Distance-learning institutions such as Capella University most effectively serve mid-career, working adults who seek additional education that can have an immediate impact on their lives. Capella has recently developed a new graduate IT Management curriculum to serve a specific segment within this market – the aspiring Chief Information Officer. Since the individuals in this market are experien...

In addition to running key organizational systems, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are increasingly expected to embrace a broader role in their organizations by driving organizational transformation, innovating for competitive advantage and acting as key strategic partners to the CEO and other members of the C-level team. Their ability to fulfill this challenging role, however, is inhibited b...

This paper presents a robust argument as to why it can be difficult for chief information officers (CIOs) to deliver business value from investments that their organizations make in IT with contemporary organizational structures, authority patterns, processes and mindsets. This argument is built on the subtle premise that organizations should not seek to merely manage IT but to manage the deliv...

Information systems (IS) alignment is an important aspect in using information technology to gain business value. A critical part of this process is the existence of a good relationship between the CEO and CIO. However, this relationship is disrupted due to CIO turnover. Using a punctuated equilibrium model perspective, this study examines the organizational impact of CIO turnover and its effec...

The research reported in this paper examines how business value is being created and delivered by IT in large private organisations in Australia. The critical organisational governance and management activities and practices that contribute significantly to business value were identified and described, using a process model of Soh and Markus (1995) as a lens by which CIO statements were organis...

Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt zusammen, welche Projekte Bildungsmanager oder HR-Strategen aktuell angehen bzw. angehen sollten, um E-Learning in Unternehmen zum Erfolg zu bringen und strategisch zu verankern. Bildungsmanager, auch Chief Learning Officer (CLO) bzw. Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) genannt, gestalten die „Lernarchitektur“ im Unternehmen und sind auch für die IKT-bewusste Gestaltung...

A chief complaint is a concise statement in English or other natural language of the symptoms that caused a patient to seek medical care. A triage nurse or registration clerk records a patient's chief complaint at the very beginning of the medical care process (Figure 23.1). In contrast, an ICD code is a number (e.g., 558.9) that a clinician or professional coder uses to represent a medical dia...

The 9th Issue of LNCS Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (ToPNoC) contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the best papers from the workshops held at the 34th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency (Petri Nets 2013, Milan, Italy, during 24–28 June 2013), and 13th International Conference on Application of Concurre...