This article presents an adapted version of an established model for assessing community readiness along with an illustrative case example from the evaluation of Positive Action, a school-based social and character development intervention, implemented as part of a randomized controlled trial in Chicago Public Schools from 2004 through 2010. Community readiness is an emerging assessment approac...

Diffusion of information and communication technologies is a global phenomenon. In spite of rapid globalization there are considerable differences between nations in terms of the adoption and usage of new technologies. Several studies exploring causal factors including national cultures of information and communication technology adoption have been carried out. The focus of this paper is slight...

Imposing certain restrictions on the transition system that deenes the behaviour of a process allows us to characterize the readiness semantics of OH86] by means of black{box testing experiments, or more precisely by lighted button testing experiments BM92]. As divergence is considered we give the semantics as a preorder, the readiness preorder, which kernel coincides with the readiness equival...

This study hoped to answer 2 main objectives. The first objective was to assess the level of e-readiness of SMEs in Northern Malaysia. The second objective was to investigate the factors contributing to the e-readiness of SMEs in Northern Malaysia. Questionnaires were distributed using a simple random sampling method to 300 SMEs in Penang, Kedah and Perlis. The findings of this study show that ...

This study presents a conceptual model to investigate the e-health readiness required by healthcare organization and the impact of such readiness in enhancing e-health transformation success. A scale to measure e-health readiness was developed and validated; then it was used to collect the large-scale survey data. The partial least squares (PLS) method was used to empirically test the conceptua...

BACKGROUND Successful endorsement of quality indicators hinges on the readiness and acceptability of care providers for those measures. This paper aims to assess the readiness of care providers in the primary health-care sector in Lebanon for the implementation of quality and patient safety indicators. METHODS A cross-sectional survey methodology was utilized to gather information from 943 cl...

payoffs from information technology (it) continue to generate interest and debate both among academicians and practitioners. these have led the decision makers to confusion about it effect on firms` financial performance; they don’t know either high or low effect is because of internal or external factors of organizational environment. the mechanism for decreasing the risks is to identify the c...

supportive organizational culture for knowledge management can vouch for successful implementation of knowledge management. in the case of lacking this kind of supportive culture, the organizational culture is one of the obstacles which can lead the implementation of knowledge management to full failure and waste of organizational assets. in this research, a framework based on fmcdm was utilize...

IMPORTANCE Previous assessments of readiness of emergency departments (EDs) have not been comprehensive and have shown relatively poor pediatric readiness, with a reported weighted pediatric readiness score (WPRS) of 55. OBJECTIVES To assess US EDs for pediatric readiness based on compliance with the 2009 guidelines for care of children in EDs; to evaluate the effect of physician/nurse pediat...