The ISO 14000 and ISO 9000 standards have a positive impact on achieving sustainable and efficient business. The ISO 14001, in particular, is credited with a crucial role of assisting businesses with managing their environmental credentials which are vital in the upcoming carbon economy. This paper explores the significance of ISO 14001 and expands on the possibilities of the use of this standa...

Growing load and deterioration of the environment can be interpreted as a result of some external effects interventions. While the positive externalities influence the positive productional and utilizational functions of other subjects, the negative externalities influence the negative ones. Both types of external effects can act as parcial or global externalities. Linking of environmental issu...

The ICONS (Intelligent CONtent management System) project objectives and contribution to the current state of the knowledge management field is presented. The project represents an ongoing international research effort funded by the European IST research programme. An important aspect of the project is the fact that its inception and the technological platform are based on the industrial softwa...

With the negative impact of system implementation failure, it is important to recognise the issues surrounding system selection and implementation. Inspired by the work by Markus (1983), this paper focuses on the issue of resistance towards a new system and the impact policy has on diminishing opposition. A case study exploring the resistance associated with the selection and implementation of ...

Citizens, businesses and even public administration institutions have to meet challenges provided by the constantly changing business and legal environment. The complexity and quantity of legislation and regulations is increasing at an alarming rate. So research and development projects must turn to the development of innovative, modern technologies enabling citizens and businesses to easily ac...

The success in the implementation of a quality computer assisted mobile learning and distance education in a Technology Enhanced Learning Management System is highly rely on the academic leadership in managing and application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the tertiary level. The effectiveness of its leadership, knowledge, application and management of ICT and learning man...

Purpose – With academic institutions’ adoption of Course/Learning Management Systems (CMS), librarians are increasingly providing content through this delivery method. This study aims to identify practical information for librarians considering CMS content development or re-evaluation of online offerings. Design/methodology/approach – Academic libraries with health sciences information literacy...

Although the wealth of information provided by the World-Wide Web is of great value, most of its content is designed for desktop computers. In days when people are becoming increasingly mobile, and hence utilises devises with much smaller screens, much of this information in reality becomes inaccessible. The same is true also for organisational intranets. However, the content management systems...

This work presents an XML-based authoring methodology that facilitates the different tasks associated with the development of standards-compliant e-learning content development. The idea is to support a unified authoring process of adaptive e-learning content by adopting the manual writing metaphor. According to this metaphor, which is specially well-suited for technical domains, instructors ar...

The concept of Learning Objects has been introduced in the e-learning field to enhance the accessibility, reusability, and interoperability of learning content. Despite intensive international standardization, learning content and its management still needs more detailed specifications for the implementation of a Learning Objects based system. This paper proposes strategies that a Learning Cont...