Dissertations / Theses: 'Information Systems Stakeholders'

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Coakes, James Martyn. "Discovering and representing stakeholders' requirements for management information systems, in context." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408293.

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Michail, Nancy. "Importance of improved communication between stakeholders in information systems implementation projects." View thesis, 2006. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/31558.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2006.
A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Business, School of Management, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master Commerce (Honours), Management. Includes bibliographies.

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Makoza, Frank. "Power relations among stakeholders in the implementation of national ICT policy: case of Malawi." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25349.

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Purpose: Recent years have seen a growing number of low-income countries formulating and implementing national Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policies with the aim of supporting their socio-economic development agendas. For the majority of these countries, this exercise has been fraught with numerous challenges such as lack of resources; limited support for legal and regulatory frameworks; over-dependence on donors; lack of expertise; lack of implementation strategies; lack of policy championship; and limited participation of stakeholders. Consequently, the intended policy outcomes have not been adequately realised. To mitigate some of the challenges, there have been calls for promotion of more inclusive stakeholders participation in the formulation and implementation of national ICT policies. However, stakeholder participation may not be a silver-bullet to addressing policy implementation challenges since participation itself may be beset with power relations due to differences in beliefs, norms and values of the stakeholders themselves. The study analyses how power relations among stakeholders affect implementation of the national ICT policy. Using the case of Malawi, this study focuses on the implementation of national ICT policy in the context of a developing country. Research methodology: The study was premised in a critical research paradigm and used Critical Social Theory to analyse the interactions and practices of policy stakeholders in the execution of activities for the national ICT policy. The study analyses policy documents and interviews to highlight issues of domination, exclusion and assumptions in the national ICT policy implementation. Key findings: Power relations affected the recruitment and the implementation of the ICT policy. The government controlled the recruitment of stakeholders in the national ICT policy, however, other stakeholders demanded their inclusion in the policy implementation network. The recruitment process resulted in the membership in policy implementation network was elitist. The stakeholders had different interests in the policy and some performed multiple roles in policy implementation activities. The stakeholders mobilised and used different forms of resources to advance their interests in policy implementation activities. The differences in access to resources and capacity to mobilise these resources (legal, financial, information, human capacity) among the stakeholders led to power relations challenges. However, the exercise of power led to the circulation of power among the stakeholders and affected the policy implementation activities such as institutional settings, collaborations among stakeholders, coordination of policy and oversight of the policy. Power relations, to some extent, supported the dominant discourses that shaped the policy implementation to focus on demand perspective of ICTs, including ICT infrastructure initiatives, legal and regulatory frameworks. Value of the study: The study contributions are twofold: First, the study suggests theoretical propositions for explaining power relations among stakeholders in the implementation of national ICT policy; and second, the study makes recommendations for policymakers and actors in Malawi where there is urgent need to address socio-economic challenges and to improve the well-being of citizens using ICTs.

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Rubiano, Mejia Jorge ElieÌcer Rubiano Mejia. "Mapping and modelling landscape stakeholders' visions in Sherwood Natural Area." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288763.

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Lashgari, Maryam. "Digital Marketing Strategy:B2B and Stakeholders Communication." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-220144.

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Since digital media entered the business domain, many different tools and platforms have transformed the nature of business communications. This transformation has not been easy, since the journey has been accompanied by challenges from the marketers’ side against the adoption of the new platforms into the firm’s communication channels. Business to business marketers have also been engaged in such challenges by maintaining a slow adoption, which has motivated the researchers to study the adoption of different means and tools of digital communication in a business context. Through this research, I contribute by exploring the adoption strategies of digital platforms in the B2B supply chain including B2B firms, retailers and end users. By digital media, I mainly refer to social media and beacon technology. First, I begin this thesis by identifying the adoption and integration strategies of social media and digital marketing into traditional marketing channels in a B2B context. In this part, I identify the B2B firms’ target audience and propose a model facilitating a B2B firm’s practical social media adoption strategies. Second, to explore the benefits of different social media content sharing approaches derived from information accessibility resulted in the prior study of this thesis, I introduce and examine Public and Gated-Content sharing approaches. Thereafter, assisted by Social Power Theory and Resource Dependence Theory, I examine the effect of Public and Gated-Content sharing approaches on the target audience’s willingness to interact with the firm. The findings of this study reveal that Gated-Content approach can help the firms build closer relationship with the target audience and engage them in a co-creation process. Third, by studying proximity marketing through the adoption of beacon technology in the retail context, I explore the current methods of usage, as well as the benefits and challenges of in-store proximity marketing adoption for content sharing purposes. I complete the thesis by presenting the different challenges of such adoption, which consist technical, human behavior, managerial perception, resource and privacy factors. Finally, I identify the need to integrate the physical aspect of place and location back again into the online digital communication channels within a retail context.

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Abbas, Nada. "Information needs of gravel roads stakeholders : A case study to elicit the requirements of future users of a cloud-based information system." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97314.

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Within any ecosystem, information needs are shared to be fulfilled and to support the ecosystem in a way or another. They are vital for designing appropriate information systems that will provide those needs. In this thesis, the gravel road ecosystem is studied, where efficient information sharing is not enabled due to the lack of appropriate information systems. Thus,when focusing on the gravel roads ecosystem, information plays a crucial role regarding the maintenance acts upon these roads. Moreover, not enough literature investigates theinformation needs of gravel roads stakeholders with the aim to improve the maintenance ofthese roads. Therefore, this thesis intends to elicit information needs of gravel road stakeholders by performing an exploratory case study. The case study forms a part of an ongoing project with the goal to build a cloud-based information system for a sustainable gravel road maintenance. Data were collected through telephone- and online-based interviews with several key stakeholders in Sweden and were thereafter structured through template analysis. The major findings were a set of information needs and several needed sensors within the pre-mentioned information system. This thesis concluded that the future cloud-based information system in the ongoing project is a useful system for sharing vital information among future gravel roads stakeholders, considering the variety of needed information that affects the maintenance of the gravel roads.
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Wilkin, Carla Lesley, and kimg@deakin edu au. "QUALITY AS THE CRITERION FOR DELIVERED INFORMATION SYSTEMS EFFECTIVENESS." Deakin University. School of Information Services, 2001. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20031205.172039.

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One of the major challenges of MIS activities is the difficulty in measuring the effectiveness of delivered systems. The principal purpose of my research is to explore this field in order to develop an instrument by which to measure such effectiveness. Conceptualisation of Information System (IS) Effectiveness has been substantially framed by DeLone and McLean's (1992) Success; Model. But with the innovation in Information Technology (IT) over the past decade, and the constant pressure in IT to improve performance, there is merit in undertaking a fresh appraisal of the issue. This study built on the model of IS Success developed by DeLone and MeLean, but was broadened to include related research from the domains of IS, Management and Marketing. This analysis found that an effective IS function is built on three pillars: the systems implemented; the information held and delivered by these systems; and, the service provided in support of the IS function. A common foundation for these pillars is the concept of stakeholder needs. In seeking to appreciate the effectiveness: of delivered IS applications in relation to the job performance of stakeholders, this research developed an understanding of what quality means in an IT context I argue that quality is a more useful criterion for effectiveness than the more customary measures of use and user satisfaction. Respecification of the IS Success Model was then proposed. The second phase of the research was to test this model empirically through judgment panels, focus groups and interviews. Results consistently supported the structure and components of the respecified model. Quality was determined as a multi-dimensional construct, with the key dimensions for the quality of delivered IS differing from those used in the research from other disciplines. Empirical work indicated that end-user stakeholders derived their evaluations of quality by internally evaluating perceived performance of delivered IS in relation to their expectations for such performance. A short trial explored whether, when overt measurement of expectations was concurrent with the measurement of perceptions, a more revealing appraisal of delivered IS quality was provided than when perceptions alone were measured. Results revealed a difference between the two measures. Using the New IS Success Model as the foundation, and drawing upon the related theoretical and empirical research, an instrument was developed to measure the quality/effectiveness of delivered IS applications. Four trials of this instrument, QUALIT, are documented. Analysis of results from preliminary trials indicates promise in terms of business value: the instrument is simple to administer and has the capacity to pinpoint areas of weakness. The research related to the respecification of the New IS Success Model and the associated empirical studies, including the development of QTJALIT, have both contributed to the development of theory about IS Effectiveness. More precisely, my research has reviewed the components of an information system, the dimensions comprising these components and the indicators of each, and based upon these findings, formulated an instrument by which to measure the effectiveness of a delivered IS.

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Aggestam, Lena. "Planning for Information Systems Development : A Framework for supporting the management of Success Factors." Thesis, University of Skövde, Department of Computer Science, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-740.

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In the information systems development process there are important success factors. By doing an extensive literature survey we have found that these factors emerge mainly from organisational issues concerning the objective of the process and the stakeholders.One factor - to discuss the system, its subsystems and to define the system's boundary - is a prerequisite for all the others. Factors emerging from the objective are mainly about the objective being well analysed and defined, being accepted among the stakeholders and meeting business objectives. Factors emerging from stakeholders are mainly about involving the right stakeholders in the process, achieving a positive attitude and taking care of their needs about knowledge and confidence. Based on this we have developed a framework aiming to guide organisations in what considerations they should make before the project begins. As a result of our framework there will be both a clear objective, which support the business mission, as well as positive stakeholders to support the information systems development process.

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Serra, José Dinis Samarra. "Relevância da gestão da informação e dos sistemas de informação no Cluster do Turismo, enquanto recursos estratégicos e forma de Branding. Estudo de caso às unidades hoteleiras." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/29840.

