Much has been written about the virtual organisation and the impact this will have on organisational forms, processes and tasks for the 21st Century. There has been little written about the practicalities of managing this virtual organisation and managing virtual change. The ability of the organisation to change or to extend itself as a virtual entity will reflect the extent to which an underst...

The current vast development in ubiquitous computing, cloud computing and networking across every sector and business has made data mining emerging as one of the most active areas in information and communication technologies (ICT) as data and its deep analysis becomes an important issue for enhancing the soft power of an organization, its production systems, decision making and performance. Ho...

Green ICT Practices fall in two different extremes of either only recommendations to reduce the resource usage such as electricity, or high level strategic management techniques such as Green Balanced Scorecard. The one extreme is very micro level operational approach and the other extreme is just paper strategies without a roadmap for total sustainability. This chapter proposes the enterprise ...

Although information and communication technologies (ICT) were an important issue for Travel & Tourism (T&T) since the 1960s (i.e. computer reservations systems, global distribution systems; Werthner & Klein, 1999), the difference today is that ICT has become a strategic issue for every business (Buhalis, 2006). The special benefit tourism gains from ICT can be put down to the characteristics o...

The European Commission Directorate General Information Society (DGINFSO) sketches in a recent report the choices that have to be made to fulfil the Lisbon perspectives of realising a competitive, inclusive and sustainable Europe. Chief among this report’s recommendations was the call for a strategy: “The EU needs a comprehensive and holistic strategy to spur on the growth of the ICT sector and...

Effective e-government presupposes proper application of the information and communications technology (icT) as well as an effective management system in order to improve the economics of the public sector. The budget with which the public sector organizations start their new strategic planning cycle should be partially used to enable their organizational efficiency. This is done through the im...

This exploratory analysis of smart partnerships identifies the risk of increasing the digital divide with the deployment of data analytics. Smart partnerships in education appear to include a process of evolution into a synergy of strategic and holistic approaches that enhance the quality of education with digital technologies, harnessing ICT “smartly” both in relation to learning and support o...

Fresh water is an essential element for human survival and land-based life forms. Right quantity and quality of fresh water is a fundamental element for human continued existence and land-based life forms. About 97% of earth water is salt water and from remaining 3% only 0.4% fresh water is available for human use. Many countries of the world are facing problem of inadequate drinking water supp...

Mobile enterprise initiatives are evolving from small projects focused on productivity improvements and cost savings to large-scale enterprise-wide strategic implementations that enable companies to gain and sustain competitive advantages. Despite its many potential benefits, however, widespread enterprise adoption of mobile solutions has not been as extensive as anticipated. This article explo...