Software organisations continuously adopt new technologies and improve their business processes to increase their productivity and hence, be abreast with or ahead of their competitors. This emphasises the importance of investigation into the results of such improvements over productivity over a period of time. In this paper we compare productivity of projects that commenced in and pre-1994 with...

In low-income countries, a recurring challenge in the use of mobile and web-based services to foster development is to ensure the economic sustainability of those new services after their initial launch. The Makerere University Software Business Incubation programme tests a novel approach to this challenge, by applying a venture-capital-like management discipline to ICT innovations created by s...

Over the last decade there is an intensive discussion within the Information Systems (IS) and Informatics community about the characteristics and identity of the discipline. Simultaneously with the discussion, there is an ongoing debate on essential skills and capabilities of IS and Business Informatics graduates as well as the profile of IS programs. With this paper we recognize the need for d...

Business intelligence and information logistics have become an important part of teaching curricula in recent years due to the increased demand for adequately trained graduates. Since these fields are characterized by a high amount of software and methodology innovations, teaching materials and teaching aids require constant updating. Teradata has teamed up with lecturers and researchers to bui...

The high unemployment rate in Indonesia, with most of them are the Vocational High School’s graduates. It triggers vocational schools to improve competence their graduates that they will be part industry and business. One steps taken by school based on applicable laws regulations is On-the-job training (Prakerin). However, Covid-19 pandemic hit Indonesia made it impossible carry out as usual. S...

Although it is well documented that children undergo a productive vocabulary spurt late in the second year, it is unclear whether this development is accompanied by equally significant advances in receptive word processing. In the present study, we tested an electrophysiological procedure for assessing receptive word learning in young children, and the impact of productive vocabulary size for p...

Knowledge gradually becomes a driving force for the economic development. The progress of information and communication technology facilitates sharing of technologically and economically valuable knowledge and further integration of productive forces of humanity in emerging knowledge-based economy. This process has already revealed dominant structural formations and major approaches to the orga...

increases, more parties are turning to mediation to settle their wrongful termination, discrimination, and non-compete disputes. Why? Because mediation saves the parties significant litigation costs, including attorneys’ fees, court expenses, and lost business opportunities due to time spent in litigation. It also offers a confidential resolution (versus the possibility of a published court or ...

The stages of economic growth in most countries have been historically dependent on the non-judicious use of natural resources that have a direct productive role, and are clearly identifiable as a market good, by its price [1]. Under the concept of equitable use of natural resources, the universally accepted premise is that unplanned and uncontrolled growth of business contributes to irreversib...