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O turismo como indústria de serviços, com um alcance internacional através de redes, que possui especificidades únicas como a sua heterogeneidade, intangibilidade e perecibilidade, que o diferenciam dos restantes produtos, exige uma elevada mobilização de informação. É daqui que sobressai a relevância dos sistemas de informação como recursos estratégicos, apoiados em informação, processos e tecnologias, sendo inquestionável a afirmação de que os mesmos se transformaram num dos fatores determinantes da competitividade do setor do turismo. A presente dissertação constitui uma análise e reflexão crítica na abordagem da utilização dos sistemas de informação na área de atividade económica do turismo, enquanto elementos críticos para a prossecução de estratégias de organização, para alcançar, ativar e integrar stakeholders dispersos territorialmente. A abordagem assenta na interpretação da importância da informação e da sua gestão para o funcionamento interno e externo do cluster, através das formas como mobiliza agentes económicos dos vários stakeholders, produzindo elementos de branding. O principal contributo do trabalho concretiza-se na sistematização de um exercício que justifica de forma sustentada a relevância da gestão da informação e dos sistemas de informação para o desenvolvimento da indústria do turismo, pelo que se procedeu a uma revisão do estado da arte sobre a problemática da investigação, tendo como base os conceitos chave definidos. Por último, o trabalho foi ainda suportado por um processo de recolha e análise de dados que sustentou o desenvolvimento de uma investigação metodológica; Relevance of information management and information systems in the tourism cluster, as strategic resources and form of branding. Case study in hotel units. Abstract: Tourism as a service industry, has an international range via networks that possesses unique features - heterogeneity, unattainability and perishability. That differentiates it from all the other products. Thus requiring a high mobilization of information. This stands out the importance of systems of information as strategical resources supported by information, processes and technologies and, without doubt, the affirmation that the same are changed in one of the most important basis of competitiveness in the tourism area. This thesis is an analysis and critical reflection in the approach to the use of information systems in the economic area of tourism, as critical elements for the pursuit of organizational strategies, to reach, to activate and to integrate stakeholders dispersed territorially. The approach is based on the interpretation of importance of information and its management for the internal and external functioning of the cluster, through the ways in which it mobilizes economic agents from the various stakeholders, producing branding element’s. The main contribution of the work is to systematize an exercise that justifies the relevance of information management and information systems for the development of the tourism industry, supported on the necessary bibliographic revision of the research problem, based on the key concepts defined. Finally, the work was also supported by a data collection and analysis process that supported the development of a methodological investigation.

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Khoo, Huoy Min. "Upgrading Packaged Software: An Exploratory Study of Decisions, Impacts, and Coping Strategies from the Perspectives of Stakeholders." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cis_diss/5.

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Packaged software is widely adopted and has become an integral part of most organizations’ IT portfolios. Once packaged software is adopted, upgrades to subsequent versions appear to be inevitable. To date, research on packaged software upgrade has not received the attention that it warrants, as academic research continues to focus on initial technology adoption. To explore this understudied yet important area, three research questions were proposed: (1) What influences the decision to upgrade packaged software? (2) How do stakeholders cope with software upgrade? (3) How does a packaged software upgrade affect stakeholders? A qualitative research method was used to study the research questions. Two cases were conducted at a Fortune 500 company located in the Southeastern region of United States. The first case studied Windows 2000 upgrades and the second case studied SAP 4.6C upgrade. A theoretical model with six components was induced from the study; the components are decision, motivating forces, contingency forces, planned strategies, corrective actions, and impacts. Upgrade decisions are the outcome of interaction between motivating forces that can originate from internal and external environments, and contingency forces. A decision to upgrade will lead to both positive and negative impacts as experienced by users and IT groups. However, stakeholders’ experiences differ according to the types of software and also their roles in the company. Two types of strategies were observed in the study: planned strategies and corrective actions. Planned strategies were used to tackle anticipated issues, and corrective actions were adopted to solve ad hoc problems when negative impacts arose. Both strategies can affect the final outcome of impacts. Finally, in the event a corrective action was used, there is a chance that it will become a permanent planned strategy.

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Nonejuie, Goranij. "An analysis of the role of dynamic participatory geographical information systems (PGIS) in supporting different water stakeholders in Rayong Basin Thailand." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534281.

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Buchner, Marc. "The rise of Big Data in Austrian tax consultancies : How stakeholders of Austrian tax consultancies assess the potential influence of Big Data." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97146.

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The fact is that every individual leaves behind vast amounts of data, companies collect this data and use the knowledge gained from it in a variety of ways. One area that is lucrative for the use of Big data is the financial sector. A prominent example of the use of Big data is real-time stock market insights. However, there are still industries in which Big data is not yet used for various reasons. One of these industries is the tax consulting sector, which will be the focus of this research. With its high entry hurdles, direct dependence on the legislator, and the associated atypical data sets, the tax consulting sector represents a special use case within the financial sector. Because big data has not been used in the tax consulting sector yet and that the setting is atypical compared to other sectors, a closer analysis of potential influences on services, the working environment, and quality is of particular interest here. This analysis is the core of this study and was carried out using an interpretative qualitative approach in the form of a case study. In this case study, the three most important stakeholders of Austrian tax consultancies- employers, employees, and clients - were interviewed on the one hand through interviews and on the other hand through a survey with open-ended questions. The results were then compared in the discussion with the changes that studies in other fields have identified. The results of the study showed that the stakeholders predominantly assume that the quality of services will improve significantly through the use of big data, especially in accounting and business management services. Stakeholders also predicted a positive development concerning the range of services offered. It was also predicted that the range of services offered could increase on the one hand and that services of a business management nature could benefit enormously on the other. In the area of the working environment, employees said that increased training activity and process adaptation would be the only significant changes. In the area of risks, all three stakeholder groups agreed and mentioned data protection. Interesting differences between the three stakeholder groups were on the one hand that the employers gave very detailed answers, which allows the assumption that they have already thought carefully about the topic of big data. On the other hand, in contrast to the other two groups, the employees did not primarily think of their area (work environment) in the analysis, but of that of the clients and thus of the provision of the service. This underlines the strong focus on client satisfaction and encourages a more intensive involvement in the design process. In contrast to other studies, this thesis analyses the influences on the areas not from a retrospective point of view, but a prospective point of view. This approach allows an unbiased look at the opinions of stakeholders and thus provides the best possible information for the design of big data tools for the tax consulting sector. Besides, by comparing this with changes found in other studies, it is possible to estimate how the use of big data in the tax consulting sector differs from other sectors.

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Tamtam, Abdurrzzag Giuma A. "A Framework for Exploring Information Systems Quality Perspectives." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-233430.

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Záměrem předložené disertační práce je porozumět tomu, jak investoři v konkrétním společenském kontextu vnímají význam kvality informačních systémů. Ze studia literatury zabývající se přístupy a rámci hodnocení kvality informačních systémů vyplývá, že tato kvalita je obecně hodnocena z hlediska striktního přístupu. V této práci je ukázáno, že kvalitu informačního systému lze smysluplně pochopit použitím interpretačního paradigmatu a že kvalita informačního systému je definována společensky a ovlivňována kontextem tohoto systému. Studie byla zahájena průzkumem dvaceti libyjských organizací. Podrobnější data byla získána z případové studie dvou vybraných libyjských organizací působících ve veřejném sektoru. Při empirické analýze nashromážděných dat bylo využito rámce mnohočetné perspektivy, který zahrnuje hlediska teorie strukturalizace, pojem mnohočetných perspektiv a metodologii měkkých systémů. V práci se dospělo ke zjištění, že: a) kvalita informačních systémů je pojata šíře, než je tomu u tradiční definice kvality, b) mnohočetné perspektivy kvality informačních systémů jsou ovlivněny opakovanou interakcí mezi investorem a institucionálními vlastnostmi kontextu informačního systému a že c) rozdílné hodnoty v kulturním prostředí a vnějším kontextu ovlivňují rozsah působnosti investora a interakce v kontextu informačního systému. Ze závěru práce vyplývá, že společenská skladba mnohočetných perspektiv kvality informačního systému je ovlivněna strukturalizačními procesy mezi investory a vlastnostmi v kontextu informačního systému.

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Buabbas, Ali. "Investigation of the adoption of telemedicine technology in the Kuwaiti health system : strategy and policy of implementation for overseas referral patients." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7607.

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The cost of health care services is rising and the number of patients requesting overseas treatment from the Kuwait Government continues to increase; this is becoming an unsustainable financial burden. A telemedicine system has the potential to support the Kuwaiti health system to provide medical consultations from global medical centres, and thereby reduce the number of Kuwaiti patients being sent abroad for treatment, and so reduce costs. This research investigates the readiness of the key stakeholders in regard to adoption of telemedicine systems in the Kuwaiti healthcare system. This is achieved by assessing the readiness of individuals (physicians and patients), the organisation (policy makers) and the technical infrastructure (IT managers). Moreover, the lack of research on this topic, particularly in the Arabian Gulf Region, was the reason behind carrying out this study. An in-depth study was conducted by using a quantitative and qualitative approach. A questionnaire was used to explore the attitudes of specialised physicians and patients by obtaining their opinions based on specific criteria. Next, semi-structured interviews were conducted: (1) with IT managers to assess the technical infrastructure of the health system; and (2) with policy makers to assess the organisation in regard to its readiness towards telemedicine adoption. The study shows that the overseas referral patients are ready to use telemedicine systems, as a consequence of their need to receive medical consultations from global experts. However, they expressed some concerns, such as privacy and confidentiality of their data. The specialised physicians also showed readiness towards adoption of telemedicine in the Kuwaiti health system, and their responses indicated that they are willing to use such systems. However, the findings of the interviews reveal that the current technical infrastructure for ICT in the Kuwaiti healthcare system is not ready for telemedicine adoption and there are needs to be change in the way management is organized in order to improve and enhance trust among departments. The qualitative approach identified factors that would inhibit and hinder the adoption of telemedicine in Kuwait, as well as the supportive factors in the organisation. Using the results, a strategy was developed to demonstrate how the Kuwaiti health system could be made ready to receive a telemedicine system, together with policies for the use of telemedicine systems by overseas referral patients. A comparison with Jordan and Syria shows that the Kuwaiti healthcare system is more ready to adopt a telemedicine system with respect to the individuals, technical infrastructure and governmental support. Finally, an economic analysis was performed in order to investigate the cost effectiveness of the proposed system.

