Yusmadi Yah Jusoh

Social commerce from the Information Systems perspective: A systematic literature review

The evolution of social media has changed the conventional e-commerce to social commerce. The delayed growth of the social commerce is however relatively low researched in the Information Systems disciple despite its intense evolution. As a result, this paper aims to critically probe into existing and related work in the area of social commerce from the Information Systems perspective. The standard systematic literature review method employing a physical search of 12 journals and 6 conference proceedings were used in conducting the literature review. The comprehensive systematic literature review is valuable in bridging the social commerce gap and opens up novel directions to Information Systems scholars in this market segment.

The success factors and barriers of information technology implementation in small and medium enterprises: an empirical study in Malaysia

The use of information technology IT among entrepreneurs is one of the critical aspects as the usage of IT effectively and efficiently will enable to increase productivity and performance in small and medium enterprises SMEs. Previous reports revealed that SMEs in Malaysia have many concerns about the durability, competitiveness and efficiency due to problems associated such as financial, lack of information and knowledge, capability and capacity. This research is derived based on the issues related to IT implementation in SMEs in Malaysia. It determines the problems and issues related to the implementation, and identify factors for the successful implementation of IT in SMEs. The research approach includes the usage of questionnaires, interviews and case studies. Literature study identified ten critical success factors that include the management, staff, IT planning, financial, consultants, vendors, organisational culture, relationship management and change, and perception. This paper presents the success factors and the barrier of IT implementation based on the empirical study.

Conceptual Model Development of Big Data Analytics Implementation Assessment Effect on Decision-Making

The significance of big data advancement has benefited various organizations to leverage the potential insights and capabilities of big data in organizational performance and decision-making. However, the analytics outcome and quality of big data analytics (BDA) implementation has yet to be addressed. Therefore the aims of this paper are to identify and analyze the affecting factors and elements of BDA implementation and to propose a conceptual model for effective decision-making through BDA implementation assessment. The model is developed based on three dimensions such as performing data strategy (organization), collaborative knowledge worker (people) and executing data analytics (technology). The findings of this ongoing study proceeds with designing a proposed conceptual model with the research hypothesis and may provide a better assessment model for effective decision-making in the long run.

Agent-based distributed performance measurement system for ITSP projects

Measuring the development of an enterprise software project progress and performance is crucial to assure a project follow its path. This attention stems in parts from the frequent reports of high profile cases of mismanaged in IT projects particularly in enterprise level such as information technology strategic planning (ITSP) projects. Many project performance measurement models and frameworks have been proposed to address the problem, however, they are usually hard to manage and inefficient in practice due to the complexity, distribution and dynamism of these types of projects. A large and growing body of literature has shown the advantages of employing the agent technology in distributed, dynamic, and complex environments. Therefore, in this study the advantages of the agent technology will be applied to improve the progress and measurement process of the software project performance measurement approaches. In this paper, a multi-agent system architectural model with the focus in implementation phase of the ITSP projects is proposed to promote and facilitate the process of project performance measurement. Furthermore the prototype of the proposed solution is explained and the evaluation approach is discussed.

Factors influencing to the implementation success of big data analytics: A systematic literature review

Big data analytics (BDA) readiness factors have been widely researched; nevertheless, few have investigated the impact and success factors of BDA implementation in the organizational context. The relevance and quality of BDA outcomes have been a significant concern to the organizational leaders in supporting them for strategic decision-making. To that end, the objective of this study is twofold. Firstly, it investigates the factors that influencing the success of BDA implementation for effective decision-making. Secondly, this study adds to the body of knowledge in the information system (IS) domain, especially with its focus on BDA implementation packages. Based on 18 selected papers, this review has established 10 influencing factors that may influence the success of BDA implementation, therefore, contribute to the practice and research of BDA domain and its effectiveness towards the organizational performance enhancement.

Application of Social Media Among Medical Practitioner for Sharing Tacit Knowledge: A Pilot Study

Tacit knowledge is perceived as the most strategically important resource of competitiveness. The rise of web-based applications such as social media also gives rise to the question on whether these applications can facilitate tacit knowledge sharing in a collaborative work environment. Previous studies have indicated that such notion is indeed possible, but there is still a lack of understanding of how social media could facilitate tacit knowledge sharing as well as the condition that is most effective in transferring this type of knowledge. Hence, it is crucial to understand the individual and technical characteristics involved in tacit knowledge sharing using social media. This research attempts to bridge this gap as there is a need to develop a holistic tacit knowledge sharing model. Towards this end, before the model is developed, the conceptual model and its instruments are validated by three field experts. A pilot study is conducted to determine the reliability and validity of the measurement indicators as well as an analysis using SPSS. The findings of the pilot study are hence presented in this paper. The results confirmed the validity of the proposed model as well as the validity and reliability of the instrument. This pilot study investigated on whether the proposed research model is viable for further research, or whether pertinent changes to the model or the methodology need to be done before the model can be used on a larger sample. Recommendations for a follow-up study concludes the paper.

Agile Methodologies and The Use of Its Waterscrumfall Derivative For Software Project Development

The use of agile methodologies in the development of software projects in industry is gaining support. Traditional methodologies are seen as being useful for large and complex projects and small and medium sized projects find these methodologies routine based and too formal. Small and medium size software projects usually have short delivery cycles which make the use of agile methodologies more acceptable and manageable.

Application of Curriculum Design Maturity Model at Private Institution of Higher Learning in Malaysia: A Case Study

Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is applied as a process improvement model not only in software industry but also in education sector. This study proposes a maturity model, which constructed based on CMM, in guiding curriculum designers in Institution of Higher Learning (IHL) in Malaysia to design quality curriculum. The proposed maturity model possesses process and product elements; and it contains a set of key process areas and best practices. A case study is carried out in a private IHL in Malaysia to perform a pilot test on the proposed maturity model. The results may also help the institution to be informed of current as well as future improvement process, finally aid in producing quality curriculum for IHL in Malaysia.

Reassessing Brooks' Law through Consideration of Manpower Abilities

When software projects falls behind schedule, managers make any possible reactions to avoid any schedule slippage, mostly by adding new people to their projects. Adding more people to a late software project may cause negative impacts on the progress of the project as the result of assimilation time, training overhead and communication overhead. Consequently, a project manager faces difficulties to make the decision whether to add new members to his team or not. Therefore, in this research we attempted to address the problem by understanding how software project managers can minimize the negative impacts of adding new people to delayed software projects. This research aims to explore the effects of adding manpower to a late software project through personnel factors trade-off analysis. Particularly, this study has the intention to examine whether a significant schedule improvement can be achieved with proper consideration of the new manpower capabilities, skills and experience. For fulfillment of this research, we built a system dynamics model to simulate the dynamic behavior of the project progress when new members added with different ranges of personnel capabilities. In addition, an example case study has been run and related simulation results are compared with previous models. The result of this study shows that significant schedule improvement of a late project can be achieved if people with certain level of capabilities are added to a project.