Purpose – This paper examines application lifecycle management (ALM) and how it can benefit the outsourcing of application development. Design/methodology/approach – This is a viewpoint paper. Findings – ALM products address the critical development needs of developers, IT managers, and...

Purpose – The paper's purpose is to review the growth of computer supported valuation models and the increased access via information technology to property data in the world of property taxation. The paper aims to stimulate debate on what the short/medium term future may hold. Is there room...

Purpose – The paper examines how e‐HR has improved human‐resource (HR) management at telecommunications company KPN. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents the views of the company's manager of HR systems and information provision on the benefits HR Charter software has...

Purpose – This research intends to establish a model integrating the related theories in strategy management and competency in the HRM field, and to develop a systematic tool that can help a company quickly and precisely identify its core competency. Design/methodology/approach – An internal...

Purpose – Aims to develop a robotic platform to autonomously track a moving object Design/methodology/approach – This robotic platform, based on a modular system known as SafeBot, uses two sensors: a visual CCD camera and a laser‐based range sensor. The rigidly mounted camera tracks an...

Purpose – To provide an integrated architecture framework for e‐government that represents the alignment of IT infrastructure with business process management in public sector organisations and classify the barriers that might complicate the implementation of the proposed architecture...

Purpose – Highlights the importance of research and development to orthopedics company Zimmer. Design/methodology/approach – Reports information gathered during the author's visit to a Zimmer plant in Winterthur, near Zurich, Switzerland, and a presentation to journalists by Richard...

Purpose – Computer assisted audit techniques (CAATs) encompass a range of computerized techniques that internal and external auditors use to facilitate their audit objectives. One of the most important CAATs is generalized audit software (GAS), which is a class of packaged software that allows...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review recent developments in educational informatics relating to the provision by information systems of pedagogical support to web‐based learners, and to propose further investigation of the feasibility and potential value of web‐based...

Purpose – To present the state of the arts application of semantic web technologies in web portals and corresponding achievable improvements for identifying the potential improvement made by semantic web technology. Design/methodology/approach – An evaluation scheme is proposed to...