Business processes and goals change rapidly due to the turbulent environment in which they operate. Their supporting and underpinning technologies may, as a result, require to change. Meanwhile, technological advances are being made at an increasing rate. This may trigger changes in business goals and processes to exploit these new advances; a notable example is e-commerce and e-learning. Understanding and analysing the interplay and the dual effect between these two entities, technologies and

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... usiness, is vital both for the prosperity of business and the success and further development of the technologies themselves. This paper proposes the K-Mediator framework together with its underpinning theory to facilitate the co-evolution between businesses and their supporting technologies.