Cases on Information Technology Planning, Design and Implementation brings together a variety of real-life experiences showing how other companies and organizations have successfully, or not so successfully, planned, designed, and implemented different applications using information technology....

The pervasive use of technology in business organizations has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT governance. This book presents insight gained through literature reviews and case studies to provide practical guidance for organizations that want to start...

"This book describes original, innovative works on IT systems for mass customization, and provides a multitude of solutions, tools, concepts and successful realizations of IT systems for mass customization. It discusses state-of-the-art mass customization while depicting the importance of IT in...

Commercial systems built today are increasingly using XML technologies for storing any amount of text or data. This book collects the latest research for academicians and practitioners that describes the use and synergy between data structure technologies. It explores and investigates various...

This book provides models of various economic and financial issues while using computational intelligence as a foundation. The scope of this volume comprises finance, economics, management, organizational theory and public policies. It explains the ongoing and novel research in this field, and...

Data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) are emerging key technologies for enterprise decision support systems. They provide sophisticated technologies from data integration, data collection and retrieval, query optimization, and data analysis to advanced user interfaces. New...

The book presents state of the art knowledge about decision-making support systems (DMSS). Its main goals are to help diffuse knowledge about effective methods and strategies for successfully designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating decision-making support systems, and to create an...

"This book presents the most current research on existing and emergent trends on conceptual modeling and information systems engineering, bridging the gap between research and practice by providing a much-needed reference point on the design of software systems that evolve seamlessly to adapt to...

This book addresses flexibility of both business and information systems through component technology at the nexus of three seemingly unrelated disciplines: service-oriented architecture, knowledge management, and business process management. It presents research on agile, adaptive processes and...

Anti-foundational knowledge management / Tom Butler -- Aristotelian view of knowledge management / David G. Schwartz -- Biological and information systems approaches / Barry E. Atkinson and Frada Burstein -- Capability maturity / Alfs T. Berztiss -- Communities of practice / Elayne Coakes and...