Current IT literature emphasizes the importance of adopting a governance strategy based on an organization’s customer market, and inherent technology and personnel capabilities. However, practical experience has shown that many organizations with sound strategies fail, often because the strategies are not aligned with IT project tactics or individual priorities. This paper explores the idea of ...

The present research aims to explore the different conceptions of reality that university and placement organizations staff, as well as postgraduate students have in the context of a project-based learning class in instructional design of online courses. The methodology used is phenomenography. This project contributes towards filling the research gap concerning technology enhanced learning in ...

recognize the need for continuous software process improvement (SPI) in order to improve the quality and productivity of products and to keep up their competitiveness. Although efforts have been made, organizations continue without success in achieving the intended goals. Recognizing that the most critical problems occurs during project activities, we strongly believe that both development proc...

Abstract. In this paper we draw a community landscape of European Commission-funded TEL projects and organizations in the 6th and 7th Framework Programmes and eContentplus. The project metadata were crawled from the web and maintained as part of the TEL Mediabase, a large collection of data obtained from different web sources including blogs, bibliographies, and project fact sheets. We apply so...

In planning evacuation schedules various projects work on devising optimal schedules for evacuation of the population. These assume that people do as they are asked in terms of when and by what route they leave the area. However, we know from numerous case studies, that this is not so. People have their own priorities and concerns and will address these before doing as they are asked. We know f...

Organizations realize that benefits can be achieved by closely working together on the design of their business processes. But even when there is a joint design for a particular business process, the way individual organizations carry out that process may differ – either wittingly or unwittingly. This paper proposes an analytical approach that helps to compare how different organizations execut...

In this paper we present an ontology-based approach to support interoperability in interorganizational applications. The ontology contains knowledge, coming from several organizations, structured in different layers to support its effective use and communication. The proposed approach has been experimented in the framework of the Italian VISPO (Virtual district Internet-based Service PlatfOrm) ...