A Comprehensive Instrument for Measuring Individual Competency of IT Applications in an Enterprise IT Environment

Development of an Instrument to Assess Individual IT Culture

Reconsidering IT usage as part of a cultural phenomenon drives us to envisage the development of a new instrument to assess the construct of Individual IT Culture (IITC). IT-culture is a concept which has started only recently to appear in IS literature. Grounding our research in psycho sociology and the theories of needs and motivation, which have considerably evolved in the last two decades, ...

Semiotic Methods for Enterprise Design and IT Applications

Investment in information technology (or IT) does not necessarily bring improvement in business performance. One important cause of this is the divorce between the design of the IT systems and business organisations. An approach of organisational semiotics, based on the understanding of organisations as systems of social norms emphasises the central role of the people, their responsibility and ...

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...

Research impact: defining it, measuring it, maximising it, questioning it

Both in the UK and more widely, the higher education sector is under pressure from the government to demonstrate that it makes a difference. That aside, few of us want to be the kind of academic that sits in an ivory tower thinking clever thoughts while Rome burns below. As Karl Marx said, many academics only interpret the world, but the true purpose of scholarship is to change it. The ‘impact ...

Enterprise Architecture for It Management