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Iqbal, Imran. "Designing Communication Artefacts." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-152757.

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Communication and information sharing are two inseparable ideas: communication isessentially information sharing. The aim of the present study is to find improved means ofcommunication, collaboration and information sharing among multiple number projectsoperating in Swedish municipal sector in various locations. The research employs design scienceresearch to improve effective communication that corresponds to an ‘action research loop’where the intervention is envisaged as introduction of IT in organization (Sein et al, 2010). Fourcycles of design and evaluation resulted in a web-based tool for communication and sharing ofinformation, a collaboration model (represents the collaboration among Stakeholders), a DPVCmodel (documents-parts-versions-comments represents different methods of sharing documents),a process flow model (represents the way the proposed artefact may be used by people) and a setof design principles (rules for the development of collaboration tool). The designing of the webbasedtool, collaboration model, DPVC model, process flow model and design principles areinformed by pragmatic evaluations as well as informed arguments from the fields of knowledgemanagement, (multiple) project management, information systems actability theory, and openinnovation.

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Rashidzadeh, Azar Soran, and Muhammad Irfan Chaudhry. "ERP implementation - Seeing through a lens : A comparative literature review regarding the factors that influence a successful ERP system implementation." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-10074.

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Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyse the factors that contribute to the successful ERP system implementation, the stakeholders of ERP system and how these stakeholders are related to CSFs of ERP system implementation. Design/ methodology/ approach: The research methodology approach chosen for this research is based on reality and clear research which includes qualitative and quantitative method for collecting and analysing data. Data for this research consists of secondary data, gathered by conducting a critical literature review of research papers published by journals, magazines and books. The content analysis and comparative study methods are used to analyse data. Findings: Seventeen CSFs that are considered to contribute to ERP implementation success have been identified in accordance with their prioritization where twelve of them have been described; by analyzing some widely accepted in prior researches. Three stakeholders of ERP such as “Top management, IT professionals and End-users” have been identified and their involvement in the ERP implementation has been described. The result revealed that several CSFs of ERP such as “user training and involvement, ERP teamwork and selection of ERP are directly related to End-users”. The findings also revealed that Top management are related to majority of CSFs such as “top management support and commitment, change management, business plan and vision, system quality, project management, effective communication plan, selection of ERP, monitoring and focused performance evaluation, project champion, and business and IT infrastructure”. The result from analysis also showed a correlation between IT professionals and several CSFs such as “selection of ERP, system quality, user training and involvement, post-implementation evaluation, business plan and vision, change management, ERP teamwork, effective communication plan, and business and IT infrastructure”.

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Pouloudi, Athanasia. "Stakeholder analysis for interorganisational information systems in healthcare." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298621.

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This thesis defines an interpretive stakeholder analysis approach for studying interorganisational systems and demonstrates its value in the healthcare domain. It is argued that the complex and political nature of these systems implies that the issues affecting their development and implementation go well beyond the primarily commercial concerns on which current research in interorganisational systems focuses. This thesis is based on the assumption that this broader range of issues can be better investigated and understood through a systematic and comprehensive study of their stakeholders. It is argued that this can be achieved by adopting an interpretive research epistemology, not least because of some common assumptions that stakeholder analysis approaches and interpretive research share. The thesis unveils these common assumptions and uses them to define an interpretive approach to the identification and analysis of stakeholder perceptions on interorganisational systems and their context. Using previous research in the stakeholder literature this work examines descriptive, instrumental and normative implications of the stakeholder approach in interorganisational systems use in healthcare, a domain where interorganisational systems development is less likely to be driven by commercial concerns. The descriptive aspect is made explicit with the study of interorganisational systems used in the drug use management domain whereas instrumental and normative aspects are investigated in the context of the NHSnet, a controversial system pertaining the electronic exchange of information in the healthcare domain in the United Kingdom. The thesis contributes to interpretive information systems research with the systematic study of the stakeholder concept in an interorganisational context and its grounding within the interpretive epistemology. It emphasises the importance and interrelation between the different aspects of stakeholder theory and demonstrates the value of each aspect in the healthcare domain thus also contributing to a rich insight in the particular empirical research context.

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Zimbra, David. "Stakeholder and Sentiment Analysis in Web Forums." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222894.

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Web forums offer open and interactive social communication platforms for numerous participants to share information and offer perspectives on a variety of business and social issues with audiences around the world. In addition to facilitating widespread communication, these web forums contain massive amounts of data and represent rich sources of information that can be utilized to advance the understanding of participants and society. In particular, web forums pertaining to firms and their customers, employees, and investors, represent valuable resources for the acquisition of business intelligence. However, web forums represent a complex analytic landscape requiring the development of automated, intelligent, and scalable analytic approaches. The dissertation follows the design science paradigm in management information systems research, and aims to develop and refine approaches to the analysis of web forums, and to apply these analytic approaches to firm-related web forums to derive information that may explain and predict firm stock behavior. The designs of the devised approaches to web forum analysis are informed by the stakeholder theory of the firm, and systemic functional linguistic theory. We introduce and advance a stakeholder approach to the analysis of firm-related web forums, and improve existing approaches to sentiment analysis in web forums. In Chapter 2 we develop and deploy a stakeholder framework to analyze a popular firm-related finance web forum and apply the extracted measures to explain firm stock return, volatility, and trading volume. In Chapter 3 we advance the stakeholder framework and perform dynamic analyses of web forums over time, and compare several feature representations of stakeholders and approaches to sentiment analysis. We deploy the stakeholder framework to analyze several firm-related web forums, and apply the derived measures to predict firm stock return and perform simulated trading of firm stock over a one year period to determine the economic value of the extracted information. Finally, in Chapter 4 we develop approaches to improve the scalability of sentiment analysis across multiple web forums in a collection. Overall the dissertation contributes to the literature on the analysis of web forums, and demonstrates the value of firm-related web forums as sources of business intelligence.

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Al, Ghannam Bareeq A. "A systemic approach for evaluating stakeholder collaboration within requirement collection." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2008. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/3556/.

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The involvement of Stakeholders in requirement collection of software projects is essential, and that is evident in the diverse methodologies available that emphasise stakeholder collaboration. However these processes scarcely provide further understanding of the social interaction, and its effect into forming collaboration had not been sufficiently addressed by software development research. It is challenging to identify dominating factors that affect collaboration due to the complexity of stakeholder interaction. This thesis addresses such a challenge. It discusses a systems approach to the evaluation of stakeholder collaboration within requirement collection of software projects. A generic approach has been developed to contribute to our understanding of the problem and support stakeholders’ collaborative involvement. Based on understanding the nature of collaboration between stakeholders in requirement collection, and the concept of perception and its contribution into forming collaboration, the EStaC (Evaluation of Stakeholder Collaboration) approach is developed. EStaC is presented here to describe an integration of multi-methodologies that supports capturing stakeholders' perspectives, and therefore systemically it captures the essence of collaboration within its context. EStaC contributes to the crucial phase of requirement collection with the ultimate objective of extending it to include means of improvement of stakeholder collaboration. It promotes the development of two modes of analysis, the design and diagnosis, which both involves using the principles of the Viable System Model. The novelty of this work is specifically considered with the development of the EStaC approach because unlike other approaches, it focuses on the social act of interaction from a stakeholders viewpoint, by applying systemic strategies and cybernetic driven principles with concepts of fourth generation evaluation. The research recognises evaluation of stakeholder collaboration as an important aspect in the requirement collection process in any software development. It concludes and supports the incorporation of such activities throughout various phases of requirement collection.

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Barrow, Patrick D. M. "Investigating stakeholder evaluation within rapid application development." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323267.

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Stößlein, Martin. "Anspruchsgruppenkommunikation : wertorientierte Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten mit wissensbasierten Stakeholder-Informations-Systemen /." Wiesbaden : Dt. Univ.-Verl, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015044932&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Airaksinen, Tom, and Erik E. Byström. "User and Business Value : A Dual-Stakeholder Perspective on IT Systems." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-8376.

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When discussing the value of an information technology (IT) system, the most common approach is to take on the perspective of either the organization introducing the IT system or the end users. The purpose of this thesis has been to study the values of both stakeholder groups in order to define what system characteristics are the most desirable from a dual-stakeholder point of view.

Through a series of contextual inquiries, interviews and questionnaires, the value perceptions of end users and IT managers at a large European rail operator were investigated. The results of the study point to a high degree of similarity in the value perceptions of end users and IT managers, although the former were generally focused on short-term value while the latter also were concerned about long-term, sustaining value.

The findings are applicable to practitioners wishing to take a dual perspective on IT value as well as academics looking to find touch points between usability and business strategy. In the context of end users and IT managers, the most important system characteristics that maximize value for both stakeholder groups were found to be Availability, Recoverability, Efficiency, Reliability and Future Proofness.

