Recently heightened competition resulting from market deregulation and increased regulatory compliance requirements have demanded greater accountability for decision making in engineering asset management (EAM) organisations. However, the siloed information structure and fragmented business...

Much of IS literature suggests that various factors play pivotal roles in the implementation of an information system; however, there has been little empirical research about the factors impacting the implementation of business intelligence (BI) systems, particularly in engineering asset...

Engineering asset management processes rely heavily on input of data and also produce a large amount of data. Many asset management organisations need to manage their data for a long period of time (e.g. Water supply pipelines data will be kept for more than 100 years in utility companies). Due...

Engineering asset management organisations (EAMOs) are increasingly motivated to implement business intelligence (BI) systems in response to dispersed information environments and compliance requirements. However, the implementation of a business intelligence (BI) system is a complex undertaking...

Over the last decade, system integration has grown in popularity as it allows organisations to streamline business processes. Traditionally, system integration has been conducted through point-to-point solutions – as a new integration scenario requirement arises, a custom solution is built...

An asset registry arguably forms the core system that needs to be in place before other systems can operate or interoperate. Most systems have rudimentary asset registry functionality that store assets, relationships, or characteristics, and this leads to different asset management systems...

[Abstract]: Agile methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP) have emerged as a major thrust in the computer software development arena. Almost contemporaneously, an organisational theory highly aligned with the values of agile methodologies has mutated from the ‘restructuring’ paradigm....

In the digital information age, every organisation employs information systems to help it achieve its strategic objectives. These information systems will be used by users with their own specific roles and to make decision. Typically, the information within an organisation doubles every 18...

Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2007.

The implementation of a business intelligence (BI) system is a complex undertaking requiring considerable resources. Yet there is a limited authoritative set of critical success factors (CSFs) for management reference because the BI market has been driven mainly by the IT industry and vendors....