As business grow more and more interconnected and hence increasingly reliant on information technology (IT), there is the temptation to argue that careful planning of the information systems (IS) and IT resources in an organisation becomes even more imperative. However, an alternative view might suggest that in rapidly changing and turbulent environments, planning becomes somewhat of an anachro...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have been credited with providing competitive advantage in multinational business operations, to include supply chains. Multinational implementations of ERP involve added complexity. This paper uses case studies and other reports of multinational ERP implementation to identify implementation factors of importance. Four technical factors were identified...

Results Of 546 respondents, 98% were female. Amateur owners exceeded professional respondents (81%:19%). Key findings included; that only 11% correctly identified all overweight animals (6/12), but between 37 and 98% correctly identified individual overweight animals. Professional status did not influence an owner’s ability to identify overweight animals. On assessing the weight/condition suita...

Abstract : The goal of this paper is to find a close to isomorphic presentation of 3-manifolds in terms of Hopf algebraic expressions. To this end we define and compare three different braided tensor categories that arise naturally in the study of Hopf algebras and 3-dimensional topology. The first is the category Cob of connected surfaces with one boundary component and 3-dimensional relative ...

The purpose of this study is to follow-up on ERP implementation after five years. The original study of ERP implementation in five organizations was accomplished in 2000 (Sumner, 2002). The purpose of the follow-up interviews in 2005 was to identify changes in ERP planning, design, and implementation strategy as these projects evolved over time. The organizations participating in these case stu...

Policymakers in several states have introduced legislation to establish GPAs for small businesses. Earlier this year, H.R. 660 was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and S. 545 was introduced in the Senate. These bills seek to establish federally regulated association health plans (AHPs; these are one type of GPA). President George W. Bush has actively promoted similar proposals.

This study identifies ten potential critical success factors (CSFs) in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems implementation from ERP and IS literature and examines the application of these factors in eight projects. ERP systems promise to provide an off-the-shelf solution to an organization’s information needs. Implementation of ERP projects has proven difficult, complex, costly and time c...

Fodor offers a novel argument against Bare-bones Concept Pragmatism (BCP). He alleges that there are two circularities in BCP’s account of concept possession: a circularity in explaining concept possession in terms of the capacity to sort; and a circularity in explaining concept possession in terms of the capacity to draw inferences. We argue that neither of these circles is real.

We explore different intuitive notions of spatio-temporal continuity and give a formal characterization of continuity for space-time histories. We investigate the types of transitions possible for the RCC-8 topological relations under each distinct notion of spatio-temporal continuity and provide a hierarchy of conceptual neighbourhood diagrams.