengineering projects reorganising one or more parts of their operations. This paper results from a case study of the enterprise‐wide review of Mobil Oil Australia Limited to increase profitability and change...

The alternative to using source lines of code (SLOC) for costing software projects is to use function points. Functional point analysis (FPA), which was first introduced in 1979, has now been widely accepted as the industry standard for estimating software size and costs. International standard...

Business process reengineering (BPR) and total quality management (TQM) both emphasise the benefits that a process orientated view of company operations can bring. Acquiring a clear definition of the “as‐is” business process and developing an understanding about how the process may be...

The adoption of Gov2.0 is intended to be an efficient and effective way of reaching digital citizens where they are, thereby facilitating the dissemination of information and enabling citizen participation. Since citizens are actively using Web2.0 tools and applications in their social lives, it...

"The expected time- and risk-adjusted cumulative return on any asset equals one at all horizons. Nonetheless, I show that a typical asset's realized time- and risk-adjusted cumulative return tends to zero almost surely. As a corollary, the value of a typical long-dated asset is driven by extreme...