Intelligent software agents are used in frameworks where large number of experts need to interact in a project concurrently as in the projects taken up by the aerospace industry. We describe one such framework and discuss an intelligent software agent to manage the systems design in such an environment. What makes the problem interesting is the existence of other intelligent agents in the frame...

Strategic planning of information systems is vital in the business environment and this is still an open issue in the management information systems research. Through planning, organisations develop effective long-term use of information systems and subsequently ensuring the support of organisational objectives. This chapter develops a contingency model for measuring the success of strategic in...

the paper discusses the use of modern information technologies, and in particular geographic information systems (gis), in the management and control of major accident risk. for this purpose, the regulatory framework of the recent “seveso ii” directive is briefly described. the referencing in space of the phenomena may be defined in terms of a geometrically exact or a relative location. the for...

introduction: applying quality management systems can be useful for the development of health care organizations standards, services, quality improvement and costs reduction. the purpose of this study is to investigate the possibility of applying quality management system iso9001/2000 in hospitals affiliated with medical sciences universities from managers' viewpoints. methods and materials: it...

this paper is based on the recent development to literature on organizational culture and its role in management thory and practices. based on the review of literature, both management theories and organizational culture the author finds significant interrelation and interaction between the management theory and the systems of shared values, norms and behaviors held by the people in a given org...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the application of knowledge management concepts to an information systems (IS) knowledge base, as opposed to a clinical one. The field of Medical Informatics is committed to helping others manage medical information and knowledge through the application of information technology. At Partners HealthCare, a wide variety of clinical information management s...

Environmental management information systems (EMIS) is defined as ‘organizational-technical systems for systematically obtaining, processing, and making available relevant environmental information available in companies’. Such systems evolved out of a growing need to manage environmental information in response to internal and external pressures such as regulations, consumers, stockholders, an...

Knowledge Management (KM) is one of the hottest topics in both of the industrialized world and information research world. In our daily life, we deal with the most related systems, which were Financial Information Systems (FIS). These systems have closely linked with all aspects of administrative organizations. As a result of this link, the KM has contributed in developing FIS as attempts to ha...

The importance of instilling relevance for IT executives in IS research has been stressed by a number of scholars for the long term survival and growth of the IS discipline. Though there have been extended deliberations on the subject, to our knowledge, there has been no empirical analysis to examine the relevance of current IS research. In this study, we analyze the relevance of the 388 publis...