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Advances in Information Systems Research, Education and Practice 2008: Milano, Italy

Advances in Information Systems Research, Education and Practice - IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, TC 8, Information Systems, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy

David E. Avison, George M. Kasper, Barbara Pernici, Isabel Ramos, Dewald Roode

Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 274, ISBN: 978-0-387-09681-0



Contents

The Practical Relevance of IT Education: Skill Requirements and Education Expectations of Practitioners.

Jorma Riihijärvi, Juhani Iivari

 1-13

Challenges of Professionalization: Bridging Research and Practice through a Body of Knowledge for IT Specialists.

Juhani Iivari, Rudy Hirschheim, Heinz K. Klein

 15-27

Mapping Research Questions to Research Methods.

Pertti Järvinen

 29-41

Reflections on 50 Years of Computing: Impact of Professionalism on Teaching, Practice and Research.

T. William Olle

 43-51

Advances in Information Systems Development: From Discipline and Predictability to Agility and Improvisation.

Jan Pries-Heje, Richard Baskerville, Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Linda Levine

 53-75

The Emergence of Partnership Networks in the Enterprise Application Development Industry: A Global Corporation Perspective.

Jens-Magnus Arndt, Thomas Kude, Jens Dibbern

 77-88

Challenges of Consumer Information Systems Development: The Case of Interactive Television Services.

Tuure Tuunanen, Michael D. Myers, Harold Cassab

 89-100

Improving diffusion of Information Technology in communities in a developing world context.

Ronell Alberts, Vreda Pieterse

 101-112

'Driving' IS projects.

Marta Fernández-Diego, Julián Marcelo-Cocho

 113-124

Bridging the Gap Between Service-Oriented and Object-Oriented Architectures in Information Systems Development.

Viera Rozinajová, Marek Braun, Pavol Návrat, Mária Bieliková

 125-134

The IFIP International Professional Practice Partnership - Transforming and Informing IT Professional Practice.

Charles Hughes

 135-138

Requirements Elicitation in Data Mining for Business Intelligence Projects.

Paola Britos, Oscar Dieste, Ramón García-Martínez

 139-150

Social Networks and KMS Use in US IT Services.

William J. Dixon

 151-162

Realizing the Value of Business Intelligence.

Derek Smith, Maria Crossland

 163-174

An RFID Adoption Framework: A Container Supply Chain Analysis.

Lisa F. Seymour, Emma Lambert-Porter, Lars Willuweit

 175-188

Adoption of Service Oriented Computing from the IT Professionals' Perspective: An e-Government Case Study.

Ilse Baumgartner, Peter Green

 189-201

Introduction of a Public Sector e-Procurement Solution: Lessons Learned from Disappointing Adoption.

John Krogstie

 203-214