The combination of increased environmental complexity and greater quantities of data presents higher education with new problems. Institutions have responded by adopting analytics-based approaches which aim to improve organisational and educational effectiveness. However, despite extensive research in academic analytics there is an identified need for further work in making analytics “actionabl...

Agile methodology continues to evolve due to business and technological demands. However, there are few studies reported related to encouraging new organizations to adopt agile practices especially in Asian countries. This paper presents the initial findings from an action research study on agile-extreme programming (XP) adoption amongst software engineering (SE) teams. The results showed that ...

The strengths of product line engineering have been described before. But how can an organization make the move from developing one-of products to product line engineering without major interruptions in the day-today work? This paper describes how to perform the transition to product line engineering and lists the various strategies for such a transition. It also describes how to create an adop...

in the business environment, virtual organizations can meet market needs efficiently and effectively via knowledge worker and high flexibility and also generate significant competitive advantage. due to obtaining the advantage of these organizations, managerial issues related to them must be recognized and organized. decrease of face to face relationship, geographically distributed, dynamic job...

Cloud computing is becoming an important tool that is offering multiple opportunities to state entities. However, this paradigm can also impose constraints and increase risk to this kind of institutions. For this reason, it is necessary for the entities in the state sector to assess cloud services before making the decision of adopting them. In this context, this work presents a review to ident...

We propose a communication method based on goal framing (positive or negative framing of messages) to improve the persuasive power of the security messages communicated to users of information systems. Following previous findings in goal framing research, we distinguish between messages advocating adopting preventative security measures and messages advocating adopting detective security measur...