An e-Government initiative is a long term process that necessitates significant changes to constantly adapt to new challenges. However, e-government initiatives are always at risk of failure if individuals do not accept or embrace the change. This presents a unique challenge for governments implementing e-Government initiatives to understand factors that may influence their readiness for change...

BACKGROUND Prevention of hospital readmission and emergency department (ED) utilization will be a crucial strategy in reducing health care costs. There has been limited research on nurse assessment and patient perceptions of discharge readiness in relation to postdischarge outcomes. OBJECTIVES To investigate the association of nurse and patient assessments of discharge readiness with postdisc...

this study aimed to provide a framework to assess the e-readiness of ramak company in shiraz. to that end, after reviewing the related literature in the field of e-readiness and selecting the proper model, the model parameters were distributed among experts in the form of a questionnaire, and with the help of fuzzy screening, 49 indicators were finalized. then, using the combination method of d...

In this paper we applied our previously developed assessment framework to the data collected from an internet security readiness survey targeted at households. We used the assessment framework to compute an Internet Security Readiness index for each household, which was in turn derived from Internet Security Readiness capital, skill, and actual uptake/use of infrastructure indices. We then exam...

E-government is considered to be one of the most important projects in all countries including developing. E-readiness is the cornerstone of the e-government. Culture affects e-readiness especially in developing countries. The aim of this research is to find the impact of the culture on the e-readiness for e-government in developing countries namely Yemen. The cultural elements that have been a...

INTRODUCTION Health professionals have great difficulties to establish the adequate and safe time to start breast feeding in preterm infants. There is a need to develop a standardized tool to help health professionals to comprehensively evaluate preterm infant readiness to transition preterm infants' feeding from gastric to oral, and encourage breast feeding practice in neonatal units. AIMS T...

The aim of this study is investing of the affecting factors on organizational learning readiness on national petrochemical co. staff. The results of this research is using implement in training processes. E-learning is a special type of distance learning that relies on network-based technologies and using transmission media such as the Internet or intranet and also multimedia tools, in an inter...

payoffs from information technology (it) continue to generate interest and debate both among academicians and practitioners. these have led the decision makers to confusion about it effect on firms` financial performance; they don’t know either high or low effect is because of internal or external factors of organizational environment. the mechanism for decreasing the risks is to identify the c...