Most ICT projects failed due to various factors including organizational issues and leaders who did not sufficiently assess organizational readiness for change. Although various perspectives and criteria have been used by researchers to measure organizational readiness, reported evidence on its measurement in information systems (IS) adoption is still limited and unclear, which calls for clarif...

trusted 2 This paper traces the approach Unisys 3D Blueprinting used to evaluate the Rational Unified Process, or RUP, in support of the Unisys 3D Blueprint, a business and systems modeling architecture that integrates business vision and IT execution to drive organizational agility.

This paper is a vision paper presenting a framework that describes a set of integrated "tools" for supporting "knowledge management". These "tools" span technical, organizational and human story telling. The framework is based on the authors' involvement in many research projects, the literature and conversations sounding the issues.

Waddington's (1942) notion of canalization has been widely invoked in developmental psychology to conceptualize species-typical regularities in behavioral development as genetically determined. In contrast, a developmental systems view, such as the one described in the present article, sees the genes as only one component in a hierarchy of influences, all of which contribute to canalize behavio...

1. Vision problems can and often do interfere with learning. 2. People at risk for learning-related vision problems should be evaluated by an optometrist who provides diagnostic and management services in this area. 3. The goal of optometric intervention is to improve visual function and alleviate associated signs and symptoms. 4. Prompt remediation of learning-related vision problems enhances ...

This paper presents the vision and ongoing results of the COIN (FP7216256) European project for the development of collaborative and crossorganizational business process interoperability. Services for selectively publishing parts of private business processes are developed which enable the creation of a cross-organizational business process (CBP). Gap detection services provide analysis of the ...

A hierarchical intelligent control system paradigm for a vision-based autonomous driving scheme is presented for a leader-lollowing HMMWV. The paper shows how fuzzy logic is employed to represent knowledge at the organizational level, resolve conflicting perceived information and plan the best path for the vehicle. After introducing the methodology, simulation and experimental aspects for reali...

This paper proposes a modeling framework that provides rigorous concepts for conducting early organizational requirements analysis. The aim is to allow business analysts to produce an organizational model that precisely captures the knowledge of an organization and of its business processes. To this end, the framework offers a conceptual meta-model that identifies constructs that enable capturi...

the aim of this research was to determine the role of spiritual leadership in empowering the employees of sport and youth organization in hamadan province. the research method was of a descriptive and correlation type. the statistical population of the research included 150 employees of sport and youth organization in hamadan province. 180 subjects were selected as the sample by morgan and krej...

A considerable amount of research has been dedicated to bring the vision of model-driven engineering (MDE) to fruition. However, the practical experiences of organizations that transition to MDE are underreported. This paper presents a case study of the organizational consequences experienced by one large organization after transitioning to MDE. We present four findings from our case study. Fir...