Clinical practice guidelines are useful in improving quality of care and outcomes, reducing inappropriate variation in practice, promoting efficient use of resources, informing and empowering patients and informing public policy. However, difficulties arise when guidelines are poorly introduced into routine daily practice and, as a consequence, many patients do not receive the care intended or ...

This paper identifies areas in the design science research (DSR) subfield of the information systems (IS) discipline where a more detailed consideration of practitioner audiences could improve IS DSR’s informing power and proposes an initial audience conceptualization in an informing system. The consequences of not considering artifact audiences in greater detail are identified through a critic...

IT projects fail for many reasons. Often this is attributed to poor project management; however, knowledge, though a critical resource within organizations and projects, is often overlooked as a cause of project failure. Changes to project teams can affect the knowledge balance within the team and new entrants often have to learn large amounts of information before actively contributing to the ...

Change in higher education information systems, and other informing science curricula is inevitable. This paper offers a brief consideration of three different models that can be used to describe how this change occurs. Most curriculum texts give prime consideration to approaches to curriculum change based on research, development and diffusion models, and the paper outlines some objections to ...