Much of the moving beyond the bust to boom has been fuelled by the increasing internationalization of organizations. More and more businesses are becoming global in nature with several US-based firms establishing subsidiaries or partners in other countries. At the same time, information technology (IT) is becoming more ubiquitous and an integral part of business processes. As organizations become increasingly more dependent on IT to survive in competitive environments, the need increases for IT competent business managers. The intersection of these two trends leads to a vital question: how can we use concepts and guidelines related to assessing the IT-competence of business managers that are developed in one country to the context of another country In this paper, we examine this issue by adapting a model of IT competence developed and validated in Canada to the Norwegian context. Using a multi-method approach based on interviews conducted in several organizations, and a questionnaire survey, we made several changes to the model.
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This study reviews the Internet privacy policies of the 50 largest privately held companies in the US as identified by Forbes magazine. The study builds on work of prior researchers who analyzed popular and random e-commerce websites. In this study, the websites of privately held firms were reviewed and analyzed for the inclusion of the Federal Trade Commission's Fair Information Practices as well as a series of other consumer-centered factors. A comparison was also made between the policies of largest US publicly traded companies and the privately held companies. Overall the study finds that privately held companies do not demonstrate consistency in following Fair Information Practices or consumer-centered Internet policies. Also, the 50 largest privately held companies are generally less likely to publicly reveal their policies relative to Fair Information Practices or consumer-centered policies than the 50 largest publicly held companies. This is due to a large extent to lack of any privacy policies for many privately held companies. If only those companies with privacy policies are analyzed, two factors show significant differences between public and private company privacy policies.
{"title":"Privacy policies of the largest privately held companies: a review and analysis of the forbes private 50","authors":"A. Peslak","doi":"10.1145/1055973.1055997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1055973.1055997","url":null,"abstract":"This study reviews the Internet privacy policies of the 50 largest privately held companies in the US as identified by Forbes magazine. The study builds on work of prior researchers who analyzed popular and random e-commerce websites. In this study, the websites of privately held firms were reviewed and analyzed for the inclusion of the Federal Trade Commission's Fair Information Practices as well as a series of other consumer-centered factors. A comparison was also made between the policies of largest US publicly traded companies and the privately held companies. Overall the study finds that privately held companies do not demonstrate consistency in following Fair Information Practices or consumer-centered Internet policies. Also, the 50 largest privately held companies are generally less likely to publicly reveal their policies relative to Fair Information Practices or consumer-centered policies than the 50 largest publicly held companies. This is due to a large extent to lack of any privacy policies for many privately held companies. If only those companies with privacy policies are analyzed, two factors show significant differences between public and private company privacy policies.","PeriodicalId":318957,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '05","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121705714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The primary goal of this study is to help IT professionals prepare themselves for their future careers by identifying transferable skills across the three different IT jobs: programmer/analysts, systems analysts, and IT managers. By collecting and analyzing data from Fortune 500 corporate websites, this research attempts to provide IT professionals with a list of skills that they need to retain and new skills to develop for their future careers.
{"title":"Transferability of skills over the IT career path","authors":"Choongkwon Lee","doi":"10.1145/1055973.1055993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1055973.1055993","url":null,"abstract":"The primary goal of this study is to help IT professionals prepare themselves for their future careers by identifying transferable skills across the three different IT jobs: programmer/analysts, systems analysts, and IT managers. By collecting and analyzing data from Fortune 500 corporate websites, this research attempts to provide IT professionals with a list of skills that they need to retain and new skills to develop for their future careers.","PeriodicalId":318957,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '05","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132354512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E-Governance brings urban and rural together and breaks the barrier of distance to lead an efficient administration. Surprisingly, E-Governance have not made enough impact on the people as e-Commerce and e-Learning have done. From the software engineering point of view, E-Governance has a lot of characteristics, which are different from e-Commerce and e-Learning. It is enough for e-Commerce and e-Learning to be reactive whereas E-Governance needs to be proactive. While e-Commerce and e-Learning involve Information Management, E-Governance involves Knowledge Management (KM). Knowledge management is the management of information, skill, experience, innovation, and intelligence. Our model of E-Governance based on Knowledge Management System (KMS) is built on KM cycle of Knowledge capturing, Knowledge sharing, Knowledge enhancing, and Knowledge preserving. A few popular models of E-Governance use a concept of "knowledge centers" to share knowledge. Our model shares knowledge that supports the law of knowledge dynamics. The development model of E-Governance based on Information Management System (IMS) applies a cycle-based process such as spiral or iterative process. This paper studies a development model of KMS-based E-Governance, which is path-based. This model provides an environment where the system grows with the people. To simulate the proposed KMS model, we analyzed a scenario based on the poll on Referendum question of Quebec, CA regarding independence (unilateral action or negotiation) using Artificial Neural Network.
{"title":"Cyclic knowledge management system in e-governance: a case study of evaluating polls on referendum-independence of quebec using ANN","authors":"Manzur Ashraf, H. Ali, Mahfuz Ashraf","doi":"10.1145/1055973.1055998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1055973.1055998","url":null,"abstract":"E-Governance brings urban and rural together and breaks the barrier of distance to lead an efficient administration. Surprisingly, E-Governance have not made enough impact on the people as e-Commerce and e-Learning have done. From the software engineering point of view, E-Governance has a lot of characteristics, which are different from e-Commerce and e-Learning. It is enough for e-Commerce and e-Learning to be reactive whereas E-Governance needs to be proactive. While e-Commerce and e-Learning involve Information Management, E-Governance involves Knowledge Management (KM). Knowledge management is the management of information, skill, experience, innovation, and intelligence. Our model of E-Governance based on Knowledge Management System (KMS) is built on KM cycle of Knowledge capturing, Knowledge sharing, Knowledge enhancing, and Knowledge preserving. A few popular models of E-Governance use a concept of \"knowledge centers\" to share knowledge. Our model shares knowledge that supports the law of knowledge dynamics. The development model of E-Governance based on Information Management System (IMS) applies a cycle-based process such as spiral or iterative process. This paper studies a development model of KMS-based E-Governance, which is path-based. This model provides an environment where the system grows with the people. To simulate the proposed KMS model, we analyzed a scenario based on the poll on Referendum question of Quebec, CA regarding independence (unilateral action or negotiation) using Artificial Neural Network.","PeriodicalId":318957,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '05","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124441234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper proposes a theoretical framework to inform an interview instrument. This instrument will be used to investigate the skills needed in software development by interviewing experienced personnel. Based on Social Cognitive Theory, this framework will allow for the elicitation of skill-set information by considering the person, their behaviors and the organization they work in.
{"title":"A framework to elicit the skills needed for software development","authors":"J. Downey","doi":"10.1145/1055973.1055987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1055973.1055987","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a theoretical framework to inform an interview instrument. This instrument will be used to investigate the skills needed in software development by interviewing experienced personnel. Based on Social Cognitive Theory, this framework will allow for the elicitation of skill-set information by considering the person, their behaviors and the organization they work in.","PeriodicalId":318957,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '05","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126687434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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