goal is to raise awareness in process industry around the problem of safety applications of computer based systems and provide indications of today's best practices. The document does not intend to be neither a guideline nor a state-of-art. Participation of individuals in the development of this document shall not be construed as an unreserved endorsement of the proposed practices by the indivi...

Curriculum committees provide a valuable service to the academic community. They analyze, evaluate, organize and summarize the best practices of institutions from all over the world. In the rapidly changing world of IS, model curriculums take so long to develop that by the time they are applied, they simply can’t keep pace with change. In this paper we describe some of the insights yielded by a...

In recent years, Software Process Improvement has achieved a good level of penetration in medium-large enterprises. Several well-known methodologies exist and are applied as usual tools in the organisational processes devoted to continuous improvement. Unfortunately, this is not the case for many small and micro enterprises that often are unaware both of the basic software best practices and of...

Information technology (IT) has long been seen as possessing an inherent potential to facilitate sustained competitive advantage, i.e., value-creating strategies that are difficult for others to imitate. But successfully fashioning and executing long-lived IT-enabled strategic actions are becoming ever more challenging as hardware costs continue to decrease, off-the-shelf software reflecting in...

The ‘knowledge economy’ is now widely debated and economic geographers have highlighted the ‘new regions’ ability to produce and disseminate tacit knowledge. However, there is concern that such work is responsible for the unfounded association of tacit knowledge with solely the local scale. Through examination of empirical material exploring the stretching of learning in advertising professiona...

A typical mathematics assignment consists primarily of practice problems requiring the strategy introduced in the immediately preceding lesson (e.g., a dozen problems that are solved by using the Pythagorean theorem). This means that students know which strategy is needed to solve each problem before they read the problem. In an alternative approach known as interleaved practice, problems from ...

The UK has recently proposed to develop a set of criteria whereby the economic analysis of police force efficiency is to be made standard. This follows a strategy of aiming for improvement through managerialism and Best Value Performance Indicators (BVPIs), similar to those implemented by US police forces after the Government Performance and Results Act 1993. In this paper we attempt to put thi...

This symposium presents results from a coordinated suite of studies on collaborative practices, and the theoretical framework we have developed to account for what is learned from collaborative episodes. We use the phrase ‘Repertoires of Collaborative Practice’ to describe the individual, interpersonal, contextual and community practices that can influence collaboration. We hypothesize that rep...