Project success is an attractive idea but what factors lead to success remains an area of conjecture. In the project management literature the success has often been defined in terms of better control of timescales, budgets and resource planning. Yet these are impoverished terms for conceptualising success, which is both multi-dimensional and contextual. The study explores the perceptions of cr...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has seen exceptional growth in the last decade in Ethiopia and Africa. Delivery of health care services is an issue for governments in most developing countries. However, service and quality depend on the availability of financial and human resources along with the organizational and management capability to transform the resources to meet national...

INTRODUCTION Enterprise Systems (ES) are being widely adopted by all types of organizations and there is now considerable research on the impact of such systems The promoted strategic advantage of an ES is that it can integrate business functions into a single system with a shared database (Lee and Lee, 2000), allowing organizations to develop a homogenous enterprise-wide information systems in...

IntroductIon An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is an integrated set of programs that provides support for core organizational activities, such as manufacturing and logistics, finance and accounting , sales and marketing, and human resources. An ERP system helps the different parts of an organization share data and knowledge, reduce costs, and improve management of business processes....

The aim of this paper is to establish critical success factors in 57 biomedical laboratories in academic hospitals and health research institutes in the Netherlands. Great differences could be demonstrated between the more-than-average and the lessthan-average performers, with regard to the effectiveness of personnel policy, the flexibility of administrative procedures and the establishing of n...

A stage hypothesis for information centers (ICs) is proposed and 26 critical success factors (CSFs) for IC managers are investigated. Based on 311 responses from IC managers, support is found for the proposed stages and information is provided about the importance of the CSFs. A principal components analysis is performed on the 26 CSFs which identifies five composite CSFs: (1) commitment to the...

As pre-packaged multi-module software solutions. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems do not necessarily satisfy by default the needs of the entities where they are deployed, and require customization and sometimes additional development in order to satisfy the end-users' requirements. Due to several reasons, many ERP implementation projects are geared towards failure, out-of-budget deplo...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is wide spread in private sector. Companies are using ICT to deliver better and quicker services to their customers. So, the customers who are also citizens have been spoiled by advanced eservices and support. They have developed increased expectations regarding eservices from the public sector too. Thus, the public sector has to deliver advanced e...

Actual developments and trends on Mobile Commerce are prompting more and more companies or startups in dislocating or positioning their business model in this attractive market. To be successful, it is necessary to know about the own strengths and weaknesses, about customers, competitors and critical success factors. The goal of this thesis is to provide a contribution about considering pertine...