Information Systems Evaluation

Author : Zahir Irani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136404864
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Information Systems written by Zahir Irani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adoption of Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) represents significant financial investments, with alternative perspectives to the evaluation domain coming from both the public and private sectors. As a result of increasing IT/IS budgets and their growing significance within the development of an organizational infrastructure, the evaluation and performance measurement of new technology remains a perennial issue for management. This book offers a refreshing and updated insight into the social fabric and technical dimensions of IT/IS evaluation together with insights into approaches used to measure the impact of information systems on its stakeholders. In doing so, it describes the portfolio of appraisal techniques that support the justification of IT/IS investments. Evaluating Information Systems explores the concept of evaluation as an evolutionary and dynamic process that takes into account the ability of enterprise technologies to integrate information systems within and between organisations. In particular, when set against a backdrop of organisational learning. It examines the changing portfolio of benefits, costs and risks associated with the adoption and diffusion of technology in today's global marketplace. Finally approaches to impact assessment through performance management and benchmarking is discussed.

Author : Van Grembergen, Wim
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1931777373
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Systems Evaluation Management written by Van Grembergen, Wim and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investments in IT are growing extensively and business managers worry about the fact that the benefits of IT investments might not be as high as expected. Information Systems Evaluation Management discusses this issue among others, through its presentation of the most current research in the field of IS evaluation.

Author : Vitaly Herasevich, MD, PhD, MSc
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351649892
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health Information Technology Evaluation Handbook written by Vitaly Herasevich, MD, PhD, MSc and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments and clinical providers are investing billions of dollars in health information technologies. This is being done with the expectation that HIT adoption will translate into healthier patients experiencing better care at lower cost. As the first wave of adoption comes to an end, stakeholders are ready to evaluate the results of their investment and make decisions about future directions. As a result, structured evaluations of a projects impact are an essential element of the justification for investment in HIT. This book provides an easy-to-read reference outlining the basic concepts, theory, and methods required to perform a systematic evaluation of HIT.

Author : Wim Van Grembergen
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1930708874
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Technology Evaluation Methods and Management written by Wim Van Grembergen and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evaluation of IT and its business value are the subject of many academic and business discussions. Investments in IT are growing extensively, and business managers worry about the fact that the benefits might not be as high as expected. This phenomenon is often called the IT investment paradox or the IT Black Hole: large sums are invested in IT that seem to be swallowed by a large black hole without rendering many returns. How to measure the benefits of IT is the concern of this book titled Information Technology Evaluation Methods and Management. The different IT evaluation approaches and methods are discussed and illustrated with cases: traditional financial evaluations such as the return on investment, information economics and the recently introduced IT Balanced Scorecard. The latter approach is proposed as an ideal mechanism to support the IT/business alignment process and its related IT governance process. Among some of the topics included in this book are: software measurement; ERP project evaluation; strategic electronic commerce evaluation.

Author : Michael Albers
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781138114609
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Usability of Complex Information Systems written by Michael Albers and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do enterprise systems have complicated search pages, when Google has a single search box that works better? Why struggle with an expense reimbursement system that is not as easy as home accounting software? Although this seems like comparing apples to oranges, as information and communication technologies increasingly reach into every industry the demand for easy-to-use work tools continues to grow. An exploration of cutting-edge approaches for evaluating the usability of complex user interaction, Usability of Complex Information Systems: Evaluation of User Interaction focuses on improving design and communicating content to the end user. The book continues the conversation about the evolution of usability, asking how we can design and evaluate these complex systems and the complex work they support. It describes and analyzes approaches to teaching, testing, analyzing, or managing usability studies--approaches that involve technical communicators making novel contributions to how we think about and evaluate increasingly complex systems. The book contains case studies on different types of complexity, including: A complex work environment, requiring collaboration among different people or a goal sustained over time, and often in the face of distractions, interruptions, and planned pauses A complex information context, one with no single answer, where the data changes dynamically or where the best answer may rely on other aspects of a fluid environment A complex technology, in which people use many different applications in their work and collaboration A complex topic, requiring advanced technical or domain knowledge Even systems that seem simple are, in fact, complex. The shopping interface for an e-commerce system may not be complex, but the databases, business processes, and logistics behind it certainly are. The examination of different aspects of designing and examining complexity presented in this book brings you a step further in developing a deeper understanding of what it takes to make complex systems work.

