The research undertaken within a Greek IT organisation specialising in service provisioning to the Greek banking sector discusses the various aspects of a number of identified environment factors within five distinct IT projects which affect the requirements analysis phase. Project Management (PMBOK ® Guide 4 th ed.), IT Service Management (ITIL ® v3) and Business Analysis (BABOK ® Guide 2.0) f...

Information systems (IS) continually motivate various improvements in the state-of-the-art of issues and solutions for advanced geo-information technologies in cloud computing. Reducing IS project risks and improving organizational performance has become an important issue. This study proposes a research framework, constructed from the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) framework, in order to a...

While risk management has existed for centuries, today it remains a consideration that all too often resides in an organizational silo, associated with planning a new project, evaluating a potential financial investment, complying with new regulations, or responding to a previous incident. Whereas, conceptually it is recognized that risks are inherent within an organization at all levels and in...

This paper highlights some aspects of the many facets of electricity distribution system risk assessment – describing the different risk consequence categories which are relevant in the whole risk picture with regards to their characteristics, their type of impact and applicable risk analysis methods. The paper illustrates that distribution system asset management constitutes of a variety of mo...

We combined ISO 27005 framework for IT Security Risk Management with NIST Multitier framework and we claim that IT Security Risk Management framework exist at each organizational levels. In this paper we concentrate on the monitoring and communication steps of IT Security Risk Management and especially escalation of new IT Security Incidents. We present a first draft to an IT Security Risk Esca...

in today's dynamic and uncertain environment, knowledge is a strategic source for organizations to gain the competitive advantage and innovation. in this research, we have investigated mediating role of knowledge management between environmental uncertainty and organizational innovation. data was collected through questionnaire from 89 large and medium sized manufacturing companies in suburb ma...

risk management is one of the nine project management processes, which provides positive results and minimizes the probability and consequences of adverse effects in the project.  in this article a zero-one linear programming model with multiple objectives is used to characterize the potential risks. the proposed model has two main objectives. the first objective is the minimization of the expe...

background and objectives: today, management is one of the most important factors in hospital effectiveness and performance. the objective of this study was to assess the management skills of administrators in hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences and to identify how these skills are related to effective management.   methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out o...