This chapter describes the development and testing of a method for information systems (IS) strategy formulation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). A case study describing a practical experience with the method is presented. Essentially the method is comprised of two complementary analyses: an externally focused strategic analysis and an internally focused business process analysis. The me...

Twelve years ago, Brian Powell and Lala Carr Steelman analyzed state SAT scores in a landmark article in the Harvard Educational Review. At the time, politicians and the media, among others, had been using raw state SAT scores to make inferences about the relative quality of education among the U.S. states. Powell and Steelman, however, found that more than 80 percent of the variation in averag...

Previous Studies Although the operation of leucotomy is now over 20 years old only a few attempts at a controlled assessment of its therapeutic effect have been made (Penrose, 1944; Mettler, 1949, 1952; Friedman, Moore, Ranger, and Russman, 1951; Livingston, 1953; Jenkins and Holsopple, 1953; Freeman, Davis, East, Tait, Johnson, and Rogers, 1954; Jenkins, Holsopple, and Lorr, 1954; Medina, Pear...

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Throughout the health care sector, report card programs, which collect and publicize information on providers’ quality, have been gaining popularity as a means of improving quality. However, to date the empirical evidence of the efficacy of these programs has been mixed. This paper undertakes a theoretical investigation of the impact on providers’ behavior of making better quality information a...

Introduction Recently, organisations as well as academics have increasingly become aware of the need for organisations to co-operate in knowledge networks with partnering organisations that can also be seen as competitors. It is not longer just co-operation that can improve a firm’s global competitiveness, but firms will actually meet their competitors in such cooperations. Organisations need t...

a b a c Aditi Kishore Shinde, M.S. , Soumyabrata Munshi, M.D. , Subhash Chandra Biswas, M.D. , Avijit Hazra, M.D. , b Sasanka Chakrabarti, M.D. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, 244 Acharya J.C. Bose Road, Kolkata 700020, India. Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, 244 Acharya J.C...

For nearly two decades, restorative justice responses to youth offending have been in place in all Australian states and territories. During this time, a vast amount of research on restorative justice processes and their impact on participants has amassed. Results consistently demonstrate that participants in restorative justice processes report positive experiences and regard their justice pro...