Advances in Information Systems Research, Education and Practice [electronic resource] : IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, TC 8, Information Systems, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy / edited by David Avison, George M. Kasper, Barbara Pernici, Isabel Ramos, Dewald Roode.

Information Systems Education -- The Practical Relevance of IT Education: Skill Requirements and Education Expectations of Practitioners -- Challenges of Professionalization: Bridging Research and Practice through a Body of Knowledge for IT Specialists -- Mapping Research Questions to Research Methods -- Keynote -- Reflections on 50 Years of Computing: Impact of Professionalism on Teaching, Practice and Research -- New Perspectives on Information Systems Development -- Advances in Information Systems Development: From Discipline and Predictability to Agility and Improvisation -- The Emergence of Partnership Networks in the Enterprise Application Development Industry: A Global Corporation Perspective -- Challenges of Consumer Information Systems Development: The Case of Interactive Television Services -- Defining, Modeling and Diffusing IS Projects -- Improving diffusion of Information Technology in communities in a developing world context -- ‘Driving’ IS projects -- Bridging the Gap Between Service-Oriented and Object-Oriented Architectures in Information Systems Development -- Keynote -- The IFIP International Professional Practice Partnership -- Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence -- Requirements Elicitation in Data Mining for Business Intelligence Projects -- Social Networks and KMS Use in US IT Services -- Realizing the Value of Business Intelligence -- Applications and Emerging Technologies -- An RFID Adoption Framework: A Container Supply Chain Analysis -- Adoption of Service Oriented Computing from the IT Professionals’ Perspective: An e-Government Case Study -- of a Public Sector e-Procurement Solution: Lessons Learned from Disappointing Adoption.

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