This paper analyses key issues towards a research roadmap for eHealth supported patient safety. The raison d'etre for research in this area is the high number of adverse patient events and deaths that could be avoided if better safety and risk management mechanisms were in place. The benefits...

In today’s environment of rapid technological change companies can not rely on incrementalinnovations alone. To sustain long-term competitiveness companies need to develop radicalinnovations as well. Such innovations typically incorporate new and highly complex technologies,create new markets...

The aim of this paper is to describe front-end activities in practice and get first hints for effects of the front end on project outcome and the meaning of contextual factors.The results of an exploratory study of fourteen product development projects are contrary to the wide-spread opinion...

The study is a continuation of the earlier benchmarking exercise for eEurope 2002. It involved two surveys:a head teacher survey of more than 10,000 head teachers to obtain information on the schools and asurvey of more than 20,000 classroom teachers to focus on their use of ICT for educational...

The last years have seen a change in attitude towards new ways of working and their role inthe modernisation of organisations. Until a few years ago, balancing employees’ interestswith those of business has often been the spur for introducing eWork in German companies.The opportunity to...

This Management Report summarizes the main descriptive results of a study onresearcher’s acceptance of Open Access publishing. The study was conducted in2006 by the Ludwig-Maximilans-University Munich, Germany, in cooperation withthe University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The main focus is...