Despite documented best practices and specialized tools, managers continue to face major challenges in software development. While managers are traditionally advised to choose between plan-driven and agile principles, software organizations increasingly face situations in which they need to take advantage of both. There is, however, limited actionable advice on how managers can shape the organi...

This paper details the creation and use of a massive (32,000+ messages) artificially constructed ‘Twitter’ microblog stream for a regional emergency preparedness functional exercise. By combining microblog conversion, manual production, and a control set, we created a web-based information stream providing valid, misleading, and irrelevant information to public information officers (PIOs) repre...

In this post-industrial “information economy” more and more organizations are realizing that having actionable information gives them an invaluable competitive advantage. The term “intellectual asset” has been coined to reflect the significance of this type of information. The field of knowledge management (KM) provides tools, techniques and processes for the most effective use of an organizati...

There is little doubt that data is the new competitive differentiator. But data alone is not enough; it has to be scrubbed and analyzed to generate real time, actionable insights for business success. This makes a robust business intelligence (BI) architecture a must-have for modern day enterprises. However, many organizations continue to manage an increasingly complex IT infrastructure due to ...

Enterprise 2.0 refers to a set of organizational and technological approaches steered to enable new organization models, based on open involvement, emergent collaboration, knowledge sharing, internal/external social network development and exploitation. It aims to respond to the new features and needs of people and boosts flexibility, adaptability and innovation. Technologically, Enterprise 2.0...

The search for relevant and actionable information is a key to achieving clinical and research goals in biomedicine. Biomedical information exists in different forms: as text and illustrations in journal articles and other documents, in images stored in databases, and as patients’ cases in electronic health records. This paper presents ways to move beyond conventional text-based searching of th...

This paper describes a methodology for converting an influence net to an executable model, implemented using the Colored Petri Net formalism and tools, so that it can be used to assess the impact of a set of controllable events or actions on outcomes of interest; specifically the impact of various sequences and timing of those actionable events. With this methodology, alternative courses of act...

Recent advances in acquisition, storage, and transmission of data from sensors in digital format has increased the need of tools to support users effectively in retrieving, understanding, and mining the information contained in such data.Extraction of domain specific actionable information like occurrence of one of the predefined “situations” is desirable. Major difficulties in achieving this e...

Background Since the outbreak of COVID-19, development dashboards as dynamic, visual tools for communicating COVID-19 data has surged worldwide. Dashboards can inform decision-making and support behavior change. To do so, they must be actionable. The features that constitute an actionable dashboard in context pandemic have not been rigorously assessed. Objective aim this study is to explore cha...