BACKGROUND This article reports on the development of a systematic approach to assess for community readiness prior to implementation of a behavioural intervention for childhood obesity. Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), we developed research tools to evaluate local community centres' organisational readiness and their capacity to implement the intervention. ...

E-Government is defined as a system utilizing the Internet and the world-wide-web for delivering government information and services to citizens. This system reduces the processing costs, improves service delivery, and increases transparency and communication between a government and its citizens. The aim of this paper is to propose a new model to measure the readiness of e-Government according...

Abstracts must be structured into Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions. Please remember to also update the Abstract details on the submission page. Background: The course of alcohol consumption and cognitive dimensions of behavior change (readiness to change, importance of changing and confidence in ability to change) in primary care patients are not well described. The objective of the st...

Statistics show that the United States is the leader on all fronts of e-business readiness. However, in different geographic regions several other countries are emerging as leaders in e-business infrastructure development. These Tigers of global e-business infrastructure include Singapore, India, Ireland, and Finland. This paper describes the specific e-business infrastructure models that are t...

This study explores the firm’s readiness for developing emerging technology in e−business. By proposing a framework that captures technological, financial, and human capability within the firm and includes the environmental drivers of e−business, covering from partner willingness, capability, and power to collaboration readiness, this work develops a measurement model that organizations can eva...

The lack of unifying frameworks to investigate emerging technologies and changing practices in organisations remains a major challenge to the Information Systems body of knowledge. This study developed and validated a new conceptual readiness framework NOIIE (an acronym for National e-readiness, Organisational preparedness, Industrial relationships, Internal resistance and External influence), ...

The use of Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) as a tool in assessing acquisition and development program risk has steadily increased over the past several years. There is considerable evidence to support the utility of using TRLs as part of a risk assessment, but there are some difficulties in using TRLs with software, especially Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software technology and products....