HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS: A REVIEW OF ISSUES TOWARD RESEARCH THEMES AND AGENDAS INTO THE 21st CENTURY

Healthcare information systems encompass a wide range of issues from many disciplines including medicine, computer science, management science, statistics, biomedical engineering and numerous others. In the natural progression toward use of computers in healthcare, researchers in this multidisciplinary field are examining numerous issues ranging from examining the potential of artificial intelligence applications to application of total quality management principles to healthcare. This paper discusses various issues in an attempt toward development of a first cut framework/taxonomy of research themes and agendas for MIS researchers

Understanding the Structure of Agile Software Development Using Text Analytics: A Preliminary Analysis

The tenets of agile software development (ASD) were formulated over fifteen years ago. Since then, a number of methods and best practices have emerged, which, in turn, have spawned many research ideas. This study attempts to chronicle the evolution of thought in agile software development by using text analytics, an approach that is becoming invaluable in our efforts to understand unstructured text. Specifically, we use text analytics to unravel latent semantic relationships within the agile domain in order to get a sense of where we started, where we are today, and what to anticipate in the future

Software Development Process Change Management: Implementation of ASDM

Agile software development methodologies have been receiving a lot of attention in recent times. Although doubts have been cast on the efficacy of these methods for very large projects, some of the techniques and practices they advocate are very appealing and are being seriously considered by many organizations. It is our contention that many of these practices are antithetical to the orthodoxy of prevailing software approaches. In particular, nontrivial reconfigurations of organizational form, management practices, and workflows have to be undergone to successfully integrate agile principles into existing software development practices. This paper draws on the organizational change management literature to argue that the nature of change involved is resonant of the efforts to introduce Business Process Reengineering (BPR) in organizations. The magnitude of the change as well as the implications of migrating to agile methodologies is also presented

Exploring the Structure of Software Development Research: A Preliminary Text Analysis

Software development projects are critical to organizations when seeking operational efficiencies, competitive advantage, or both. In this research we use text analytics and bibliometrics to identify the key topics of software development that were studied in IS research published in four top IS journals. We also discuss the distribution of various topics across years and the underlying cluster groupings

Intellectual Structure of Business Analytics in Information Systems

Business Analytics is arguably the most dominant topic of discussion among both academics and practitioners. As organizations scramble to derive insights from rapidly growing data, we see an exponential growth in the number of articles related to Business Analytics. The purpose of this article is to examine the conceptual foundations of the field of analytics based on an analysis of articles that have appeared in the IS senior scholars’ basket of eight journals during the last 25 years (1992 - 2016). Using a combination of citation analysis and text mining, our study: (a) reveals the disciplines that influence Business Analytics research in information systems; and (b) explicates dominant themes latent in the corpus. Concepts related to Predictive Analytics, Business Intelligence, the Web, IT Management, Firm Performance and Decision Support were found to be at the heart of analytics research conducted by IS scholars in the basket of eight journals

Locus of Fluctuations: an Examination of Project Disruptions

Project deviations of different types are used to examine the theorized role of Locus of Control on two types of project outcomes: process performance and developer satisfaction. A survey of 315 professional project managers is analyzed with PLS-SEM to quantify the direct effects of requirements fluctuations, staff fluctuations and technology fluctuations as well as the contingent effects from External Locus of Flux. We demonstrate the consequences of deviation events that complicate efforts to maintain situational control. Implications for research and practice are discussed

Team Formation and Performance in Online Crowdsourcing Competitions: The Role of Homophily and Diversity in Solver Characteristics

Rapid advances in Information Technology (IT) have enabled organizations to venture beyond their workforce to seek solutions to vital business problems through online crowdsourcing platforms. Such platforms are characterized by geographically dispersed self-organizing teams that compete with one another to evolve the best solutions to challenging issues that confront organizations. Despite the growing popularity of crowdsourcing, there is a paucity of empirical research on: a) how participants on these platforms form teams; and b) how the composition of these teams affects their performance. In this paper, we investigated solvers’ teaming preferences and their impact on performance in an online crowdsourcing competition platform. Specifically, we explored demographics and acquired characteristics as potential predictors of the choice of a teammate. The findings of this study provide insights on the role of homophily and diversity of solver characteristics on team formation and performance in crowdsourcing competitions