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Christoffels, Mervyn. "The influence of stakeholder power, proximity and urgency on the selection and prioritization of projects within IT project portfolio management." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10214.

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IT investments constitute a major portion of the capital budgets of many organizations. It can be challenging to select the right projects that fit the corporate strategy to maximize value for the organization. In the past, senior executives focused on projects that met three criteria, namely being on-time, on budget and in scope. However, a shift has occurred as a result of the fact that senior executives are more concerned about the right mix of projects that will best utilise the organization's resources and deliver long-range growth. Some of the benefits of IT Project Portfolio Management (IT PPM) are to provide executives with the ability to monitor projects ensure business alignment and identify risks quickly. It is argued that maintaining a balanced portfolio of diverse projects can reduce the risk of an individual project and can produce a higher rate of return.

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Coakes, Elayne Wendy. "Strategic planning for information systems : a sociotechnical view of boundary and stakeholder insufficiencies." Thesis, Brunel University, 2002. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5140.

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The thesis proposes that Strategic Planning for Information Systems (SPIS) has become ineffective through a tendency to focus on the information technologies involved. The thesis argues that the dominant rational, reductionist epistemology of SPIS methods, tools and techniques limits the effectiveness of SPIS through methodological impoverishment. The thesis proposes that a humanistic, sociotechnical perspective of SPIS accommodates the use of complementary tools and techniques that improve the process. This thesis advances a new Framework to improve the process of SPIS based on the propositions; first that the lack of sufficient knowledge of both the internal and external environment is a root cause of many of these insufficiencies, and second that this knowledge is held within the stakeholders of this process. An ernancipatory information systems research programme (Klein and Hirschheim, 1987) is used to advance a framework that overcomes the insufficiency and inadequacy of the process of strategic planning for information systems in organisations that permits information systems to fail. The framework is tested on two organisations and shows that the proposed Framework has significant potential to improve the SPIS process. The case research investigates the role of stakeholders, knowledge, and boundaries in the process of SPIS in order to develop more sufficient methods for the process of SPIS that address the perceived inadequacies in current processes, and thus provide an improved strategic planning process for information systems. Two novel tools are introduced: the Stakeholder Web and the Interaction Matrix. Their evolution is a major contribution of this research. The collection of tools presents a practical research contribution for the SPIS process and as generic (methodological) research tools. A new definition for the term 'stakeholder' is formulated and used to supply clarity in understanding for this study - and would prove useful for the field of IS.

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Nomdoe, Herschel Gordon. "Evaluating web-based information systems effectiveness : an e-service quality multi-stakeholder perspective." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1370.

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Over a period spanning approximately twenty five years Information Systems (IS) researchers have been plagued by the problem of how to evaluate IS effectiveness or success. After the advent of the World Wide Web (WWW) in the 1990s, questions have arisen regarding the relevance of previously established evaluation approaches to the evaluation of web-based IS. Subsequently, firms have invested billions of dollars anually in information systems but the lack of appropriate frameworks for evaluating their effectiveness made it difficult to determine the return on IS investment. In a period spanning 20 years IS researchers proposed a diverse number of approaches e.g. the communications research of Shannon and Weaver (1949) and the information "influence theory" of Mason (1978). These were subsequently incorporated into a single model in 1992, called the IS Success Model (Delone & McLean, 1992). The principal objective of this research project was to develop a generic methodology for web-based Information Systems (IS) success evaluation from a multi-stakeholder perspective for specific IS contexts. The Delone and McLean IS Success Model (Delone and McLean, 1992) provides an underpinning framework for measuring IS effectiveness. In the latter 1990's the concept of service-quality was introduced into the IS effectiveness literature. In their updated IS Success Model, Delone and McLean (2003) then included service quality as key measure in the evaluation of IS success. Consequently this research project focused on how service quality concepts could be applied as a measure of IS effectiveness within e-commerce. A 3-pronged approach to IS evaluation was proposed viz. identification of generic stakeholder groups such as e-Customer, sponsoring manager, internal users etc.; identification of the context of the IS evaluation for each stakeholder i.e. what is the main function and context of operation of the IS; and lastly identification of stakeholder specific e-SQ criteria. The study demonstrates that the success of IS deployed within online environments, could be evaluated and measured differently by each stakeholder for the various e-Service Quality (e-SQ) dimensions within a particular IS context. The study presents the results of an investigation into a web-based IS at a national telecommunications company in South Africa which was evaluated using e-Service Quality (e-SQ) constructs. The study demonstrates the operationalisation of an e-SQ instrument for the purposes of evaluating IS effectiveness amongst multi-stakeholders. Evidence is provided that measuring attitudes of different stakeholders provides a more holistic perspective of IS success. The primary conclusion reached is that by using a step-by-step methodology of IS success measurement, the objective of establishing whether companies have received a return on web-based IS investment, can be achieved. Furthermore, the outcomes of the study has contributed to existing literature on IS effectiveness measurement. In particular, it will add to the existing body of knowledge regarding the use of e-SQ instrument to evaluate multi-stakeholder perceptions.

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Almusharraf, Ahlam. "DIVERGENCE IN STAKEHOLDER PERCEPTIONS OF SECURITY POLICIES: A REPGRID ANALYSIS FOR NORM-RULE COMPLIANCE." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4346.

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Many organizations have a problem with synchronizing individual values regarding information security with expectations set by the relevant security policy. Such discordance leads to failure in compliance or simply subversion of existing or imposed controls. The problem of the mismatch in understanding the security policies amongst individuals in an organization has devastating effect on security of the organization. Different individuals hold different understanding and knowledge about IS security, which is reflected on IS security policies design and practice (Vaast, 2007). Albrecthsen and Hovdena (2009) argue that users and managers practice IS security differently because they have different rationalities. This difference in rationalities may reflect the mismatch between the security policies and individuals’ values. In this research, we argue that occurrence of security breach can change individuals’ values in light of security policy of organization. These changes in the values can be reflected on the compliance between individuals’ norms and security rules and standards. Indeed, organizations need to guarantee the compliance between security policy and values of their employees. Thus, they can alleviate or prevent violations of security of organization. However, it is difficult to find a common method that all organizations can adopt to guarantee the synch between security rules and individuals’ norms. The main aim of this research is to investigate how people perceive information security policy and how their perceptions change in response to security breaches. Besides, this research aims to investigate the relationship between individuals’ values and security policy. Thus, organizations can have the intended level of compliance between individual norms and security rules and standards. With the aid of the Repertory Grid technique, this research examines how a security breach shapes people’s values with respect to security policy of an organization. To conduct the argument, this research offers an assessment mechanism that aids the organization to evaluate employees’ values in regard to security policy. Based on that evaluation, the organization can develop a proper mechanism to guarantee compliance between individuals’ norms and security rules. The results of this research show that employees in an organization hold different perceptions regarding the security policy. These perceptions change in response to security incident. This change in perceptions dose not necessarily result in better compliance with the security policy. Factors like the type of breach and people’s experience can affect the amount of change in the perceptions. Contributions, implications, and directions for future research of this study will be discussed.

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Hwabamungu, Boroto. "The influence of stakeholder relations on the implementation of information systems strategy in public hospitals in South Africa: an activity theory perspective." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12949.

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Literature reveals that there exists a research gap between the development of information systems (IS) strategy and the implementation thereof. There is also a need for further research regarding the implementation of IS strategy in public hospitals in South Africa. The exploration of implementation in the context of public hospitals in South Africa, a country with many good policies and strategies that have been developed but that are not always implemented, is highly relevant. In this study we undertook to explore the intricacies of stakeholder relations and the implications of these relations on the implementation of IS strategy in public hospitals in South Africa. This research was interpretive following a case study approach. Two provinces of South Africa were selected as cases: the Western Cape province and the Kwazulu Natal province. The Activity Analysis and Development (ActAD) framework, an enhanced form of activity theory, was used as the theoretical framework. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews, meetings, documents analysis and physical artefacts observation. The collected data was analysed using thematic analysis. The findings of this study reveal that factors related to stakeholder relations include the situational stakeholder relations dynamics and the level and motive of involvement in IS strategic activities and IS strategy operationalization processes at the different hierarchical levels. These factors affect the implementation of the IS strategy in public hospitals in South Africa by influencing different elements of the IS strategy implementation activity system. In the end we developed a framework, the stakeholder relations’ influence (SRI) framework which depicts the influence of stakeholder relations on the implementation of IS strategy in public hospitals in South Africa.

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Rydbrink, Morgan. "Regalskeppet Kronan : Utveckling av en interaktiv dykmodell." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Communication and Design, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-247.

