OVERVIEW OF THE READINESS & FIT ANALYSIS All software engineering and management practices are based on cultural and social assumptions. When adopting new practices, leaders often find mismatches between those assumptions and the realities within their organizations. The SEI has an analysis method called Readiness & Fit Analysis (RFA) that allows the profiling of a set of practices to understan...

This paper represents combination of technology management with human resources management component. Authors reviewed the literature regarding organizational readiness and organizational competences as one of its pillar. The paper proceeds and analyze an approach to strong competencies that when built successfully leads to competitiveness and future success of an organization. In this paper, a...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that changes the nature of many industries. The readiness to implement RFID affects the effectiveness of company itself and corresponding supply chain members in adopting this technology. This manuscript proposes a framework which covering organization, environment, and technology three facets with two metrics for each facet. The proposed fr...

Efficient use of enterprise resource planning systems is the only way to achieve competitive advantage in many industries. However, many reports indicate high failure rate of ERP implementation projects and the lack of access to benefits and advantages that enterprises have expected from ERP deployment. Managers are concerned about being ready to deploy such a system. Despite its enormous cost,...

As academic medical centers (AMCs) consider becoming accountable care organizations (ACOs) under Medicare, they must assess their readiness for this transition. Of the 253 Medicare ACOs prior to 2014, 51 (20%) are AMCs. Three critical components of ACO readiness are institutional and ACO structure, leadership, and governance; robust information technology and analytic systems; and care coordina...

INTRODUCTION Clinical nurses are in need of being able to adapt to the ever-changing environment of clinical settings. The prerequisite for their successful adaptation is to be lifelong learners. An approach for making nurses lifelong learners is self-directed learning. AIMS This study was undertaken to evaluate a group of Iranian clinical nurses' readiness for self-directed learning and its ...

Tailoring colorectal cancer screening interventions to address the needs of individuals for whom screening is recommended requires accurate identification of the barriers experienced by each targeted group. The primary purpose of this survey study was to test differences in the barriers to undergoing screening colonoscopy reported by men and women. In addition, we were interested in differences...

BACKGROUND Change management experts have emphasized the importance of establishing organizational readiness for change and recommended various strategies for creating it. Although the advice seems reasonable, the scientific basis for it is limited. Unlike individual readiness for change, organizational readiness for change has not been subject to extensive theoretical development or empirical ...

Collaboration is essential to develop successful Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNOs). In order to know if an organization is ready and has the needed characteristics for collaborate and participate in a CNO, either a Virtual Breeding Environment (VBE) or a Virtual Organization (VO), a set of specific elements should be evaluated. These evaluation elements are referred as Readiness for ...