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- Ahmad, Muhammad Ovais, Associate Professor/Lektor, et al.
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An Empirical Investigation on Business Analytics in Software and Systems Development Projects
- 2023
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Ingår i: Information Systems Frontiers. - : Springer. - 1387-3326 .- 1572-9419. ; 25:2, s. 917-927
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To create competitive advantages, companies are leaning towards business analytics (BA) to make data-driven decisions. Nevertheless, users acceptance and effective usage of BA is a key element for its success. Around the globe, organizations are increasingly adopting BA, however, a paucity of research on examining the drivers of BA adoption and its continuance is noticeable in the literature. This is evident in developing countries where a higher number of systems and software development projects are outsourced. This is the first study to examine BA continuance in the context of software and systems development projects from the perspective of Pakistani software professionals. The data was collected from 186 Pakistani software professionals working in software and systems development projects. The data were analyzed using partial least squares - structural equation modelling techniques. Our structural model explains 45% variance on BA continuance intention, 69% variance on technological compatibility, and 59% variance on perceived usefulness. Our results show that confirmation has a direct impact on BA continuance intention in software and systems projects. The study has both theoretical and practical implications for professionals in the field of business analytics.
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- Bednar, Peter M., et al.
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Socio-Technical Perspectives on Smart Working : Creating Meaningful and Sustainable Systems
- 2020
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Ingår i: Information Systems Frontiers. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1387-3326 .- 1572-9419. ; 22:2, s. 281-298
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Technological advances have made possible industrial and commercial applications of artificial intelligence, virtual reality and highly integrated manufacturing systems. It has also freed business activity from a focus on place, as both work activities and markets have been able to harness information and communication technologies in order to operate remotely. As a result, researchers have highlighted a phenomenon of ‘smart’ working. Some have pointed to a fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) in which ‘smart’ factories use robotics to achieve high performance. There is now a suggestion of progress towards Industry 5.0, in which technological and social systems work in harmony to deliver personalised mass customization of products and services. This paper examines these developments from the perspective of unique, individual understandings of work roles and sustainability, posing the questions ‘Smart’ from whose point of view? Do smart systems promote sustainable organizations? How should design of smart systems be approached? It suggests that contemporary socio-technical systems approaches to organizational analysis are the best way to support harnessing of smart technologies in organizations.
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- Bououd, Ikram, et al.
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Impact of object manipulation, customization and social loafing on competencies management in 3D Virtual Worlds
- 2016
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Ingår i: Information Systems Frontiers. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1387-3326 .- 1572-9419. ; 18:6, s. 1191-1203
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 3D Virtual Worlds (VW) are rich and promising collaboration tools limitedly introduced to support competence management, yet, extensively used to enhance knowledge sharing (KS) and support knowledge application (KA). Nevertheless, KS and KA represent a challenging medium to leverage individual as well as organization’s competencies. Characterized by a realistic visual dimension in representing work environment and a growing capacity of simulation, 3D platforms facilitate and value competence formation. Present study analyzes role of 3D VW technology unique characteristics (i.e. object manipulation and avatar and 3D environment customization) and specific personal character social loafing, on competencies acquisition. Individual performance and organizational performance were measured to assess individual and organizational competences. Answers from 144 users of 3D VWs were analyzed. Results show that social loafing has significant negative effect on knowledge sharing. Customization and object manipulation have significant, yet small moderating effect on 3D VW technology use and knowledge sharing. KS subsequent effect on KA, individual and organizational competencies are significant. Limitations and new research directions are presented.
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- Bygstad, B., et al.
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Developing and Organizing an Analytics Capability for Patient Flow in a General Hospital
- 2019
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Ingår i: Information Systems Frontiers. - New York : Springer-Verlag New York. - 1387-3326 .- 1572-9419.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Much of the information produced in hospitals is clinical, and stored for the purposes of documentation. In practice, most of it is never used. The potential of analytics is to reuse this information for other purposes. This is easier said than done, because of technical, semantic, legal and organizational hindrances. In particular, hospitals are not organized to leverage the value of big data. In this study we ask, how can we conceptualize analytics as an integrated part of hospital processes? And, how can we develop and organize an analytics capability in a large hospital? Our empirical evidence is a longitudinal study in a high-tech hospital in Norway, where we followed the development of an analytics capability, and assessed the organizational benefits. We offer two findings. First, we show how the analytics process interacts with the hospital logistics processes in a sense- and respond cycle. Second, we demonstrate how analytics capability is built on the institutionalized network of technology, an analytics team and the administrative and clinical decision makers. © 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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- Elbanna, Amany, et al.
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The formation of technology mental models: the case of voluntary use of technology in organizational setting
- 2015
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Ingår i: Information Systems Frontiers. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1387-3326 .- 1572-9419. ; 17:1, s. 95-108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The use of information systems in organisationspresents one of the early signs of success. Hundreds of studieshave generated a wealth of knowledge on systems use across abroad range of technologies and theoretical approaches.However, new types of technologies and organisations continueto pose challenges to systems use. The case of opensystems that are offered to users on a voluntary basis presentsone of those challenges for two reasons: 1) the systems areopen in the sense that they could be configured in many waysdepending on users finding use cases and possible applications;2) the system use is voluntary and hence there is noorganisational push. They bring users’ choice and active findingof use cases to the centre of their success. This studyquestions why and how users choose to engage (or not toengage) with open technology on a voluntary basis and howand why its use options and potential unfold? It examines alongitudinal case study (1994–2012) on the voluntary use oftelemedicine. The findings reveal that users’ perception ofopen technology in a voluntary setting is formed through acontinuous interplay between users’ technology mentalmodels, professional identity, institutional traditions and arrangementsand work practices. If perceived to be in contradictionwith professional identity, institutional traditions andarrangements or work practices, users’ technology mentalmodels are fixated on the misfit and the misfit is therebyreinforced. Hence, users do not try to find use cases or thinkof possible applications. However, institutional entrepreneurscould break this self-fulfilling prophecy by influencing boththe technology mental models of users and the institutionalarrangements.
