background and objectives: evaluation has an important role in software development. quality is considered in the evaluation of information systems, which depends on usability, availability, validity, compatibility, and response time. this research was performed with the aim of determining the usability of hospital information systems according to the 7 principles of isometric 9241, part 10. me...

This paper assesses how one large information systems (IS) organisation, Capgemini, is changing in response to the increased globalisation of software development practices. It posits the emergence of a new form of multi-national enterprise (MNE) – the heterarchy that draws on theoretical antecedents in the field of international business. Data is gathered from two extended case studies of IS p...

The paper presents a framework to interpret information systems development (ISD) as composed of activities for the creation and exchange of knowledge. The framework is based on the five inquiring systems presented by Churchman [13]. The main contribution of the framework is in showing that the inquiring systems are complementary rather than competing: rationalism, empiricism, idealism, dialect...

levels of modeling, model transformations as well as the generation of light prototypes in different web implementation technologies. European Journal of Information Systems (2007) 16, 407–419. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000689

This paper investigates the relationships that unfold between an actor’s competence, methods, and practice during information systems development (ISD). The data was gathered in a case study of a successful ISD in a Norwegian municipality. In theory, competence, methods, and practice are separate and clearly distinct elements. In actual ISD, however, the three elements form close and integrated...

Service-learning projects are becoming more prevalent in Information Systems education. This study explores the benefits and challenges of community-based research, a special kind of a service-learning strategy, in an Information Systems core course on web development. The paper presents a case study of a service-learning project to develop an educational web portal for a second-grade class by ...

This paper contributes a deeper understanding of the concept of methodical information systems development. The method concept is an assumption underlying much of the research into systems analysis, design and implementation. A postmodern deconstruction technique is used to discover a deferred concept: amethodical systems development. The methodical and amethodical views are developed in terms ...

Successful uses of information technologies usually require teams of developers working in concert (rather than individuals working alone); implying that methodological prescriptions for such developers should centre on issues such as communication and co-ordination. Here, it will be argued that the epistemology proffered by the SSM advocates does not provide a practical basis upon which to con...

evaluation of nurses point of views about hospital information system (his) in urmia     rahimi b [1] *, ebrahimi z [2] , rashidi a [3]     received: 17 sep, 2012 accepted: 16 nov, 2012     abstract   background & aims : nowadays most hospitals replace their paper-based medical records with electronic health records or update their old hospital information systems (hiss). a descriptive study of...

This study suggests refining and further developing the body of knowledge (BoK) framework for information systems development (ISD) proposed by Iivari et al. (2004) using a combination of scientometric and content analysis approaches. The paper synthesizes descriptive concepts and actionable principles that scholars in highly-cited ISD articles agree to be fundamental to ISD research and practi...