The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) indicates that vulnerable industries should adapt to the increasing likelihood of extreme weather events along with slowly shifting mean annual temperatures and precipitation patterns, to prevent major damages or periods of inoperability in the future. Most articles in the literature on business management frame organizational adaptation to c...

Master data is the foundation for relating business transactions with business entities such as customers, products, locations etc. In master data literature these entities are also referred to as domains. The integrity, availability and timeliness of master data both as single-domain and as multi-domain combinations is crucial for business transactions in general and especially to distributed ...

The idea behind Grid is seamless, transparent supply of computing and data resources over the Internet when required to end users. The resource management system is the central component of a Grid system. Its basic responsibilities include accepting requests from users, matching user requests to available resources for which the user has permission to use and scheduling the matched resources. V...

In recent years, knowledge management systems (KMsystems) for handling organizational knowledge have been the subject of sizeable interest within the research fields of CSCW and IS. However, information technology (IT) for managing competence has been debated less extensively. This paper describes and evaluates the design of Competence Visualizer (CV), which is a KM-system generating competence...

The practices products and resource management of Australia’s farm managers and their environmental consequences are being closely scrutinised by the community. Accreditation is an approach increasingly being used to monitor these matters across agricultural industries. Quality Assurance and Environmental Management Systems have gained prevalence as a means of validating activity and providing ...