Involving Top Management in IT Projects
Aligning business needs and IT solutions with the problem-mapping technique.
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An Architecture For a Next-Generation Holistic E-Recruiting System
Online recruiting has revolutionized the way businesses worldwide hire employees. The next step is to seamlessly integrate existing systems to create a comprehensive---and complex---corporate career center.
Cutting Checks: Challenges and Choices in B2B E-Payments
Open network e-payment systems are the future of corporate payments, assuming they address the challenges of integration, security, and remittance standards.
One Man’s Quest For the State of Software Engineering’s Practice
Analyzing researchers' findings of software practitioners' activities.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Technology Leaders
What do CEOs expect from technology? What do they expect from their technology leaders? How should technology leaders "brand" themselves? Today'stechnology leaders would do best to learn the specific leadership skills required to meet IT's ever-changing challenges.
The Effects of Online Advertising
Consumers' first impressions (and loyalties) are made in the opening moments of a Web site visit and the degree to which that visit may be intruded by pop-ups, pop-unders, and banner ads.
The Impact of Offshore Outsourcing on IT Workers in Developed Countries
Examining the global implications of outsourcing for IT workers.
Electronic Markets Hypothesis Redux: Where Are We Now?
A popular theory on IT's impact fails to consider the rich, dynamic, relationship-filled environment in which IT operates.
What Subjects and Skills Are Important For Software Developers?
A small survey of Finnish IT professionals, academics, and students has important implications for computer science degree programs.
Intra-Organizational Perspectives on IT-Enabled Supply Chains
Aligning technology decisions with relevant organizational practices and policies.
The Patent Holder’s Dilemma: Buy, Sell, or Troll?
The current patent process in many ways works against IT innovation by making the road to realization too dispiriting for today's independent inventors.
Looking Into the Challenges of Complex It Projects
Investigating the implications of developing conclusions based on faulty fundamental premises.
An examination of the relationship of values, cognitive ability, and personality as predictors of object-oriented programming performance.
E-Monitoring in the Workplace: Privacy, Legislation, and Surveillance Software
Protecting the corporation while respecting employee privacy---an old puzzle made more complex with new software.
The Standish Report: Does It Really Describe a Software Crisis?
Reconsidering the relevancy of a frequently cited report on software project failures.
Exploring the Privacy Implications of Addressable Advertising and Viewer Profiling
Collecting consumer viewing habits will come back to bite advertisers who do not understand or appreciate how consumers feel about privacy infringement.
Is the Crouching Tiger a Threat?
Considering the changing representation of the computing community.
Using the Web Service Modeling Ontology to Enable Semantic E-Business
The Web infrastructure offers businesses a way to partner and work together, integrating differing applications and communications in a seamless manner.
Directions For Security and Privacy For Semantic E-Business Applications
Developing secure semantic e-business applications requires focusing first on securing the Semantic Web, knowledge management, and e-business processes.
Secure Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web
Strengthening security within the domain of shared knowledge is a critical issue, and great challenge, to businesses today. A number of different protocols currently available offer an array of benefits and limitations.
Toward an Ontology-Driven Architectural Framework For B2B
Moving online business processes and practices from a static collection of data to a distributed multiprocessing framework of interoperability.
A Semantic Approach to Monitor Business Process
Finding an effective method for managing and evaluating the performance of business processes is a key element for e-business success.
Much work is required to understand how the conceptualizations that comprise business processes across the extended enterprise can be captured, represented, shared, and processed by both human and intelligent software agents. This effort will ultimately lead to transparent and secure information and knowledge flows in service and supply chains to increase economic efficiency in the digital economy.
Model-Driven Business Transformation and the Semantic Web
Coupling business and IT models provides a top-down business perspective.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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