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This book seeks to promote the structured, standardized and accurate use of software measurement at all levels of modern software development companies. To do so, it focuses on seven main aspects:  sound scientific foundations, cost-efficiency, standardization, value-maximization, flexibility, combining organizational and technical aspects, and seamless technology integration. Further, it supports companies in their journey from manual reporting to automated decision support by combining academi...

The book investigates the determinants which are influencing the acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) in an organizational context, focusing on the German financial services industry. An AI-specific acceptance model is being developed based on technology acceptance models as well as being enriched with practical insights from industry experts. Ultimately, the acceptance of artificial intelligence is influenced by multiple, interrelated variables, which can be classified into five major dim...

Das Buch adressiert die zwei Themen Erstellung ressourceneffizienter Software sowie den ressourceneffizienten Betrieb von Software. Für die Mehrheit aller Unternehmen in Deutschland sind bei der Entwicklung von Software die Dimensionen „in budget“, „in time“ und „in function“ wichtig. Die Dimension „in climate“ gewinnt vor dem Hintergrund der Klima- und der Energiekrise stark an Bedeutung. Dabei muss die Dimension „in climate“ nicht im Kontrast zu den anderen Dimensionen stehen. Bei näherer Betr...

This books brings readers a holistic understanding of blockchain adoption in healthcare by not only considering the technical fundamentals of use cases, but also the regulatory, informational and organizational challenges and solutions. The book also provides frameworks and toolkits to manage the entire life cycle of adoption, including analysing the environment and feasibility, application design from a user-centred perspective, and implementation strategies that would overcome organizational a...

This book presents ten essays that examine the potential of digital responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The essays explore new digital concepts for learning and teaching, provide an overview of organizational responses to the crisis through digital technologies, and examine digital solutions developed to manage the crisis. Scientists from many disciplines work together in the fight against the virus and its numerous consequences. This book explores how information systems researchers can contrib...

The papers presented in this volume advance the state-of-the-art research on digital marketing and social media, mobile computing and responsive web design, semantic technologies and recommender systems, augmented and virtual reality, electronic distribution and online travel reviews, MOOC and eLearning, eGovernment and sharing economy. This book covers the most significant areas contributed by prominent scholars from around the world and is suitable for both academics and practitioners who are...

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to Integrated Business Planning (IBP), building on practitioner’s experience and showcasing the value gains when moving from disconnected planning to IBP. It also proposes a road map for the transformation of planning, including technological initiatives, business priorities and organizational processes, and demonstrates how to motivate different IBP stakeholders to work together, when and how to connect strategic (to be understood as long term SC&...

This book offers an in-depth and systematic introduction to improved failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) methods for proactive healthcare risk analysis. Healthcare risk management has become an increasingly important issue for hospitals and managers. As a prospective reliability analysis technique, FMEA has been widely used for identifying and eliminating known and potential failures in systems, designs, products or services. However, the traditional FMEA has a number of weaknesses when app...

This is a guide to One-Write Plus, the small-business accounting package. The book is designed for beginning, intermediate and advanced users of the program and shows how the program can be used to set up a business, prepare invoices, balance cheque books, pay bills and taxes, set up a payroll, take care of accounts payable and receivable, prepare a general ledger, and prepare balance, income and cash flow statements.

This is the second in a three-part series that points out the management and implementation issues associated with applying information engineering within an organization. Book II presents a blueprint for implementing information engineering in a corporate or government environment.

92421-7 The first best-practices guide to organizing and managing global software teams. Examine what drives global teams apart and what keeps them together. Covers technical, procedural, managerial, and cultural issues Includes real-world global case studies. Software development is tough enough when it's done locally - but it's even tougher when you're trying to manage cultural, language, and time-zone differences too. In Global Software Teams, expert consultant Erran Carmel brings together th...

"Business on Demand" provides thought-provoking information and sound technology advice that will enable IT practitioners to build a world-class On Demand infrastructure. This book borrows from the lessons learned in IBM's successful implementation of a working Business on Demand framework to teach readers how to implement successfully within their own organization. The book includes innovative perspectives on the strategies and technologies required to deliver effective Business on Demand capab...

This text enjoys a strong loyalty among instructors who adopt it. Focusing on the role of managers within an organization, the text emphasizes the development of computer-based information systems to support an organization's objectives and strategic plans. The General Systems Model is, introduced in Chapter 6, and implemented throughout the rest of the text.

It is notoriously difficult to measure work in management, professional, and service roles, where management can’t quantify the number of units produced, and repetition of work occurs only on much longer cycle times. Nevertheless, you must make accurate measurements to correctly size your organization--and current economic uncertainty makes this even more critical. In Manpower Requirements for Management and Professional Personnel, Frank A. Tillman and Deandra T. Cassone present an exceptionally...

Training, systems support, backup and maintenance account for nearly 80% of the total cost of today's enterprise applications -- and much of that money is spent trying to squeeze increased availability out of applications in spite of weak design and management processes. In High Availability: Design, Techniques and Processes, two leading IT experts bring together "best practices" for every people and process-related issue associated with maximizing application availability. The goal: to help ent...

It is a complete training in digital communications in the same book with all the aspects involved in such training: courses, tutorials with many typical problems targeted with detailed solutions, practical work concretely illustrating various aspects of technical implementation implemented. It breaks down into three parts. The Theory of information itself, which concerns both the sources of information and the channels of its transmission, taking into account the errors they introduce in the tr...

Das Buch bietet einen praxisorientierten Überblick zu Implementierung und Betrieb von RPA-Lösungen. Es beleuchtet Prozessautomatisierung aus verschiedenen Perspektiven, um die vielschichtige Thematik umfassend zu verstehen: Von der Software-Einführung durch ein IT-Beratungsunternehmen über den Industriekonzern als Betreiber bis zum Anwalt für IT-Rechtsfragen. Neben Vorgehensmodellen zur Einführung von RPA werden Erfolgsfaktoren für den Betrieb und zahlreiche Praxisbeispiele vorgestellt. Grundlag...

This book analyses the role of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence (BI) systems in improving information quality through an empirical analysis carried out in Italy. The study begins with a detailed examination of ERP features that highlights the advantages and disadvantages of ERP adoption. Critical success factors for ERP implementation and post-implementation are then discussed, along with the capabilities of ERP in driving the alignment between management accounting a...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the older-tourist market, and of the challenges and opportunities created by population ageing from a tourism marketing perspective, by combining a demand-side and a supply-side approach to older tourists. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which defines older tourists and presents a critical review of segmentation approaches. The second part then focuses on the behavior of older tourists in terms of the travel planning process, the use...

This book explores how enterprises adapt to challenges in their business environments. It focuses on the critical elements within organisations that every executive must address in order to remain competitive. It takes a pluralist approach in trying to broaden our knowledge on organisational adaptations. It also offers an exploratory delve into existing literature of organisational study. This is biased for content, context and process framework and processual analytic approach in order to ident...

Der enorme Kostendruck in Industrieunternehmen sowie der erkennbare Wandel der Wertschöpfungsketten hin zu Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken werden die Bedeutung der Beschaffung auf den Unternehmenserfolg sowie die Komplexität der Beschaffungsaufgaben noch weiter erhöhen. Diese Herausforderung kann nur durch den verstärkten Einsatz geeigneter, prozessorientierter Informationstechnologie bei der Beschaffung direkter Güter bewältigt werden. Dieses Buch bietet durch die Darstellung des State-of-the-Art und...