This book reports on accounting and other information methods to assess performance in business processes . It discusses the impact of the IT revolution on the accounting function, and indicates the process of IT investment and its advantages and limitations.

This book considers transformations within the context of computing science and information science, as they are essential in changing organizations. It not only considers transformations of structured models, rather, the transformation of instances (i.e. the actual contents of those structures)...

"This book focuses on the challenges of distributed systems imposed by the data intensive applications, and on the different state-of-the-art solutions proposed to overcome these challenges"--Provided by publisher.

"This book provides organizations with insights into practical and applied solutions, frameworks, technologies and practices on technological and organizational factors in information security"--Provided by publisher.

"This book highlights the rising trends and studies in the information technology field, offering interesting perspectives on common problems as well as suggestions for future improvement"--Provided by publisher.

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....

Corporations across the globe are increasingly considering the importance of user experience and business process design in creation of Web information systems. This book provides an overview of modern Web application technologies useful to business designers. It presents information...

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...

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...

The evaluation of IT and its business value are recently the subject of many academic and business discussions, as business managers, management consultants and researchers regularly question whether and how the contribution of IT to business performance can be evaluated effectively. Investments...