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This issue of ISM examines today's E-business opportunities and begins with a look at the lessons learned from well-known E-business successes and failures. This article examines the leaders and losers in E-business and lists the factors that have contributed to success and failure. One important finding is that most successes leveraged existing knowledge and strategies for their entry into cyber-markets.

The risks of large-scale business redesign are well known, but they can be reduced through enterprise modeling, a tool that allows strategic planners to assess an organization's current position before establishing the means to accomplish goals and objectives. This article analyzes the capabilities of enterprise modeling as a diagnostic tool in support of strategic business engineering.

Image processing can be a great asset to business process reengineering. This article examines image processing's impact on work flow and lists the questions every IS manager should ask before implementing imaging technology.

Company CIOs typically come from the rank-and-file of the data processing department and as such, they have a tendency to view themselves in a technical support role. However, the CIO is a senior executive who should devote more of his talents towards long-term strategic planning instead of day-to-day operations. A brief overview of how the CIO can function in the organization is presented.

'You're either moving forward or moving backward. You can't stand stilt.' On Moving Forward and Hearing It Face-to-Face Mike Gibson's company has been around for 138 years, and it's now [...]

CASE: Clarifying Common Misconceptions There have been many articles and books published describing computer-aided software engineering (CASE). Recently, some of this literature has sought to explain integrated computer-aided software engineering […]

A new technology has emerged in recent years to assist in modeling all facets of a business enterprise and in the design and development of information systems. This technology, computer-aided software engineering (CASE), has caused much confusion in the IS community about its exact purpose. This article provides a detailed definition of CASE, distinguishes between CASE and integrated CASE (ICASE), and provides several strategies for ICASE implementation.

A Guide To Selecting CASE Tools The ever-growing array of CASE products presents a potential buyer with a dizzying number of choices. The following questions constitute a comprehensive set of […]

Discusses the use of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) in strategic business management. Advantages of using CASE in business; Description of the joint application design (JAD) technique and the joint assessment, strategy, planning (JASP) technique; Linkage between CASE products and other CASE vendors; Corporate information available to all CASE tools.