d: m.a. of business management. university of isfahan . [email protected] e: isfahan university of medical sciences , [email protected] knowledge as one of the greatest factors in creating value and competitive advantage, has led organizations to show great tendency toward programs of knowledge management. understanding the relationship between infrastructural capabilities and process c...

This paper reports on the theoretical development and empirical validation of a measurement instrument for three core capabilities of IT departments. The instrument is based on the work of Feeny & Willcocks (1998) and includes the capabilities “IS/IT governance”, “Business system thinking” and “Relationship building”. The sample consists of mostly IT managers. Results demonstrate that the const...

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) has emerged as an effective technique to manoeuvre and align projects and programs with business strategy. Strategic alignment empowers the Information Systems (IS) function and Information Technology (IT) enabled initiatives to support business development. To this end, organisations are using more IS projects and programs to enable them to compete. The liter...

In this fast-paced world, enterprises are facing increasing difficulties to sustain competitive advantage. The dynamic capability view (DCV) in strategic management suggests that the ability to continuously create valuable and rare capabilities is the basis for competitiveness in rapidly changing environments. Flexible information technology (IT) capabilities that are aligned to enterprise capa...

BACKGROUND Knowledge mobilisation in healthcare organisations is often carried out through relatively short-term projects dependent on limited funding, which raises concerns about the long-term sustainability of implementation and improvement. It is becoming increasingly recognised that the translation of research evidence into practice has to be supported by developing the internal capacity of...

In this paper, we develop decision making heuristics for rational agents using artefacts of cognition such as observation, learning and memory. Specifically, we extend previous research in this area by incorporating essential aspects of multi-agent interactions such as building behavioural models via observation, selectively choosing interaction partners and forming cooperating groups by identi...

This paper is concerned with the development of technological capabilities in the Brazilian subsidiaries of multinational assemblers in Brazil, particularly their involvement in Product Development (PD). The paper addresses the following issues: What roles have vehicle assembly subsidiaries played in building up local technological capabilities in PD in Brazil? How complex are such activities? ...

The formation of clients’satisfaction in software-as-a-service (SaaS) remains unclear. Building on the relational view and outsourcing literature, this study develops a theoretical model to explain the relationships between SaaS satisfaction, relational value, and IS capabilities. Relational values are characterized as task-based value and governance-based value. IS capabilities include IS inte...

We present a vision of next-generation visual analytics services. We argue that these services should have three related capabilities: support visual and interactive data exploration as they do today, but also suggest relevant data to enrich visualizations, and facilitate the integration and cleaning of that data. Most importantly, they should provide all these capabilities seamlessly in the co...