Activities of insurance, like other work fields, have been greatly influences by new technologies; therefore, they must be at the suitable level of electronic readiness to provide more effective information services in line with the needs of new era. But the question is, are the insurance companies in Iran ready to use the e-commerce opportunities efficiently? To answer, it is necessary t...

in this paper an embedded framework is proposed to employ corporate entrepreneurship concepts into a business process reengineering (bpr) technique. the former has a strong theoretical background and the latter has application potentials. our case study is a government trading company (g.t.c). we applied a mix research method to answer the research questions, where, by using the grounded theory...

as information has the role of organization asset, its protection is the key to the survival of any organization. information security management system (isms) defines protection of information in three specific concepts: information confidentiality, accuracy, and availability. many failures in implementing isms rooted in organizational problems and lack of attention to the state of readiness o...

nowadays knowledge and technology have become more important in organizations. sometimes the organizations forget their knowledge and skills unconsciously due to information inconsistencies and sometimes they forget their knowledge and skills consciously to become more agile. some aspects of forgetting are useful while the other aspects are harmful. moreover information technology has made a ba...

Mechanisms underlying socioeconomic disparities in school readiness and health outcomes, particularly obesity, among preschool-aged children are complex and poorly understood. Obesity can induce changes in proteins in the circulation that contribute to the negative impact of obesity on health; such changes may relate to cognitive and emotion regulation skills important for school readiness. We ...

OBJECTIVE To validate patient and nurse short forms for discharge readiness assessment and their associations with 30-day readmissions and emergency department (ED) visits. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING A total of 254 adult medical-surgical patients and their discharging nurses from an Eastern US tertiary hospital between May and November, 2011. STUDY DESIGN Prospective longitudinal design, mu...

Commercial drivers suffer from sedentary lifestyles, poor nutrition and numerous stressors that can impact their health. This study aimed to assess the health lifestyle risk level of microbus drivers in Giza, Egypt, and to compare their level of readiness for change with their knowledge about chronic diseases of lifestyle, before and after an educational intervention. Data were collected from 2...

Often, community coalitions are facilitators of community-level changes when addressing underage drinking. Although studies have shown that enhancing coalition capacity is related to improved internal functioning, the relationship between enhanced capacity and community readiness for change is not well established. The present study used a pretest-posttest design to examine whether enhancing co...