The amount of information has increased for a number of reasons: there is a general increase in business communication, in-company and with customers and suppliers; trends such as globalisation and deregulation increase competition; companies are downsizing and fewer secretaries are employed to protect people from information; more outsourcing means a wider range of other companies with which i...

London in 1773, to examine candidates for their service. The names of the members are not given in the letter which announces the appointment. The Gentleman s Magazine for July 1793 records the death in London, on 3rd July, aged 77, of " George Marten, Esq., 0f Limehouse, many years Examining Surgeon to the East India Company." Marten was probably one of the Board appointed in 1773. On Marten's...

Implementing enterprise resource planning systems is a sophisticated, lengthy and costly process which tends to face serious failure. Thus, it is essential to perform the success assessment at the post-implementation stage of an ERP project to evaluate how much the system has succeeded in achieving its predetermined objectives. This paper proposes a practical and extended framework for assessin...

The Work Exchange is a peer-to-peer enterprise crowdsourcing system, where colleagues within a company can share work with each other. Employees can post work that they need help with, and other employees can search for and select work that they’re interested in. It supports a variety of mechanisms for the work requester to choose who will do the work, including selection, bids, proposals, and ...

Using the case of a low cost airline company’s website we analyze some special research questions of information technology valuation. The distinctive characteristics of this research are the ex post valuation perspective; the parallel and comparative use of accounting and business valuation approaches; and the integrated application of discounted cash flow and real option valuation. As the exa...

I hope this Blast finds each of you well and enjoying your summer. Many of us are busy screening our dance company members (Dance/USA Annual Post-Hire Health Screen for Professional Dancers) as they begin rehearsals for the next year. Several companies will also begin a trial of a common surveillance tool for tracking injuries and costs. This begins to move dance companies towards adapting simi...

Sermo (Latin for “conversation”) enables a self-described authenticated community of physicians to both contribute and filter professional knowledge. Community members of Sermo can post questions to other physicians within the network, and also provide answers to questions posed by other members of Sermo’s network, as per Figure 1. As of October 2007, Sermo is open to physicians across the Unit...

In this research in progress paper, we present and discuss an initial empirical evaluation of a model on ERP post-implementation modifications. The theoretical foundation and derivation of a set of propositions from the model were reported recently (citation withheld); it categorises postimplementation modifications to ERP systems and relates it to business process optimisation. While ERP syste...

An expanding array of technologies exist that can enable retailers to add value to product/service offerings online. Yet for many firms, determining which applications to employ can be perplexing. This study examines dimensions of service orientation among market leaders and measures performance results of adopting selected customer service applications. Findings suggest that while a majority o...