he purpose of this paper is to explore and provide extended details on the Delphi technique research design. The focus was primarily on the doctoral student researcher audience because the Delphi technique appears to be coming increasingly popular as a research design for doctoral dissertations. The classical Delphi technique is described as well as a number of variations in design. To illustra...

Information systems (IS) departments face many challenges in today’s rapidly changing environment. One approach to understanding these challenges is to survey IS managers to elicit what they consider are key issues. Studies of key IS management issues have been conducted for some years in many nations and regions. However, most of these surveys lack a theoretical basis for the selection of key ...

Evaluation and selection of concrete production facility location is an important strategic decision making problem for both public and private sector. The multi-dimensional, multi-criteria nature of the concrete production facility location problem limits the usefulness of any particular single objective model. In this study, social, economical, technological, environmental and transportation ...

This study investigated the project risk in information systems design and development in the context of Hong Kong. While a large majority of the past research studies was conducted using the Delphi method, multiple case study research methodology was employed in this study in order to provide compelling evidence of the phenomenon. Another novel approach was the application of the causal mappin...

Despite the potential benefits of TQM, its application in healthcare organisations encountered difficulties. The main purpose of this study is to develop a model of quality management for healthcare organisations. Thirty quality management experts were approached by using a Delphi method to specify the components of an appropriate quality management model. The core research led to the developme...

D auction prediction markets have proven successful in large-scale applications such as elections and sporting events. Consequently, several large corporations have adopted these markets for smaller-scale internal applications where information may be complex and the number of traders is small. Using laboratory experiments, we test the performance of the double auction in complex environments w...

By the end of 2001, an estimated 40 million people worldwide—2.7 million under age 15—were living with HIV/AIDS. More than 70 percent of these people (28.1 million) live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Another killer, malaria, is responsible for as many as half the deaths of African children under the age of five. The disease kills more than one million children each year—2,800 per day—in Africa alone. ...