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- Backlund, Per
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Development Process Knowledge Transfer through Method Adaptation, Implementation, and Use
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Information Systems Engineering (ISE) is an interdisciplinary approach to enable the realisation of successful information systems in a broad sense. ISE comprises a number of areas of expertise that must be integrated and managed in order to build information systems. Since ISE is becoming progressively more complex there is an increasing need to codify and manage knowledge within and about the ISE process. From a knowledge perspective the different model types created in an ISE project are examples of codified knowledge about the future system. The descriptions of how work should proceed are examples of codified knowledge of the process of creating the system. In summary, one of the main concerns in the ISE process is to manage the substantial amount of knowledge associated with the process as such as well as with the target domain of the actual development project and the developed software. In the thesis I recognise three areas of knowledge in ISE: development process knowledge, target domain knowledge, and software knowledge. Furthermore, I use a set of knowledge perspectives in order to describe and analyse ISE from a knowledge perspective. Finally, I introduce three aspects: organisation, artefact, and individual in order to be able to discuss and analyse how methods are actually used in organisations and how they affect the work situation. The results are presented in the form of a framework for knowledge transfer in ISE that comprises the knowledge perspective, the knowledge area, and the aspect of knowledge transfer. The framework is thus used to analyse the results from the six papers enclosed in the thesis. The results also comprise an empirical characterisation of a method in use which is based on data collected during an ethnographical study. Finally the results are made concrete in the form of a pattern collection for method introduction and method use.
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- Perjons, Erik, et al.
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Introducing a Process Manager in Healthcare : An experience report
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Ingår i: Proceedings of The Ninth International Symposium on Health Information Management. ; , s. 15-17
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- To be efficient and patient focused, healthcare units need to be process oriented and integrated with the processes and IT systems of other healthcare units. A process manager facilitates integration of different systems by using graphical and executable process models. The process manager also communicates directly with healthcare personnel via desktop computers and mobile devices. This article reports on a Swedish project where a prototype system was developed and tested with several healthcare units. The experience shows several advantages and opportunities. For example, current information about patients can be transferred automatically between healthcare units; resource intensive manual tasks can be replaced with automated tasks; and long-term process monitoring and quality assessment can be enabled. However, introducing a process manager requires attention to issues of security, ethics and legality. Healthcare units may also show differences in security awareness and IT maturity, which could obstruct the introduction of a process manager.
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- Strand, Mattias, et al.
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Acquiring and integrating external data into data warehouses : Are you familiar with the most common process?
- 2004
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Ingår i: ICEIS 2004. - : Universität Trier. ; , s. 508-513
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Data warehouses (DWs) have become one of the major IT-investments during the last decades and in order to fully exploit the potential of data warehouses, more and more organizations are acquiring and integrating external data into their star-schemas. However, the literature covering external data acquisition and integration is limited. Therefore, in this paper the results of an interview study conducted among banking organizations are presented. The study aimed at identifying different approaches for acquiring and integrating external data into DWs. The results show that there are many different approaches for the acquisition and integration, depending on the purpose and structure of the data being acquired. In addition, the most common external data acquisition and integration process is presented and discussed.
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- Strand, Mattias, et al.
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Incorporating external data into data warehouses : problems identified and contextualized
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Ingår i: Fusion 2004. - : International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF). - 917056115X ; , s. 288-294
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Incorporating external data into data warehouses is a rather unexplored area and deserves more attention, especially if considering the resources organizations spend on acquiring data from specialized data suppliers. Therefore, this paper gives the results of an interview study partly aimed at evaluating, from a general perspective, the outline of such a process and related problems. The results show that trust and cost issues are utmost important characteristics to consider when acquiring external data. In addition, the results also show that the organizations incorporating external data need some type of hands-on support, for being able to fully exploit the potential thereof. Finally, the results also gave the outline of the external data incorporation process.
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