scholarly journals Prescription to Remedy the IT-Business Relationship

2003 ◽  
pp. 181-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Cormack ◽  
Aileen Cater-Steel
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Business Relationship ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
It Culture ◽  
Organisational Behaviour ◽  
The Relationship

Even though organisations are highly dependent on information technology (IT), many organisations have reported an unhealthy relationship between business and IT professionals. Establishing an effective relationship between these two disparate groups is essential for organisational success in today’s competitive global economy. Despite many attempts to improve the IT-business relationship, tensions still exist. The cultural differences between business and IT have recently been blamed for these tensions. Through the application of relevant organisational behaviour theories, the cultural characteristics of the IT group that effect the IT-business relationship can be identified. Research shows that the IT culture is such that mutual benefits are not derived from the relationship, IT and business groups have a poor attitude towards cooperation, there is a lack of shared knowledge between business and IT, and there is a lack of organisational linkages between business and IT. As a starting point for reconciliation between business and IT, this chapter provides insights into how tensions in the IT-business relationship can be minimised through understanding and managing the IT culture.

scholarly journals Enterprise Crowdsourcing and Organizational Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ada Scupola ◽  
Hanne Westh Nicolajsen
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Innovation Culture ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Cultural Determinants ◽  
Support Mechanisms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Although enterprise crowdsourcing systems that aim to harness the collective intelligence of employees for innovation purposes are proliferating, little is known about how they may impact organisations and their culture. To shed light on this problem, this paper conducts a case study to investigate an engineering consultancy's efforts to implement an internal crowdsourcing as part of an effort to change the innovation culture of the organisation. Taking the starting point in the literature on the relationship between IT and organisational culture and enterprise crowdsourcing, this paper underscores the interplay between innovation culture and information technology. The study finds that enterprise crowdsourcing systems can contribute to small changes of the innovation culture of an organisation along several cultural determinants, including behaviours that encourage innovation, communication and knowledge sharing, employees' relationships, support mechanisms, and strategy.

scholarly journals The Value of Communities of Practice as a Learning Process to Increase Resilience in Healthcare Teams

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Janet Delgado ◽  
Serena Siow ◽  
Janet M. de Groot
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Moral Distress ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Healthcare Team ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Group Experiences ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moral Resilience

This paper addresses the role that communities of practice (CoP) can have within the healthcare environment when facing uncertainty and highly emotionally impactful situations, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. The starting point is the recognition that CoPs can contribute to build resilience among their members, and particularly moral resilience. Among others, this is due to the fact that they share a reflective space from which shared knowledge is generated, which can be a source of strength and trust within the healthcare team. Specifically, in extreme situations, the CoPs can contribute to coping with moral distress, which will be crucially important not only to facing crisis situations, but to prevent the long-term adverse consequences of working in conditions of great uncertainty. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how CoP can support healthcare professionals when building moral resilience. To support that goal, we will first define CoP and describe the main characteristics of communities of practice in healthcare. Subsequently, we will clarify the concept of moral resilience, and establish the relationship between CoP and moral resilience in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, we analyze different group experiences that we can consider as CoP which emerged in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic to navigate moral problems that arose.

scholarly journals Desain furnitur hasil kajian seting fisik kelas studio berbasis perilaku mahasiswa milenial

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 285-290
Author(s):  
Dwi Sulistyawati ◽  
Imam Santosa ◽  
Deddy Wahyudi
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Millennial Students ◽  
Technology Tools ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

Activities and behavior Millennials have special characteristics, as a result of being influenced by information technology tools that bring about changes in various aspects that can have an impact on the problem. The starting point of the problem that must be solved is that the behavior of Millennial students behaves in terms of the learning process in accordance with the applicable curriculum to get the right means of space (physical arrangement) so that it is expected to contribute to the effectiveness in achieving the target of the learning process, which refers to research on activities users, especially the activities of millennial generation lecturers and students in behaving in class. Physical Setings Products that can show the relationship between spatial conditions, needs and behavior of millennial students in class. The results of this study then become the basis for creating a classroom arrangement model that is tailored to the curriculum and characteristics of millennial students. 

Effects of Information Technology on Rural Economic Development from the Perspective of Smart City

2014 ◽  
Vol 668-669 ◽  
pp. 1466-1469
Author(s):  
Li Jun Wang ◽  
Ping Nan Ruan ◽  
Shuang Li
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Relationship

This paper introduces the new concept to address the influence of information technology on rural economic development by an empirical study from the perspective of smart city. Moreover, this paper makes a quantitative analysis of information's impact on rural economic development from the perspective of demand and analyzes the relationship between information technology and regional economic development in rural areas during the construction of smart city as the starting point.