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- Hedestig, Ulf, 1962-, et al.
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Facilitor's roles in a videoconference learning environment
- 2005
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Ingår i: Information Systems Frontier. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1387-3326 .- 1572-9419. ; 7:1, s. 71-83
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper reports a study of a videoconference-based environment in decentralized university education and factors contributing to the success of teaching and learning in the environment. The focus of the paper is on the role of a person having the formal responsibilities of a technician. An ethnographic study conducted over the course of a year revealed that the contribution of this person far exceeded the scope of formal responsibilities. The person, who was acting in the setting as a facilitator, was found to possess expertise, which was critically important for supporting interaction between remote participants at several levels, such as attention management, time management, acquisition of setting-specific skills, and coordination within a larger institutional context. The findings suggest that "supra-situational" activities can be important factors for the successful functioning and development of emerging learning environments.
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- Johnson, Pontus, et al.
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Enterprise architecture analysis with extended influence diagrams
- 2007
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Ingår i: Information Systems Frontiers. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1387-3326 .- 1572-9419. ; 9:2-3, s. 163-180
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The discipline of enterprise architecture advocates the use of models to support decision-making on enterprise-wide information system issues. In order to provide such support, enterprise architecture models should be amenable to analyses of various properties, as e.g. the level of enterprise information security. This paper proposes the use of a formal language to support such analysis. Such a language needs to be able to represent causal relations between, and definitions of, various concepts as well as uncertainty with respect to both concepts and relations. To support decision making properly, the language must also allow the representation of goals and decision alternatives. This paper evaluates a number of languages with respect to these requirements, and selects influence diagrams for further consideration. The influence diagrams are then extended to fully satisfy the requirements. The syntax and semantics of the extended influence diagrams are detailed in the paper, and their use is demonstrated in an example.
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- Kifle, Mengistu, et al.
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Interplay of cost and adoption of tele-medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa : The case of tele-cardiology in Ethiopia
- 2006
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Ingår i: Information Systems Frontiers. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1387-3326 .- 1572-9419. ; 8:3, s. 211-223
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- ...the barriers to diffusion of Tele-Medicine are not entirely technical. Cost has to simultaneously satisfy a number of stakeholders... (Anderson, Aydin and Jay, et al., 1994).Rising costs of the provision of healthcare have been a major issue for debate in both developing and developed countries. This is especially true of very capitalistic societies such as the United States where privatization of the healthcare sector has left many with little or no affordable healthcare. The situation is even worse in developing economies. Developing countries deal with various problems in the provision of health services and healthcare Tan et al. (E-medicine diffusion: E-medicine in Developed and Developing countries. Chapter 8 in E-health paradigm shift: Perspectives, domains and challenges. In Tan J. (Ed.), Imprint of Wiley, New York, Jossey-Bass, 2005). Some of these problems include acute shortages of healthcare professionals and medical facilities Mbarika et al. (Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) 2005;6(5):130-170). Such shortages have resulted in growing numbers of middle to upper-class citizens of developing countries traveling abroad to seek necessary health services. Using a multi-method case study research, this paper examines the role of Tele-Medicine in the healthcare system and analyzes the costs and benefits of introducing Tele-Cardiology services in Ethiopia (a Sub-Saharan African country). This is a cost comparison study for the treatment of cardiac patients traveling abroad versus patients treated via Tele-Cardiology. Our findings show that Tele-Cardiology is clinically more feasible and more cost effective compared to patients traveling abroad for treatment.
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- Kræmmergaard, Pernille, et al.
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Managerial Competences for ERP Journeys
- 2002
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Ingår i: Information Systems Frontiers. - : Kluwer Academic Publishers. - 1387-3326 .- 1572-9419. ; 4:2, s. 199-211
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- Kumar, Upendra, et al.
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Inducing Personalities and Values from Language Use in Social Network Communities
- 2018
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Ingår i: Information Systems Frontiers. - : Springer New York LLC. - 1387-3326 .- 1572-9419. ; 20:6, s. 1219-1240
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A community in social networks is generally assumed to be composed of a group of individuals with similar characteristics. Although there has been a plethora of work on understanding network topologies (edge density, clustering coefficient, etc.) within an online community, the psycho-sociological compositions of social network communities have hardly been studied. The present paper aims to analyse the communities as composition of induced psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic variables (Personalities, Values and Ethics) across individuals in social media networks. The motivation behind this analysis is to understand the behavioural characteristics at individual as well as societal level in social networks. To this end, three studies were carried out on six different datasets: three Twitter corpora, two Facebook corpora, and an Essay corpus, annotated with Values and Ethics of the users. First, experiments on creating automatic models to determine the Personality and Values of individuals by analysing their language usage and social media behaviour. Second, experiments on understanding the characteristics or blend of characteristics of individuals within an online community. Finally, generation of a map of values and ethics for India, a multi-lingual and multi-cultural country. Striking similarities to general intuitive perception could be observed, i.e., the results obtained in the study resemble our general perception about the cities/towns of India.
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