This paper provides insight into identifying areas that help or hinder business-IT alignment. Alignment focuses on the activities that management performs to achieve cohesive goals across the organization. The aim of this paper is to determine the most important enablers and inhibitors to alignment. The paper presents and analyzes the results of a multi-year study of strategic alignment. Data w...

This study aimed to identify barriers and enablers experienced by occupational therapists to delivering evidence-based upper limb intervention for children with unilateral cerebral palsy. Semistructured interviews informed by the Theoretical Domains Framework were conducted with nine occupational therapists from three teams to ascertain barriers and enablers to implementing five evidence criter...

Most of the e-government efforts around the world have been sporadic and unplanned. “Technological thrust” rather than “citizen orientation” has been the driving force for most of these initiatives. This paper provides a comprehensive e-government transformation framework, which views this change as a “guided evolution” contingent upon the presence of certain “enablers”. E-government initiative...

IT organizations often struggle with managing the balance between the supply and demand side of IT products and services. IT managers have often been concerned about delivering products and services, faster, better, and cheaper (i.e., supply side) and left behind the crucial aspects of the demand side of the equation. Therefore, the capability to ensure that IT investments are made as effective...

The Triple Helix model of innovation has attracted considerable attention in both developed and developing economies as an integral policy making tool to enhance innovation and promote economic development (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff, 1997). Specfically it advocates the strengthening of the collaborative relationships between academia, industry and government to improve innovation. However, no s...

This paper presents the authors experiences with the development of mobile Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) applications in the context of the ENVIROFI project and Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) FP7 research programme. FI-PPP has an ambitious goal of developing a set of Generic FI Enablers (GEs) software and hardware tools that will simplify development of thematic ...

Rapid fielding or expedited systems development plays a major role in developing systems to provide a quick response to the organization. Instead of polishing and perfecting all requirements with possible delivery delays, these urgent needs programs must adapt themselves to have a life cycle that is driven by a “Faster, Faster and Faster” concept. Surprisingly, schedule has become more importan...

Modern program analysis and model-based tools are increasingly complex and multi-faceted software systems. However, at their core is invariably a component using a logic for describing states and transformations between system states. Logic inferences engines are then critical for the functionality of these systems. A commonly adapted approach has been to use a custom solver, built and tailored...