As the demand for enterprise‐wide performance measurement of corporate real estate portfolios and service providers ever increases, the number of tools available to executives which claim to facilitate this has also grown. Starting by developing an understanding of key business drivers, this...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to enable real estate managers to identify and evaluate appropriate information technology (IT) solutions from the array of options available. Design/methodology/approach – The authors explain the main components of IT solutions and provide a systematic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify key elements of what makes an inventory program effective for cultural heritage conservation and management. It is hoped that it will spur discussion among heritage professionals about increasing the effectiveness of inventory programs....

The purpose of evaluating enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems ought to be to improve the systems' life cycles. In this paper, narratives are proposed as a means of improving ERP systems as a complement to traditional evaluation methods. The potential of narratives is that they can convey...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a comprehensive framework of a situated culture approach to studying culture within the IS discipline. Design/methodology/approach – This is achieved via an articulation of structuration theory and the provision of an approach to study cross‐cultural...

This article looks at an integrated and company‐wide decision support project and examines considerations such as the type of system to use, the characteristics it must exhibit and how to justify a substantial investment.

There are two major organisational issues to be resolved with computer‐based information systems (CBIS): who is to be responsible for CBIS, and how is the systems function itself to be organised? The practical implementation of an internal reorganisation of the systems function within...

Information Technology (IT) may lead to a change in a company's methods and personnel skills, leading to stress and strain within the “culture” of the organisation, and challenge the business, its methods and its objectives. Confronted by the potential impact of IT it has been suggested that...

Prominent figures in the Information Systems (IS) industry have been propagating the need to integrate the information systems plan of a company with its strategic business plan. They have urged the executive level management to take an active part in charting the role of Information Technology...