the implementation of inter-organizational systems like business- to- business e-commerce (b2b e-commerce)  is being categorized as a system with high degree of difficulty since it involves complexity of the multiple relationships and interactions between trading partners. companies need to consider their own strengths and weaknesses before making decisions to explore new b2b e-commerce without...

This work provides a comprehensive customer-focused evaluation framework that businesses can use to assess their electronic customer relationship management (eCRM) readiness. The framework is intended to provide a big picture of the overall composition of e-CRM, to facilitate gap analysis, and to support a monitoring and feedback process. Knowledge management, trust, and technology are identifi...

This paper presents a critical analysis of the adoption of e-market in Australian Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) within the technology-organization-environment framework. Through surveying nine hundreds SMEs in Australia and the consequent analysis of the survey data, the paper shows that the level of adoption of e-market in Australian SMEs is still low with the dominant trend of ado...

Implementation of e-Government are expected to be solution in the care system, but in the process will be a challenge that has a risk of failure. In this study will result in a maturity model that becomes the size of maturity/readiness of a government institution when it will make the process of e-Government implementation. With the results of this dissertation study is expected to have the rea...

BACKGROUND Assessing individual's readiness to change and targeting the inter-vention to the level of readiness may improve successful weight loss rates. This study aimed to assess readiness for weight loss in obese women using the trans theoretical model. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on 90 volunteer apparently healthy obese women, in Ardabil, Iran. Participants completed the...

The steady growth of e-learning around the world is inspiring many educational and business institutions to adopt the same. In order to benefit from e-learning, educational institutes should first conduct investigation to assess the learners' readiness. This paper analyses a small scale readiness evaluation case study for three groups of learners of a Saudi Arabian University. Statistical analy...

The public policy and e-government implementation issues of any country have a direct impact on the e-readiness of that country. It helps in creating and promoting public and private sectors to invest in the ICT

The public policy and e-government implementation issues of any country have a direct impact on the e-readiness of that country. It helps in creating and promoting public and private sectors to invest in the ICT

In this paper we present a new ̄exible self assessment package called Self Test. This package has been designed primarily for distance students to assess their readiness or mastery of particular topics. It di€ers from other packages in that it allows a student to self-grade a series of questions as if they were an expert evaluator giving the student the ̄exibility to complete a problem in up to...

Background: When disasters strike, hospitals are among the first units whose efficient and timely services can be crucial and decisive in reducing mortality and rescuing the injured. Non-structural components are among domains that need to be considered in any assessment of hospitals’ readiness tools. Objectives: Given that Azerbaijan, and especially the metropolis of Tabriz, is located in the ...