in this paper an attempt has been made to show how information technology (it) is used as a strategic tool to meet competitive advantages and how it is rapidly becoming a necessary ingredient for achieving quality within the service industry. an in-depth review of information requirements for service sectors has been made and the possible relationships between it and typology of service organiz...

in the new millennium, information technology (it) has become very effective and this is becoming evident in both developed and developing countries. these areas are especially within the fields of information gathering, in the broadest sense, and of developing and strengthening networks both internal and external to the surrounding environment. today, more and more companies, organizations and...

What are the prospective benefits for service providers and service recipients of decentralized access to information about populations and their needs, service systems, and operations? Will growing access to such information be, on the whole, enfranchising for community members, or will it subject them to increased centralized control? This chapter examines particular ways in which information...

Building information modeling can help in predicting the energy efficiency in future based on dynamic patterns obtained by visualization of data. The aim of this study was to investigate the effective parameters of energy consumption using BIM technology which can evaluate the buildings energy performance. First, three forms of general states in the building were modeled to evaluate the propose...

E-government is a way for governments to use new technologies such as the Internet to provide citizens with more convenient access to government information and services, to improve the quality of services, and to provide greater opportunities for citizens to participate in democratic institutions and processes. This research investigates factors impacting e-government development. Based on the...

information is nowadays the most important asset for any organization, to the point that the significance of information technology and its desired results for organizations is continuously on the increase, and developing. the purpose of this study was to investigate the role of information technology in the success of educational organizations. the statistical population was a group of 60 pers...

the study was carried out to assess the implication of the use of selected information and communication technologies (icts) for extension service delivery in nigeria. the simple random technique was used to select fifty percent of the total extension agents which equivalent to forty-two respondents as sample size for the study. frequency counts, percentages, mean and standard deviation were us...

ever changing needs of society to which the health sector has to respond, makes the health sector reform inevitable for any country worldwide. increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of health services, equity, sustainable financing and management improvement are the main objectives of health sector reform. healthcare reform was set high on the new administration’s agenda with the start of ...

introduction: in the current world of business, benefiting from information technology is considered as one of the main factors to develop and improve the performance of organizations. this study was performed to identify access to infrastructures of information technology among the managers and executive experts of health departments in iranian universities of medical sciences. it also tried t...