Web services are redefining the way organizations exchange business-critical information internally and externally with customers, suppliers, and other business associates. In this paper, we develop an integrative model for understanding value creation in web services from a provider’s perspective. The model integrates the static representation of conventional business values with the fluidity ...

background and objectives: the healthcare organization are often fail to realize their strategic goals due to the lack of effective leadership. to address this efficiency, factors can possibly influence the management performance should be identified. thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style and explore the relationship between leadership style in hosp...

in new organizational world, managenemt is the most effective factor; and its proper form is in collaboration with leadership. one of the leadership's theories-which is the most effective-is charismatic leadership theory, though hasn't gain proper attention. generally, charismatic leadership means creating a relationship which involves affecting and being affected without involvement ...

Effective educational leadership can make a difference in the resolution of complex issues that impact today’s demand-driven educational marketplace. The ongoing professional and skill development needs of human health resources may be best managed through distributed strategic leadership blended with servant leadership. Together these two approaches may offer the critical bridge for effective ...

In Canada, the nursing shortage is all encompassing, and nurse leaders are needed from the bedside to the boardroom. Healthcare organizations and the nursing profession lag behind the corporate sector in development of strategic leadership succession planning. Contemporary nurse leaders will require all the knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies their predecessors can provide. Effective ...

Ultimately, organizations invest in information technology (IT) initiatives to improve their level of performance. However, there have been mixed results from the payoff of IT investments. This article presents evidence that the variation in benefits derived from IT is in part due to the organization’s CIO leadership profile. This profile is determined by whether the CIO’s level of strategic de...

M. Ernest J. M. Nisavic The current stage of information technology (IT) evolution focuses on moving from a technology-based to a services-based orientation. To that end, IT leadership has had to shift from focusing primarily on technological issues to learning to manage IT like a business, with IT services as the primary ‘‘product’’ produced and consumed by customers. The Component Business Mo...

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