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04
Oct
2009

Analysing Micro-Innovation Processes: Universities and Enterprises Collaboration

Communications of the IBIMA
This paper discusses one form of inno-vation work in the area of human technology and its research at universities with The focus is on how to get swiftly advancing basic research knowledge quickly into product development processes.  The paper discusses a  innovation improvement model. The…
03
Oct
2009

Issues in Software Development Practices A South African Software Practitioners’ Viewpoint

Communications of the IBIMA
Software development is a process tasked with the development of artefacts that are used to implement organizational information systems. Depending on the social, economical and environmental setting, different software practices are used. These, however, have an effect on the resultant software product.  In this paper,…
01
Oct
2009

Demographic Factors and Knowledge Sharing Quality among Malaysian Government Officers

Communications of the IBIMA
Knowledge sharing is one of the important elements in knowledge management. Previous works indicate that employees are reluctant to share knowledge among themselves. Many factors impede knowledge sharing among employees in organizations. One of those factors is demography. The purpose of this study is to…
30
Sep
2009

Integrated Platform for R&D Information Systems: A Canadian Experience

Communications of the IBIMA
The “knowledge Economy” is the objective that many countries around the world are targeting in their strategic planning, it is meant to enable social and economical development. For many economists, it is also the sophisticated economy that balances out the dependency on basic commodities as…
28
Sep
2009

Modeling and Simulation of a Robust e-Voting System

Communications of the IBIMA
In this paper we present a simulation model for a multifaceted online e-Voting system. The proposed model is capable of handling electronic ballots with multiple scopes at the same time, e.g., presidential, municipal, and parliamentary, amongst others.  The model caters for integrity of an election…
27
Sep
2009

Semantic Data Integration: Overall Architecture

Communications of the IBIMA
The information has always been a valuable patrimony for the information systems that every company tries to capitalize as much as possible. With the web, the amount of information is increased and several problems arise for instance for the safety of the exchanged data but…
25
Sep
2009

Modeling the Effects of E-Commerce Adoption On Business Process Management: Case Study of Commercial Banks in Kenya

Communications of the IBIMA
The general objective of this study was to model the effects of e-commerce adoption on business process management. This was a census study on modeling the effects of e-commerce adoption on business process management in commercial banks in Kenya. Out of the sixty (60) respondents…
24
Sep
2009

Attitudes towards the use of E-banking: Result of a Pilot Survey

Communications of the IBIMA
Electronic Banking (EB) is the use of banking services, conducted via electronic media and Internet technology. With the rapid increase in the development and availability of information and communications technologies, EB has become a reality. People are beginning to sell and purchase goods via the…
23
Sep
2009

Synergies between SOA and Grid Computing

Communications of the IBIMA
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style for developing and integrating enterprise applications to enable an enterprise to deliver self-describing and platform independent business functionality. Grid Computing (GC) is a framework that allows pooling of physical resources to enable virtualisation of distributed computing, enterprise…
23
Sep
2009

The Moderating Effect of Switching Costs on the Customer Satisfaction-retention Link: Retail Internet Banking Service in Hong Kong

IBIMA Business Review
The objective of this research was to develop a model that examines the direct effects of customer satisfaction and switching costs on customer retention as well as the moderating effect of switching costs on the relationship between customer satisfaction and customer retention in the segments…