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Projektet startade på uppdrag av länsmuseet i Kalmar län. Målet var att utveckla en första prototyp av en interaktiv dykmodell i 3d av vrakplatsen för Regalskeppet Kronan. Syftet med denna modell var tvådelad; att skapa en nyanserad del av Kronan-utställningen och underlätta vid utgrävningarna av vrakplatsen för regalskeppet Kronan. Modellen skulle fungera som en nyanserad och modern del av länsmuseets webbsida och utställning där museibesökare kan vrida och vända på modellen i realtid och skapa sig en bild över hur det ser ut vid vrakplatsen. Projektets validitet i förhållande till länsmuseets verksamhet bekräftades genom en studie av länsmuseets verksamhetsberättelse. Det andra syftet med dykmodellen är att de dykare som genomför dykningarna vid vrakplatsen skall kunna distribuera modellen mellan varandra och redan på ett tidigt stadium kunna diskutera och planera utgrävningarna, vilket tidigare gjort med hjälp av inspelade översimningar vid vrakplatsen. Arbetet i projektet genomfördes i ett flertal steg. Först presenteras termen stakeholder, eller intressenter, som är ett led i att kunna ta fram rätt användare vid utvecklingen 3d-modellen. De intressenter som togs fram och ansågs vara mest lämpliga var museibesökare, i form av turister och skolungdomar, och dykare. Dessa var de två intressentgrupper som ansågs vara de som kommer vara direkta slutanvändare av 3d-modellen. För att ytterligare kunna ringa in rätt användare för 3d-modellen användes sedan en metod som kallas personas för att representera museibesökaren och skolungdomar och intervjuer för intressentgruppen dykare vid vrakplatsen. Som representant för dykare vid vrakplatsen av Kronan stod Lars Einarsson som är ansvarig för utgrävningarna. Produktionen av 3d-modellen gjordes genom ett första framtagande av konceptuella modeller och fotande av bilder från Kronan-utställningen, vilka låg till grund för de tekniker för modellering inom 3d Studio Max som användes. Dessa modeller fungerade också som förlaga vid själva modellerandet. Under produktionsfasen av 3d-modellen togs ett flertal saker i beaktande; modellering med så låg komplexitet som möjligt, en realism i 3d-modellen i form av rätt objekt utifrån vad som finns vid den fysiska vrakplatsen och ljussättning och skuggsättning. Som hjälp vid ljus- och skuggsättning användes även filmmaterial från en överdykning av vrakplatsen. Interaktionen med den 3d-modellen beslutades att skötas av en andrahandsprogramvara. För att tillse att den bästa programvaran användes för detta ändamål jämfördes Eon Raptor och Design Review 2008. Detta gjordes utifrån testning av programvaran inom projektgruppen och en jämförelse mellan de systemkrav som respektive programvara krävde. Det slutgiltiga valet föll på Design Review 2008 främst på basis av en större grad av användbarhet och teknisk tillgänglighet. Efter att modellen implementerats från 3D Studio Max till Design Review 2008 gjordes en heuristisk utvärdering för att tillse den grundläggande funktionen av programmet. De utvärderingsprinciper som användes var en modifierad version av Jacob Nielsens utvärderingsprinciper. Dessa togs fram genom att en jämförelse och syntes gjordes av Nielsens och Jef Raskins teorier för god interaktion. Den heuristiska utvärderingen ansågs falla väl ut och den slutgiltiga applikationen ansågs ha god användbarhet vad gäller interaktionen.

The project started by commission of the regional museum of Kalmar. The goal was to develop a first prototype of an interactive 3-dimensional diving model of the site of wreckage of the man-of-war Kronan. The aim of this model were two folded. First it was supposed to be a more modern part of the regional museums webpage and its physical exhibition where visitors of the museum can navigate and turn the model around in real time and get a picture of how it looks at the site of the wreackage. Part of the museum’s annual report states that their aim is to gain 20.000 more visitors during the year of 2008. A more modern way of exhibiting their objects in the museum could help with this. The validity of the project was confirmed by a study of the regional museums annual report. The second aim of the diving model was to facilitate the planning the excavation of the site of the wreckage for the divers by on an early stage of the planning being able to distribute and discuss the wreckage among each other. This was formely done by looking at and discussing video footage taken at the wreckage. The project was divided into several steps. First, the term stakeholder was introduced to get a better understanding of who the user for the development of the 3d-model was. The stakeholders that were put forward and were deemed the most suitable were visitors at the museum, in the form of “tourists and school children”, and “divers at the site of the wreckage”. These were the two stakeholder groups who were seen as those who would have the most direct influence of the interaction with the 3d model. To further encircle the users of the upcoming 3d model, the method personas was used to represent the visitors at the museum and schoolchildren. Interviews was used for the stakeholder group “divers at the wreckage”. Representing the divers was Lars Einarsson who is in charge of the excavation of the wreckage. The production of the 3d model was done by making of conceptual models and footage from the Kronan exhibition. These were the basis for the techniques for modeling that were used within 3d Studio Max. These models also worked as an original while modeling. During the production phase of the 3d model several things was taken into consideration; modeling with as low complexity as possible, a realism in the 3d model by adding objects that are actually in place at the wreckage and natural lighting of the scene. To aid with the lighting filmed footage from the site of the wreckage were used. The interaction with the 3d model was deemed to be made using a second hand application. To see to it that the best application for this was used, a comparison between Eon Raptor and Design Review 2008 was made. This was done on the basis of both internal testing and a comparison of the two programs system requirements. The final choice was Design Review 2008 mostly on the basis of a higher degree of usability and technical availability. After the model was implemented from 3d Studio Max to Design Review 2008 a heuristic evaluation was made to see to it that the basic functioning of the model was satisfying. The usability principles that were used were a modified version of Jacob Nielsens usability principles. These were produced by comparing and synthesizing Nielsens and Jef Raskins theories for good interaction. The result of the heuristic evaluation was deemed satisfying and the final application was considered having good usability concerning the interaction.

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Murphy, Maria. "Digital Transformation for Crisis Volunteerism : A study in the aftermath of the Swedish Forest Fires Crisis in 2018." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Informationssystem och digitalisering, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-176915.

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In the summer of 2018, Sweden was taken by surprise and engulfed by forest fires on an unprecedented scale. Various forms of crisis volunteerism (CV) proved essential in the large scale response that ensued. Previous information systems (IS) research gives insights, both theoretically and practically, on the potential of IS and digitalisation to enhance and support crisis response. However, the forest fires demonstrated that CV practices and practitioners in Sweden have practically no such support. CV is, in other words, an essential part of the crisis response system, but unsupported by dedicated digitalisation. The aim of this thesis is therefore to understand what is required to enable a digital transformation (DT) that will significantly improve CV practice and the overall crisis response system. Sweden is not unique in this respect. From an international perspective, IS research devotes much attention to the area of crisis response. However, this is most commonly done using the perspective and needs of crisis management stakeholders as a departing point. Also, despite research on and the availability of IS solutions, the degree of practical implementation would appear to be low. This thesis is therefore also based on the perceived knowledge gap that the lack of IS and digitalisation supporting CV is, in part, a result of the lack of research focus on volunteer stakeholders and the CV practice itself. Another gap noted is the lack of knowledge regarding the real-world practice of CV which contributes to undermining the development and use of IS solutions for CV. This thesis, therefore, provides a much needed holistic understanding of real-world CV. This understanding moves the perspective of volunteer stakeholders to the forefront without losing the perspective of crisis management. This has been done via an empirical study in the aftermath of the Swedish forest fires crisis as well as via studies of international IS literature on crisis response and CV. This has resulted in a unique holistic and comprehensive model that relates to the complexity, dynamics and emergence involved in CV practice. Via this model it is possible to relate specific parts or aspects of CV practice, to the whole practice area and continue modelling attributes in greater detail, as required, depending on DT or IS design needs. Underlying the focus in this thesis lies a mild critique of previous IS research with more reductionist approaches, whereby the relevance of broader contextual understandings has been downplayed. The thesis aligns with perspectives on digitalisation and IS design, proposing the relevance of developing broader holistic understandings of research topics. That is, understandings that have greater potential to reveal how phenomena come into being and are adapted in environmental contexts. DT is understood in terms of a process whereby broader understandings of phenomena are used to identify needs (triggers), strategies and capabilities that will inform IS design initiatives. An analytical framework depicting this process and its main components and relationships has been designed in this thesis to contribute to an understanding of what is required to digitally transform CV practice. In summary, the thesis provides a new holistic approach and understanding for the CV practice area and how it may be digitally transformed. The thesis also contributes to a new perspective on DT, applied to a complex and non-organisation based setting. This knowledge is of relevance to both practitioners and IS researchers in crisis response and CV. The CV practice meta-model and the analytical framework for digital transformation can be used to enable and inform future digital transformation strategies and policy in Sweden and internationally. They can also contribute to guiding the initiation of practical IS design initiatives, with greater potential to enhance and improve both CV and overall crisis response. The research was performed within the information systems (IS) discipline.

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Adams, Christiaan Scott 1973. "An interactive, online Geographic Information System (GIS) for stakeholder participation in environmental site selection." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30073.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2004.
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An interactive, online geographic information system (GIS) was developed to enhance the involvement of stakeholders in the public participation processes of site selection issues in the marine environment. Displaying educational material and interactive maps of relevant data, this new tool allows users to input personal preferences for the criteria they value in the siting decision, and produces a map showing the most and least suitable sites according to the user's weighting of the criteria. Current decision-making processes focus on finding an optimum solution from a number of alternatives using an objective analysis of the criteria, but are often inaccessible to many stakeholders, and do not consider the fairness of the outcome to the stakeholders. This tool is intended to educate stakeholders and enhance their involvement in the public decision-making process. To demonstrate the interactive, online GIS concept, a website called eSite was assembled, using as its case study the hypothetical issue of siting marine reserves within the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Marine resource protection is a controversial issue with many stakeholders in New England, where fishing in the Gulf of Maine has a long history, and human activities have had significant impacts on the marine environment. Marine reserves are an emerging tool for protecting marine ecosystems and enhancing marine resources, and the siting of reserves is an important emerging issue. Pre and post-surveys were conducted as part of the demonstration site to evaluate eSite. It was shown to be effective at increasing understanding of marine reserves and was perceived as a useful tool in improving the decision-making process.
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Imre, Özgün. "Adopting Information Systems Perspectives from Small Organizations." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Industriell ekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-143458.

