or writing impenetrable reports, or publishing in research journals that are obscure and inaccessible? Are researchers failing to adequately explain to practitioners how to carry the ideas into practice? All of these diagnoses assume that the problem lies on the production side of the breakdown, and not on the consumer side. What if the pathology lies in poor practice? Do business professionals...

With the significant reliance of proactive monitoring of computer networks on security information management systems, a requirement is to provide appropriate and comprehensive countermeasures to perceived threats on the entire network. A security response mechanism is proposed that combines both generic and fuzzy response models to provide automated (static and dynamic) security countermeasure...

Welcome to this, a very special issue of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems – the 20th anniversary issue of the journal. Launched in December 1991, JSIS has become one of the leading Information Systems journals in the world – recognized, for example, by the Association for Information Systems senior scholars as one of eight high quality journals in the IS field (www.aisnet.org). Winn...

Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to welcome you in the third issue of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine and I hope you find it interesting. In this issue, beside the valuable original articles and an interesting case report, a useful review article have been published concerning the role of nuclear medicine in the management of solitary pulmonary nodule.I am proud to announce you that Journ...

introduction: hospitals require a central monitoring and improve planning process in order to enhance patient care quality. regarding the current developments in health care systems, the question is which information system can support transformation of hospitals. this review article focuses on the capacity of enterprise resource planning (erp) systems for the transformation of hospitals. metho...

introduction: direct and rapid access to information is one of the main necessities of the users in new technological world. nowadays, information users, particularly medical information in which rapid access is of necessity, do not have enough time to search and access to information. therefore, the present study aimed to determine strategies to access required information as soon as possible....

The challenges associated with achieving a better fit between an organization’s information technology (IT) strategy and its business strategy – most commonly known as “IT-business alignment” – have earned this issue a place as an IT management perennial top ten concern for organizational executives. Not surprisingly, the problems associated with attaining higher levels of IT-business alignment...

introduction: one of the software packages designed for libraries and documenting centres is unesco cds/isis mini-micro software package. most libraries in iran have a copy of it. this research was aimed to investigate the degree of its application in central libraries of medical sciences universities in 2004. methods and materials: it is a descriptive study in which a questionnaire was used to...