There is an increasing pressure from caregivers to get ubiquitous access to clinical information. The use of ultra-mobile devices, such as smartphone, is getting increasingly high. However, there is a need for in-depth thinking regarding the best strategy to realize this transition. Too often, IT teams go for the most straightforward solution and may think that presenting the existing interface...

The 2DR-tree is a novel approach for accessing spatial data, particularly when spatial relationships are defined among objects. The 2DR-tree uses nodes that are the same dimensionality as the data space. Therefore, all relationships between objects are preserved and different binary search strategies are supported. This paper presents the 2DR-tree binary search strategy. A preliminary performan...

Businesses invest in developing information systems resources to gain competitive advantages. Literature has demonstrated the requirement of strategic alignment in converting these competitive advantages into sustained superior business performance. The knowledge of information systems strategic orientation and its relationship with business performance will enable these businesses to fine tune...

transcendental leadership is a new paradigm in management and leadership that is the best way to deal with today dynamic, changing and turbulent environments. transcendent leaders make the ethical foundation of organizations and have strategic leads. these leaders look at the organizations as a whole that lead others, themselves and the organization. a transcendental leader is a strategic leade...

Today human resource Strategies are very important for human resource systems. While talking about strategies, integration and coordination is something is much more importance than strategies formulation and implementations. This study presents a model for the strategic development of human resource based on competencies model. In fact, the main question of this research is: What are the affec...

Strategic alignment is deemed crucial in understanding how organisational performance can be improved through supporting business strategy with other organisational strategies. Whilst previous alignment literature has provided foundations for identifying the dimensions and performance impacts of the strategic alignment, it is mainly based on dyadic relationships between, for example, business a...

the strategic entrepreneurship was considered a factor which could affect the output of the small, medium and big organizations and improve the growth and wealth of an organization. nowadays, large numbers of organizations exploit the strategic entrepreneurship as a procedure to achieve long-term competitive advantages. this research is aimed at investigating the effect of the strategic entrepr...

The theory of strategic groups predicts the existence of stable groups of companies that adopt similar business strategies. The theory also predicts that groups will differ in performance and in their reaction to external shocks. We use cluster analysis to identify strategic groups in the Polish banking sector. We find stable groups in the Polish banking sector constituted after the year 2000 f...

A quantitative critique of 28 studies concludes that formal planning is valuable for firms. The results were particularly favorable for manufacturing firms: nine studies found formal planning to be associated with better performance and none found detrimental performance. Disciplines Marketing Comments Postprint version. Published in Long Range Planning, Volume 24, Issue 4, August 1991, pages 1...

This study draws on information processing theory to investigate predictors of strategic-decision quality in public organizations. Information processing theory argues that (a) rational planning practices contribute to strategicdecision quality by injecting information into decision making and (b) decision makers contribute to strategic-decision quality by exchanging information during decision...