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This book includes selected papers presented at World Conference on Information Systems for Business Management (ISBM 2022), held in Bangkok, Thailand, during September 2–3, 2022. It covers up-to-date cutting-edge research on data science, information systems, infrastructure and computational systems, engineering systems, business information systems, and smart secure systems.

‘Business transfer’ refers to the transfer of ownership and leadership from one or more outgoing owner-manager(s) to one or more incoming owner-manager(s). Apart from all the company's material assets, it presupposes that information, relationships, know-how and social capital are also transmitted from one to the other. While much of the research on entrepreneurship has focused on new business ventures, few studies have considered business transfers as an alternative way of embarking on entrep...

Accessibly designed to facilitate readers' understanding of important software and hardware issues. Contains task-oriented, project-by-project guidance for using a variety of software products to tackle everyday computer projects. Covers popular PC applications in word processing, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, databases, communications and operating systems. Includes an Emergency Appendix for software and hardware crises.

This work is a guide to both the technology and the business processes of conducting secure transactions on the World Wide Web. It provides information on the latest technologies, including digital cash, encryption protocols, and EDI and describes how Web transactions should be managed both on the Web and within your own organization.

ERP is an industry term used for an integrated multiple-module application software package, designed to give support to specific business processes for any organisation. ERP systems have revolutionized the working of organisations by integrating all departments onto a single computer. There is a growing emphasis on the development and implementation of ERP systems in organisations as business requirements change. For ERP to be a success, it must be seamlessly integrated with the organisational...

ITIL® and IT service management have been practised successfully around the world for more than 20 years. ITIL® is a framework for IT service management and provides best management practice to meet ISO/IEC 20k. The objective is to provide guidance for organisations that provide IT services. This guide introduces ITIL both to Foundation Examination candidates and to people simply looking to gain a practical understanding of IT service management. An ITIL® Licensed Product.

Security metrics is the application of quantitative, statistical, and/or mathematical analyses to measuring security functional trends and workload. In other words, tracking what each function is doing in terms of level of effort (LOE), costs, and productivity. Security metrics management is the managing of an assets protection program and related security functions through the use of metrics. It can be used where managerial tasks must be supported for such purposes as supporting the security pr...

Multinational corporations claim that their synergistic innovative capabilities-their ability to create and deploy innovations rapidly and successfully-have been enhanced by global R&D. But have they? In attempting to answer this question, the authors seemlessly integrate rigorous quantitative analysis-e.g., multivariate regression, factor analysis, and partial least squares analysis-with qualitative analysis of data from interviews and surveys.The data are provided by senior R&D executives in a...

For a one- or two-term course in Business Statistics at the undergraduate or graduate level.Thoroughly integrating the use of Microsoft Excel, this streamlined text on business statistics uses an applied approach that focuses on the concepts and applications of statistics to the functional areas of business-accounting, marketing, management, and economics and finance. Revised to increase the emphasis on concepts and applications and to more seamlessly integrate coverage on Microsoft Excel, it of...