Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 106 Issue 4

A knowledge management approach for managing uncertainty in manufacturing

S.C.L. Koh, A. Gunasekaran

This paper proposes a knowledge management approach for managing uncertainty in manufacturing enterprises.

Operations strategy and flexibility: modeling with Bayesian classifiers

María M. Abad‐Grau, Daniel Arias‐Aranda

Information analysis tools enhance the possibilities of firm competition in terms of knowledge management. However, the generalization of decision support systems (DSS) is still…

Justifying investment in advanced manufacturing technology: a portfolio analysis

Michael H. Small

This paper seeks to present the results of an investigation on the justification of investments in advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) at manufacturing plants in the USA…

The process‐wide information organism approach for the business process analysis

Ray Tsaih, Wan‐Ying Lin

To manage linkages amongst value activities, this study seeks to explore to a greater extent the underlying information‐processing infrastructure of the value chain, and then to…

Categorizing web features and functions to evaluate commercial web sites: An assessment framework and an empirical investigation of Australian companies

Wayne Huang, Taowen Le, X. Li, S. Gandha

To propose an assessment framework that can be used to categorise and assess commercial web sites from the perspective of web‐technological features and functions and to…

Contextual problem detection and management during software execution in complex environments

Jae Sun Kim, Sooyong Park, Vijayan Sugumaran

From the point of view of computing environments, the paper aims to present a goal‐based contextual problem detection and management (GCPDM) method whose core benefit in its…

Contracting for implementation of standard software

Michael Robey, Donald Coney, Rainer A. Sommer

Traditional contract vehicles do not align well with enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation methodologies. The purpose of this paper is to identify different contract…

An integrated framework for continuous improvement on user satisfaction of information systems

Ying‐Lien Lee, Sheue‐Ling Hwang, Eric Min‐Yang Wang

The primary purpose of this paper is to present an integrated framework for user interface prototyping and evaluation for the development of information systems and to present…