Showing papers on "Business process modeling published in 1974"

An interactive business definition system

Abstract: This paper presents a structured approach for describing business applications and a programming language that embodies the approach. This language provides business oriented building blocks for formally specifying the applications. The language is the nucleus of a Business Definition System in which users define their problems by interacting with application models in a question-answer mode.

Computer science education in business schools

Abstract: In 1969, the Business School of Georgia State University (GSU) initiated a new program of study leading to the degree Master of Business Information Systems (MBIS). The program has gone through a series of refinements in order to better fulfill its primary objective of developing business systems designers and information analysts who would be responsible for designing, implementing and evaluating computer based information systems in organizations. The lack of a model that may be used for constructing a suitable curriculum led the author to the development of a goal oriented approach for designing curricula. It provides a systematic way of designing a curriculum for an evolving multidimensional field like computer science. This paper describes the factors that led to the development of this approach and its practical advantages.

Planning for State Business

Abstract: The Minister The general relationship between a nationalised industry and the Government rests, first, on the statutory position and, second, on the Minister's inescapable general responsibility for the industry and accountability to Parliament for its efficiency. Statutorily, the Minister appoints the industry's Board; he must approve its organisation, development plans and research programmes; he settles its financial objective and, if it is an industry with public dividend capital, the dividend to be paid; he provides its development capital or agrees to its being borrowed elsewhere; and he approves the uses to which its reserve funds are put. Given that list of responsibilities and the fact that the industry is publicly-owned, it is clear that the Minister cannot escape some answerability for its efficiency and general performance. Moreover, the whole concept of a nationalised industry is that it is a business which is to be operated, not just by reference to its own commercial interests, important though commercial operation is, but also with regard to the wider interests of the nation as a whole. Indeed, many of