An initiative to increase biopharmaceutical research productivity by capturing, sharing and computationally integrating proprietary scientific discoveries with public knowledge is described. This initiative involves both organisational process change and multiple interoperating software systems. The software components rely on mutually supporting integration techniques. These include a richly s...

Software development needs to be supported at both the organisational process level (programming-for-thelarge) and the detailed coding level (programming-for-thesmall). It is critical to seal the gap in order to enable effective software integration at both levels in a uniform manner instead of in isolation now. This paper is aimed at addressing fundamental issues related to integration techniq...

In their valuable discussion of whistleblowing in healthcare organisations, Mannion and Davies highlight the importance of organisational culture in influencing whether people raise concerns, and whether these concerns are listened to and acted upon. The role of leadership in shaping organisational culture is well-established1 and in this commentary, we will examine the influence of leaders in ...

Purpose: The project focussed on two local services in Wales that have recently moved to (what they call) an integrated health and social care intellectual disabilities service. Research questions: What are the advantages and disadvantages of service integration as viewed by parents with respect to care provision for young people with intellectual disabilities? Method: We conducted a parental s...

PURPOSE To propose an integration index of home care delivery to older persons, to study its validity and to apply it to home care services of European cities. THEORY Home care delivery integration was based on two dimensions referring to process-centred integration and organisational structure approach. METHOD Items considered as part of both dimensions according to an expert consensus (fa...

Organisations develop their computer security procedures based on external guidelines such as ISO 17799 with very little provision to incorporate organisational knowledge in their security procedures. While these external guidelines make recommendations as to how an organisation should develop and implement best practices in computer security they often fail to provide a mechanism that links th...

Barriers to Concurrent Engineering (CE) or Integrated Product Development (IPD) are organisational in context. Consequently to facilitate CE, significant changes to the design and development of the organisation need to be considered. Both research and practice have demonstrated that companies which invest in improving organisational development issues fair better than those that rely purely on...

Purpose To present an approach to support understanding of inter-organisational systems. Design/methodology/approach The approach combines two types of graphical snapshots of relevant properties of each organisation, based on concrete data. The first type of snapshot provides a bird’s eye view of the network that enables matching partners to form groups based on similarity. The second type of s...

A major purpose of an electronic meeting system (EMS) is recording data, which allows the production of an immediate and unbiased report. But reports produced by commercial EMSs have some weaknesses that make difficult the organisational integration of meeting results. In order to contribute to the solution of this problem, it was developed a new system supported in the concept of communication...

ALIVE is an EU FP7 STREP whose goal is the convergence of organisational and normative modelling with and service-oriented architectures (SOAs) using model-driven software engineering. The project provides a framework for designing and implementing systems, taking into account organisational, coordination and service perspectives. A key project aspect is the integration of normative systems wit...