Ultimately, organizations invest in information technology (IT) initiatives to improve their level of performance. However, there have been mixed results from the payoff of IT investments. This article presents evidence that the variation in benefits derived from IT is in part due to the organization’s CIO leadership profile. This profile is determined by whether the CIO’s level of strategic de...

Though the importance of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) is well recognized in academic literature, concerns have often been expressed about the status of CIOs and their waning influence. In fact, not all firms choose to have Chief Information Officers (CIOs)as a part of their top management teams. This research investigates whether CIO presence/absence in top management teams affect firm per...

The overwhelming dependency on the organizational use of Information Technology (IT) during the last two decades of twentieth centaury has dramatically changed the way of working for the most of the business organizations. IT not only holds benefits for organizations and for their chief executives officers’ (CEOs) but has also caused difficulties for CEOs to optimize the computing resources. In...

Today’s industrial product lines in the automotive and construction equipment domain face the challenge to show functional safety standard compliance and argue for the absence of failures for all derived product variants. The product line approaches are not sufficient to support practitioners to trace safety-related characteristics through development. We aim to provide aid in creating a safety...

The information security not only has become a relevant business subject but also a complex decision topic for non-technical people. Legal framework, monitoring security, best practices, standards compliance are part of the security solutions but they can become in the principal complexity affair. This paper shows a general security overview to converge in an initial functional security model i...

This research began with a question about addressing a broader range of accessibility issues in voting than the standards in the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) require. The VVSG standards cover accessibility for low vision, blindness, and cognitive disabilities. But what if anyone could mark their ballot anywhere, any time, on any device? While the likelihood of voters voting on thei...

Standards have had much importance in different fields of research in order to assure a certain quality of service in bilateral contracts. More specifically, in multi-agent systems performance standards may be used in order to articulate contracts among partners in environments dealing with uncertainty. However, little effort has been made on how to ensure standards compliance over time. In thi...

Quality assessment of audiovisual files is an important tool in many steps of the preservation workflow, as well as for use and access of archive material. Today mainly technical properties of the files can be checked, e.g. file integrity or standards compliance of file wrappers and encoded streams. Checking the audiovisual quality manually results in extremely high labor costs. In this work we...