Recent reviews of DSS research have indicated a need to improve its quality and relevance. Design science has an important role to play in this improvement as this research strategy can engage industry and the profession in intellectually important projects. DSS has a long history of design...

As part of a research programme on key information systems (IS) management issues, a survey of Australasia? s largest organizations was conducted to identify which issues were perceived by their chief executive officers (CEOs) as being important, problematic and critical over the next 3 5 years....

The past decade has seen explosive growth in offshore Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) to India by US and European firms. However, Australian firms have been slower to take advantage of this trend. Offshore outsourcing by Australian firms is an under-researched area with little in the way of...

Substantial national and international resources have been invested in the research and development of a number of health information models, eg. the National Health Information Model (NHIM), the NSW Health Community Health Information Model (CHIM), the American Joint Working Group for a Common...

Decision-making is fundamental to organizational functioning. As much of the decision making, which occurs within organizations, involved groups of people working together, there has been a growth in research based on Group Decision Support systems (GDSS). Decision Conferencing is a form of...

In modern organisations a large portion of senior management's time is now being spent on finding ways to measure the contribution of the organisation's IS/IT investments to business performance It has been shown that IS/IT investments in many organisations are huge and increasing rapidly every...

Information Systems/Information Technology (IS/IT) has now become an integral part of all organisations.Ironically, although there has been a lot of research undertaken in IS/IT strategic planning, little has been doneto understand the actual relationship between IS/IT investment and...

This article presents preliminary results of research into the relationship between IS/ITinvestment and organisational performance in the Financial Services Sector (FSS). Thisresults presented in this paper are from the first case in a series of six separate cases withinthe Australian FSS. Case...

This study surveys the perceptions and experiences of Australian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the implementation of Internet-based Electronic Commerce (EC) as seen from the perspective of the extent of deployment. With a sample of 115 small businesses in Australia, this article...