European Journal of Information Systems (2006) 15, 116–119. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000610 While agility has recently attracted considerable attention in studies of systems development and management of information technology (IT), there is limited recognition within the information systems discipline of the important impact agility has already had on organizational studies in general. The e...

Information systems are becoming increasingly important in today’s society as a result of technological innovations as well as organisational developments. In order to realise the promises of future information systems, software methods and architectures have to support two key features: reuse and flexibility. In recent years, the main approach to reusable and flexible information systems has b...

Information systems are getting more and more multimedia-based as well as network-based. Clear examples of this trend are various Internet applications for areas such as: business, education and entertainment. This evolution together with the generally increasing change rate in organisations and society pose new demands on methodologies and competencies required for developing future multimedia...

The WWW is a technologically active environment, and information systems developed for the WWW differ in significant areas from traditional applications. Existing literature has suggested that software development methodologies for traditional applications may have to be modified, or indeed replaced to meet the needs of the WWW. Consequently, a number of software development methodologies have ...

This thesis considers the feasibility of a stakeholder evaluation approach for information systems (IS) within the Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) approach to systems development, currently the de facto standard for Rapid Application Development (RAD) in the UK. The theory of stakeholder evaluation is considered using the object systems class framework in order to understand the requi...

This paper discusses gamification, the application of gaming elements in non-game contexts, with regard to information systems and information security training. The authors have developed gamification tools for use in the classroom as well as several educational games in order to explore the viability of gamified curricula in both high school and college environments. Early results indicate po...

Management information system (MIS) is used to solve management problems in the practical life, the designing and building of the management information systems is done by using one of the systems development methodologies. Classical approach is one of these methodologies which still suffer from some critical problems when it is used in designing and building the management information systems,...

background: primary health care is the major infrastructure of health care systems. it is clear that making and improving primary health care information systems would not be possible without awareness of their condition. therefore, this comparative study was conducted in order to determine the situation of primary health care information systems in health centers of tehran, iran. methods: this...

Information systems (IS) building, as described in the literature, consist of two main phases: IS strategic planning and IS development. The IS strategic planning phase is performed every few years and produces a long-term strategic plan. The IS development phase is performed annually by IS management and produces a development plan for the next year and outlines development activities. The act...