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Why do organizations adopt information systems? Is it just because of financial reasons, of concerns for efficiency? Or is it due to external pressures, such as competitor pressure, that an organization adopts an information system? And, how does the adoption take place? Is it a linear process, or is the process one of conflicts? Does a specific person govern this process, or do we have multiple parties involved? What happens if these conflicts occur among those involved? How does the organization move on and achieve a successful information system adoption? By investigating two organizations, one international academic journal and one South American manufacturing company, this thesis aims to investigate the whys and hows of information system adoption, and aims to contribute to the discourse on information system adoptions in small organizations – an often underrepresented segment in information system adoption literature. By adopting different theoretical lenses throughout the five research papers included, this body of work suggests that even when seemingly simple, information system adoptions can become rather complex. The cases reveal that the role of information systems and issues related to information system adoptions are often not well thought-out in the early days of the organization. The actors’ understandings of adoption and consequences mature and the information systems become more intertwined. Common use of stakeholder theory introduces general stakeholders and their interaction with the focal organization. The cases reveal that the adoption process involves multiple actors, even within what would initially appear as a stakeholder, and that those actors can be in conflict with each other. These conflicts often lead to negotiations, and the cases reveal that these negotiations are opportunities of learning; the actors engage with the information system and with each other, gaining new knowledge about the issues at hand. The dissertation argues that there are various social worlds in information system adoptions, and various factors – ranging from organizational structure to social norms – that often affect why and how the organization undergoes an adoption process. The multiple power relations and divergent interests of stakeholders in these adoption processes, and how information systems affect other parts of the organization, reinforce the need for a well thought-out, flexible and reflexive approach to information system adoptions.

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LIN, HUAYI. "Balancing Stakeholder Interests for Sustainable Wolf Population Management in Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-193267.

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In this paper, Swedish wolf population management was analyzed by two models. One is information index system to measure the positive and normative information held by the stakeholders. By using this system, the quantitative information indices can be measured to give people a clear understanding of the current situation of themselves and other stakeholders in order to enhance communication and engagement. By testing the current information shortage from the national survey, it was confirmed that the information shortage do exist in the society and the need for improving the information acquirement is significant. Besides, satisfaction functions of positive and negative stakeholders towards wolf population were used to test an agreeable wolf population. Stakeholder satisfaction was expressed as a function of wolf pupulation, either positively or negatively correlated, using economic and social features such as taxes, compensation, preventative payments, lupophobia, biphilia, etc. Weights were given to derive overall goal functions for pro- and anti-wolf stakeholders in order to find if there exist wolf population levels which might indicate include common preference. Whereas, current wolf pupulation is around 210 in Sweden, the results showed that all stakeholder groups could be satisfied with a population of around 500 wolves. Some major policy measures were studied for their influence on stakeholders' interests, in particular in how to increase wolf population in order to achieve this solution.

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Oskarsson, Magdalena, and Steindal Natasha Asimiadis. "Identifiering av samband mellan kravinsamling och kunskap." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-44249.

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The stakeholders for requirements elicitation need to be identified at an early stage and their knowledge is the basis for what is to become a requirements specification. Just because a stakeholder holds a lot of expertise and knowledge it does not mean that the stakeholder can communicate the knowledge in a clear way. Validation of knowledge means that knowledge is valued and recognized in a structured way. People and organizations can evolve by exchanging knowledge, experience and skills. The purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of knowledge management between requirement elicitation and external stakeholders. The following report is written based on requirements elicitation and stakeholders, knowledge, and validation of knowledge. This study has been carried out at one company as a case study to examine the context of the requirement elicitation, Nonakas knowledge model and validation of knowledge. The theories that support this study are about explicit and implicit knowledge, Nonakas knowledge model and validation of knowledge. What emerged from this study is that communication and understanding are perceived to be key elements in the case study. The company that participated in this case also has a willingness to develop the internal knowledge and reduce the problems of knowledge. It has also emerged that the respondents perceive that there is a correlation between skills, qualifications and Nonaka's knowledge model.
Vid en kravinsamling ska intressenter identifieras i ett tidigt skede, det är deras kunskap ligger till grund för vad som sedan blir till en kravspecifikation för att utveckla en produkt. Bara för att en intressent innehar mycket kompetens och kunskap behöver det inte innebära att intressenten kan förmedla det på ett tydligt sätt. Validering av kunskap innebär att kunskap blir värderad och erkänd på ett strukturerat sätt. Människor och organisationer kan utvecklas genom att utbyta kunskap, erfarenheter och kompetens. Syftet med studien är att öka förståelsen för kunskapshantering mellan kravinsamlare och externa intressenter. Följande rapport är skriven med utgångspunkt i kravinsamling, intressenter, kunskap och validering av kunskap. En kvalitativ studie har genomförts på ett fallföretag för att undersöka samband med mellan kravinsamling, Nonakas kunskapsmodell och validering av kunskap. Teorierna som stödjer denna undersökning handlar om explicit och implicit kunskap, Nonakas kunskapsmodell och validering av kunskap. Vad som framkommit av denna studie är att kommunikation och förståelse upplevs vara centrala delar i fallföretagets arbete. Företaget har även en vilja om att utveckla den interna kunskapen och reducera kunskapsproblem. Det har även framkommit att respondenterna uppfattar att det finns samband mellan kompetens, kvalifikation och Nonaka’s kunskapsmodell.

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Lien, Aaron M., Lacroix Kelly Mott, Katie Banister, and Sharon B. Megdal. "Using Watershed Assessments to Inform Planning for Rural Watersheds." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/324539.

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The Using Watershed Assessments to Inform Planning for Rural Watersheds publication provides a process for developing a baseline watershed assessment. In this guide we provide recommendations for engaging with stakeholders to assess natural resource conditions, as well as basic information to collect to create a baseline assessment. Watershed planning is not a simple, quick process. This guide addresses just the first steps of building a watershed assessment– understanding the current conditions and issues facing your watershed. Beyond the watershed assessment phase is the hard work of utilizing the information from the assessment, along with the results of additional stakeholder feedback, to develop an actual watershed plan. This guide provides an outline of how to complete the watershed assessment portion of your watershed planning effort, but does not provide a detailed step-by-step process. Rather, this document is intended as a resource to help guide you in your efforts by providing suggestions based on real-world watershed planning experience.

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Young, Brett. "The Role of Stakeholder Perceptions during IT-Enabled Change: An Investigation of Technology Frames of Reference in a Sales Process Innovation Project." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cis_diss/40.

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The literature emphasizes the important role played by stakeholder perceptions in explaining success and failure of IT-enabled change efforts. However, our knowledge of how stakeholder perceptions evolve and interact with outcomes during change processes is still limited. Consequently, this study adapts technological frames of reference (TFR) to explore the dynamics of stakeholder perceptions based on action research into an IT-enabled sales process innovation project at VoiceTech. The study attempts to answer the following research questions: How can TFR be adapted and applied to support action research into IT-enabled change efforts? What was the role of stakeholder perceptions during IT-enabled sales process innovation at VoiceTech? How do stakeholder perceptions evolve and interact with outcomes during IT-enabled change efforts? The study develops TFR as a theory for investigating stakeholder perceptions during IT-enabled change and it offers a process model of how frame interactions, incongruencies, and inconsistencies contribute to frame shifts and change outcomes over time. In addition, the study provides detailed insights into how the IT-enabled sales process innovation at VoiceTech shaped and was shaped by shifts in stakeholder perceptions over time.

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Bozan, Karoly. "Essays on Electronic Health Records (EHR) Process Framework and Design-Theoretic Model in a Multi-Stakeholder Context." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1416865146.

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Abukar, Ghassan. "SYSTEM INFLUENCE FRAMEWORK: IT PROJECT MANAGERS’ INFLUENCE TO FORM CRITICAL STAKEHOLDER ALIGNMENTS AND PROMOTE VALUE REALIZATION." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1626795218031468.

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Alford, Philip. "A communicative model for stakeholder consultation : towards a framework for action inquiry in tourism I.T." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/561263.

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This thesis focuses on an under-researched area of tourism -the multi stakeholder, inter organisational business to business Tourism IT domain which exhibits a marked rate of failure. A critical review of B2B case studies reveals that this failure is in large part due to the primacy afforded to technical problem solving approaches over human centred ones. The main purpose of the research is therefore stated as: "how do we ensure that, as technological solutions are implemented within this domain, due consideration is given to human-centred issues?" In order to tackle this research problem an interdisciplinary approach is taken and a communicative model for stakeholder consultation is developed. At the centre of the model lies an innovative method for deconstructing and reconstructing stakeholder discourse. A Co-operative Inquiry research methodology was used and a significant number of stakeholders were engaged in an Open Space event sponsored by two major Tourism IT companies who wanted to investigate the issues and opportunities connected with travel distribution and technology. This was followed up with face to face interviews and live discussions over the internet. In addition stakeholder discourse was captured via the Travelmole tourism discussion site. The discourse between stakeholders was reconstructed and the normative and objective claims analysed in depth. The presentation of these reconstructions in textual, tabular and diagrammatic formats captures the complexity of stakeholder interactions, revealing that although IT is an important tool, what really lies at the core of multi stakeholder projects are the normative positions to which participants subscribe. The model provided a practical means for critiquing stakeholder discourse, helping to identify stakeholders both involved and affected by the issue; juxtaposing the 'is' against the 'ought'; and enabling critical reflection on the coercive use of power. The review of the tourism literature revealed that these issues are as important in general B2B tourism partnerships as in Tourism IT and in this respect the model provides a practical tool for critique and for enabling the formation of a shared normative infrastructure on which multi stakeholder projects can proceed. In addition, while borrowing from Management Science, this thesis also makes a contribution to it, specifically in the area of boundary critique, through the way in which Habermas' ideal speech criteria arc practically implemented.

