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07
Sep
2010

Corporate Technology Intelligence Research System through Recycling Public Patent Databases

Communications of the IBIMA
Investment in technology is a sensitive issue in modern corporate decision making processes. Developing software for analyzing the trends of any kind of technology requires the extraction of patent information available through web, but also to clean, transform and load it into a standard database…
01
Sep
2010

Perceptions towards Online Shopping: Analyzing the Greek University Students’ Attitude

Communications of the IBIMA
The sharp increase of Internet usage, as well as, the systematic progress of Information Technology have transformed the way goods are bought and sold, resulting to the exponential growth in the number of online shoppers. However, a lot of differences regarding online purchases have been…
31
Aug
2010

The Correlation between the Number of Tourists and the Number of Nights Spent in the Hotel: Analysis Indicator of Hotel Business Efficiency

Communications of the IBIMA
The aim of a travel agency reorientation was to create tourist packages for tourism business. Consequently, the travel agency intended to study the image of a hotel "H" in Bucharest Romania, regarding its tourism activity effectiveness, considering that the hotel is subject to a law…
28
Aug
2010

Three Different Cases of User Instructions for E-learning Courses

Communications of the IBIMA
The paper presents the structure of the learning material for the interactive course “International commerce”. The whole learning material is described through its six components: learning content, evaluation tests, laboratory works, bibliography, webography, and term glossary. The authors present some possibilities of using an interactive…
23
Aug
2010

The Impact of Collocation on the Effectiveness of Agile IS Development Teams

Communications of the IBIMA
This article looks at the impact of collocation on the effectiveness of information system development teams. The research objective was to investigate which features of the collocation environment have the greatest influence on team effectiveness and how these can assist in a better design for…
20
Aug
2010

Instructors’ Acceptance of Learning Management Systems: A Theoretical Framework

Communications of the IBIMA
In the knowledge age, the use of the information technology (IT) tools including learning management systems (LMS) has became an imperative. The adoption rate of LMS in academic and training institutions is very promising worldwide. Learning Management system includes several tools that provide academic and…
20
Aug
2010

Document Imaging Systems: Key to Electronic Government in Malaysia

Journal of e-Government Studies and Best Practices
A “Document Imaging System” may be regarded as a system that captures hardcopy documents, converts the documents to digital image format, and provides electronic storage, search/retrieval, and security facilities. The use of document imaging system technology offer a potential method to increase worker efficiency, reduce…
17
Aug
2010

Managing Business Processes in Distributed Systems: Requirements, Models, and Implementation

IBIMA Business Review
This paper describes a case study for teaching purposes which enables students of Business Informatics and Economics to jointly work on B2B processes from modeling to implementation and execution. The teaching materials are based on a practical example and show how B2B processes can be…
17
Aug
2010

Improving performance of customer knowledge expansion with knowledge management process

Journal of Organizational Knowledge Management
The digital economy is based on knowledge process and the ultimate objective is the support of performance. While addressing this issue, over the past several years there have been intensive discussions about the importance of Knowledge Management (KM) within our organization. The management of knowledge…
16
Aug
2010

Stakes and Limits of the Installation of Tool “E-Competences” in SME of the BTP

Communications of the IBIMA
The interest of this article will be on the one hand to draw up a panorama of the reality of E-HR in France taking into consideration practice and tools but it will be interested, on the other hand with a particular example, that of SME,…