An Integrated Framework for The Value Focused Thinking Methodology

In this paper we presented an integrated framework for the Value Focused Thinking (VFT) methodology that attempts to address issues that have not been adequately addressed. This framework provides several benefits including: the elicitation and high quality definition of objectives that incorporates organizational-oriented & domain- oriented concerns and knowledge, and the automatic generation of the alternate solutions that best satisfy the objectives, constraints and preference values. The proposed framework could contribute to a more effective application of the VFT methodolog

Relevance of Health-Related Hashtags on Twitter: A Text Mining Approach

BACKGROUND Social media platforms facilitate user interaction and impact decision making. Users prefer to use hashtags while sharing posts. Knowing the sentiment towards diabetes, bloodpressure, and obesity is fundamental to understanding the impact of these information on patients and their families. The study seeks to determine the relevance of health-related hashtags on Twitter and analyze sentiments about diabetes, obesity, blood pressure. METHOD Tweets were retrieved using synonyms for “diabetes”, “hypertension” and “obesity”. The extended knowledge discovery in data mining (KDDM) model guided our research with research objectives defined in the ‘research problem understanding’ phase. The ‘information seeking’ from Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT) determined the success and text mining assessment criteria. Text pre-processing was done using tokenization, stop word removal, and stemming. The research objectives, text mining goals, and success criteria were answered using ‘Uses and Gratifications Theory’ (UGT). RESULTS Total 6749 tweets were extracted using RStudio. 36.41% were about blood pressure, 0.25%- diabetes, 24.43% -obesity and 6.99% -combination of two or more terms. Additional topics such as cholesterol, chia seeds, postpartum, diet, exercise were identified. Upcoming conferences like ‘#ipna’, ‘#review’, ‘#APCH2019’, ‘#cardiotwitter’ were identified. Increased user engagement – about managing blood pressure, diabetes, obesity across different age groups, as well as the consequences of increased cardio exercise for obese and diabetic users were encouraging. Tweets about advertisements specific to clothing for oversized individuals-initiated conversation among users about monitoring self-health. CONCLUSIONS Sentiment analysis can thus increase our understanding about user engagement on such platforms and potentially help improve managing public health strategically.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/gradposters/1105/thumbnail.jp

Exploring the Impacts of Individual Styles on Security Compliance Behavior: A Preliminary Analysis

It is well known that while there is a strong correlation between adoption of ICTs and economic growth there is also a corresponding strong correlation between the adoption of ICTs and increased ICT-related technological threats that can have severe economic and other negative consequences. Within this context cybersecurity has become a major issue in both “developed” and “developing” countries, with humans being considered the “weakest link in the chain” of system security. While the cybersecurity literature has previously explored constructs such as awareness and self-efficacy to explain cybersecurity compliance behavior, there has been no exploration of the impacts of individuals’ decision styles on cybersecurity related compliance behavior and some other antecedents of such behavior. In this paper we address this issue using an exploratory approach and present a causal model for consideration in future research

AN EXPLORATORY EVALUATION OF THREE I.S. PROJECT PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT METHODS

Information systems projects play an important strategic role in organisations and are key drivers to the delivery of change. Given this prominence it is essential to find measurement methods that effectively analyze and communicate the performance to its stakeholders. Further, to assure contribution to both research and practice it is essential to verify the utility of the artifacts (i.e. methods) developed to help validate or justify that the solutions are suitable for practice, and fit the needs and contexts for which it is created. Grounded in the design science paradigm, this paper reports an exploratory evaluation of the perception of certain qualities of two recently developed measurement methods (The Project Performance Scorecard and Project Objectives Measurement Model) against the traditional Triple Constraint method. An analytic scenario-based survey of fifty-one (51) participants, comprising of three (3) sets of independent sample of seventeen (17) respondents each was used. The study analyzed dimensions of task performance, ease of use, perceived usefulness, perceived semantic qualities and user satisfaction from the perspective of the participants. The preliminary study revealed encouraging results for the new methods and the general design process which can help guide current use and further refinements. The limitations of the study and future research directions are discussed

Chaos Theory as a Meta-theoretical Perspective for IS Strategy: Discussion of the Insights and Implications

Development and implementation of IS strategy often takes place within a complex and uncertain socio-technical environment. Under such circumstances any predictions of the future states of an organization and organizational IS are understandably limited. We believe that Chaos Theory can provide a valuable vantage point, as well as offer a set of insights and implications, to those practitioners who are involved in the decision making process during the development and implementation of IS strategy

The Competitive Leverage Paradox Effect on Information Systems Life Cycle

The fierce market competition has put pressure on organizations leveraging their value chains. The continuous development in strategic technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) has pushed organizations to continuously acquire new Intelligent Information Systems (IIS) while underutilizing existing ones leading to the competitive leverage paradox. However, research on underutilizing IIS has focused on the social and organizational aspects of the problem, ignoring the flaws in designing and evaluating IIS. One of the overlooked factors is the effective life span of an IIS. This research conducted a systematic literature review to profoundly investigate the determinants of the competitive leverage paradox and its effect on the IIS life cycle. The research studies the IISs from economic and design perspectives. We also explore the design and strategic factors that led to defects in the effective life cycle of IIS. This research calls to consider the economic, and design factors in addressing the underutilization of IIS. The study also presents future research propositions to enhance IIS life cycle and return on investment

Formulation of Context-Dependent and Target- Specific Strategies of the Impacts of ICT on Development

Increasing investments in ICT is often premised on the assumption that such investments will lead to improvements in productivity and other aspects of development at the firm and national levels. However, it is reasonable to expect that any such impact will vary depending on the context including the ability to modify and manipulate a chain of intermediate links within the “investments in ICT outcomes of investments in ICT” process. In this paper we explore impacts of three constructs of the Networked Readiness Index (GIT Report, 2010) on three precursors of GDP - State of the Labor Market, International Trade, and Economic Well-Being

Linkng Investments in Telecoms and Total Factor Productivity in Transition Economies

For several years researchers & practitioners have been concerned about the impact of investments in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) on productivity. The research framework of neoclassical growth accounting is widely used in this area of research on IT & Productivity. While several studies have explored the relationship between investments in ICT and metrics such as GDP, the links between investments in ICT and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) have received less attention, particularly for Transition Economies. In this study is we propose & illustrate a methodology for investigating the relationship between investments in ICT and TFP that is consistent with the framework of neoclassical growth accounting