Suchergebnisse

Purpose
Organizations worldwide are adopting software as a service (SaaS) applications, where they pay a subscription fee to gain access rather than buying the software. The extant models on software acquisition processes, several of which are based on organizational buying behavior, do not sufficiently explain how SaaS application acquisition decisions are made. This study aims to investigate the acquisition process organizations follow for SaaS software, the changes to the roles of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the business user and also looks at the impact of SaaS on the proliferation of unauthorized software systems.


Design/methodology/approach
The authors used exploratory research using the grounded theory approach based on 18 in-depth interviews conducted with respondents who have studied with enterprise software delivered on-premise and as SaaS in different roles such as sales, consulting, CIO, information technology (IT) management and product development.


Findings
The authors identified a need to classify the SaaS software and developed a framework that uses software specificity and its strategic importance to the organization to classify SaaS applications. The aforementioned framework is used to explain how software evaluation processes have changed for different kinds of SaaS applications. The authors also found that the CIO's and the business users' have changed substantially in SaaS application evaluations and found evidence to show that shadow IT will be restricted to some classes of SaaS applications.


Originality/value
By focusing on the changes to the roles and responsibilities of the members of the buying center, this paper provides unique insights into how the acquisition process of SaaS is different from the extant models used to explain enterprise software acquisitions. An understanding of how information search is conducted by the business users will help software vendors to target business users better.

Background  Twenty six young people with intellectual disabilities and mental health needs from Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities were recruited as part of a bigger study to examine the effectiveness of a liaison worker in helping young people and their families access appropriate intellectual disabilities and mental health services.Method  Twelve young people were randomly allocated to the treatment group, which had the help of the liaison worker, and 14 young people were allocated to the control group without the help of a liaison worker. Baseline measures were undertaken with all the young people and their carers. This was followed by a 9‐month trial, consisting of the liaison worker helping the treatment group to get in touch with and take up appropriate services, mainly in the areas of psychiatric appointments, benefits advice, house adaptations, leisure facilities and support and care for the young person. The control group participants did not have the access to the liaison worker and were accessing services using the normal routine. Assessments were carried out post‐treatment to assess whether the use of a liaison worker had had any effect on outcomes for the two groups.Results  Twelve young people completed the study in the treatment group and 14 in the control group. Participants allocated to the specialist liaison worker had statistically significantly more frequent contact with services and with more outcomes, than the control group, and significantly lower scores on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ).Conclusion  The use of specialist liaison services in ensuring adequate access to services for young people with learning disabilities and mental health needs from the South Asian community proved to be significant and effective compared with young people and their families accessing services on their own.

Intro -- Foreword -- Advance Praise -- Preface -- Contents -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- 1.1…Organization of the Book -- 1.2…How to Read this Book -- 1.3…IM's Lethality: A Summary -- 1.4…IM's Principal Areas of Operation -- 1.5…Summary of IM Behavioral Model -- 1.6…Policies Against the Indian Mujahideen -- 1.6.1 Increased Vigilance When India--Pakistan Diplomatic Relations Warm -- 1.6.2 Monitor Conferences Organized by the Indian Mujahideen -- 1.6.3 Monitor IM Rhetoric About Their Terror Campaign and Claims of Responsibility by IM -- 1.6.4 Monitor Internal Conflict Inside India -- 1.6.5 Increased Vigilance After Arrests of IM Personnel -- 1.7…Conclusion -- References -- 2 Indian Mujahideen -- Abstract -- 2.1…Emergence and History of Indian Mujahideen -- 2.1.1 Jamaat-e-Islami, the Parent Organization -- 2.1.2 JeI After the Partition -- 2.2…The Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) -- 2.2.1 The Establishment and Early Years of SIMI -- 2.2.2 Rise in Communal Tensions -- 2.2.3 SIMI Radicalizes -- 2.2.4 SIMI Banned -- 2.3…Growth of Islamist Militias in India -- 2.3.1 Al-Umma -- 2.3.2 Gujarat Muslim Revenge Force -- 2.3.3 Asif Reza Commando Force -- 2.3.4 The Hyderabad Connection -- 2.4…Indian Mujahideen: A Jihadi Hybrid -- 2.4.1 The Gujarat Riots and Establishment of Indian Mujahideen -- 2.4.2 Public Emergence of Indian Mujahideen -- 2.4.3 Crackdown and Continuing Operations -- 2.5…Organizational Overview -- 2.5.1 Structure and Finance -- 2.5.2 Areas of Operation -- 2.5.3 Membership -- 2.5.4 Tactics and Training -- 2.6…IM's Links to Other Organizations -- 2.6.1 IM and SIMI -- 2.6.2 IM and Pakistan -- 2.7…Conclusion -- References -- 3 Temporal Probabilistic Behavior Rules -- Abstract -- 3.1…Database Schema -- 3.2…TP-Rule Syntax -- 3.3…SOMA-Rules -- 3.4…Extracting SOMA-Rules Automatically -- 3.5…Automatically Extracting TP-Rules.

