1. Today's IT environment -- 2. Critical success factors for IT projects -- 3. Project selection and initiation -- 4. The project management discipline -- 5. The software engineering discipline -- 6. Project overall planning -- 7. Developing the schedule and cost plan -- 8. Risk planning and...

"This book brings together academic research and professional practice to examine the complexity of implementing technology into the structure and organization of a corporation's ventures"--Provided by publisher.

Analyzing an information system through knowledge’s point of view causes a change that, inevitably, engenders the awareness of the importance of the human and sociocultural dimensions to improve its performances. This chapter, based on a Model for Global Knowledge Management within the...

A dynamic approach to introduce competency frameworks: application to the IT & systems management domain / Alfonso Urquiza Echavarren -- Project managers' competence identification / Heli Aramo-Immonen ... [et al.] -- The determinants of information technology wages / Jing ("Jim") Quan ... [et...

"This book bridges the gap between knowledge management and project management practices by providing both classical and modern views on their relationship, discussing principles, practices, methods, and real case studies"--Provided by publisher

This paper aims at analysing the differences between two major research fields: Economic intelligence and knowledge management. A framework showing the complementarities between those two fields is set up. After a literature review on those two fields we explain that economic intelligence and...

"This book discusses the recent developments in open source GIS in terms of addition of new geospatial tools, development platforms, software libraries, wide ranging applications etc. in context of desktop as well as web versions. The comprehensive details of efforts of developer communities...

"This book disseminates current technological innovations and applications in the emerging field of information systems and informatics applications in the healthcare industry while directing frameworks to advancing healthcare and clinical practices and research"--Provided by publisher.

The Internet is already more widely deployed than any other computing system in history and continues to grow rapidly. New technologies, including high speed wide area network and improved software support for distribution, promise to make the Internet much more useful for general purpose...

"This book presents the latest research in healthcare information systems design, development, and deployment,investigating topics such as clinical education, electronic medical records, clinical decision support systems, and IT adoption in healthcare"--Provided by publisher.