Sajda Qureshi

E-Business Applications for Product Development and Competitive Growth: Emerging Technologies

In Lee is a professor in the School of Computer Sciences at the College of Business and Technology at Western Illinois University in the US. He is a two-time winner of the Research Excellence Award in the College of Business and Technology at WIU. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of E-Business Research. He has published his research in such journals as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Production Research, Decision Support Systems, Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Business Horizons, Knowledge and Process Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Management Decision, Computers and Education, International Small Business Journal, Computers in Human Behavior, Business Process Management Journal, Computers and Industrial Engineering and others. Prior to his academic career, he worked for a number of multinational corporations. He has also served as a consultant for various government agencies and private organizations. His current research interests include web technology development and management, investment strategies for computing technologies and mobile services. He received his PhD in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

Knowledge Networking to overcome the Digital Divide

As organizations become increasingly extended across global boundaries, their reliance on information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support their processes increases. The use of ICTs to activate dispersed knowledge within complex webs of human networks can enable the gap between the information rich and information poor to be overcome. This paper develops a new concept called knowledge networking and investigates how this process enables the digital divide to be overcome. Following a phenomenological analysis of knowledge networking using a selection of vignettes, this paper provides a conceptual model describing the ways in which knowledge networking enables the digital divide to be overcome.

Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records for Physician Collaboration: A Patient Centered Health Care Perspective

EHRs (Electronic Health Records), can contribute greatly to improving care and managing the rising costs of healthcare. The use and the integration of EHRs (Electronic Health Records) in supporting collaboration to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare remains a challenge. It appears that the physicians are at the center of this bottleneck. As healthcare is provided by interdisciplinary teams of clinicians and collaboration and coordination are key to success. Literature suggests reasons for the limited use relate to policy, financial and usability considerations, but it does not provide an understanding of reasons for physicians limited interaction and adaptation of EHR. This paper investigates how “meaningful use” of EHRs by physicians enable patient centered healthcare to be achieved. Following an analysis of qualitative data, collected in a case study at a hospital using interviews, this research shows how a collaborative technology architecture can enable the reduction in the costs of healthcare and improvements in the quality of care by enabling more patient centered health care.

Introduction to Information Technology for Development Minitrack

Introduction to the Information Technology for Development Minitrack.

Information Technology for Development Introduction to Mini-track at HICSS 40

Information Technology for Development (ITD) is the application and development of Information Technology infrastructures to bring about economic, social and human development in emerging and developed economies. Contributions of research in ITD over twenty years have been to the management of economies through the implementation of IT infrastructures to stimulate national development. Examples of such research include the use of indicators such as gross domestic product and human development indices to assess the effect of IT technologies and infrastructures on national development. Such research provides insight for policy makers seeking to increase business investment in their regions. It also provides guidelines for businesses seeking to implement and use IT infrastructures to support their sourcing strategies.

Collaborative environments for value creation mini-track collaboration systems & technology track

The Minitrack on Collaborative Environments for Value Creation addresses how organisations may improve their ability to create value. The use of networking and collaborative technologies to support groups as they create shared understanding and work to attain their goals fosters new kinds of collective work. The papers in this minitrack bring together emerging research that considers the ways in which collaborative environments are set up, used and measured. Defining and measuring value remains as illusive as it is difficult. The value of collaborative environments is even more challenging. The papers in this minitrack attempt to do both to their merit.The Minitrack on Collaborative Environments for Value Creation addresses how organisations may improve their ability to create value. The use of networking and collaborative technologies to support groups as they create shared understanding and work to attain their goals fosters new kinds of collective work. The papers in this minitrack bring together emerging research that considers the ways in which collaborative environments are set up, used and measured. Defining and measuring value remains as illusive as it is difficult. The value of collaborative environments is even more challenging. The papers in this minitrack attempt to do both to their merit. In the first paper entitled WebEv-a Collaborative Environment for Supporting GQM Measurement Frameworks , is authored by Lerina Aversano, Thierry Bodhuin, Gerardo Canfora and Maria Tortorella. It proposes a framework for measuring business processes and supporting software systems. A collaborative environment implemented by the authors for supporting the management of measurement frameworks and assessment activities, is piloted in a case study. The results of this study suggest that such a system has value for an organization such as the small government department studied in this paper. Faerman are the authors of the second paper entitled Employing the Intellectual Bandwidth Model for Measuring Value Creation in Collaborative Environments . This paper dwells on the questions of how do we measure value creation in organisations? It suggests that practioners need practical methods to enable them to measure value in organisations and proposes a reflective research method. Using this method and a questionnaire, the authors measure value creation in laboratories collaborating on HIV research. The data collected is mapped on to the Intellectual Bandwidth Model and the gap between potential for value creation and actual value creation is analyzed. Reinig. This paper suggests that value creation is a phenomenon that occurs in the minds of individual stakeholders. The argument put forward in this paper is compelling: if organisations exist to create value for their stakeholders that their stakeholders could not create for themselves as individuals, then the more value an organization creates for its stakeholders, the more likely it is to survive. In order to understand value creation, the cognitive mechanisms that give rise to perceptions of value might be useful to explain how and why those perceptions come to exist. This paper proposes Satisfaction Attainment Theory as a Model of Value Creation. This model has implications for the success …

Research methods & applications mini-track organizational systems & technology track

Organizational systems and information technologies continue to affect organizations and have opened up a myriad of methodological challenges for academics as to how to understand the effect of these technologies on organizations and for practitioners attempting to meet organizational needs. It appears that the use of multi-disciplinary, multimethodological approaches associated with an increased awareness of the organizational complexities related to information technologies are gaining momentum. It is valuable for researchers to be able to share and compare experiences with the research approaches they use to investigate real world organizational issues. The papers in this minitrack address salient research methodology issues, and promise to generate discussion and debate with respect to investigating organizational systems and technology.