This report is concerned with the current position of CISAC (International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Creators). Surrounded by a large network of collecting societies and essentially a lobbying organization, CISAC increasingly feels pressures (at least in Europe) to respond to copyright …

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Aligning IT to business needs is still one of the most important concerns for senior management. The message of Business & IT Alignment (BIA) is logical and undisputed, but implementation apparently difficult. As part of a research program on the differences between the theory and practice of BIA this …

In opdracht van Philips Applied Technologies werd tijdens het Simplicity event het concept 'Living Scenes' gepresenteerd. Living Scenes gaf weer hoe verlichting in een hotelkamer een andere dimensie kreeg. De verlichting werd naar eigen gevoel en wens geregeld door een hotelgast. Op deze manier kunnen …

Business Process Management (BPM) and supporting BPM-systems are increasingly implemented within organizations and supply chains. However a common accepted definition of the BPM-concept is omitted and the same is true for the competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes) that project members need during …

Nowadays the interest in Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is rising enormously. There are a lot of software developers and consultancy firms that are jumping to the occasion and are selling Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) that are based on these concepts …

This paper lays the groundwork for building a communication model that will help cultivate communities of practice through the use of strategic communications. Theoretical models describing communities of practice in organizational knowledge generation typically have three main actors; the individual, …

Within a short space of time, the Internet has had an enormous influence on our society and it has only taken e-mail five years to become an intensively used communications medium. The general trend for information and communications technology is that it is becoming smaller, faster, smarter, more accepted, …