Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are very costly and difficult to be implemented. Organizations need to be ready for implementing them. They require assessing their current readiness and then, they can perform a range of activities to improve their readiness. The ERP readiness is influenced by many factors which are interrelated and any improvement in one of them has direct and indire...

BACKGROUND Recruitment to research studies in primary care is challenging despite widespread implementation of electronic patient record (EPR) systems which potentially make it easier to identify eligible cases. METHODS Literature review and applying the learning from a European research readiness assessment tool, the TRANSFoRm International Research Readiness instrument (TIRRE), to the conte...

BACKGROUND This article reports on the development of a systematic approach to assess for community readiness prior to implementation of a behavioural intervention for childhood obesity. Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), we developed research tools to evaluate local community centres' organisational readiness and their capacity to implement the intervention. ...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated framework to evaluate organizational e-government readiness for government organizations. This framework is necessary as current ones ignore challenges that arise due to organizational transformation issues stemming from diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). This study adopts an e-government framework to highlight t...

The barriers to concurrent engineering (CE) are cultural, organizational, and technological in nature. A successful implementation of CE requires that these barriers be identified up-front. The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) has developed a model, a measurement tool, and a methodology – the Readiness Assessment for Concurrent Engineering (RACE) – to assist CE implementors in iden...

The use of Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) as a tool in assessing acquisition and development program risk has steadily increased over the past several years. There is considerable evidence to support the utility of using TRLs as part of a risk assessment, but there are some difficulties in using TRLs with software, especially Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software technology and products....

conclusions overall, two hospitals had high levels of readiness in the assessment (above 80%). given that iran, and particularly its neighbor azerbaijan, is a crisis-prone country, adherence to non-structural security protocols of the who has had a significant effect on the non-structural readiness and safety of hospitals. results the lowest level of performance was observed in communication an...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a product that enables organizations achieving their competitive advantage. However, the failures of ERP implementation are still considered quite high. This research was conducted to formulate the framework of self-assessment of open source ERP implementation readiness, which focused on the ERP pre-implementation aspects. The proposed ERP implementation re...