The research identified and explored the cognitive knowledge among the instructional multimedia design and development experts comprising of multimedia designer, graphic designer, subject-matter expert and instructional designer. A critical need exists for a solid understanding of the factors that influence team decision making and performance in order to identify interventions that can affect ...

This paper proposes an action learning centered interpretation of technology adoption variables as they relate to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Action learning has a long history of successful leadership and executive development as part of a change management effort. Change in organizations today often involves technology innovation adoption. For the SME, technological change is uniquel...

In an extreme event or major disaster, very often there are both alternative actions that might be considered and far more requests for actions than can be executed immediately. The relative desirability of each option for action could be a collaborative expression of a significant number of emergency managers and experts trying to manage the most desirable alternatives at any given time, in re...

Executive Summary The Delphi method is an attractive method for graduate students completing masters and PhD level research. It is a flexible research technique that has been successfully used in our program at the University of Calgary to explore new concepts within and outside of the information systems body of knowledge. The Delphi method is an iterative process to collect and distill the an...

Technology is changing the way for human readers. An electronic book (eBook) is a digital form publication that changes reading ways. According to July 2010 statistics from the Ministry of the Interior, the population of Taiwan was 23,350,000. However, 33% of the population were over 65 years old. The usage of eBooks and the interface design are becoming more and more important subjects for the...

Regarding to the diversified needs of domestic and global customers and various products of domestic and global competitors, importance of agility in supply chain management becomes more important. Suppliers have to provide materials and essential resources of manufacturers in a short time without any lead time.In this research, we identified many criteria for agility in sanitation supply chain...

A carbon-based industry, such as oil refinery, needs to change its business model to achieve a green business. Considering the existing too much data, the modeling procedure is complex. Therefore, combination of the Fuzzy Delphi method and System Dynamics can be considered to cover this complexity. The starting point in this work is literature review of prior studies on the same common topic an...

The complexity and turbulence of a project may lead to its unpredictability, so risk management is increasingly important. This paper focuses on the application of Monte Carlo method in project management as follow: first, deals with the estimated scale with Wide band Delphi method and gets the interval of prediction after making repeated samples in line with the generally adopted probability m...

most organizations need to information systems to survive and thrive. therefore, they should seriously protect their information assets. creating structured and justifiable exchanges between cost, security and mission control systems security risks is essential. this is important in the planning and development of such systems. initial appropriate decisions can reduce costs and increase ease of...

Many business firms are planning, or practicing B2B, however, analysis on the performance of companies achieved by B2B has not been made sufficiently, and there isn't any evaluation method to determine whether B2B has been planned and practiced in an appropriate way. Therefore, we proposed B2B performance Evaluation Model , which is able to make in-depth evaluation of the company's performance ...