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Hedlund, Johan, and Joel Lundberg. "Intressentanalys & kravhantering inom agil metod : med stöd av soft systems methodology." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Digitala tjänster och system, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-79556.

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This study explores stakeholder analysis and requirements engineering within an agile project at a system development company requesting a case management system. Stakeholder analysis is commonly explored in traditional project planning studies, such as the waterfall model. In agile projects, on the other hand, it is not common to have a project-planning phase or to carry out a stakeholder analysis, often due to that a stakeholder analysis entail a long and extensive documentation. Our study explores how Soft Systems Methodology can be used in an agile project-planning phase as well as how rich pictures from the SSM support requirements engineering. The study is based on an agile method in which the project-planning phase is expected to deliver a product log, and hence a requirements list. Requirements are collected, modelled and validated together with users in the form of user stories where role, goals and purpose are expressed in a sentence. Stakeholders and roles are identified and analyzed using methods in Soft Systems Methodology, like "finding-out" analyses. The result is then presented in so called rich pictures of the current situation and in a future desired situation. The data collection is carried out together with informants at the case company in the form of observations and semi-structured interviews. The result of the study indicates how rich pictures from SSM can support the start-up of an agile project.
Denna studie utforskar intressentanalys och kravinsamling inom ett agilt projekt på ett systemutvecklingsföretag som efterfrågar ett ärendehanteringssystem. Intressentanalyser är vanligt förekommande och utforskade i traditionella förstudier så som enligt vattenfallsmodellen. I agila projekt är det däremot vanligt att en förstudie inte utförs eller att förstudien inte innehåller en intressentanalys, ofta på grund av att intressentanalyser innebär lång och omfattande dokumentation. Vår studie utforskar hur Soft Systems Methodology kan användas i en agil förstudie samt hur rika bilder från SSM stöttar kravhantering. Studien utgår från an agil metod där förstudien förväntas leverera en produktlogg, där studiens fysiska bidrag blir en kravlista. Krav samlas in, modelleras samt valideras tillsammans med användare i formen av användarhistorier där roll, mål och syfte uttrycks i en mening. Intressenter och roller identifieras och analyseras med hjälp av metoder inom Soft Systems Methodology, som exempelvis ”finding out”-analys. Resultatet presenteras därefter i så kallade rika bilder över nuvarande situation samt i en framtida önskad situation. Datainsamlingen görs tillsammans med informanter på ett fallföretag i form av observationer och semistrukturerade intervjuer. Utfallet av studien visar hur den rika bilden från SSM kan stödja uppstarten av ett agilt projekt.

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Al-Faidi, Al-Juhani Mohammed H. "Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) in the banking sector: An Investigation of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) in the Saudi Banking Sector." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17372.

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The improvement of SISP practices has rapidly become one of the most critical issues facing many organisations, including banks. Globally, the banking sectors, including the Saudi one, have developed and implemented many IS strategies. Several systems have been executed to support the countries’ economies which have benefited from the increased trading resulting from the greater flexibility in time and costs associated with banking transactions. To continue these achievements and to improve SISP processes, several factors require careful investigation based on their relationship to SISP success; which include SISP objectives, SISP internal factors, external consultant functions, SISP external factors, measurements of SISP success, key stakeholders’ roles, and triggers. Therefore this study investigates the impact of these factors on SISP success. Data were collected in three phases. Phase 1 was an initial study with one or two interviews with the IT directors of each bank in the Saudi banking sector comprising the central bank and 11 commercial banks. The outcomes informed the development of a survey that was used in Phase 2; to investigate a sample containing a central bank, a domestic commercial bank and a domestic-foreign commercial bank to determine their SISP processes. 157 completed questionnaires were returned from the bank executives, business and IT directors and consultants. In Phase 3, 57 interviews confirmed and explained the quantitative results from Phase 2. Therefore, an in-depth case study was made in the three banks during Phases 2 and 3. The research results support previous findings on the SISP’s seventeen objectives collected by several researchers across different industries and in various countries. Furthermore, the research condenses these seventeen objectives into five more practical and achievable objectives for the banking sector. These are: 1) planning and deployment of information systems; 2) leading organisation changes; 3) improving stakeholders’ involvement and communication; 4) achieving the strategic priorities; and 5) alignment of organisational policies and architecture for business and IS. In addition, the findings identify the factors according to their relationship with SISP success and therefore explore several elements with positive, negative or no impact on SISP success in the banking sector. The thesis presents conclusions and suggests areas for further research.

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FISHER, GARY LEE. "A SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS UTILIZING INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS (STAKEHOLDER, REUSABLE CODE, GROUP DECISION SUPPORT)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183818.

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A software architecture for strategic-management support-systems is developed, with an underlying principle that new additions to the library of planning tools in such support systems should not have to be new programming efforts. The current status of group decision support is surveyed and the lack of a software architecture for such systems is noted. The software architecture that has been developed is intended to guide the development of such support systems and is based on a library of procedural abstractions called elemental-engines. Selected sets of elemental-engines are assembled into synthesized support drivers which support an even higher level of abstraction, that of the generic logic supporting a family of planning tools. Thus, a family of planning tools may be expanded by the simple creation of text files, containing the dialog of the new tool. The work looks first at the nature of strategic management decision-making, then to work done in group decision support systems. A framework for software development, particularly in the area of list-processing is presented. A data structure to support such list processing is developed and discussed. An example of the software architecture is presented via the code for the initial planning-tool developed. This code was then generalized into the library of elemental-engines and a set of synthesized support drivers. This library of planning-tools, built around the architecture is described, and the use of the tools in a planning session is evaluated. Some possible extensions with respect to a decision laboratory are suggested. The laboratory incorporates features developed in the evolution of using computers to support human decision-making, with software written according to the architecture presented.

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Ahmad, Abdul Aziz bin. "A process study of enterprise systems implementation in higher education institutions in Malaysia." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-process-study-of-enterprise-systems-implementation-in-higher-education-institutions-in-malaysia(cd75e49e-1a67-496a-9b21-92b740036f2e).html.

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The implementation of information technology and its impact on organisational change has been an important phenomenon, discussed in the IS literature over the last 30 years. Treating information system (IS) implementation as organisational change is a complex phenomenon. This complexity is mainly due to its multidisciplinary, socio-technical, dynamic and non-linear nature. This challenging nature of IS implementation complexities has a direct relationship to the IS implementation project outcomes - its success or failure. In view of this complexity, this research aims to understand how process studies can improve the understanding of enterprise system implementation. We argue that the socio-technical nature of IS development is inevitable thus the only way to go forward is to explore and understand the phenomenon. Following this, we adopt the stakeholder's perspective solely for the purpose of identification of stakeholders and their embedded interests and expectations. While prior research concentrated on a limited number of stakeholders of IS, we attempt to adopt Pouloudi et al. (2004) in mobilizing a stakeholder perspective to incorporate non-human stakeholders within the analysis. Within the actor-network perspective, complexity is resolved through simplification (black-boxing) - unpacking or collapsing the complexity. However, during this simplification process, the risk of removing useful description of the phenomenon through labelling was avoided. To support this research, the punctuated socio-technical information systems change (PSIC) model was applied. In this model, interactions and relationships between its components (antecedent condition, process, outcomes and organisational context) play a vital role. This research focuses on the implementation of an integrated financial system in three Malaysian universities through three interpretive case studies. Our findings show that each of our case studies provides a unique IS development trajectory. Following stakeholder analysis, the different cases provide interesting combinations of conflicts and coalitions among human and non-human stakeholders which further dictates the project outcomes or the process of IS black-boxing. The relationship between the three case studies on the other hand provides an interesting illustration of IS technology transfer.

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Cornejo, Melissa K. "Promoting community ecotourism enterprises in common property regimes : a stakeholder analysis and geographic information systems application in Ejido X-Maben in central Quintana Roo, Mexico." FIU Digital Commons, 2004. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2516.

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A group of community members of the ejido X-Maben in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico are currently in the process of developing a community ecotourism enterprise (CEE) to attract both local and foreign tourism to a natural area within their ejido. Most definitions of ecotourism define the natural area of interest as a protected area and include the requirement of integrating local communities into the benefits generated by ecotourism in that particular area. However, few researchers have considered the case of community ecotourism where the natural area is on communal lands and the enterprise itself is fully community-owned. This project analyzes the institutional complexities of planning an ecotourism enterprise within the ejido of X-Maben, includes a stakeholder analysis, and involves a GIS analysis of the placement of nature trails in the ecotourism area. The thesis project also includes examinations of other efforts to establish CEEs elsewhere in Quintana Roo.

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Davis, Robert Elliot. "Relationship between Corporate Governance and Information Security Governance Effectiveness in United States Corporations." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3873.

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Cyber attackers targeting large corporations achieved a high perimeter penetration success rate during 2013, resulting in many corporations incurring financial losses. Corporate information technology leaders have a fiduciary responsibility to implement information security domain processes that effectually address the challenges for preventing and deterring information security breaches. Grounded in corporate governance theory, the purpose of this correlational study was to examine the relationship between strategic alignment, resource management, risk management, value delivery, performance measurement implementations, and information security governance (ISG) effectiveness in United States-based corporations. Surveys were used to collect data from 95 strategic and tactical leaders of the 500 largest for-profit United States headquartered corporations. The results of the multiple linear regression indicated the model was able to significantly predict ISG effectiveness, F(5, 89) = 3.08, p = 0.01, R-² = 0.15. Strategic alignment was the only statistically significant (t = 2.401, p <= 0.018) predictor. The implications for positive social change include the potential to constructively understand the correlates of ISG effectiveness, thus increasing the propensity for consumer trust and reducing consumers' costs.

