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 book brings together compelling content related to the continually emerging technologies in areas of information systems such as Web services, electronic commerce, distance learning, healthcare, business process management, and software development. Focusing on the implications innovative...

"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...

This book emphasizes the importance of validation and verification in the modernization of systems that are critical to safety, security, and economic profits. Containing integration analyses to control the evolution of legacy systems towards object oriented technologies, this publication...

"This book is a compilation of advanced research results in architecture and modeling issues of multi-agent systems. It serves as a reference for research on system models, architectural design languages, methods and reasoning, module interface design, and design issues"--Provided by publisher.

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 discusses the organizational implications of technological growth and advancement at an international level. Selections investigate within- and cross-cultural research, offshoring and outsourcing, and strategic decisions organizations make to succeed in a global environment--Provided...