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Magister Commercii (Information Management) - MCom(IM) / Managerial decision-making has always involved the use of numerous distinct information resources. Modern managerial decision-making processes require a wealth of information that is enhanced and transformed into knowledge in order to take effective action. Mobility in business is increasingly exercising influence on core business processes of organisations. The shift to wireless technologies coupled with the rapid growth of mobile devices in business has led to a new era in business computing. Mobile Business Intelligence (Mobile BI) is a system that has been conceived to assist, accelerate and to enhance the managerial decision-making processes. This thesis focuses on the e ect of Mobile BI on managerial decision-making. This thesis was able to answer the research question and to meet the research objectives through an extensive study of literature on the two most important spheres of influence i.e Business Intelligence and Managerial decision-making. Moreover, the objectives were met through the implementation of practical empirical research. The latter was carried out through a survey research design using questionnaire method of data collection. This research produced an number of ndings. The results indicated that Mobile BI played an important influencing role in the way managers make decisions. This study found that Mobile BI improved the quality of decisions made by managers used it for decision support subsequently improving performance of the organisation. Overall, four factors were found to be the predictors of Mobile BI for managerial decision making in organisations: Perceived Ease of Use of Mobile BI, Attitudes towards Use of Mobile BI, Perceived Value of Mobile BI with Behavioural Intention to Use of Mobile BI emerging as the most important predictors of Managerial Organisational decision-making.

Em âmbito global, o ambiente em que as organizações estão inseridas vem apresentando mudanças cada vez mais complexas, caracterizadas por exigências cada vez maiores em termos de rapidez, qualidade, baixo custo, flexibilidade e satisfação do cliente. Nesse novo contexto – do qual as organizações do Brasil certamente não estão excluídas – o sucesso de uma organização reside na sua capacidade de responder à essas exigências por meio da contínua inovação em seus produtos, serviços e processos, a fim de criar vantagem competitiva sustentável. Este trabalho busca explorar uma das estratégias utilizadas para obter essa vantagem: a Reengenharia de Processos do Negócio – RPN. / Throughout the world, the environment organizations are inserted has been showing more and more complex changes featuring bigger and bigger demands in terms of speed, quality, low cost, flexibility and customer’s satisfaction. In this new context – which Brazilian organizations are certainly not excluded of – the success of an organization resides in its ability to respond to such demands through a continuous innovation of its products, services and processes in order to create a sustainable competitive advantage. This work aims at exploring one of the strategies that is used to obtain such advantage: The Business Process Reengineering – BPR.

The thesis is focused on the description of the method for the selection of the information system for the company KOPS spol. Ltd. The work is based on theoretical knowledge for a proper understanding of the issue. In the next part, an analysis of the current state of the company is performed, while monitoring the factors influencing the company and especially the information system. The last part describes the procedure for selecting a system and the possibilities of its implementation to the company.

The master thesis is focusing on modelling and optimizing of business processes. The selected group of processes is oriented to software development area. As the result of the analysis, problematic issues of processes are revealed. The optimizing of processes is primary focused on reducing total performance time of processes and related costs.

In business environments, information systems are required to change in response to changes in business processes. We refer to this process as co-evolution: the process of reciprocal change in a software system and the activities and goals of the system's users. This research focuses on improving task modelling techniques to support the co-evolution of information systems and business processes.</p><p>We propose the Interaction Template approach to improve task modelling to support co-evolution. Interaction Templates make the task modelling process less tedious in both the design phase and the evolution phase of a system's lifecycle. Our approach adds data schemas and presentation components to task models, allowing us to build task models that adapt to data elements and parameters. Binding presentation components to task models allows us to generate user interface prototypes from task models. The generated user interface prototypes improve task model simulation and help make the effects of changes to business processes more clear.</p><p> This thesis describes a study of the seven year evolution of a real world information system. Through this study, we gain a better understanding of how information systems evolve in response to the evolution of an organization's business processes. This thesis presents the Interaction Template approach, as well as a notation for specifying Interaction Templates. A prototype system supporting the Interaction Template approach is provided, along with examples demonstrating the approach.</P>

In business environments, information systems are required to change in response to changes in business processes. We refer to this process as co-evolution: the process of reciprocal change in a software system and the activities and goals of the system's users. This research focuses on improving task modelling techniques to support the co-evolution of information systems and business processes.</p><p>We propose the Interaction Template approach to improve task modelling to support co-evolution. Interaction Templates make the task modelling process less tedious in both the design phase and the evolution phase of a system's lifecycle. Our approach adds data schemas and presentation components to task models, allowing us to build task models that adapt to data elements and parameters. Binding presentation components to task models allows us to generate user interface prototypes from task models. The generated user interface prototypes improve task model simulation and help make the effects of changes to business processes more clear.</p><p> This thesis describes a study of the seven year evolution of a real world information system. Through this study, we gain a better understanding of how information systems evolve in response to the evolution of an organization's business processes. This thesis presents the Interaction Template approach, as well as a notation for specifying Interaction Templates. A prototype system supporting the Interaction Template approach is provided, along with examples demonstrating the approach.</P>

TCG is a small real estate investment and property management company that seeks to go through a lean transformation to simplify and improve its processes. The main purpose for any business developing a lean business structure is to focus organizational resources on eliminating waste and optimize business processes to become more productive. The main objective of this thesis will be to identify problem areas in TCG’s property management process and provide an improvement plan based on lean methodologies. In addition, this thesis will propose a five-year financial plan based on TCG’s current financial state as well as new capital investments and process improvement goals. / text

Database systems maintain integrity of the stored information by ensuring that modifications to the database comply with constraints designed by the administrators. As the number of users and applications sharing a common database increases, so does the complexity of the set of constraints that originate from higher level business processes. The lack of a systematic mechanism for integrating and reasoning about a diverse set of evolving and potentially interfering policies manifested as database level constraints makes corporate policy management within relational systems a chaotic process. In this thesis we present a systematic method of mapping a broad set of process centric business policies onto database level constraints. We exploit the observation that the state of a database represents the union of all the states of every ongoing business process and thus establish a bijective relationship between progression in individual business processes and changes in the database state space. We propose graphical notations that are equivalent to integrity constraints specified in linear temporal logic of the past. Furthermore we demonstrate how this notation can accommodate a wide array of workflow patterns, can allow for multiple policy makers to implement their own process centric constraints independently using their own logical policy models, and can model check these constraints within the database system to detect potential conflicting constraints across several different business processes. A major contribution of this thesis is that it bridges several different areas of research including database systems, temporal logics, model checking, and business workflow/policy management to propose an accessible method of integrating, enforcing, and reasoning about the consequences of process-centric constraints embedded in database systems. As a result, the task of ensuring that a database continuously complies with evolving business rules governed by hundreds of processes, which is traditionally handled by an army of database programmers regularly updating triggers and batch procedures, is made easier, more manageable, and more predictable.