Projects are a part of everyday life in an organization. Tools and procedures for project management are well understood and applied. However, the management of projects by an organization for substantial transformation is less certain in both practice and study. An awareness of how to manage increasingly complex projects, and collections of projects, to achieve the benefits of organizational transformation becomes ever more crucial in the implementation of new strategies. This book goes beyond a simple review of tools and techniques common in most publications of project management. We illustrate how the traditional practice of project management advances to handle the more complex problems inherent to strategic organizational transformation. The linkages among projects, operations, and the foundations of an organization provide a perspective of how an organization might pursue the difficult changes required of comprehensive transformation. The fashion in which the project world interacts with the executive world through successive layers of project management principles is prelude to operational benefits realization.

Today's information systems need to meet the challenges of increased regulation, clients' demand of customized products and services, and the accelerating speed at which business is conducted. Companies must manage thousands of business rules represented in software code, in database, in spreadsheets, and in paper-based policy manuals. A business process rules engine (BPRE) enables an organization to increase its agility and speed to adapt to business process changes, while increases rule transparency, flexibility, and accuracy of processing. The contribution of this book is the design, implementation, and evaluation of a novel BPRE that overcomes many of the implementation, validation, and maintenance problems associated with large monolithic rule repositories. The design adopts a database approach and an innovative and efficient database rule match algorithm. The evaluation of the BPRE artifact comes from user surveys that help uncover the business values and the issues relating to user acceptance of a business process rules engine. The design has been successfully implemented in a large financial services organization.

Explores global m-commerce strategies and technological standards, and provides cases of the subject from a global perspective.

Digital government is a new frontier of the development of electronic commerce. Electronic Government Strategies and Implementation is a timely piece to address the issues involved in strategically implementing digital government, which is a collection of high-quality papers that covers the various aspects of digital government strategic issues and implementations from the perspectives of both developed and developing countries. This book combines e-government implementation experiences from both developed and developing countries, and is useful to researchers and practitioners in the area as well as instructors teaching courses related to digital government and/or electronic commerce.

Digital government is a new frontier of the development of electronic commerce. Electronic Government Strategies and Implementation is a timely piece to address the issues involved in strategically implementing digital government, which is a collection of high-quality papers that covers the various aspects of digital government strategic issues and implementations from the perspectives of both developed and developing countries. This book combines e-government implementation experiences from both developed and developing countries, and is useful to researchers and practitioners in the area as well as instructors teaching courses related to digital government and/or electronic commerce.