Enterprise architecture (EA) provides a blueprint of an organisation’s current and desirable future IT infrastructure, systems, data, processes and capabilities, together with a roadmap for achieving the desirable future state. Despite significant interest and investment in EA, organisations still have difficulty articulating the business benefits of EA. In this research in progress paper we co...

A Web-based survey of 375 Microsoft Network (MSN) online communities was undertaken to investigate why people do not publicly participate in online discussion groups, i.e., lurk. The most popular reason for lurking, “just reading/browsing is enough”, was noted by more than half of the lurkers (53.9%). Apparently, many lurkers get their needs met through observation rather than public participat...

A two phase research study was done to investigate remote work and remote management issues. In Phase 1, focus groups were carried out with remote managers and remote employees to identify key issues. The most common key issues dealt with communications, information technology, leadership and coaching, teamwork, building trust, and performance management. In the second phase, a questionnaire wa...

By having an effective organisational information security culture where employees intuitively protect corporate information assets, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) could improve information security. However, previous research has largely overlooked the development of such a culture for SMEs, and the national context in which SMEs operate. The paper explores this topic and provides ke...

Innovative services consist the main point of interest so for academics as for the business world. The basic objective of this paper is to demonstrate the way that innovative services may change the “consumer experience” in the airport environment. In the following lines we describe the procedure of designing innovative services, so for consumers’ and visitors’ needs as for the needs of the fir...

The paper proposes an LTAG semantic analysis to derive semantic representations for different focus constructions in a uniform way. The proposal is shown via examples of different narrow focus constructions, multiple foci and focus in questions.

This paper reports on a study of how user attitudes to institutional privacy change after exposing users to potential inferences that can be made from information disclosed on Facebook. Two sets of focus group sessions with Facebook users were conducted. Three sessions were conducted by demonstrating to the users, on a general level, what can be inferred from posts using prototypical software c...

In this research, we describe an empirical study, which aimed at identifying influencing factors on acceptance of electric vehicles. Understanding individual arguments and to reach a high usage rate of these vehicles in the public and a broad acceptance, the identification of possible prousing motives as well as perceived drawbacks is essential, which would allow a sensitive and individually-ta...

This article highlights the outcomes of the implementation of the New Culinary Country program implemented in to facilitate and speed up the emergence of the new rurality in Sweden. Based on results from focus groups and one group interview conducted in eight landscapes/counties during 2013 and a state initiated evaluation of the NCCP, the study answers the following questions: What does the NC...

Telecommunications has been considered a critical infrastructure for any nation. National competitiveness increasingly depends upon the telecommunications infrastructure because telecommunications and information technology have become a critical driving factor for social and economic development. However, the telecommunications infrastructure in Thailand is considered below the world average d...