Many healthcare organizations are focused on the development of a strategic plan to enhance patient safety. The challenge is creating a plan that focuses on patient safety outcomes, integrating the multitude of internal and external drivers of patient safety, aligning improvement initiatives to create synergy and providing a framework for meaningful measurement of intermediate and long-term res...

The wave of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) is bringing a new vision of the manufacturing industry. In manufacturing, one of the buzzwords of the moment is "Smart production". Smart production involves manufacturing equipment with many sensors that can generate and transmit large amounts of data. Data and information from manufacturing operations are however not used by most man...

Balanced scorecard helps organizations to streamline vision and strategy with business activities and measures actual organizational performance against preset goals. In addition this instrument is used to assess financial processes, customer relations, internal business processes and learning and growth characters of an organization. The purpose of this study is to recognize the role balanced ...

Traditional approaches to requirements elicitation stress systematic and rational analysis and representation of organizational context and system requirements. This paper argues that (1) for an organization, a software system implements a shared vision of a future work reality and that (2) understanding the emotions, feelings, values, beliefs, and interests that drive organizational human acti...

Various attempts have been undertaken to further automate the BPM lifecycle. One of the recent initiatives in this area is the Semantic Business Process Management approach as pursued within the SUPER project. It aims at bridging the gap between business and IT worlds by increasing the degree of automation within the BPM lifecycle using Semantic Web and Semantic Web services technologies. In or...

This chapter focuses on the tensions from two opposite forces: the need for formalization (static knowledge) on the one hand and the tacit understanding that implies creativity and innovation (dynamic knowledge) on the other. In order to explore these concepts, the means of overcoming this confrontation are analyzed – in other words the “knowledge vision” of management, the knowledge culture(s)...

This research in progress seeks to explore and substantiate to what extent the vision and the technologies of the Semantic Web are the key for solving the problem of cross-organizational information management as a prerequisite for citizen information services. As a first step, this paper reflects on a case in which all actors involved seek for a practical solution to implement a state-wide res...

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a futureoriented human work environment and organizational activity in deep mines that entails a vision of good and safe workplace. Futureoriented technological challenges and mental images required for modern work organization design were appraised. It is argued that an intelligent-deep-mine covering the entire value chain, including environmental ...

Virtual Organizations (VO) have emerged as a new type of interorganizational relationship for dealing with emerging challenges. The information system support for a VO poses new challenges to system design. Recent works define three levels of abstraction, namely an intentional level, an organizational level, and an operational level. For such a staged design, it is fundamental that artifacts de...

The Semantic Web vision has evolved in the last years as a blueprint for a knowledge-based framework aimed at crossing the chasm from the current Web of unstructured information resources to a Web equipped with metadata and oriented to delegation of tasks to software agents. Ontologies are the key piece of this framework in that they provide shared semantics to metadata, thus enabling a degree ...