INTRODUCTION: The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act (MHA) in England and Wales confirmed increasing levels of compulsory detentions, especially for racialised communities. This research aims to: (a) understand the causes of and propose preventive opportunities to reduce the disproportionate use of the MHA, (b) use an adapted form of experience-based codesign (EBCD) to facilitate system-wide changes and (c) foreground the voices of service users at risk of detention to radically reform policy and implement new legislation to ensure the principles of equity are retained. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This is a qualitative study, using a comparative case study design. This study is composed of five work packages; photovoice workshops will be conducted in eight local systems with service users and healthcare professionals separately (WP1); a series of three EBCD workshops in each local system to develop approaches that reduce detentions and improve the experience of people from racialised communities. This will inform a comparative analysis and national knowledge exchange workshop (WP2); an evaluation led by the patient and public involvement group to better understand what it is like for people to participate in photovoice, codesign and participatory research (WP3); an economic evaluation (WP4) and dissemination strategy (WP5). The impact of the involvement of patients and public will be independently evaluated. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This study is sponsored by the University of Oxford and granted ethical approval from the NHS Research Ethics Committee and Health Research Authority (21/SC/0204). The outputs from this study will be shared through several local and national channels.

Introduction The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act (MHA) in England and Wales confirmed increasing levels of compulsory detentions, especially for racialised communities. This research aims to: (a) understand the causes of and propose preventive opportunities to reduce the disproportionate use of the MHA, (b) use an adapted form of experience-based codesign (EBCD) to facilitate system-wide changes and (c) foreground the voices of service users at risk of detention to radically reform policy and implement new legislation to ensure the principles of equity are retained. Methods and analysis This is a qualitative study, using a comparative case study design. This study is composed of five work packages; photovoice workshops will be conducted in eight local systems with service users and healthcare professionals separately (WP1); a series of three EBCD workshops in each local system to develop approaches that reduce detentions and improve the experience of people from racialised communities. This will inform a comparative analysis and national knowledge exchange workshop (WP2); an evaluation led by the patient and public involvement group to better understand what it is like for people to participate in photovoice, codesign and participatory research (WP3); an economic evaluation (WP4) and dissemination strategy (WP5). The impact of the involvement of patients and public will be independently evaluated. Ethics and dissemination This study is sponsored by the University of Oxford and granted ethical approval from the NHS Research Ethics Committee and Health Research Authority (21/SC/0204). The outputs from this study will be shared through several local and national channels.

In 1985 the French government created a unique circuit for the dissemination of doctoral theses: References went to a national database "Téléthèses" whereas the documents were distributed to the university libraries in microform. In the era of the electronic document this French network of deposit of and access to doctoral theses is changing. How do you discover and locate a French thesis today, how do you get hold of a paper copy and how do you access the full electronic text? What are the catalogues and databases referencing theses since the disappearance of "Téléthèses"? Where are the archives, and are they open? What is the legal environment that rules the emerging structures and tools? This paper presents national plans on referencing and archiving doctoral theses coordinated by the government as well as some initiatives for creating full text archives. These initiatives come from universities as well as from research institutions and learned societies. "Téléthèses" records have been integrated in a union catalogue of French university libraries SUDOC. University of Lyon-2 and INSA Lyon developed procedures and tools covering the entire production chain from writing to the final access in an archive: "Cyberthèses" and "Cither". The CNRS Centre for Direct Scientific Communication at Lyon (CCSD) maintains an archive ("TEL") with about 2000 theses in all disciplines. Another repository for theses in engineering, economics and management called "Pastel" is proposed by the Paris Institute of Technology (ParisTech), a consortium of 10 engineering and commercial schools of the Paris region.