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An Assessment of Biometric Identities as a Standard for E-Government Services
(2005)This paper investigates the applicability and potential use of biometrics for E- Government services. An in-depth case study is presented outlining the development of E-Government services in Ireland, highlighting potential ... -
An assessment of biometric identities as a standard for e-government services.
(Inderscience, 2005-03)This paper investigates the applicability and potential use of biometrics for e-government services. An in-depth case study is presented outlining the development of e-government services in Ireland, highlighting potential ... -
An assessment of biometric identities as a standard for e-government services.
(Mercury Publications Ltd., 2003-03)This paper investigates the applicability and potential use of biometrics for e-government services. An in-depth case study is presented outlining the development of e-government services in Ireland, highlighting potential ... -
A Balancing Act: Managing the global-local dimensions of industrial clusters through the mechanism of 'lead' organisations
(CISC, 2008-12)The purpose of this paper is to investigate 'leading' organisations in a region to understand how the balance between the global and local dimensions can be managed by clusters. Two cases of industrial clusters are employed ... -
Bananas Ethical Quality: Multi-stakeholders, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance
(CISC, 2005-11)This paper examines a recent and very specific development in the field of corporate governance. The regulation of "corporate social responsibility," that is corporate compliance with society's expectations in regard to ... -
Benefits and drawbacks of open source software: An exploratory study of secondary software firms
(Springer, 2007-06-14)Much of the assessment of OSS benefits and drawbacks has been based on anecdotal evidence appearing in practitioner publications, white papers, web articles etc. To a greater extent this research has tended to concentrate ... -
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. ... -
Biometric identities and e-government services.
(IGI Global, 2006)Governments are using the Internet and e-commerce technologies to provide public services to their citizens (Watson & Mundy, 2001). In so doing, governments aim to form better relationships with businesses and citizens by ... -
Building a dolmen: an ISD approach to the management of innovation
(Springer, 2008-10-24)This paper addresses a ¿challenge in practice¿ by describing the initial stage of an information systems development (ISD) project to support the management of innovation within a subsidiary of APC-MGE. To begin with, a ... -
Capabilities & Competitiveness: A Methodological Approach for Understanding Irish Economic Transformation
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Challenges of virtuality from the viewpoint of SMEs
(International Information Management Corporation, 2009)This study analyses the collaboration in the context of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). The paper approaches the research topic with a case study of fourteen manufacturing SMEs. In order to develop a collaborative ... -
Chaos and Order in Agile Software Development: a Comparison of Two Software Development Teams in a Major IT Company
(2007)Agile methods have emerged and become popular over last few years as a response to shortcomings of the waterfall process model. However, agile processes are stamped by some as chaotic processes and are placed in opposition ... -
Chiquita Brands and the banana business: brands and labour relations transformations
(CISC, 2006-01)This paper reports the results of research investigating the evolution of environmentally and socially responsible strategies and practices within the banana industry. An historical overview of a major multinational ... -
A Click And Bricks Strategy For eGovernment
(2004)Two of the central challenges of e-government are the need for "joined-up" government through agency collaboration, and the need to provide "citizen-centred" government, where services and information are integrated ... -
A Coevolving Systems Approach to the Organization of Agile Software Development
(2009)Despite the popularity of agile methods in software development and increasing adoption by organizations there is debate about what agility is and how it is achieved. The debate suffers from a lack of understanding of ... -
A coevolving systems approach to the organization of agile software development.
(Institute of Management Sciences, 2009)Despite the popularity of agile methods in software development and increasing adoption by organizations there is debate about what agility is and how it is achieved. The debate suffers from a lack of understanding of ... -
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 ... -
Comparing techniques for preference relaxation: a decision theory perspective
(Springer, 2010-09-01)This research proposes a decision aid based on a novel type of preference relaxation, which enables consumers to easily make quality choices in online multiattribute choice scenarios. In contrast to ltering and ...