When conducting workshops with business people, there is a significant risk to become bogged down in the details of the underlying business process rather than seeing the big picture of the value provided by the process to its stakeholders. In this paper, we describe combination of methods that we use in workshops with business people to entice them to be more creative when thinking about new p...

Abstract This paper has two main objectives: (1) to assess the heritage value of four geomorphological landscapes in Southern Iceland from a perspective and (2) see what extent values assigned by different local stakeholders overlap with this assessment. The concept “geomorphological landscape”, that we define as landscape whose component is interest, scale analysis can be understood groups peo...

Although fair value is not a new measurement attribute, the interest of discussing fair value has been aroused by the release of new accounting standards. This article decodes fair value measurement again from four aspects respectively. Fair value measurement attribute is for asset measurement in the end, a kind of initiative measurement from master-slave relationship. As a matter of fact, fair...

Introduction This paper calls for the promotion of electronic health record (EHR)–based quality measures and reporting * as a critical component of achieving meaningful use of health information technology to improve health care quality. Current methods of quality measurement typically rely upon claims-based administrative data, which can be inappropriate for use in quality measurement because ...

This paper contributes to the analysis of the design of regional development programs. This is a case study the birth, life, death and afterlife of a stately development program in Norway, supporting diffusion of innovations by promoting e-business in SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises). The study shows that joint projects like regional development programs have to be designed such that t...

Many software projects have failed because their requirements were poorly negotiated among stakeholders. Reaching agreements of negotiated requirements among stakeholders who have different concerns, responsibilities, and priorities is quite challenging. Formal (fully-automated) approaches of requirements negotiation require significant efforts of knowledge representation and validation, wherea...

BACKGROUND Health technology assessment and healthcare decision-making are based on multiple criteria and evidence, and heterogeneous opinions of participating stakeholders. Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) offers a potential framework to systematize this process and take different perspectives into account. The objectives of this study were to explore perspectives and preferences across...