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    • Smidig læring i smidige utviklingsprosesser : et verdifullt retrospective møte 

      Limi, Espen (Master thesis, 2010)
      Smidige systemutviklingsmetoder er et hett tema hos både utviklingsvirksomheter og forskere innenfor systemutviklingsfeltet. Metodene skal være tilpasningsdyktige i form av at de responderer raskt og effektivt på endringer ...
    • Why benefits realization from ERP in SMEs doesn't seem to matter? 

      Haddara, Moutaz; Päivärinta, Tero (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences;44, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      It is often argued that IT investments require active management practices for benefits realization. This applies also to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. As well, benefits realization efforts are assumed to ...
    • Cloud computing : en studie av muligheter og barrierer i det norske markedet 

      Vabø, Ole Andrè (Master thesis, 2011)
      I denne rapporten har jeg studert overordnede problemstillinger relatert til temaet Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing er en leveransemodell bestående av tre hovedkategorier Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as ...
    • E-government in marketing a country: A strategy for reducing transaction cost of doing business in Tanzania 

      Kachwamba, Muhajir; Sæbø, Øystein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      There are limited studies examining the role of Investment Promotion Agencies (IPA’s) and their respective marketing techniques used in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Using an exploratory case study approach, ...
    • Kritiske utfordringer ved implementering av et ERP-system i en SMB : en casestudie i en norsk bedrift 

      Andersen, Marlow-Andrè Lee; Haukom, Henrik (Master thesis, 2011)
      ERP-systemer (Enterprise Resource Planning) er virksomhetsomspennende informasjonssystemer som stadig flere bedrifter tar i bruk. Spørsmålet som oftest stilles er ikke lenger om man skal anskaffe et ERP-system; det er ...
    • ERP systems in SMEs: A literature review 

      Haddara, Moutaz; Zach, Ondrej (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences;44, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      This review summarizes research on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). Due to the close-to-saturation of ERP adoptions in large enterprises (LEs), ERP vendors now focus ...
    • Back-propagation artificial neural network for ERP adoption cost estimation 

      Kotb, Mohamed T.; Haddara, Moutaz; Kotb, Yehia T. (Communications in Computer and Information Science;220, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) are greatly affected by cost escalations and overruns Reliable cost factors estimation and management is a key for the success of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems adoptions ...
    • Praksisfelleskap i e-forvaltning : faktorer som påvirker samordning i offentlig sektor 

      Nesdal, Eirik Solheim (Master thesis, 2011)
      Det kvalitative forskningsarbeidet bak denne rapporten ble utført med det mål å belyse faktorer som påvirker dannelsen av en delingskultur i e-forvaltningen. En økt grad av deling og samarbeid i e-forvaltningen vil kunne ...
    • Demystifying the possibilities of ICT4D in the mountain regions of Nepal 

      Thapa, Devinder; Sæbø, Øystein (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences;44, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Despite the substantial investments in ICT4D projects in developing countries, the benefits are yet to be realised by the majority of remote communities. Inaccessibility to ICT has widened educational, healthcare, information, ...
    • The developmental contribution from mobile phones across the agricultural value chain in rural Africa 

      Furuholt, Bjørn; Matotay, Edmund (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      The most widespread information and communication technology (ICT) in developing countries today is the mobile phone. The majority of people in the least developed countries still live in rural areas and their livelihood ...
    • Understanding TwitterTM use among Parliament representatives: A genre analysis 

      Sæbø, Øystein (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;6847, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      This article examines parliament representatives’ Twitter- contributions (tweets). First, the genre of communication approach is introduced to identify common characteristics and communication patterns. Second, the findings ...
    • ERP lifecycle: When to retire your ERP system? 

      Haddara, Moutaz; Elragal, Ahmed (Communications in Computer and Information Science;219, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      A lot of research has been undertaken focusing on ERP systems lifecycles, but very little paid attention to retirement. ERP retirement means the replacement of an ERP with another. The aim of this research paper is to ...
    • Webanalyser : en empirisk studie av erfaringer i norske virksomheter 

      Kristiansen, Andreas Zahl (Master thesis, 2011)
      Webanalyser er overvåkning og rapportering av bruken av en webside for å forstå interaksjonen mellom kunden og websiden. Informasjonen fra disse webanalysesystemene kan hjelpe en organisasjon til å kjenne sine kunder ...
    • Challenges in information systems procurement in the Norwegian public sector 

      Moe, Carl Erik; Païvärinta, Tero (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;6846, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Public procurement of information systems (IS) and IS services provides several challenges to the stakeholders involved in the procurement processes. This paper reports initial results from a Delphi study, which involved ...
    • The use of experts panels in ERP cost estimation research 

      Elragal, Ahmed; Haddara, Moutaz (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      This paper is an effort towards illustrating the use of expert panel (EP) as a mean of eliciting knowledge from a group of enterprise resource planning (ERP) experts as an exploratory research. The development of a cost ...
    • Mutual informing between IS Academia and Practice: Insights from KIWISR-5 

      Lanamäki, Arto; Stendal, Karen; Thapa, Devinder (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      The relationship between Information Systems (IS) scholars and IS practitioners has been debated since the birth of the IS discipline. How are academics interacting with practice, and how should we? In this article we ...
    • Engasjement på Mitt Arbeiderparti 

      Følstad, Asbjørn; Lüders, Marika; Johannessen, Marius Rohde (Research report, 2011)
      Denne rapporten presenterer funn fra en undersøkelse av hvordan Arbeiderpartiet best mulig kan engasjere medlemmer og andre interesserte gjennom lokallagssonerlagsoner på Mitt Arbeiderparti. Det primære datagrunnlaget er ...
    • Understanding the dynamics in e-Participation initiatives: Looking through the genre and stakeholder lenses 

      Sæbø, Øystein; Flak, Leif Skiftenes; Sein, Maung K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Conventionally, e-Participation initiatives are considered to be successful only if users use these services. While the growing body of e-Participation literature has listed and studied challenges and barriers to achieving ...
    • Identifying information quality mechanisms : a comparative case study of professional bureaucracies 

      Hausvik, Geir Inge; Henriksen, Knut Marcus (Master thesis, 2011)
      There has been increasing attention to active management of Information quality (IQ) the later years, due to the severity of the impacts of IQ facing organizations. Still, while large organizations are typically aware ...
    • Impact of e-government on transaction cost and FDI inflows: A proposed conceptual framework 

      Kachwamba, Muhajir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Although vast normative e-government literature supports the assertion that implementation of e-government reduces transaction cost and promotes Foreign Direct Investment; empirical evidence to support this thesis ...