Optimal location of intermodal freight hubs

Theme 4 - Simulation et optimisation de systemes complexes - Projet ADOPTAvailable from INIST (FR), Document Supply Service, under shelf-number : 14802 E, issue : a.2000 n.4088 / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueSIGLEFRFranc

Perceived Significance of Improved Patient Data and Healthcare Services in the Formation of Inter-organizational Healthcare IT Governance

Part 2: Digital SocietyInternational audienceIT is seen as the means to develop healthcare and social welfare services for citizens and to improve the quality of medical and social welfare data. This is deemed to require better IT cooperation between organizations. My research investigates the formation of voluntary inter-organizational IT governance in healthcare and social welfare IT engaging over 100 organizations. Attention is placed especially on the perceived benefits of IT governance. Results suggest that concrete benefits are necessary for the formation of inter-organizational IT governance arrangements. The anticipated benefits of patient data improvement and short-term benefits were evaluated more important than the expected long-term improvements of healthcare and social welfare reforms

Correlations between industrial demands (direct and total) for communications and transportation in the U.S. economy 1947–1997

Complementarity, ICT impacts on travel, Input–output analysis, Substitution,

Factors Affecting the Successful Realisation of Benefits from Systems Development Projects: Findings from Three Case Studies

This article was published in the Journal of Information Technology [© Palgrave Macmillan] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx/doi.org/10.1057/jit.2011.8The return that organisations derive from investments in information systems and technology continues to disappoint. While there is a very significant body of literature on the factors that should facilitate a successful outcome from systems development, there is growing concern that these prescriptions are not having their desired effect. In this paper, we argue that the success of a systems development project should be measured in terms of its ability to deliver meaningful benefits, rather than the timely delivery of a technical artefact, and therefore organisations should adopt an explicit and proactive benefits realisation approach when investing in IT. Consequently, we sought to explore those actionable factors that might facilitate the effective realisation of benefits from systems development initiatives. Three organisations were identified that claimed to adopt a proactive approach to benefits realisation, and detailed studies of their systems development practices were conducted. Our analysis found that whilst one organisation had been successful in its adoption of a benefits realisation perspective, the other two had not, and this allowed us to identify those factors that helped to explain this difference in outcomes. In short, this paper makes an important contribution by identifying how a sub-set of traditional systems success factors might be enhanced, to give them a more explicit benefits realisation orientation. Moreover, it presents a coherent set of principles that can be used for deriving other factors and practices