Browsing Enterprise Agility (Conference Papers) by Title
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Optimal Product Information Display Formats in Online Shopping Scenarios: Implications for Management Practice and Policy Formation
(2009)The second key challenge noted by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (2004) eBusiness Strategy report is the building of confidence among Irish SME's and Micro-enterprises in the development of online ... -
Organizing for Agility: a Complex Adaptive Systems perspective on Agile Software Development Process
(2006)Agile software development has caught the attention of both practitioners and academics in recent years. In spite of many anecdotes and papers describing lessons learnt the theoretical foundation of agile software development ... -
A Paradoxical Perspective on Contradictions in Agile Software Development
(2008)An ongoing debate on agile methods focuses on the contradictions in software development, especially responding to change vs. following a plan, and people vs. processes. Unlike the ¿either-or¿ perspective adopted in the ... -
People over process: the implications of agile for IS skills
(2009)Agile approaches to information systems development have become increasingly popular in recent years, as more and more IS organisations are eager to capitalise on the alleged opportunities and benefits they provide. ... -
Performance Management of Agile Software Development Teams
(2010)Around the same time as the emergence of agile methods as a formalized concept, the management accounting literature introduced the concept of Beyond Budgeting as a performance management model for a changing business ... -
Project Management in Information Systems Development
(2009)Although there is a growing body of literature concerned with the adoption of agile software development within a large organization, there is still very little in terms of empirical research of practice. This research ... -
Project managers - do they need to be certified?
(Springer, 2009-12-16)The purpose of this study is to examine the drivers behind the certification of project managers in Irish organisations, to identify the benefits and drawbacks of project management certification and to determine whether ... -
Public sector IT outsourcing: a framework for evaluating risk
(IFIP, 2010-08-30)A recent trend has seen the significant growth of governments outsourcing IT projects to private sector partners. However, despite the high risk of failure in public sector IT projects, the literature on outsourcing risks ... -
Risk management in agile methods: a study of DSDM in practice
(2009-05-25)Businesses are increasingly operating in extremely turbulent environments necessitating the need to respond and adapt to change more quickly and improve overall time to market. From an Information Systems Development ... -
The role of process evolution in achieving citizen centered e-government
(Association for Information Systems, 2003)The growth and popularity of e-commerce has both challenged and enabled public sector organizations to redefine their levels of service. In the late 1990¿s E-government provided unparalleled opportunities for governments ... -
Supply chain transformation in APC Ireland: lean thinking, opposing logics and bricolage.
(ECIS, 2007-06)This paper presents a number of observations and findings from an ongoing study of supply chain transformation in a subsidiary of American Power Conversion (APC) located in the West of Ireland. The study is being carried ... -
Understanding Agility in Software Development through A Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
(2009)Agile software development methods have emerged in recent years and have become increasingly popular since the start of the century. While much research claims to study agile methods, the meaning of agility itself in ... -
Understanding net benefits: a citizen-based perspective on e-government success
(2009)eGovernment promises more efficient services and a more responsive government. Despite substantial investment, increasing failure rates have prompted critics to argue that policy makers are not achieving this vision. ... -
Using focus groups in studies of ISD team behaviour
(Academic Conferences International, 2010-06-25)This paper discusses an innovative focus group approach used to study an Information Systems Development (ISD) environment. The research had to cope with the application of a broad framework, untested in practice, seeking ... -
Value creation and capture with open source software: a theoretical model for understanding the role of value networks
(2010-06-07)This paper aims at examining how firms create and capture value with open source software (OSS). OSS is seen as an excellent exemplar of both peer production and open innovation. Nevertheless, the use of OSS as a form ... -
What's technology got to do With IT? A Dephi study on collaborative learning in distance educatio
(London School of Economics, 2009)Collaborative Learning (CL) is increasingly being used in Distance Education (DE), as it has been identified as an effective solution to known weaknesses such as high average rates of dropout and low quality of learning ...