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Technology Projects (technology + project)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	50%
Information Science and Computing	37%

Selected Abstracts

Information Technology Projects by International Logistics Services Providers: The Case of Canada's Small Customs Brokers

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, Issue 1 2006
Michael A. Haughton
Abstract This study explores the motives and effects of information and communication technology (ICT) investments made by some of Canada's small customs brokers. Like other providers of support services for global supply chain operations, customs brokers have been implored to recognize the significant rewards of effectively deployed ICT. Using qualitative data on eight small Canadian customs brokers, this study determines the extent to which expectation of those rewards motivated the workers' ICT investments. Drawing on institutional theory to complement the analysis, the study finds that the motives transcend belief in ICT projects' inherent utility. This and related findings on the impact of ICT projects on the brokers, extend knowledge concerning the study of important ICT investment decisions in the context of trans-border goods movement. Résumé Cette étude examine les motifs et les effets des investissements rélisés dans la technologie de l'information et de la communication (ICT) par de petits agents en douane canadiens. Comme d'autres fournisseurs d'abonnement de maintenance des opárations de chaîne d'approvision-nements, ces agents étaient invités à identifier les récompenses considérables liées au déploiement efficace de l'ICT. À partir de données qualitatives portant sur huit agents, l'étude s'attelle à déterminer dans quelle mesure l'espérance des récompenses motive les investissements. S'inspirant de la théorie institutionnelle pour compléter l'analyse, l'étude constate que les motifs dépassent la croyance en l'utilité intrinsèque des projets ICT. Cette conclusion et l'impact des projets sur les agents, s'inscrit dans le prolongement des études sur les décisions d'investissement en ICT dans le contexte du commerce transfrontalier. [source]

Constructing a patient education system: A performance technology project

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT, Issue 4 2009
Edith E. Bell
The purpose of the patient education system described here was to distribute patient education material to and within medical practices managed by a small medical practice management company. The belief was that patient education opportunities improved health care outcomes and increased patient participation in health care decisions and compliance with health care plans. This tool reinforced medical practices' commitment to having patients participate actively in their treatment, differentiated them from other practices, and contributed to the generation of new patients. [source]

Escalation and de-escalation of commitment: a commitment transformation analysis of an e-government project

INFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL, Issue 1 2006
Gary Pan
Abstract., This paper presents a commitment transformation framework for analysing the change in actors' commitment during the transition from escalation to de-escalation in information technology projects. De-escalation is potentially a more important issue than escalation because de-escalation provides remedies for the ills of escalation. Therefore, it is important to understand how stakeholders may bias facts in the direction of previously accepted beliefs and thus prevent an organization from de-escalating. Here, we adopt Lewin's change theory to examine the commitment transformation during the transition from escalation to de-escalation of an e-government project in a local council in the United Kingdom. By conceiving actors' commitment transformation as an ,unfreezing,changing,refreezing' process, researchers may develop a deeper understanding of how actors may give up previous failing course of action and accept an alternative course of action. Practitioners can also utilize the framework in post-mortem analyses of projects which have faced escalation to devise useful de-escalation strategies for future project development.1 [source]

Project risk evaluation using a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process: An application to information technology projects

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, Issue 6 2006
Fatih Tüysüz
Projects are critical to the realization of performing organization's strategies. Each project contains some degree of risk and it is required to be aware of these risks and to develop the necessary responses to get the desired level of project success. Because projects' risks are multidimensional, they must be evaluated by using multi-attribute decision-making methods. The aim of this article is to provide an analytic tool to evaluate the project risks under incomplete and vague information. The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) as a suitable and practical way of evaluating project risks based on the heuristic knowledge of experts is used to evaluate the riskiness of an information technology (IT) project of a Turkish firm. The means of the triangular fuzzy numbers produced by the IT experts for each comparison are successfully used in the pairwise comparison matrices. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Int Syst 21: 559,584, 2006. [source]

Artists and subversive metadata

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Issue 9 2009
Richard Rinehart
This article will explore information design as a form of contemporary artistic practice and how artistic and philosophical concepts such as the "performative utterance" operate at the edges of metadata and large-scale technology projects such as the Semantic Web. [source]

Power, Politics, and Pecking Order: Technological Innovation as a Site of Collaboration, Resistance, and Accommodation

MODERN LANGUAGE JOURNAL, Issue 2 2005
JAMES N. DAVIS
The author summarizes and interprets data collected while he was a visiting scholar in a foreign language (FL) department at a large U.S. public research university. This qualitative case study focuses on: (a) the process of developing widely acclaimed Web-based beginning FL teaching software, and (b) the political implications of the development team's success within their host department. As the team forged strategic alliances across the campus and received substantial funding through their university's technology initiatives, certain traditional intradepartmental power relationships (especially between language- and literature-teaching faculty) were destabilized. The most striking outcomes of the events described here were the subversion of longstanding rules and procedures for granting tenure and promotion and the empowerment of the beginning program coordinator and his associates. The findings of the present research are framed in terms of theoretical constructs proposed by Jordan (1999) and Bourdieu (1988). The conclusion includes suggestions for consumers and creators of large-scale technology projects. [source]

R&D validation planning: a methodology to link technical validations to benefits measurement

R & D MANAGEMENT, Issue 1 2000
Adrien Presley
An important activity in many R&D departments is the internal development of new process technologies and practices to assist in the marketing, design and manufacturing activities of the enterprise. An integral part of this R&D development is the planning and management of validations of potential technology projects. These validations are necessary to determine the technical, financial and organizational feasibility of the projects and to develop data for benefits measurement for further funding of selected projects. This paper describes a methodology for validation planning of new process technologies and practices. The methodology allows for the explicit linkage of a validation to the identification of its financial and strategic benefits. These often diverse measures of worth are integrated using a proven multi-attribute justification approach within the planning methodology. The methodology and the multi-attribute approach also support the comparison of dissimilar projects having different benefits. The methodology acts as an organizational planning tool integrating the needs of the diverse constituencies involved in R&D planning. It also acts as a tool to aid engineers and scientists identify and present the benefits of the proposed technology. [source]

Trust, coordination and knowledge flows in R&D projects: the case of fuel cell technologies

BUSINESS ETHICS: A EUROPEAN REVIEW, Issue 1 2008
Stian Nygaard
This paper explores influential factors for research and development project success as a result of knowledge flows rising from a trust-based mechanism within and outside the project. Project success is herein defined in terms of results obtained and partner commitment. A sample of 85 organizations involved in 17 European research and development projects under the fifth Framework Programme focused on fuel cell technology projects is used to test the hypotheses. Results provide several insights. First, organizations should take care of trust as the mechanism supporting internal knowledge flows arising from projects in which they are directly involved; second, external R&D ties arise from a kind of interlocking partner mechanism, but the latter does not contribute to the focal project success. [source]