Initially seen as a support function, Information Systems (IS) department’s importance has increased as the business environment has grown more dynamic and the power to collect, assess, and disseminate information has expanded. Properly implemented information systems have become an even more valuable strategic resource – one that any organization can use to improve its competitive advantage. I...

This paper introduces the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) as a tool of decision makings for the Integrated Lake Basin Management (ILBM). I show how the analytical framework is applied to one of drainage watersheds in Laguna de Bay in Philippines toward sustainable lake basin management through the ILBM-Governance project.

Knowledge management is a strategy to support enhanced decision making through effective control of organizational knowledge. This paper presents a preliminary investigation into the governance of strategies to manage knowledge and the relationship between such strategies and organizational structures. It finds that the federated information transfer model is the ‘best fit’ with a stakeholder m...

The strategy of sustainable development in the governance of information and communication technology (ICT) is a sector of advanced research that leads to rising challenges posed by social and environmental requirements in the implementation and establishment of the governance strategy. This paper offers new generation governance model that we call "ICT Green Governance". The proposed framework...

Despite the financial crisis and ongoing need for cost cutting, companies all around the world heavily invest in Information Systems (IS) and underlying Information Technology (IT). Proliferation of governance of enterprise IT helps companies manage, or rather, governs IS as a primary business function with executive management involved in making decision about IS and IT. The business value of ...

Knowledge management is a strategy to support enhanced decision making through effective control of organizational knowledge. This paper presents a preliminary investigation into the governance of strategies to manage knowledge and the relationship between such strategies and organizational structures. It finds that the federated information transfer model is the ‘best fit’ with a stakeholder m...

In this paper, we propose an extension of existing geographic information systems to support querying-by-sketch. It makes use of a particular class of queries, called qualitative spatial configuration queries, to match sketch-maps against spatial datasets. After analyzing several approaches, we identify the development of a dedicated qualitative layer as the most suitable solution. To face the ...