The pursuit of the “train as we fight, fight as we train” goal continues with the third Coalition Readiness Management System (CReaMS) training exercise conducted during the period 9 – 12 September, 2003. Known as Virtual Coalition Readiness (VCR), this exercise was based on a scenario of a coalition maritime battle group assisting a local ally to defend offshore island regions against an aggre...

Creating useful treatment plans can help improve services to consumers of mental health services. As more evidence-based practices are implemented, deciding what treatment, at what time, for whom becomes an important factor in facilitating positive outcomes. Readiness for trauma-focused treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) such as Cognitive Processing Therapy or Prolonged Exposur...

Exchange of experiences is a common means of informal learning in work places. Multiple organizations have discovered the benefits of actively supporting a community of practice to support this. We implemented a community of practice platform in two public administration organizations concerned with employment and experienced differences between the cases as well as difficulties during the impl...

This article investigates the strategic decision to adopt enterprise mobility solutions. Integrating firmlevel theories from the strategic management, information technology adoption, and business transformation literature, we develop a framework that conceptualizes this decision. We identify four salient areas that drive adoptions and reduce overall implementation risk: (1) justified business ...

The concept of customer relationship management (CRM) resonates with managers in today's competitive economy. Yet recent articles in the business press have described CRM implementation failures, and consequent company reluctance to invest in CRM. The potential for substantially improved customer relationship management, coupled with the high uncertainty surrounding failed implementation effort...

At the G-8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit in July 2000, the industrialized nations acknowledged the advancement of the private sector in information technology (IT) and committed the organization to the Global Digital Divide Initiative of the World Economic Forum Task Force. The Task Force outlined nine initiatives and a set of concrete action plans for implementation, which may achieve egovernment read...

E-Government is defined as a system utilizing the Internet and the world-wide-web for delivering government information and services to citizens. This system reduces the processing costs, improves service delivery, and increases transparency and communication between a government and its citizens. The aim of this paper is to propose a new model to measure the readiness of e-Government according...

The e-learning is developing rapidly in the world nowadays, where technology has replaced the traditional educational approach in many universities around the world. This is because e-learning can save time and cost in educational approach as a whole. This phenomenon has spread to many developing countries like Libya with the main aim to improve the educational system. However, there seems to b...

Fingerprint identification technology for its implementation in the Schengen Information System II (SIS-II) This report presents the results of a JRC study on the readiness and availability of Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) technologies for their introduction in the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS-II), The study summarises a review of the scientific litera...