Browsing Enterprise Agility (Conference Papers) by Issue Date
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Challenges for aided online shopping and product selection - a decision making perspective.
(2009)Consumers often face a task to select a best option from a large set of alternatives, such as choosing a car to buy1, an apartment to rent2, or an unforgettable trip to book3. E-commerce sites frequently provide the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Modelling the Effects of Decision Tools in Online Shopping
(2009)The provision of tools to focus user interaction in analysing data to come to a decision is the core principle of a decision supporting system. This became the inherent characteristic of decision support systems to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A case study of risk management in agile systems development
(2009-06-08)A principal objective of agile development methods is to reduce risk thereby resulting in more successful and effective information systems. However, while there is an extensive body of academic literature on risk ... -
Contribution behaviours in systems development - a position paper
(2009-12-02)This development research paper explores concepts associated with contribution behaviours. Contribution, in its simplest context occurs in organization settings where employees share knowledge with one another. Usually, ... -
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 ... -
Having a Customer Focus in Agile Software Development
(2010)This research looks at the customer focus of agile software development teams. The study is part of a larger study examining how the twelve principles of Beyond Budgeting are operationalised in the context of an agile ... -
Beyond Budgeting: A Performance Management Model for Software Development Teams
(2010)The Beyond Budgeting performance management model enables companies to keep pace with changing environments, to quickly create and adapt strategy and to empower people throughout the organisation to make effective choices. ... -
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 ... -
Improving decision quality through preference relaxation.
(IOS press, 2010)In online shopping scenarios, it can be difficult for consumers to process the vast amounts of information available and to make satisfactory buying decisions. Interactive decision aids are a potential solution to this ... -
Improving consumer decision making through preference relaxation.
(2010)In online shopping scenarios, it can be difficult for consumers to process large amounts of information and make a good purchase decision, particularly for multiattributed products selection. Interactive decision aids that ... -
Improving customer decisions using product reviews: CROM - Car Review Opinion Miner
(2010-04-07)Online shopping is a very goal-oriented activity. Consumers have a set of preferences for a product or service that is used as criteria for assessment of the available alternatives. However, crucial information about ... -
Mobilising IS to support the diffusion of energy management practices outside of Ireland¿s LIEN (Large Industry Energy Network)
(Association Information et Management, 2010-05)Ireland is under increasing pressure to reduce energy consumption to meet carbon emission targets and protect an economy that is almost totally dependant on imported energy. The implementation of no cost and low cost ... -
Combining open innovation and agile approaches: implications for IS project managers
(2010-06)This paper describes a research-in-progress that explores the applicability and implications of open innovation in a multiple-project environment that employs agile approaches to information systems development. In doing ... -
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 ... -
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 ...