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Holub, Ilja. "Analýza zainteresovaných stran v projektech ICT." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-10476.

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This work deals with the questions of the analysis and management of the parts engaged in information and communication technology projects. The stakeholder (the term "stakeholder" is used in Czech as well) is a subject, i.e. an individual or a corporate body, that is concerned about the result of the project and has the possibility to influence the project. The main goal of the thesis is to map the contemporary approaches toward the stakeholders analysis and management in the ICT projects, to analyze the problems of the influence of individual parts from both technocracy and human (psychological) point of view and to subsequently suggest the methodology for an effective analysis and management of the engaged parts, which could be used at the management of the projects in the ICT field. It is convenient to introduce the used terms and notions , their history and the way of use in the first part. There are dissect the known methodologies and tools used for the analysis and the management of the engaged parts. Subsequently, the stakeholders are systematically divide, it is accomplished their analysis from different perspectives and discussed mainly the aspects which can be crucial in the project management. The most common interests and motivations of the particular engaged parts are presented, including the influence and interest groups and the ways how to procure these parts for the aims of the projects. In the second part a research is described, which is carried out among managers of ICT companies and participants of ICT projects. There are elaborated some hypotheses on grounds of practical experiences from ICT projects and these are verified by this examination. The third part is focused on the presentation of the methodology for the analysis and the management of stakeholders in the ICT projects, which should serve the project managers for the stakeholders analysis and management in the ICT projects. Practical use of this methodology in the project of the SAP system implementation is described in the last, fourth part. This thesis completes relevant sources with the practical experiences at work on the projects in the ICT field. The effected research attested the original notion that this issue is relatively little known in the Czech Republic. The outcomes of this work could be of use for the project management in the ICT field.

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Aid, Graham. "Industrial Ecology Methods within Engagement Processes for Industrial Resource Management." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-122403.

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The global use of resources such as materials, energy, and water has surpassed sustainable levels by many accounts. The research presented here was explicitly normative in its aim to improve the understanding of, and make sustainable change toward highly systemic issues of resource management. The core methods chosen to work toward this aim were bottom up action research procedures (including stakeholder engagement processes) and industrial ecology analysis tools. These methods were employed and tested in pragmatic combination through two of the author’s case study projects. The first case study, performed between 2009 and 2012, employed a multi-stakeholder process aimed at improving the cycling of construction and demolition waste in the Stockholm region. The second case study produced a strategic tool (Looplocal) built for facilitating more efficient regional industrial resource networks. While the highly participative aim of the cases required a larger contribution of resources than that of more closed studies, it is arguable that the efficacy of approaching the project aims is improved through their employment.

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Veselý, Martin. "Hodnocení zabezpečení obchodních informací." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-222175.

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The thesis ”Rating of security business information” is focused on creating metrics in order to assess security of an information system of the company Tech4sec, spol.s.r.o. Risks of the information system and their impact on economy of the company are elaborated by application of the created metrics. To build the part of IS/IT strategy of the company that leads to elimitation of the risks found is dealt with in the thesis as well.

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Bedocs, Justin A. "Names and Geographic Features: An Internship with the U.S. Geological Survey." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1452529967.

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Bernard, Françoise. "Un système d’information collaboratif en appui à la gouvernance des territoires d’action agro-environnementale à enjeu eau-pesticides." Thesis, Paris, Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017IAVF0022.

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La pollution diffuse par les pesticides est en enjeu majeur pour un bon état des hydrosystèmes et en raison de leurs impacts sur la santé humaine. Depuis des années, les politiques publiques tentent de limiter leur usage et leur impact sur l’environnement. Pourtant, les tonnages de pesticides utilisés par l’agriculture stagnent ou même augmentent, et les flux mesurés dans les cours d’eau ne diminuent pas. Face à ce constat d’échec, les politiques publiques, en quête d’une plus grande efficacité, se territorialisent et se veulent plus participatives. Les réseaux territoriaux d’acteurs institutionnels, en charge de la mise en œuvre des actions agroenvironnementales sur le terrain, sont en quête d’outils d’aide à la décision afin de pouvoir évaluer l’impact potentiel des mesures agro-environnementales et de les localiser de manière la plus efficace et la moins coûteuse possible. L’objectif de la thèse est de répondre à cette demande en proposant un système d’information, collaboratif et multi-échelles. Une première contribution de la thèse est un modèle pour la conception et la mise en œuvre opérationnelle d’un Système d’Information en appui à la Gouvernance des Programmes d’Action (SIGPA). Le modèle SIGPA décrit l’ensemble de la démarche d’appui à la gouvernance des programmes d’action pesticides. Ce modèle est générique et applicable à différents contextes. La deuxième contribution est une méthode de modélisation des échanges d’information au sein du réseau d’acteurs institutionnels, réseau qui s’est constitué autour d’un programme d’action « Captage Grenelle » dans le bassin de la Charente. Le modèle conceptuel « acteurs » modélise, d’une part, les échanges entre acteurs et, d’autre part, la production par ces mêmes acteurs de l’information mobilisée dans le réseau. Une troisième contribution est un modèle « scénarios » qui organise l’information pour la prise de décision sur les actions agro-environnementales à mettre en place dans le territoire. La méthode développée pour qualifier les systèmes et les pratiques agricoles et évaluer par différents indicateurs les scénarios agricoles, co-construits avec les acteurs, constitue une quatrième contribution. La cinquième contribution est l’entrepôt de données spatial et les cubes multidimensionnels construits à partir des besoins des acteurs pour restituer les indicateurs mobilisés en accompagnement du programme d’action à différents niveaux de granularité spatiale (îlot du RPG, sous-bassin, zone prioritaire...). Les modèles conceptuels et le système d’information proposés sont des outils de communication et d’échange au sein du réseau d’acteurs. Ces outils permettent de faire émerger, de manière interactive, les solutions les plus efficaces et les moins coûteuses pour limiter la pollution diffuse par les pesticides. Plusieurs prototypes d’entrepôt ont été implémentés à partir des données du BAC Coulonge. L’intérêt et la qualité des restitutions ont été discutés avec les acteurs. En permettant la capitalisation des données et des connaissances acquises par les réseaux d’acteurs au fil des programmes d’action, la démarche mise en œuvre s’inscrit est conforme au modèle OSAGE préconisé par Loireau et al (2017), modèle qui décrit le processus de conception d’un observatoire agro-environnemental, multifonctionnel
Diffuse pollution generated by pesticides is a major problem both for aquatic ecosystems and human health. Despite years of efforts by policy-makers to limit their use and impact, the volumes of chemicals used by farmers have remained the same, and even increased in some areas, with no reduction in their presence in water. To address this situation, public policy is aiming to become more effective by using more localised, participative solutions. Local stakeholders in charge of action plans are looking for decision tools to help them assess the potential impact of agro-environmental measures, as well as applying them to the best areas. The aim of this thesis is to develop a tool suitable for this purpose, namely a multi-scale collaborative information system. The first main contribution made by this thesis is the creation of "SIGPA" (Information System for Action Plan Governance), which models assisted governance in pesticide action programs in various contexts. The second contribution is a method for modelling exchanges of information within a network of institutional stakeholders, based on a "Grenelle" action plan in the Charente river basin. The "Stakeholder" model represents exchanges between stakeholders, as well as the production of the information available within their networks. The third contribution is the "Scenario" model, which organises information in order to aid decision making based on possible developments in agriculture in the area studied. The fourth contribution is the design of a method by which to identify agricultural systems and practices and assess future developments in agriculture. The fifth and final contribution of this thesis is the creation of a spatial data warehouse and the use of a number of multidimensional cubes to represent stakeholders’ needs at various scales. The conceptual models presented provide an interactive way to discuss the most effective and least expensive ways of limiting pesticide pollution within the stakeholder network. A prototype of the spatial data warehouse has been implemented using field data collected within the BAC Coulonge action plan and the outputs discussed with stakeholders. By allowing for data and knowledge from stakeholder networks in multiple action plans to be pooled, the SIGPA approach is in keeping with the OSAGE model (Loireau et al, 2017), which provides the making process of an agro-environmental and multifunctional observatory

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El, hajjari Borg Mounia, and Elin Sundberg. "Licence to Talk : Sustainability Managers and their Managerial Realities within the Corporate Sustainability Paradox." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-448552.

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While sustainability-dedicated managers and related titles represent a profession that has hardly existed for more than a decade, it is not surprising that the field of research concentrating on these professionals is in itself relatively new. With an increasing demand for corporations to take their social and environmental responsibility, and a corporate sustainability characterized by tension and paradox, we found it of importance to explore the role and entanglements of these professionals. By analysing 17 in-depth interviews with sustainability-dedicated professionals from the private sector in Sweden, our interpretation is that sustainability managers hold the function of selling sustainability, with talk as their main weapon. Expressly, in the intersection between business-case logics and sustainability logics, sustainability managers have to, above all, make a convincing case for sustainability, inwards and outwards. Therefore, they draw dynamically on different narratives which we conceptualise in three roles: the chameleon, the pragmatic, and the nagging manager. Through these roles, we intend to capture the fluidity with which the managers relate and engage with sustainability, and hence we do not mean to ossify a role’s dynamics within a single, static or stereotypical category. We discuss these findings and concepts to the background of previous studies and existing literature.

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