Author : Manfred M. Fischer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642775004
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Modelling and Policy Evaluation written by Manfred M. Fischer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provide an enhanced environment for spatial data processing. The ability of geographic information systems to handle and analyse spatially referenced data may be seen as a major characteristic which distinguishes GIS from information systems developed to serve the needs of business data processing as well as from CAD systems or other systems whose primary objective is map production. This book, which contains contributions from a wide-ranging group of international scholars, demonstrates the progress which has been achieved so far at the interface of GIS technology and spatial analysis and planning. The various contributions bring together theoretical and conceptual, technical and applied issues. Topics covered include the design and use of GIS and spatial models, AI tools for spatial modelling in GIS, spatial statistical analysis and GIS, GIS and dynamic modelling, GIS in urban planning and policy making, information systems for policy evaluation, and spatial decision support systems.

Author : Tetsuya Sakai
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811555540
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Information Retrieval and Access Tasks written by Tetsuya Sakai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 1901 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book summarizes the first two decades of the NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research (NTCIR). NTCIR is a series of evaluation forums run by a global team of researchers and hosted by the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. The book is unique in that it discusses not just what was done at NTCIR, but also how it was done and the impact it has achieved. For example, in some chapters the reader sees the early seeds of what eventually grew to be the search engines that provide access to content on the World Wide Web, todays smartphones that can tailor what they show to the needs of their owners, and the smart speakers that enrich our lives at home and on the move. We also get glimpses into how new search engines can be built for mathematical formulae, or for the digital record of a lived human life. Key to the success of the NTCIR endeavor was early recognition that information access research is an empirical discipline and that evaluation therefore lay at the core of the enterprise. Evaluation is thus at the heart of each chapter in this book. They show, for example, how the recognition that some documents are more important than others has shaped thinking about evaluation design. The thirty-three contributors to this volume speak for the many hundreds of researchers from dozens of countries around the world who together shaped NTCIR as organizers and participants. This book is suitable for researchers, practitioners, and students--anyone who wants to learn about past and present evaluation efforts in information retrieval, information access, and natural language processing, as well as those who want to participate in an evaluation task or even to design and organize one.

Author : Charles P. Friedman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475726856
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluation Methods in Medical Informatics written by Charles P. Friedman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As director of a training program in medical informatics, I have found that one of the most frequent inquiries from graduate students is, "Although I am happy with my research focus and the work I have done, how can I design and carry out a practical evaluation that proves the value of my contribution?" Informatics is a multifaceted, interdisciplinary field with research that ranges from theoretical developments to projects that are highly applied and intended for near-term use in clinical settings. The implications of "proving" a research claim accordingly vary greatly depending on the details of an individual student's goals and thesis state ment. Furthermore, the dissertation work leading up to an evaluation plan is often so time-consuming and arduous that attempting the "perfect" evaluation is fre quently seen as impractical or as diverting students from central programming or implementation issues that are their primary areas of interest. They often ask what compromises are possible so they can provide persuasive data in support of their claims without adding another two to three years to their graduate student life. Our students clearly needed help in dealing more effectively with such dilem mas, and it was therefore fortuitous when, in the autumn of 1991, we welcomed two superb visiting professors to our laboratories.

Author : Delft University of Technology
Publisher : Academic Conferences Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation written by Delft University of Technology and published by Academic Conferences Limited. This book was released on with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9780861769964
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Systems Evaluation written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: