The authors present a two-year experience with an approach aimed at federating applications into a component-based hospital-wide clinical information system. Recognizing the need for better integration, clearer separation of knowledge from applications, as well as the necessity to respect and integrate the diversity of roles in a healthcare network, a strategy was implemented that included the ...

Our society needs and expects more high-value services. Such ”knowledge-intensive” services can only be delivered if the necessary organizational and technical requirements are fulfilled. In addition, the cost-benefit analysis from the service provider point of view needs to be positive. Continuous improvement and goal-directed (partial) automation of such services is therefore of crucial impor...

Handling Editor: Kevin Lowe How should leaders construct and communicate theirmessages tomost effectivelymotivate their employees? We offer an integrative framework to address the diverging and complementary nature of two established approaches to employee motivation: Vision communication and goal setting. Specifically, while vision communication involves formulating relatively abstract, farrea...

IS outsourcing is one of the major issues facing organizations in today’s rapidly changing business environment. It is often presented as an attractive business proposition to improve productivity, reduce costs and increase competitiveness. This study examined the relationship between knowledge sharing and IS outsourcing success based on the social capital theory. It shows the knowledge sharing...

The zero-accident vision has sparked debate in the fields of occupational safety and health. While many organizations policymakers have successfully implemented vision, numerous notable health scholars from various backgrounds argue against its use success theory practice. This article aimed to analyze existing literature on variables impacting an organization’s vision. A systematic review Scop...

gesture and motion recognition are needed for a variety of applications. the use of human hand motions as a natural interface tool has motivated researchers to conduct research in the modeling, analysis and recognition of various hand movements. in particular, human-computer intelligent interaction has been a focus of research in vision-based gesture recognition. in this work, we introduce a 3-...

acquired color deficiency in the tritan axis in parkinson’s disease has already been reported, manifesting itself as impaired performance in various visual tasks. however, its clinical significance has always been controversial. in this study we evaluated the performance of parkinson s disease patients in lanthony 15-desaturated clinical test and for the first time, compared it with the standar...

Waves of fashionable ideas shape the practice and research of information systems (IS). What forces drive idea waves in IS? This research takes the first step to empirically study IS idea waves in inter-organizational communities through the lens of organizing visions. Introduced by Swanson and Ramiller (1997), an organizing vision is a focal community idea for applying information technologies...