The use of games in educational contexts is a highly popular subject of discussion among game scholars, educators and legislators alike. And although the potential of games as educational tools has been evangelized with varied intensity for a long time, examples of successful executions of the concept are still sparse. This has been attributed to many different factors, for example an inherent ...

The case describes the challenges faced by IT managers at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in their efforts to upgrade the Bureau’s IT infrastructure while developing the largest, most complex strategic application ever attempted at the Bureau. After expending 15 years of effort and $400 million, the BLM cancelled the program. The case identifies obstacles faced by IT and non-IT manager...

Child welfare systems across the country have been continuously criticized for failing to protect at-risk and abused children. It is widely recognized that improvement of child welfare systems requires a multifaceted approach, and some researchers suggest that challenges within the child welfare system are best addressed using a systems or “ecological” perspective. This article outlines importa...

One of the important problems in organizational memories is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in an organizational memory, and the right information is also a prerequisite for maximizing the uptake and relevance of the memory content. To tackle this problem, most developers adopt heavy-weight solutions and rely on a faithful continuous interaction ...

background: health information system (his) has been utilized for collecting, processing, storing, and transferring the required information for planning and decision‑making at different levels of health sector to provide quality services. in this study, in order to provide high‑quality his, primary health care (phc) providers’ perspective on current challenges and barriers were investigated. m...

Abstract The exponential growth of data collection opens possibilities for analyzing to address political and societal challenges. Still, European cities are not utilizing the potential generated by its citizens, industries, academia, public authorities their service mission. reasons complex relate an intertwined set organizational, technological, legal barriers, although good practices exist t...

context: management of health care organizations based on employee's mutual trust will increase the improvement in functions and tasks. aims: the present study was performed to investigate the relationship between organizational trust and the nurse administrators' productivity in educational health centers of in the health-education centers of isfahan university of medical sciences. settings an...

High Performance Computing (HPC) has historically been the impetus for new technologies. However, in dealing with power related issues HPC has lagged behind. Power has recently been recognized as one of the major obstacles to fielding a Peta-Flop class system. In this paper we will discuss power related topics by leveraging what is currently a rare capability of examining real power usage at a ...