This chapter discusses the history and evolution of Information Engineering, with emphasis on the business-driven IE variant. It describes the methods used at each phase in the systems development life cycle: strategic business planning; strategic, tactical and operational data modelling ; process modelling; systems design; and systems implementation. It describes the application and use of IE ...

This paper analyzes the for-profit transformation of health care, with emphasis on Internet start-ups, physician practice management firms, insurance plans, and hospitals at various stages in the industry life cycle. Venture capital, conglomerate diversification, publicly traded equity, convertible bonds, retained earnings, and taxable corporate debt come with forms of financial accountability ...

The data systems, policies and procedures, corporate culture, and public face of an agency or institution make up its organizational interface. This case study describes how user interfaces for the Bureau of Labor Statistics website evolved over a five year period along with the larger organizational interface and how this co-evolution has influenced the institution itself. Interviews with BLS ...

escalating development of tourism and petroleum industries in small islands such as lavan-iranrequires sound solid waste management. in the present investigation, three scenarios which consist of thecombination of landfill, recycling, incineration and composting and their environmental impacts have beenevaluated for 7514 kg/day of waste generation in lavan island. for this purpose, life cycle a...

in this study a pseudo comprehensive carbon footprint model for fossil fuel power plants is presented. parameters which their effects are considered in this study include: plant type, fuel type, fuel transmission type, internal consumption of the plant, degradation, site ambient condition, transmission and distribution losses. investigating internal consumption, degradation and site ambient con...

Designing and managing an effective corporate governance structure for Virtual Breeding Environments (VBEs) is a challenging process. Therefore, a governance model is required to define operational rules, bylaws and principles that will govern the behaviour of the members of a VBE during its life cycle. VBE governance will help to define who can make what decisions, who is accountable for which...

A number of researches have been made on the productive effect of ICT, including its relationship with corporate structure and business process. However, regarding the relationship between the development stage of ICT application and the productivity, only some conceptual frameworks of development stages had been suggested and no experimental study has been made. In this paper, using the indivi...

Designing and managing an effective corporate governance structure for Virtual Breeding Environments (VBEs) is a challenging process. Therefore, a governance model is required to define operational rules, bylaws and principles that will govern the behaviour of the members of a VBE during its life cycle. VBE governance will help to define who can make what decisions, who is accountable for which...

Corporations have repeated reported incidents of misuse of material non-public information for illegal insider trading. Though information technologies are being inappropriately used to assist in these activities, creatively using emerging technologies and business process can also aid in preventing and detecting insider trading. This paper first discusses the issues relating to insider trading...