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Ny lärobok i Medicinsk informatik, Liber (2021) av Göran Petersson, Martin Rydmark, Anders Thurin redaktörer, och ett stort antal med författare. Ett kapitel Textanalys, skrevs av Hercules Dalianis och Sumithra Velupillai. Bläddra i Smakprov här och se innehållet i de 31 kapitlen.
Rebecka Weegar nailed today her PhD-thesis with the title Mining clinical text in cancer care.
A book written by Georg Hodosi and Lazar Rusu and entitled Risks, Relationships, and Success Factors in IT Outsourcing: A Study in Large Companies has been accepted for publication by Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-030-05924-8, 2019.
A paper written by Jiabao Wang and Lazar Rusu and entitled: “Factors Hindering Business-IT Alignment in Small and Medium Enterprises in China” has been published in Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 138, pp.425-432, Elsevier, 2018.
A paper written by Gideon Mekonnen Jonathan, Lazar Rusu, and Erik Perjons and entitled “Organizational Structure’s Influence on Business-IT Alignment: Looking Back to Look Forward” has been published in International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance, Vol. 9, Issue 2, pp. 15-29, IGI Global, 2018.
A paper written by Klaus Egender, Georg Hodosi, and Lazar Rusu and entitled “How to Build Successful Cloud Computing Relationships” has been published in International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance, Vol. 9, Issue 2, pp.1-14, IGI Global, 2018.
A paper written by Gideon Mekonnen Jonathan and Lazar Rusu and entitled “IT Governance in Public Organizations: A Systematic Literature Review” has been published in International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance, Vol. 9, Issue 2, pp.30-52, IGI Global, 2018.
A new book on participatory enterprise modeling (EM) will come out later this summer.
This book is intended for anybody who wants to learn more about how to facilitate participatory modeling in practice and how to set up and carry out enterprise modeling projects. It does not require any in-depth knowledge about specific EM methods and tools, and can be used by students and lecturers for courses on participatory modeling, and by practitioners wanting to extend their knowledge of social and organizational topics to become an experienced facilitator and EM project manager.
J.Stirna, A.Persson: Enterprise Modeling: Facilitating the Process and the People, Springer, 2018, link
A new book on capability management resulting from the work of the CaaS project will be available in June.
Sandkuhl K., Stirna J. (Eds.) Capability Management in Digital Enterprises, Springer, 2018
A paper written by Parisa Aasi, Lazar Rusu and Dragos Vieru and entitled: “The Role of Culture in IT Governance Five Focus Areas: A Literature Review”, has been published in International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 42-61, 2017.
A book chapter written by Lazar Rusu and Gideon Mekonnen Jonathan and entitled: “IT Alignment in Public Organizations: A Systematic Literature Review”, has been published in Information Technology Governance in Public Organizations – Theory and Practice, pp. 27-57, Springer International Publishing AG, 2017.
A book chapter written by Parisa Aasi, Lazar Rusu and Dorothy Leidner and entitled: “IT Organizational Structure Relationship with IT Governance Performance: Case of a Public Organization”, has been published in Information Technology Governance in Public Organizations – Theory and Practice, pp. 229-252, Springer International Publishing AG, 2017.
A paper written by Gideon Mekonnen Jonathan, Aminat Abdul-Salaam, Omogunloye Oluwasanmi and Lazar Rusu and entitled “Business-IT Alignment Barriers in a Public Organisation: The Case of Federal Inland Revenue Service of Nigeria”, has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy, IGI Global, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2018.
A paper written by Parisa Aasi and Lazar Rusu and entitled: “Facing The Digitalization Challenge: Why Organizational Culture Matters and How It Influences IT Governance Performance”, has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2017), 6-8 September 2017, Larnaca, Cyprus.
A paper written by Georg Hodosi, Daniel Johansson and Lazar Rusu, “Does it Matter the Loss of Tacit Knowledge in IT Outsourcing? A study in a Swedish Governmental Agency”, has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of CENTERIS 2017 – Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier November 8-10, 2017
A paper written by Parisa Aasi, Lazar Rusu, Dorothy Leidner, Erik Perjons, “How Does the Organizational Culture of Collaborative Networks Influence IT Governance Performance in a Large Organization?”, has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of 51th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-51), Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, USA, IEEE Computer Society, January 3-6, 2018.
Professor Lazar Rusu from Stockholm University, Sweden and Dr. Gianluigi Viscusi from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland are the editors of a recently published book by Springer that is entitled “Information Technology Governance in Public Organizations – Theory and Practice”.
For more information about the book “Information Technology Governance in Public Organizations – Theory and Practice” please access the following link: http://www.springer.com/in/book/9783319589770
Call for book chapters: “Information Technology Governance in Public Organizations – Theory and Practice”
Editors:
Lazar Rusu, Stockholm University, Sweden
Gianluigi Viscusi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Publisher:
The book is scheduled to be published by Springer International Publishing AG, in Integrated Series in Information Systems. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.springer.com/series/6157. The publication is anticipated to be released in 2017.
Introduction:
The research in IT governance in public organizations has already captured the attention of researchers, policy makers and IT practitioners and different research studies have been reported in this topic both in developed and developing countries.
The researchers studying IT governance in public organizations have encountered different challenges that are mainly due to the differences between political, administrative, and practices in these organizations. Some of these challenges are related to governance processes and policy-making mechanisms change due to the application of ICT-enabled innovation. Moreover, the dilemma is actually related to governance and alignment issues between policy ICT-enabled initiatives and the diverse stakeholders they involve. Furthermore, public organizations are now very concern to make more steps towards digitalization and transform their services. Therefore this requires from organization’s management to focus on having effective IT governance in their organization that as result will enable IT alignment and will create business value from IT investments. For this purpose public organization’s management has given a special attention to IT Governance that has growth in importance.
The book’s primary contribution will be to highlight the actual trends and challenges in research in IT governance in public organizations with the aim to report innovative research and new insights in the theories, models and practices in this research topic.
Topics of interest:
In particular, contributions will mainly include but are not limited to the followings: IT governance structures, processes and relational mechanisms in public organizations; IT alignment in public organizations; digital governance in public organizations; critical success factors in IT governance implementation in public organizations; IT leadership in public organizations; ICT-enabled governance innovation in public organizations; theoretical models for studying IT governance and IT alignment in public organizations; and practices of IT governance implementation in public organizations.
Submission Procedure:
Full book chapters (15-20 pages) are expected by May 15, 2015. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Submissions of the book chapters will be done through easy chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itgov2017
The manuscripts will be submitted in a word format and the contributors should follow the Springer guidelines for formatting the book chapters. More information about this issue you could find here:http://resource-cms.springer.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/990/data/v7/Manuscript+guidelines+for+English+books
Important Dates:
May 15, 2016 Full Chapter Submission
August 15, 2016 Review Results to Authors
September 15, 2016 Revised Chapter Submission
For any questions concerning the book please contact the editors:
Professor Lazar Rusu
Stockholm University
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV)
Borgarfjordsgatan 12, P.O. Box 7003, 164 07 Kista, Sweden
Email: lrusu@dsv.su.se
Dr. Gianluigi Viscusi
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
College of Management of Technology (CDM) – CSI
ODY 1 16 (Odyseea) Station 5, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Email: gianluigi.viscusi@epfl.ch