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Managing Web-Enabled Technologies in Organizations: A Global Perspective

Author : Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 271 pages

File Size : 19,98 MB

Release : 1999-07-01

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1930708688

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Book Description

Technological advancements of the past several decades in computer and telecommunication technologies have had a profound impact upon the fundamental structures of society, and particularly, upon organizations. As these technologies have matured and developed, many organizations have been looking into the organizational and managerial changes that can be made that allow the organization to achieve greater utilization of these technologies to improve their competitive postures.Web-enabled technologies have become a serious contender. Many global organizations are looking into the emerging web-enabled technologies to make their dispersed operations around the world more efficient and maintaining greater control over their resources. Those organizations that have not attempted to identify and master the many applications of web-enabled technologies will have serious difficulty competing and surviving.This book gives you the latest research findings/writings related to the web-enabled technologies utilization and management in organizations throughout the world.



Managing Healthcare Information Systems with Web-Enabled Technologies

Author : Eder, Lauren B.

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 287 pages

File Size : 13,92 MB

Release : 1999-07-01

Category : Medical

ISBN : 193070867X

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Healthcare organizations are undergoing major reorganizations and adjustments to meet the increasing demands of improved healthcare access and quality, as well as lowered costs. As the use of information technology to process medical data increases, much of the critical information necessary to meet these challenges is being stored in digital format. Web-enabled information technologies can provide the means for greater access and more effective integration of healthcare information from disparate computer applications and other information resources.Managing Healthcare Information Systems with Web-Enabled Technologies presents studies from leading researchers and practitioners focusing on the current challenges, directions, trends and opportunities associated with healthcare organizations and their strategic use of Web-enabled technologies.



Information Technology Standards and Standardization: A Global Perspective

Author : Jakobs, Kai

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 22,19 MB

Release : 1999-07-01

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1930708602

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In light of the emerging global information infrastructure, information technology standards are becoming increasingly important. At the same time, however, the standards setting process has been criticized as being slow, inefficient and out of touch with market needs. What can be done to resolve this situation?To provide a basis for an answer to this question, Information Technology Standards and Standardization: A Global Perspective paints as full a picture as possible of the varied and diverse aspects surrounding standards and standardization. This book will serve as a foundation for research, discussion and practice as it addresses trends, problems and solutions for and by numerous disciplines, such as economics, social sciences, management studies, politics, computer science and, particularly, users.



Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management

Author : Schwartz, David

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 279 pages

File Size : 33,52 MB

Release : 1999-07-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1930708637

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The Internet is quickly moving from a marketing tool in which businesses and organizations promote sales and awareness, to a core element of any information system architecture. The advent of the Internet as a fundamental infrastructure for the delivery of advanced business systems has opened up a wide range of questions for the design and development of such systems.Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management provides a multidisciplinary view of the wide range of ideas on innovative Internet information systems as they related to organizational memory and knowledge. Using the Internet as the primary architectural base, this book presents results and challenges of Internet-based knowledge management systems.



Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges

Author : Aggarwal, Anil K.

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 42,64 MB

Release : 1999-07-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1930708785

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Book Description

During the past two decades, telecommunication technologies combined with Web-enabled technologies have created a new technology-based focus, Web-based learning and teaching. This new area has changed the concept of education around the world, creating new challenges and opportunities offered by this new technology-based concept. Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges addresses many issues, trends, opportunities and problems facing colleges and universities in the effective utilization and management of Web-based learning and teaching technologies.



Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations

Author : Yogesh Malhotra

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 49,15 MB

Release : 2000-01-01

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1930708653

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Annotation Twenty essays present current research on knowledge management as related to effective design of new organization forms. The first section of the book covers frameworks, models, analyses, case studies and research on the integration of knowledge management within virtual organizations, virtual teams and virtual communities of practice. Themes covered in this section include business model innovation; design of virtual organization forms; net-based models; techniques for enabling knowledge capture, sharing and transfer; and collaboration and competition at intra- and inter-organizational levels. The focus of the second half is on key success factors that are important for realizing virtual models of business transformation. Topics include the role of organizational control systems, the role of internal and external employees and customers in creation of organizational knowledge, and information quality issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).



Organizational Achievement and Failure in Information Technology Management

Author : Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 282 pages

File Size : 41,58 MB

Release : 1999-07-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1930708718

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Book Description

With the success of the widely acclaimed first volume of this series (Success and Pitfalls of IT Management), comes the second volume, Organizational Achievement and Failure in Information Technology Management. This book is a collection real-life cases that focus on both achievements attained with the successful utilization of information technology as well as failures suffered as a result of substandard use and management of IT resources in organizations. Cases deal with issues that affect a wide variety of organizations--large and small businesses, government organizations and educational institutions.This book also appeared as the journal, Annals of Cases on Information Technology: Applications and Management in Organizations, Volume 2.



Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education

Author : Abbey, Beverly

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 279 pages

File Size : 31,67 MB

Release : 1999-07-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1930708610

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Book Description

Educators are increasingly using web sites in place of traditional content media and instructional approaches such as texts and lectures. This new teaching philosophy has led to a myriad of questions concerning instructional design principles, learners' cognitive strategies, human-Internet interaction factors and instructional characteristics of Web media that transverse political, geographic, and national boundaries. Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education is a compendium of materials by noted researchers and practitioners that addresses national and international issues and implications of Web-based instruction and learning, offering suggestions and guidelines for analyzing and evaluating Web sites from cognitive and instructional design perspectives.



Internet and Intranet Security Management: Risks and Solutions

Author : Janczewski, Lech

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 307 pages

File Size : 34,89 MB

Release : 1999-07-01

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1930708629

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Book Description

In the last 12 years we have observed amazing growth of electronic communication. From typical local networks through countrywide systems and business-based distributed processing, we have witnessed widespread implementation of computer-controlled transmissions encompassing almost every aspect of our business and private lives.Internet and Intranet Security, Management, Risks and Solutions addresses issues of information security from the managerial, global point of view. The global approach allows us to concentrate on issues that could be influenced by activities happening on opposite sides of the globe.



Challenges of Information Technology Management in the 21st Century

Author : Information Resources Management Association. International Conference

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 1244 pages

File Size : 45,57 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781878289841

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Book Description

As the 21st century begins, we are faced with opportunities and challenges of available technology as well as pressured to create strategic and tactical plans for future technology. Worldwide, IT professionals are sharing and trading concepts and ideas for effective IT management, and this co-operation is what leads to solid IT management practices. This volume is a collection of papers that present IT management perspectives from professionals around the world. The papers seek to offer new ideas, refine old ones, and pose interesting scenarios to help the reader develop company-sensitive management strategies.