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The fruits of Business Process Management: an experience report from a Swiss bank

Küng, Peter; Hagen, Claus - In: Business Process Management Journal 13 (2007) 4, pp. 477-487

Purpose – This paper aims to describe how process reengineering, combined with the use of modern process‐oriented information technology, can lead to substantial improvements in terms of overall process quality. Design/methodology/approach – A real‐life case study from the financial...

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Towards 100 years of LIS education and research at UCD

Traxler Brown, Barbara - In: Aslib Proceedings 61 (2009) 3, pp. 282-301

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide some of the institutional and operational context of the University College Dublin (UCD) School of Information and Library Studies (SILS) prior to 2000. Design/methodology/approach – The history of the School, its predecessor, and the context...

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Local e‐government impact in China, New Zealand, Oman, and the United Kingdom

Deakins, Eric; Dillon, Stuart; Al Namani, Hamed; Zhang, … - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 23 (2010) 6, pp. 520-534

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a picture of (local) e‐government impact and development philosophy in China, New Zealand, Oman, and the UK. Design/methodology/approach – A survey instrument was used to collect data from policymakers in 114 civil service organisations in...

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The New Zealand Experience : The Risks and Implications of Automation

Thomas, Rod - 2019

Landonline has been implemented for some 15 years. Overall, it has operated successfully in New Zealand - so far. Nevertheless, initial thoughts that the system transfers risk from the State to conveyancers (as users of the system) are still adhered to. The issue is whether (or when) this will...

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Automation in New Zealand's offsite construction (OSC): a status update

Darlow, Genevieve; Rotimi, James O.B.; Shahzad, Wajiha … - In: Built Environment Project and Asset Management 12 (2021) 1, pp. 38-52

Purpose Automation facilitates production activities within offsite construction (OSC) projects through computer … benefits of automation to offsite production, the level of automation adoption in New Zealand is low. This study is an effort … to understand the current status of automation within the New Zealand construction industry and to identify the barriers …

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Travel agents’ attitudes towards automation and the delivery of service

Deng, Shengliang; Lawson, Rob; Moutinho, Luiz - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 12 (2000) 4, pp. 60-72

Presents an exploratory study on travel agents’ attitudes towards automation. Surveys 167 travel agents from both … Canada and New Zealand. Shows that there are four distinct groups of agents whose attitudes towards automation differ quite …

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Support for real-time decision making in mobile financial applications

Burstein, Frada; Cowie, Julie; Zaslavsky, Arcady; San … - 2008

Mobile users making real-time decisions based on current information need confidence that their context has been taken into consideration in producing the system’s recommendations. This chapter reviews current use of mobile technologies for context-aware real-time decision support....

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Evolving mobile communication practices of Irish teenagers

Cawley, Anthony; Hynes, Deirdre - 2010

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Aslib Proceedings, published by and copyright Emerald.

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3G migration in Pakistan

Pervaiz, Unzila - 2009

The telecommunication industry in Pakistan has come a long way since the country's independence in 1947. The initial era could be fairly termed as the PTCL (Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited) monopoly, for it was the sole provider of all telecommunication services across the country. It...

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Revisiting business strategy under discontinuity

Ghezzi, Antonio - In: Management decision : MD 51 (2013) 7, pp. 1326-1358

Purpose: Business strategy and its quest for sustainable competitive advantage and success is challenged by external and internal change, which increasingly takes the form of radical discontinuity. However, emergent strategy models are rising as concepts and constructs, possibly impacting on the...

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