the current world is the era of wisdom and knowledge. endowments, natural and tangible assets are not the key factor for success of communities and organizations; instead, management of intangible assets in this turbulent and challenging environment for the organizations are the key success factor for them. the organizations which are able to recognize these assets and manage them properly woul...

Whereas previous studies have devoted great attention to the success of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation, this study aims to investigate how the different qualities of an ERP system affect its post-implementation success from the user’s perspective. We refined DeLone and McLean’s IS success model to examine the relative importance of ERP system quality, information quali...

today service organizations operate in highly dynamic and competitive environment where improving performance depends on effective utilization of intangible assets. accordingly, this study investigated the intervening role of social capital in the effect of social media assimilation on the quality of organizational knowledge and innovational performance. this study has been done in a sample of ...

B ASHING TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO STRATEGIC planning has become the favoured past-time of leading business authors on both sides of the Atlantic. The litany of indictments against the types of planning processes in place at most large multinational firms is long, and often difficult to disagree with. Traditional processes have choked initiative and favoured incremental over substantive change....

The external environment plays a major role in the success or failure of many organizations. Researchers have suggested that more incremental strategic information systems planning (SISP) in an uncertain environment produces greater planning success. The purpose of this study was to test the effect of incremental SISP on planning success in environments of varying dynamism, heterogeneity, and h...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution implementation is a complex process that requires substantial resources and efforts and involves considerable risks reflected in the time, scope, and cost of project implementation, yet the results are very uncertain. As ERP hype has reached large organizations as well as small and medium enterprises, we examined the critical success factors in ERP im...

the brain – computer interface (bci) provides a communicational channel between human and machine. most of these systems are based on brain activities. brain computer-interfacing is a methodology that provides a way for communication with the outside environment using the brain thoughts. the success of this methodology depends on the selection of methods to process the brain signals in each pha...

This paper discusses the effect of organization information management environment (IME) maturity and alignment between business strategy and information systems strategic planning (ISSP) on ISSP success. A research model is formulated and tested using data collected from 49 organizations in China. Data shows that that the higher the information management environment maturity, the more success...

Research for this paper suggests that there is still an alarming lack of success of IS projects in industry today. Two critical success factors that have been examined to date are project manager performance and IS planning maturity. However, the previous studies have bypassed the relative impact of the two factors in combination. This study proposes and empirically tests a model that examines ...

In Canada, the nursing shortage is all encompassing, and nurse leaders are needed from the bedside to the boardroom. Healthcare organizations and the nursing profession lag behind the corporate sector in development of strategic leadership succession planning. Contemporary nurse leaders will require all the knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies their predecessors can provide. Effective ...