"This book is a valuable addition to the reading list of executives, managers, and staff in business, government, and other sectors who seek to keep their enterprises agile and efficient as they manage change, implement new business processes and supporting technologies, and pursue important...

"This book provides the conceptual and methodological foundations that reflect interdisciplinary concerns regarding research in management information systems, investigating the future of management information systems by means of analyzing a variety of MIS and service-related concepts in a wide...

Enterprise systems outsourcing "behind the curtain": a case study showing how rational and institutional explanations coexist and complement each other / Per Svejvig, Jan Pries-Heje -- The influence of organisational size, internal IT capabilities, and competitive and vendor pressures on ERP...

"The authors address Agile/Virtual Enterprises as a new organizational paradigm, highly dynamic reconfigurable agile networks of independent enterprises sharing all resources, including knowledge, market, customers, etc., and using specific organizational architectures that introduce the...

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...

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...

"This collection compiles research to drive further evolution and innovation of these next-generation technologies and their applications, of which the scientific, technological, and commercial communities have only begun to scratch the surface. It is an essential reference acquisition for any...

"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...

Mountains of business data are piling up in organizations every day. These organizations collect data from multiple sources, both internal and external. These sources include legacy systems, customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning applications, online and e-commerce...