Advances in Information Systems Research, Education and Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Information Systems Education

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

      • Jorma Riihijärvi, Juhani Iivari

      Pages 1-13

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

      • Juhani Iivari, Rudy Hirschheim, H. K. Klein

      Pages 15-27

   3. Mapping Research Questions to Research Methods

      • Pertti Järvinen

      Pages 29-41

3. Keynote

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

      • T. William Olle

      Pages 43-51

4. New Perspectives on Information Systems Development

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

      • Jan Pries-Heje, Richard Baskerville, Bala Ramesh, Linda Levine

      Pages 53-75

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

      • Jens-M. Arndt, Thomas Kude, Jens Dibbern

      Pages 77-88

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

      • Tuure Tuunanen, Michael D. Myers, Harold Cassab

      Pages 89-100

5. Defining, Modeling and Diffusing IS Projects

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

      • Ronell Alberts, Vreda Pieterse

      Pages 101-112

   2. ‘Driving’ IS projects

      • Marta Fernández-Diego, Julián Marcelo-Cocho

      Pages 113-124

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

      • Viera Rozinajová, Marek Braun, Pavol Návrat, Mária Bieliková

      Pages 125-134

6. Keynote

   1. The IFIP International Professional Practice Partnership

      • Charles Hughes

      Pages 135-138

7. Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence

   1. Requirements Elicitation in Data Mining for Business Intelligence Projects

      • Paola Britos, Oscar Dieste, Ramón García-Martínez

      Pages 139-150

   2. Social Networks and KMS Use in US IT Services

      • William J. Dixon

      Pages 151-162

   3. Realizing the Value of Business Intelligence

      • Derek Smith, Maria Crossland

      Pages 163-174

8. Applications and Emerging Technologies

   1. An RFID Adoption Framework: A Container Supply Chain Analysis

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

      Pages 175-188

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

      • Ilse Baumgartner, Peter Green

      Pages 189-201

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

      • John Krogstie

      Pages 203-214

Introduction The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a non-profit umbrella organization for national societies working in the field of information processing. It was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO. It is organized into several technical c- mittees. This book represents the proceedings of the 2008 conference of technical committee 8 (TC8), which covers the field of infor- tion systems. TC8 aims to promote and encourage the advancement of research and practice of concepts, methods, techniques and issues related to information systems in organisations. TC8 has established eight working groups covering the following areas: design and evaluation of information systems; the interaction of information systems and the organization; decision support systems; e-business information systems: multi-disciplinary research and practice; inf- mation systems in public administration; smart cards, technology, applications and methods; and enterprise information systems. Further details of the technical committee and its working groups can be found on our website (ifiptc8. dsi. uminho. pt). This conference was part of IFIP’s World Computer Congress in Milan, Italy which took place 7-10 September 2008. The occasion celebrated the 32nd anniversary of IFIP TC8. The call for papers invited researchers, educators, and practitioners to submit papers and panel proposals that advance concepts, methods, techniques, tools, issues, education, and practice of information systems in organi- tions. Thirty one submissions were received.

• artificial intelligence
• communication
• computer
• computer science
• human-computer interaction
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• information
• modeling
• optimization
• system modeling

• Essec Business School, France

  David Avison

• Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

  George M. Kasper

• Politecnico di Milano, Italy

  Barbara Pernici

• University of Minho, Portugal

  Isabel Ramos

• INBEKON Management Institute, South Africa

  Dewald Roode

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