One of the largest challenges facing educators teaching object-oriented courses is deciding how to evaluate each students programming skill. This research focus on how we addressed this challenge in object oriented programming course by proposing a new assessment method to assess students’ object-oriented programming skills. The process begins by identifying generic object-oriented skills that ...

In this paper we explain our project of establishing a barometer to capture the actual state of digital leadership in small and medium enterprises (SME) in Switzerland. Drawing on leadership and digitalization literature, we define an ontological frame of leadership that is adequate to consider the social characteristics of digitalization (e.g., enhanced team cooperation). Subsequently, four ce...

The literature of software risk management indicates that the risk of failure in information system development (ISD) can be mitigated by identifying and analysing the threats of success. Moreover, the goals when implementing new technology in Africa, concerning socio-economic development, are more manifold. We have developed a holistic approach for studying successful ISD in Africa, which incl...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide project management (PM) students with an example of the Delphi research approach that was applied to a recent doctoral research thesis. The objective is to provide both a description of the approach and an explanation of how it was successfully applied so that researchers in PM may become more aware and expand their perceptions of methodological...

The purpose of this study was to describe the content and structure of documentation of health check-ups in occupational health care. A two phase study with the Delphi-group technique was used. Participants were a purposive sample of 20 occupational health nurses. Measurements: Semi structured interviews were conducted and a questionnaire for second round which was based on the interviews. Prin...

Introduction. This paper explores the current and future skills and knowledge requirements of contemporary information professionals in a converged gallery, library, archive and museum sector (also referred to as the GLAM sector) in Australia. This research forms part of a larger study that investigated the education needs of information professionals who will work in a converged environment. M...

This paper aims to develop a benchmarking framework that evaluates the cold chain performance of a company, reveals its strengths and weaknesses and finally identifies and prioritizes potential alternatives for continuous improvement. A Delphi-AHP-TOPSIS based methodology has divided the whole benchmarking into three stages. The first stage is Delphi method, where identification, synthesis and ...

This study employed a three-phase empirical method to identify competency indicators for mechatronics technology according to industry-oriented criteria. In Phase I, a list of required competencies was compiled using Behavioral Event Interviews (BEI) with three engineers specializing in the field of mechatronics technology. In Phase II, the Delphi technique was performed with ten experts in mec...

The Delphi method is recommended for exploratory research in emerging research areas. Despite earlier suggestions for using the Delphi method for theory creation, few analytical tools are provided for this purpose. However, Grounded Theory is especially devoted to creating theories from qualitative data. This paper describes an enhanced Delphi method which integrates data analysis techniques fr...

This paper investigates the sorts of risks and uncertainties inherent in implementing an e-learning information systems project in Estonia. The study uses a variation of the Delphi study in eliciting the risk factors or items from experienced top management professionals within the organisation. The main objective of the study is to identify the uncertainties or risks in the implementation of t...