Object Oriented Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges
Object Oriented Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges

Author: Gibson, Rick

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 1999-07-01

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 193070870X

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The continual evolution of object oriented technologies creates both opportunities and challenges. However, despite the growing popularity of object oriented technology, there are numerous issues that have contributed to its inability to firmly entrench itself and take over for the older, proven technologies. Object oriented technology's image problem has created a highly difficult decision making process for corporations considering widespread adoption of these technologies. Object Oriented Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges addresses concerns, opportunities and technology trends in the application of object oriented technologies. The chapters of this book were selected to represent a variety of perspectives concerning the present and future of this broad sub-field of software development.

Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges
Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges

Author: Aggarwal, Anil K.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 1999-07-01

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1930708785

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During the past two decades, telecommunication technologies combined with Web-enabled technologies have created a new technology-based focus, Web-based learning and teaching. This new area has changed the concept of education around the world, creating new challenges and opportunities offered by this new technology-based concept. Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges addresses many issues, trends, opportunities and problems facing colleges and universities in the effective utilization and management of Web-based learning and teaching technologies.

Electronic Commerce: Opportunity and Challenges
Electronic Commerce: Opportunity and Challenges

Author: Rahman, Syed Mahbubhur

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 1999-07-01

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 193070853X

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Some analysts predict that electronic commerce will grow to more than $300 billion in the next five years. With electronic commerce growing in exponentially, staying competitive through an effect e-business strategy is a tough challenge. Electronic commerce represents one of the most promising directions for generating competitive advantage at the micro level of the organization and for increasing productivity at the macro level of the economy. Electronic Commerce: Opportunity and Challenges looks at the critical fundamental elements that could impact a user's perception of business-to-business and business-to-consumer electronic commerce. It presents a study of key components and concepts of e-commerce, evaluating the critical success factors for global e-commerce, the economics of e-commerce and the practical issues involved with e-commerce in various applications.

Distance Learning Technologies: Issues, Trends and Opportunities
Distance Learning Technologies: Issues, Trends and Opportunities

Author: Lau, Linda K.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 1999-07-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1930708521

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In today's technology-crazed environment, distance learning is touted as a cost-effective option for delivering employee training and higher education programs, such as bachelor's, master's and even doctoral degrees. Distance Learning Technologies: Issues, Trends and Opportunities provides readers with an in-depth understanding of distance learning and the technologies available for this innovative media of learning and instruction. It traces the development of distance learning from its history to suggestions of a solid strategic implementation plan to ensure its successful and effective deployment.

Challenges of Information Technology Management in the 21st Century
Challenges of Information Technology Management in the 21st Century

Author: Information Resources Management Association. International Conference

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 1244

ISBN-13: 9781878289841

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As the 21st century begins, we are faced with opportunities and challenges of available technology as well as pressured to create strategic and tactical plans for future technology. Worldwide, IT professionals are sharing and trading concepts and ideas for effective IT management, and this co-operation is what leads to solid IT management practices. This volume is a collection of papers that present IT management perspectives from professionals around the world. The papers seek to offer new ideas, refine old ones, and pose interesting scenarios to help the reader develop company-sensitive management strategies.

Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management
Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management

Author: Schwartz, David

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 1999-07-01

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1930708637

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The Internet is quickly moving from a marketing tool in which businesses and organizations promote sales and awareness, to a core element of any information system architecture. The advent of the Internet as a fundamental infrastructure for the delivery of advanced business systems has opened up a wide range of questions for the design and development of such systems.Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management provides a multidisciplinary view of the wide range of ideas on innovative Internet information systems as they related to organizational memory and knowledge. Using the Internet as the primary architectural base, this book presents results and challenges of Internet-based knowledge management systems.

Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education
Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education

Author: Abbey, Beverly

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 1999-07-01

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1930708610

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Educators are increasingly using web sites in place of traditional content media and instructional approaches such as texts and lectures. This new teaching philosophy has led to a myriad of questions concerning instructional design principles, learners' cognitive strategies, human-Internet interaction factors and instructional characteristics of Web media that transverse political, geographic, and national boundaries. Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education is a compendium of materials by noted researchers and practitioners that addresses national and international issues and implications of Web-based instruction and learning, offering suggestions and guidelines for analyzing and evaluating Web sites from cognitive and instructional design perspectives.

Managing Healthcare Information Systems with Web-Enabled Technologies
Managing Healthcare Information Systems with Web-Enabled Technologies

Author: Eder, Lauren B.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 1999-07-01

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 193070867X

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Healthcare organizations are undergoing major reorganizations and adjustments to meet the increasing demands of improved healthcare access and quality, as well as lowered costs. As the use of information technology to process medical data increases, much of the critical information necessary to meet these challenges is being stored in digital format. Web-enabled information technologies can provide the means for greater access and more effective integration of healthcare information from disparate computer applications and other information resources.Managing Healthcare Information Systems with Web-Enabled Technologies presents studies from leading researchers and practitioners focusing on the current challenges, directions, trends and opportunities associated with healthcare organizations and their strategic use of Web-enabled technologies.

Managing Web-Enabled Technologies in Organizations: A Global Perspective
Managing Web-Enabled Technologies in Organizations: A Global Perspective

Author: Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 1999-07-01

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1930708688

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Technological advancements of the past several decades in computer and telecommunication technologies have had a profound impact upon the fundamental structures of society, and particularly, upon organizations. As these technologies have matured and developed, many organizations have been looking into the organizational and managerial changes that can be made that allow the organization to achieve greater utilization of these technologies to improve their competitive postures.Web-enabled technologies have become a serious contender. Many global organizations are looking into the emerging web-enabled technologies to make their dispersed operations around the world more efficient and maintaining greater control over their resources. Those organizations that have not attempted to identify and master the many applications of web-enabled technologies will have serious difficulty competing and surviving.This book gives you the latest research findings/writings related to the web-enabled technologies utilization and management in organizations throughout the world.

Information Technology Standards and Standardization: A Global Perspective
Information Technology Standards and Standardization: A Global Perspective

Author: Jakobs, Kai

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 1999-07-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1930708602

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In light of the emerging global information infrastructure, information technology standards are becoming increasingly important. At the same time, however, the standards setting process has been criticized as being slow, inefficient and out of touch with market needs. What can be done to resolve this situation?To provide a basis for an answer to this question, Information Technology Standards and Standardization: A Global Perspective paints as full a picture as possible of the varied and diverse aspects surrounding standards and standardization. This book will serve as a foundation for research, discussion and practice as it addresses trends, problems and solutions for and by numerous disciplines, such as economics, social sciences, management studies, politics, computer science and, particularly, users.