Standards of Knowledge Communities

2011 ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
John S.C. Afele
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
New Products ◽  
Knowledge Communities ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Information Technology Sector ◽  
Economic Slowdown ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Diffusion

Ironically, the sector that was expected to define and lead the global economy into the new growth era of the new millennium would be the first casualty of a global economic slowdown and a diminishing capitalization of new products and ideas at the very beginning of that millennium. This contraction in the information technology sector in 2001 may have created further doubts in the minds of those who are unable to conceptualize the relationship among the rapid development and diffusion of IT, nurturing and interlinking knowledge cells into knowledge communities, and the empowerment of communities in the traditional non-industrialized economies.

Tourism E-Booking and ‘E-Purchasing'

2014 ◽  
pp. 434-447
Author(s):  
Nataša Slak Valek ◽  
Eva Podovšovnik Axelsson
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Study Research ◽  
On Line ◽  
Travel Services ◽  
The Relationship

Information technology plays a significant role in tourism, but mainly as an informational tool. Ideally, the information search process on the Internet should try to encourage consumers to book and purchase travel services and products prior to leaving for their vacation, but cultural differences in booking on-line are found. The present study research problem is to understand the complex of e-booking and e-purchasing travel behaviors among Slovenes, since no research between Slovene tourists was done before. In details, the relationship between e-booking and paying travel accommodation and travel transportation on the Internet in the period of five years is investigated. The results show slow changes and an increase in booking and buying travel transportation, while booking and paying tourism accommodation gains greater interest during a five-year period.

scholarly journals Enhancing The Effectiveness Of HR Through The Integration Of IT

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil J. Ramlall
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Utilization Of Technology ◽  
Hr Function ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

There is little doubt that technology is reshaping the way business in conducted in todays society. The goal of a business remains as an organized effort of individuals to produce and sell, for a profit, products and services that satisfy societys needs, but with greater utilization of technology to effectively compete in the global economy. Given the shift, this paper examines the relationship between Human Resource (HR) and Information Technology (IT) and their convergence in creating and sustaining competitive advantages. The paper addresses the major aspects of the HR function and how IT can be integrated in creating value for the organization.

Tourism E-Booking and ’E-Purchasing’

2013 ◽  
pp. 494-508
Author(s):  
Nataša Slak Valek ◽  
Eva Podovšovnik Axelsson
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Study Research ◽  
On Line ◽  
Travel Services ◽  
The Relationship

Information technology plays a significant role in tourism, but mainly as an informational tool. Ideally, the information search process on the Internet should try to encourage consumers to book and purchase travel services and products prior to leaving for their vacation, but cultural differences in booking on-line are found. The present study research problem is to understand the complex of e-booking and e-purchasing travel behaviors among Slovenes, since no research between Slovene tourists was done before. In details, the relationship between e-booking and paying travel accommodation and travel transportation on the Internet in the period of five years is investigated. The results show slow changes and an increase in booking and buying travel transportation, while booking and paying tourism accommodation gains greater interest during a five-year period.

Globalisation: states, markets and class relations

1997 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Burnham
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe concept of ‘globalisation’ increasingly dominates economic and political debate in the 1990s. However, despite a profusion of commentaries and case studies on aspects of ‘globalisation’ such as ‘Japanisation', ‘Americanisation', ‘McDonaldisation’ and, of course, global information technologies, there are few radical interrogations of the notion of ‘globalisation/internationalisation’ and little discussion of the theoretical implications of recent changes in the global political economy (GPE). The central argument of this paper is that in order to make sense of these developments a broad focus is required which begins by conceptualising the changing nature of relations between national states in the global economy and concludes by understanding these relations in class terms. This is not simply to restate the importance of an international relations or international political economy ‘dimension', since these ‘disciplines’ fail absolutely to relate ‘interstate’ restructuring to the re-composition of class relations. Rather, the aim of the paper is to prompt a more general theoretical reorientation towards understanding the process of international restructuring as one undertaken by national states in an attempt to re-impose tighter labour discipline and recompose the labour/capital relationship. My starting point, therefore, is that global capitalism is still structured as an antagonistic state system, and that many of the changes which characterise the global political economy are introduced by states in an attempt to solve problems that have their roots in labour/capital conflict. In summary form, the paper concludes that the concept of ‘globalisation’ obscures more than it reveals and that Marx's understanding of the relationship between labour, capital and the state remains a more productive starting point for analysing contemporary global processes.

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