Learning organizations may provide a mechanism by which physicians can meet the challenges currently occurring in the medical profession, such as the emergence of HMOs, increased concern over medical costs, and the need to maintain continuing competence in increasingly complex environments. Learning organizations are generative; they are responsive and have been used effectively during times of...

Copyright © 2011 Massachusetts Medical Society. Ultrasonography is a safe and effective form of imaging that has been used by physicians for more than half a century to aid in diagnosis and guide procedures. Over the past two decades, ultrasound equipment has become more compact, higher quality, and less expensive, which has facilitated the growth of point-of-care ultrasonography — that is, ult...

As modern organizations increasingly depend on information systems (IS) to enhance work productivity and seek new business opportunities, communication effectiveness has become one of the key factors that underlie the effective performance of IS implementations and applications. Instant Messaging (IM) presents a revolution in enterprise communication. As more organizations are findings ways to ...

Despite organizations’ substantial investments in information systems and information technology (IS/IT), the successful realization of appropriate benefits is still often considered a major organizational challenge. Benefits management (BM) aims at resolving this issue and has become increasingly popular in recent years. Although several papers have been published in this domain, they mainly f...

Organizations security becomes increasingly more difficult to obtain due to the fact that information technology and networking resources are dispersed across organizations. Network intrusion attacks are more and more difficult to detect even if the most sophisticated security tools are used. To address this problem, researchers and vendors have proposed alert correlation, an analysis process t...

The causes of IS (Information Systems) failure have become increasingly complex. This requires us to be sensitive to how a failure may be situated in the socio-historical context of organizations. This study analyzes how the collapse of organizational learning may be attributed to recurrent IS failures in one particular organization. It suggests that the repeated failed implementations are due ...

Recent years have shown a strong trend toward electronic information management in many fields. The use of office applications generated vast amounts of digital information and global multi-site organizations are increasingly faced with the need for advanced Information and Communication Technology (ICT) facilities for information management and distributed working. We address these requirement...

Learning communities and organizations are being recognized both as a mechanism for bringing learning about and as an explanation of what learning takes place. Systems that support learning in context and collaborative learning are increasingly being used to support performance and learning for school reform and business productivity. Similarly, many of the performance and learning outcomes tha...

Increasingly organizations are participating in networked value constellations, which are networks where organizations, enabled by information technology, jointly create value and satisfy customer needs. However, participating in a networked value constellation increases the problem of correctly understanding the organization, which is necessary to design (cross)-organizational IT support. Ther...