It has been suggested that user-centered design approaches may be the key to matching the development of organizational information systems to a firm's business and work requirements. The information systems literature on this topic centers upon methods to support user-centered system development: such approaches assume that the participation of relevant stakeholders will ensure an appropriate ...

Twenty years ago, ERP systems, Big Data and products embedded with information technology were not part of the IT landscape, but today these technologies are ubiquitous or at least top of mind for executives trying to remain competitive. Amidst this change, what firm level factors are critical to understanding the appropriate organizational response for the IT organization? We observe a previou...

March 2000 39 medicamundi This article addresses various aspects of the integration of imaging systems and information systems in the radiology department and the hospital as a whole. It includes the technical and organizational obstacles, the role of standards, and some promising recent developments for overcoming the obstacles. Particular attention is paid to the IHE (Integrating the Healthca...

Supplier integration has been a hot topic for both academicians and practitioners since the booming of supply chain management and popularity of Japanese supplier management practices. Previous studies have contributed a lot to the performance impacts of supplier integration. However, not much has been done in investigating the enablers, and little attention has been paid from the resource-base...

Different approaches are available for the integration of existing health information systems (HIS) in integration projects. Within the PlugIT project in Finland, we have found it necessary to design and implement integration in a collaborative, multidisciplinary and open way. In this paper, we use some generic integration models and relate them to the methods, solutions and experiences of the ...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity for building open, distributed, and evolving software required by systems such as information integration applications. Unfortunately, despite considerable work in software architecture during the last decade, few research efforts have aimed at truly defining patterns and languages for designing such multiagent architectures. We pro...

In application areas like personal information agents and intelligent tutoring systems, user models typically maintain sophisticated representations of personal interest profiles and knowledge / skill levels. These representations can be utilized for effective information retrieval and filtering as well as for personalized information presentation. Information delivery services within organizat...

This paper proposes a framework that can be used to explain and improve enterprise integration practices. It draws on the traditions of quality management and organizational learning to understand how implementation of advanced information technologies such as enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management may be explained and improved. Enterprise systems implementations at t...

Enterprise architecture frameworks sometimes provide an additional architectural layer between businessoriented artefact types (e. g., business processes, organizational units) and technical artefact types (e. g., software components, data structures). This "integration" or "alignment" layer is intended to bridge the gap, which results from different life cycles, different ownerships, and other...