Knowledge Dissemination in an Extra-Organisational Community of Practice

This paper explores the potential for increasing the dissemination of knowledge in a global, extra-organisational community of practice -- the Information Systems academic community. The paper begins by defining the IS academic community as an extra-organisational community of practice, individuals linked by what they do rather than for whom they work. Second, incentives for knowledge sharing are examined and peer recognition is identified as a key incentive. Third, IS academics are characterised as shared work practitioners and implications for distributing knowledge in the community are suggested The article concludes with a brief proposal for ISNet, a knowledge dissemination system for the global IS academic community

Critical Success Factors for Developing an e-Business Strategy

e-Business is the new, leading edge of electronic commerce. Organizations are using e-business applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and e-procurement to transform traditional businesses into e-businesses. As organizations pursue an e-business strategy what are the five or six most important factors to consider? What are the opportunities? What are the threats? Answering these questions is the primary purpose of this paper. First, ebusiness is defined and placed in an historical context with its evolution through the electronic commerce concept. Then six critical success factors for developing e-business strategy are discussed and mini-case studies are used to illustrate their application in real businesses

Critical Success Factors for the Transformation Process in Enterprise System Implementation

Organizations continue to deploy enterprise systems (ESs) to improve information flow, reduce costs, and increase operational efficiencies. Realization of these benefits can be enhanced if more is known about the preceding factors that enable transformation of ES data into successful outcomes. This study identifies the critical success factors (CSFs) that influence the process for transforming ES data into knowledge, which leads to business benefits from ES implementation. A multiple case study approach is used to examine how three hi-tech manufacturing companies in New Zealand have deployed an ES and, specifically, the CSFs that contributed to business benefits. The findings emphasize that benefit realization from an ES implementation is a holistic process that not only includes the essential data and technology factors, but also includes business strategy deployment, people and process management, and skills and competency development

Electronic Publishing in the Information Age: Questions for the Academy

The purpose of this panel is to preserit a11 overview of the field of electronic publishing and discuss some of the operational, ethical, and legal issues of the field. The Luget audience is IS professionals who want to learn about new publication opportunities in Cyberspace and are interested in the impact of electronic publishing on the academic profession

Factors Influencing the Adoption of Mobile Learning

Education delivery by mobile devices enables anywhere / anytime learning. Mobile learning has the potential to allow students to more closely integrate learning activities into their busy lives. At this early stage in its development, this is an opportune time to initiate a stream of research that examines the adoption of m-learning applications. This study determines the key factors influencing the behavioural intention for adoption of mobile learning. Several external variables are incorporated into the Technology Acceptance Model and tested in six New Zealand universities. Six of the seven variables – self-efficacy, perceived usefulness, subjective norm, attitude, perceived ease of use, and perceived financial resources were accepted. Prior use of e-learning was not accepted and reasons for this are explored in the study