"This book analyzes obstacles, provides critical assessment of existing approaches, and reviews recent research efforts to overcome interoperability problems in electronic business"--Provided by publisher.

This book supplements course instruction and student research with quality articles focused on key issues concerning information technology in support of the strategic management of organizations. Containing over 30 chapters from authors across the globe, these selected readings in areas such as...

1. A framework for managing consistency of evolving UML models / Tom Mens, Ragnhild Van Der Straeten, Jocelyn Simmonds -- 2. Constructing safety-related scenarios to support architecture evaluation / Dingding Lu, Robyn R. Lutz, Carl K. Chang -- 3. A unified software reengineering approach...

An example-based generator of XSLT programs / José Paulo Leal, Ricardo Queirós -- A secure and dynamic mobile identity wallet authorization architecture based on a XMPP messaging Infrastructure / Alexandre B. Augusto, Manuel E. Correia -- Making programming exercises interoperable with PExIL /...

This book aims at tying trust to knowledge management (KM). It highlights the complexity of the invisible phenomenon of trust challenged by the global economy. Fresh insights, novel theoretical frameworks, and empirical results and ideas for future research are presented that differ from those...

"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...

1. IT/IS readiness maturity model / Mustafa Alshawi and Hafez Salleh -- 2. Readiness in systems implementation: lessons from the higher education sector / Eric Lou and Hafez Salleh -- 3. Improving the tendering process: a construction organization perspective / Hafez Salleh -- 4. Building for...

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...

Strategic information systems have emerged as one of the most effective applications of information technology in support of the strategic management of organizations. Cases on Strategic Information Systems presents a wide range of the most current issues, challenges, problems, opportunities,...

"This book discusses the process of transitioning an organization to a global one based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) including careful planning, execution and monitoring of the organization as it moves into the global market place"--Provided by publisher.