Adapting maturity models to healthcare organization's needs is an issue that researchers and technicians should consider and a valuable instrument for IT managers because these models allow the assessment of a present situation as well as the identification of useful improvement measures. This...

Purpose – This article is concerned with growth processes, growth dimensions and conditions for growth. In it, the author espouses the importance of a strong management mentality capable of providing an appropriate organizational arrangement and supporting competitive growth....

Purpose – Can leadership contribute to better results from innovative efforts? The purpose of this paper is to offer an approach to answer this question and to contribute to clarify the relationship between motivation to innovate and leadership influence on technological development....

Este artigo relaciona-se com o processo de decisão e examina as relações entre a eficácia das decisões de gestão, os atributos da informação e os sistemas de suporte de decisão no contexto da gestão, de uma base de dados. Considerando como é que uma base de dados e a tecnologia da...

Is concerned with human value management, examines the relationships between organizations’ competitiveness, innovation advancements, and knowledge management and presents a set of considerations regarding how these relationships affect strategic management and the formulation of competitive...

This paper aims to improve understanding of the process through which knowledge acquisition, technical tools and organisation actors can contribute to an organisation development in developing knowledge as a systemic competitive weapon. It examines the relationships between the technology and...