Adding Value to International Business Education: An Irish-American Road Map to Service Learning

Adding value to performance management with business metrics

A great deal of system and human effort is expended to collect detailed technical measurements. These measurements are usually stored in some form of a Performance Database, or PDB. However, these data do little to help us understand the purpose of those systems: supporting our business. These basic performance measures tell us very little about the systems’ business value. To understand that b...

Map to Service-Oriented Business and IT: A Stratified Approach

To succeed in the current business environment, organizations need to be innovative, flexible and faster in the face of uncertainty, complexity and change. As the perspective has moved from products to services, enterprises have componentized their structures to operate in the newly emerging collaborative ecosystems. Service-oriented information technology approaches have proven to be well suit...

ValueApping: An Analysis Method to Identify Value-Adding Mobile Enterprise Apps in Business Processes

Mobile enterprise apps provide novel possibilities for the optimization and redesign of business processes, e.g., by the elimination of paper-based data acquisitioning or ubiquitous access to up-to-date information. To leverage these business potentials, a critical success factor is the identification and evaluation of value-adding MEAs based on an analysis of the business process. For this pur...

Adding Value to Student Learning : Quality and Outcomes in Tafe

Adding value to online role plays: Virtual situated learning environments

Role-play as a means of involving learners in experiential learning opportunities has been a characteristic of student-centered learning environments for many years. Developments in the digital environment have enabled the design of more sophisticated role play environments in which learners deal with the complexity and ambiguity of real-life issues and the same time develop their knowledge of ...