Advances in Information Systems Research, Education and Practice IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, TC 8, Information Systems, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Avison, David (Editor), Kasper, George M. (Editor), Pernici, Barbara (Editor), Ramos, Isabel (Editor), Roode, Dewald (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Series: IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing, 274
• Subjects: Computer science.; Coding theory.; Computers.; Information storage and retrieval.; Computer Science.; Coding and Information Theory.; Theory of Computation.; Computer Science, general.; Information Systems and Communication Service.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications...

Table of Contents:

• Information Systems Education
• The Practical Relevance of IT Education: Skill Requirements and Education Expectations of Practitioners
• Challenges of Professionalization: Bridging Research and Practice through a Body of Knowledge for IT Specialists
• Mapping Research Questions to Research Methods
• Keynote
• Reflections on 50 Years of Computing: Impact of Professionalism on Teaching, Practice and Research
• New Perspectives on Information Systems Development
• Advances in Information Systems Development: From Discipline and Predictability to Agility and Improvisation
• The Emergence of Partnership Networks in the Enterprise Application Development Industry: A Global Corporation Perspective
• Challenges of Consumer Information Systems Development: The Case of Interactive Television Services
• Defining, Modeling and Diffusing IS Projects
• Improving diffusion of Information Technology in communities in a developing world context
• ‘Driving’ IS projects
• Bridging the Gap Between Service-Oriented and Object-Oriented Architectures in Information Systems Development
• Keynote
• The IFIP International Professional Practice Partnership
• Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence
• Requirements Elicitation in Data Mining for Business Intelligence Projects
• Social Networks and KMS Use in US IT Services
• Realizing the Value of Business Intelligence
• Applications and Emerging Technologies
• An RFID Adoption Framework: A Container Supply Chain Analysis
• Adoption of Service Oriented Computing from the IT Professionals’ Perspective: An e-Government Case Study
• of a Public Sector e-Procurement Solution: Lessons Learned from Disappointing Adoption.