As managers continue to use varied set of information technologies in this fast moving era of globalisation, electronic commerce, and mobile commerce, organisations should adopt an information technology architecture that manages knowledge and meta-knowledge, and enables decision-makers to use...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...

This paper investigates decision making in the stage-gate process used by an aerospace manufacturer. More specifically, it focuses on the way decision makers deal with uncertainties and ambiguities when making decisions. The stage-gate model was found to be a discussion trigger — a boundary...

This research introduces a specialised information support system that was designed and implemented for project management and financial monitoring in public sector of funded projects, under the Greek National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF). Its goal was to ensure effective data monitoring...

Achieving successful adoption of an innovative project management information system should involve influencing the project management environment by providing useful tools, training, reusable templates, techniques, and methods that improve the project manager's ability to successfully execute....

Specialization at work has been recognized as a key driver of learning and productivity since the days of Adam Smith. More recently, researchers have noted that exposure to task variety can enhance learning. We examine how exposure to specialization and variety jointly drive employee...

Considerable progress has been made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since 1990. Although advances in improving MDG 4 and MDG 5a (reducing child and maternal mortality, respectively) have been made, progress is some countries have been insufficient. While some...

Verification in results-based financing (RBF) mechanisms is one of the key differentiators between it and related health financing structures such as social health insurance. Verifying that providers have achieved reported performance in RBF mechanisms is considered a crucial part of program...

The business environment’s changes occurring more and more quickly and company activities’ becoming more and more complex require permanent, fast adjustments which often test human factors’ abilities for efforts and analyses. The creation and development of ERP-type systems have been and...

This paper reports a study that incorporated a reasoning by analogy (RBA) system into a business simulation game of the microcomputer industry. The RBA system was designed to support a managerÕs intuition and judgement by facilitating the use of analogies. Users search for comparable (i.e.,...