Strategic Adoption of Technological Innovations

Strategic Adoption of Technological Innovations

Caroline Howard

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 413

ISBN13: 9781466627826|ISBN10: 1466627824|EISBN13: 9781466627833

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2782-6

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Strategic Adoption of Technological Innovations brings together research from practitioners on the development, use, and importance of information technology in order to achieve organizational performance. This comprehensive collection is useful for academicians, scholars, researchers and other industry professionals to provide an understanding of strategy and use of information systems in organizations and entities.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Redefining the Information Technology in the 21st Century (pages 1-10)

Ruben Xing, Zhongxian Wang, Richard L. Peterson

As one of the most influential and beneficial developments today, Information Technology (IT) is quickly transforming business infrastructures and reshaping the way how people are affected in context to how they work and live. In...

Chapter 2

Strategic Market and Customer Driven IS/IT Planning Model (pages 11-37)

Teay Shawyun

The importance and issue of strategic business and IT alignment to achieve organization performance, a multifarious IS/IT frameworks, continues to perplex. It is contended that an internal focused IS/IT approach might not meet the...

Chapter 3

The Duality of Information Technology Roles: A Case Study (pages 38-49)

M. Gordon Hunter

This investigation documented the interpretation of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) roles on the senior management team of a financial organization. Confidential one-on-one interviews were...

Chapter 4

A Systematic Approach to Evaluating Open Source Software (pages 50-69)

Norita Ahmad, Phillip A. Laplante

Selecting appropriate Open Source Software (OSS) for a given problem or a set of requirements can be very challenging. Some of the difficulties are due to the fact that there is not a generally accepted set of criteria to use in...

Chapter 5

Social Media Intelligence in the Exploration of National Cultural Dimensions for Online Social Communities (pages 70-81)

Sharon F. Dill, Cynthia Calongne, Caroline Howard, Debra Beazley

Companies are increasingly embracing the use of social media in global online communities as an important part of their business strategies. Use of social media enables organizations to extend their reach and engage with customers in...

Chapter 6

Citizen Journalism: How Technology Transforms Journalism Business through Citizen-Reporters in Nigeria (pages 82-92)

Olubunmi P. Aborisade, Caroline Howard, Debra Beasley, Richard Livingood

Recent national and international developments are demonstrating the power of technology to transform communication channels, media sources, events, and the fundamental nature of journalism. Technological advances now allow citizens...

Chapter 7

Capability Development of Customers: A Globally Viable Business Strategy for the Coming Age (pages 93-103)

Vinay Sharma, Pankaj Madan, Piyush Seth

This paper identifies the application of capability concept (Sen, 2000) as a globally viable business strategy for the coming age which can be used to expand markets into to all levels of the social stratum. ‘Capability’ development...

Chapter 8

Critical Analysis of Expansion Strategies of SAP, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft in the area of Business Intelligence (pages 104-125)

N. P. Singh, Mohammad Jaffer Nayeem M

Business Intelligence (BI) industry has emerged as a high growth area. Recognizing this fact, both pure play vendors as well as big application and infrastructure vendors are trying different strategies to increase their market...

Chapter 9

Representation Type Preferences in Operational Business Process Redesign: A Quasi-Experimental Field Investigation (pages 126-149)

Ned Kock

This paper reports on a quasi-experimental field study in which business process redesign groups in four different US organizations used two different business process representation types. One of the representation types emphasized...

Chapter 10

Studies on Utilizing the Three Famous International Index Systems to Evaluate Scientific Research Level of Higher Learning Institutions (pages 150-160)

Xun Liu, Changyu Huang, Wei-Liang Qian, Yong-Chang Huang

Science Citation Index (SCI), The Engineering Index (EI), and Index to Scientific & Technical Proceeding (ISTP) are widely accepted and used to evaluate the scientific research level of higher learning institutions by many countries’...

Chapter 11

Creativity Enhancement: Use of a Simple Creativity Tutorial in Information Systems Education (pages 161-168)

Monty McNair, Caroline Howard, Indira Guzman, Paul Watkin

Since the dawn of humanity, creativity has been critical to surmounting the challenges of life. Innovation is particularly essential to survival on every level from an individual solving his/her problems to a world dependent on...

Chapter 12

Information Technology Capability, Knowledge Assets and Firm Innovation: A Theoretical Framework for Conceptualizing the Role of Information Technology in Firm Innovation (pages 169-188)

Avimanyu Datta

In this paper, the author presents a theoretical framework that establishes an indirect link between IT capabilities and firm innovation by characterizing the mediating role of knowledge assets: knowledge networks and knowledge...

Chapter 13

Finding the Role of Time Lags in Radio Frequency Identification Investment (pages 189-197)

Cheon-Pyo Lee, Hee-Kwan Eun

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a highly beneficial technological advancement which could eventually change the way of doing business. However, the difficulty in assessing the potential benefits of RFID has been delayed RFID...

Chapter 14

Service Quality Dimensions Within Technology-Based Banking Services (pages 198-248)

Sharaf Alkibsi, Mary Lind

Technology-based banking services (TBBS) are quickly expanding and provide cost reductions per transaction, given increasing labor costs. However, TBBS can be very costly if not introduced correctly. It is critical to have a clear...

Chapter 15

Impact of Prior Usage Experience on the Intention to Adopt 3G Mobile Service for the Youth in Hong Kong (pages 249-267)

Kevin K. W. Ho

Third generation (3G) mobile service has been launched for several years and yet the information systems (IS) community has not yet gained a full understanding of how various technological and social factors affect the intention to...

Chapter 16

Use of Technology in the Household: An Exploratory Study (pages 268-278)

Barcus Jackson, Caroline Howard, Phillip Laplante

Since the 1980s, personal computer ownership has become ubiquitous, and people are increasingly using household technologies for a wide variety of purposes. Extensive IS research has resulted in useful models to explain workplace...

Chapter 17

Process and Structural Implications for IT-Enabled Outsourcing (pages 279-293)

Paul Drnevich, Thomas H. Brush, Gregory T. Luckock

Recent research examined the non-traditional, but increasingly common case of the use of IT to facilitate theoretically inconsistent outsourcing decisions involving (strategic) core firm resources and asset-specific capabilities. It...

Chapter 18

A Proposed Architecture for Autonomous Mobile Agent Intrusion Prevention and Malware Defense in Heterogeneous Networks (pages 294-304)

Robert O. Seale, Kathleen M. Hargiss

This paper proposes an architecture that can support autonomous mobile agents performing intrusion prevention activities on a heterogeneous network. The division of duties performed by the agents in the system ensures the agents are...

Chapter 19

A Nearly One-to-One Method to Convert Analog Signals into a Small Volume of Data: Second Part: (pages 305-336)

Dan Ciulin

This article is an extension for 2-D analogue signals (and more) of the methods presented in “A nearly One-to-One Method to Convert Analog Signals into a Small Volume of Data” which was published in an earlier issue. This new...

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