INTRODUCTION / GOAL Using resources efficiently while raising the bar on quality is an ongoing struggle within the healthcare system. Achieving this delicate balance is a key determinant of an organization’s ability to meet its strategic direction. Recognizing that individual physician performance drives both cost and quality of care, Rouge Valley Health System, a twohospital and multi-site org...

The paradigmatic frameworks that give strategic direction to our research and practice in any area of information systems (IS) are often discussed with reference to philosophy. Thinkers working within five major areas in IS nature of computers, shaping of information technologies, IS development, use of IS for human tasks, technological ecology appeal to different, incompatible philosophic stan...

We provide a strategic implementation of the sequential equal surplus division rule (Béal et al., 2014). Precisely, we design a non-cooperative mechanism of which the unique subgame perfect equilibrium payoffs correspond to the sequential equal surplus division outcome of a superadditive rooted tree TU-game. This mechanism borrowed from the bidding mechanism designed by Pérez-Castrillo and Wett...

We present a case study describing the process and resulting design for the bluemail conversation viewer: a web-based mashup between social networking information and email threads within a corporate setting. In particular, we look closely at the role design played when adjoined to an agile development process. We discuss the benefits and trade-offs from working in highly iterative and modestly...

This paper explores a series of relationships between top managers, strategic direction and financial performance. Building on previous studies, it was hypothesised that: (a) firms pursuing different strategies would be led by managers with different profiles; and, (b) firms which aligned the profiles of their top managers with the requirements of their strategies would outperform those that di...

Most times the provision of e-government services is dealt with independency of the legacy system itself. As more complex transactional services are provided to the public and the degree of on-line interaction between e-government service users (Internet) and legacy system users (Intranet) increases, the integration between e-service provision platform and existing legacy information system bec...

New integrated and technology-supported services are needed to face the challenges of rapidly ageing societies. Collaborative networks provide a promising framework for the development of such services, which require the involvement of multiple stakeholders. In this direction, a roadmapping initiative is addressing the implementation of a new vision for technological support to ageing. To suppo...

This report summarizes a ground-breaking workshop on the strategic direction of acupuncture research which was held in York in early July 2006. Three days were spent discussing the history, the philosophy and the practicalities of researching acupuncture. Attending the workshop were an international group of researchers with varied backgrounds, including acupuncturists, physicians, physiotherap...