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A participatory design approach for the development of support environments in eGovernment services to citizens
The introduction of eGovernment services and applications leads to major changes in the structure and operation of public administrations. In this paper we describe the work in progress in an Italian project called âSPO.T.â aimed at the analysis, development, deployment and evaluation of tools and environments to support the people who plan, deliver, use and evaluate user-centred provision of One-Stop-Shop services to citizens. The âSPO.T.â project has focused on two requirements: 1. the support tools and environments must facilitate the active involvement of all stakeholders in the definition and evolution of eGovernment applications and services, and it is argued that through participatory design changes of structure, process and culture can be delivered effectively; 2. they must embody a set of architecturally coherent resources which reflect the new roles and relationships of public administration and which are sufficiently generic to be relevant to a wide range of local contexts across the community
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A legacy handbook for business support
Legacy Handbook reviewing emda's experience of business support activity. Identifies key achievements and draws out lessons learned that may be relevant to successor bodies active in this area
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E-commerce and its impact in logistic management: A state of art
Logistics management is defined as that part of the supply chain process that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption in order to meet customers' requirements. Traditional logistical issues may be amplified by an e-commerce venture. Adopting e-commerce may greatly expand the marketplace. The organization needs to be concerned with its ability to deliver its product to potential customers. Realizing the importance of E-commerce in logistic management, an attempt has been made in this paper to review the existing literature with the objective to gain insights into the impact of E-commerce in logistic management. The advantages of the E-commerce in logistic management are offered. Finally, summary of findings and calculations are presented
Bid-Centric Cloud Service Provisioning
Bid-centric service descriptions have the potential to offer a new cloud
service provisioning model that promotes portability, diversity of choice and
differentiation between providers. A bid matching model based on requirements
and capabilities is presented that provides the basis for such an approach. In
order to facilitate the bidding process, tenders should be specified as
abstractly as possible so that the solution space is not needlessly restricted.
To this end, we describe how partial TOSCA service descriptions allow for a
range of diverse solutions to be proposed by multiple providers in response to
tenders. Rather than adopting a lowest common denominator approach, true
portability should allow for the relative strengths and differentiating
features of cloud service providers to be applied to bids. With this in mind,
we describe how TOSCA service descriptions could be augmented with additional
information in order to facilitate heterogeneity in proposed solutions, such as
the use of coprocessors and provider-specific services
Internal Customer Service: The Potential for E-Service
This empirically based paper is concerned with the application of the notion of internal customer service, purchasing and procurement, to e-services. It contends that much of the recent research into e-business, and eservice in particular, has taken a primarily external customer focus. Reports suggest that the greatest potential of e-business comes from applications within and between businesses. The findings are based on data collected in an extensive research programme from interviews, cases and focus groups in 97 organisations. It has shown that contrary to views of the traditional purchasing and procurement functions, e-service improved customer perceptions of service through faster and easier service with speeder resolution of problems, improved process reliability with reduced mean time between failures together with overall cost reductions
People in the E-Business: New Challenges, New Solutions
[Excerpt] Human Resource Planning Societyâs (HRPS) annual State of the Art/Practice (SOTA/P) study has become an integral contributor to HRPSâs mission of providing leading edge thinking to its members. Past efforts conducted in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 have focused on identifying the issues on the horizon that will have a significant impact on the field of Human Resources (HR). This year, in a divergence from past practice, the SOTA/P effort aimed at developing a deeper understanding of one critical issue having a profound impact on organizations and HR, the rise of e-business. The rise of e-business has been both rapid and dramatic. One estimate puts the rate of adoption of the internet at 4,000 new users each hour (eMarketer, 1999) resulting in the expectation of 250 million people on line by the end of 2000, and 350 million by 2005 (Nua, 1999). E-commerce is expected to reach $1.3 trillion by 2003, and of that, 87 percent will go to the business to business (B2B) and 13 percent to the business to consumer (B2C) segments, respectively (Plumely, 2000)
Offenders and E-Learning - a literature review on behalf of Becta
This literature review has been prepared by the Hallam Centre of Community Justice at Sheffield Hallam University, on behalf of Becta. The literature review provides a summary of existing research and knowledge relating to e-learning in the offending learning sector with a view to developing a range of e-maturity indicators across the sector. The review also highlights linkages with current Government policy in relation to offender learning and skills
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