The financial crisis of 2007-2009 has precipitated large scale regulatory change. Tight deadlines for implementation require organizations to start working on remediation projects before final drafts of regulations are crystalized. Firms are faced with engaging in complex and costly change management programs at a time when profits are diminished. As a consequence of these factors, pre-crisis l...

Any knowledge environment aimed at virtual teams should promote identification, access, capture and retrieval of relevant knowledge anytime / anywhere, while nurturing the social activities that underpin the knowledge sharing and creation process. In fact, socio-cultural issues play a critical role in the successful implementation of Knowledge Management (KM), and constitute a milestone towards...

Society is faced with a range of contemporary threats to everyday life, from natural and technological hazards to accidents and terrorism. These are embodied within integrated emergency management arrangements that are designed to enhance preparedness and response to such incidents, and in turn facilitate a prompt recovery. Such arrangements must be inherently dynamic and evolve as new threats ...

Software project management is one of the most challenging in software development. Software projects are important part into almost every business application. It is quality, efficiency and effectiveness of these applications will determine the failure or success of many business solutions. Over the past few decades, software projects often failed to come up to user expectations, by it were co...

Organizations use various types of outsourcing for many reasons, and these have been widely documented in the research literature. However, the impact on both the employees remaining with the organization and those who move to the service provider is often neglected. Prior to the outsourcing arrangement coming into effect, the employees all work for the same organization, but now with two (or m...

Change design is one of the key steps within the IT change management process and involves defining the set of activities required for the implementation of a change. Despite its importance, existing approaches for automating this step disregard the impact that actions will cause on the affected elements of the IT infrastructure. As a consequence, activities that compose the change plan may not...

Decision making in agricultural production is a complex process in which many risks such as natural, economic and social ones need to be considered. Climate change is one important example for complex risks causing ambiguities. How can farmers be supported to pro-actively deal with and adapt to climate change? A comprehensive answer to this question can create a good potential for an improved r...

Despite their potential to reshape business radically, information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) can be key inhibitors of industry transformation. In the automotive industry, although IT is a key enabler of process transformation, the existing IT systems constitute a significant barrier to change. While there are a number of models of change barriers, few have been validated in p...

Dr Brane Kalpič graduated from the University of Maribor in mechanical engineering and holds a PhD in Enterprise Integration from the same University. For a last decade Brane Kalpič has been working in the manufacturing industry at different top-level management positions and also as an independent consultant where he is faced daily with strategy and change management issues. His areas of inter...

Currently, the challenge of implementing a product data management system (PDMS) is how to ensure system integration and product data exchange is shared between heterogeneous systems. In this research, an integrated data models and implementation approach for PDMS is proposed that uses the STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product) model data standard and schema as proposed by the Object Manag...