Executive Information Systems Research Articles

Serious incidents after death: content analysis of incidents reported to a national database.

Objectives To describe serious incidents occurring in the management of patient remains after their death. Design Incidents occurring after patient deaths were analysed using content analysis to determine what happened, why it happened and the outcome. Setting The Strategic Executive Information System database of serious incidents requiring investigation occurring in the National Health Service in England. Participants All cases describing an incident that occurred following death, regardless of the age of the patient. Main outcome measures The nature of the incident, the underlying cause or causes of the incident and the outcome of the incident. Results One hundred and thirty-two incidents were analysed; these related to the storage, management or disposal of deceased patient remains. Fifty-four incidents concerned problems with the storage of bodies or body parts. Forty-three incidents concerned problems with the management of bodies, including 25 errors in postmortem examination, or postmortems on the wrong body. Thirty-one incidents related to the disposal of bodies, 25 bodies were released from the mortuary to undertakers in error; of these, nine were buried or cremated by the wrong family. The reported underlying causes were similar to those known to be associated with safety incidents occurring before death and included weaknesses in or failures to follow protocol and procedure, poor communication and informal working practices. Conclusions Serious incidents in the management of deceased patient remains have significant implications for families, hospitals and the health service more broadly. Safe mortuary care may be improved by applying lessons learned from existing patient safety work.

Replication, refinement & reachability: complexity in dynamic condition-response graphs

We explore the complexity of reachability and run-time refinement under safety and liveness constraints in event-based process models. Our study is framed in the DCR $$^\star $$ process language, which supports modular specification through a compositional operational semantics. DCR $$^\star $$ encompasses the “Dynamic Condition Response (DCR) graphs” declarative process model for analysis, execution and safe run-time refinement of process-aware information systems; including replication of sub-processes. We prove that event-reachability and refinement are np-hard for DCR $$^\star $$ processes without replication, and that these finite state processes recognise exactly the languages that are the union of a regular and an $$\omega $$ -regular language. Moreover, we prove that event-reachability and refinement are undecidable in general for DCR $$^\star $$ processes with replication and local events, and we provide a tractable approximation for refinement. A prototype implementation of the DCR $$^\star $$ language is available at http://dcr.tools/acta16 .

A Literature Review of Factors Influencing Implementation of Management Information Systems in Organizations

A proper implementation of Management Information Systems (MIS) can improve an organization's performance, productivity, and work efficiently. Three factors are vital in the successful implementation of MIS. These are organization factors, technology factors and management factors. There are several other factors but these three are the most important ones according to observation. All other factors can be incorporated into these three factors. These three main factors work in an integrated and coordinated way. There are several other important sub-factors in each of these three areas. These are also discussed in this paper. Management Information Systems (MIS) play a vital role in decision-making process. Managers can improve their decision-making process with the successful execution of Information Systems. Our main goal in this paper is to determine the factors and make discussions on them. How they affect in the successful implementation of MIS is also discussed here.

Key issues of information systems management in Botswana

Studies on key issues in information systems (IS) management aim at finding out critical IS issues that are of concern to IS executives and business leaders. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the key IS management issues in Botswana. A questionnaire was administered to collect data from information systems professionals working from the level of a programmer and above. A simple average was used to rank the key factors while factor analysis was carried out to determine the major groups of key issues in IS management. The results of simple average calculation showed that an information system security is the key management issue in Botswana. The results of factor analysis showed that the classification of key issues of IS management put forward by Niederman et al. (1991) has continued to change with new issues such as mobile applications and ecommerce showing up strongly and information systems security becoming a group in its own right. The findings continue to show that the key issues of IS management tend to differ across space and time. Culture and level of economic development are some of the factors which can make key issues differ from one country to another.

Impact of Information Systems on Innovation (Product Innovation, Process Innovation) - Field Study on the Housing Bank in Jordon

The use and activation of information systems is now considered an important measure of the extent of organizations growth and progress. Thus, many of organizations accelerated and rushed today to find, develop and benefit from such systems to achieve its objectives. Perhaps the successive technological developments have made access to information quickly and easily, especially in light of the low costs of obtaining and using such systems; and to meet the needs of organizations and support performing the administrative functions therein. The aim of the study was to demonstrate the effect of management information system (TPS, MIS, DSS, ESS) on innovation (Product and process). The study population consisted of the Housing Bank branches in Irbid Governorate in all senior, middle and lower administrative levels. Sample was taken from all employees in the branches of the Housing Bank in Irbid Governorat. Approximately 160 questionnaires were distributed. About 152 questionnaires were retrieved. About 13 questionnaires were excluded due to non-validity of the statistical analysis, so that the questionnaires valid for analysis would become 139 questionnaires to form the percentage of (91%). The study reached to conclusion of, Existence of positive significant correlation between each of the management information system, decision support system, Executive Information Systems and innovation (product and process). Lack of positive correlation between the Transaction Processing Systems and innovation (product and process). The researcher recommended, focusing on the use of decision support systems for the nature of the data which can be provided, as it depends on the internal and external data systems, which assist the organization in studying and analyzing the internal position of the organization that is reflected on its external position which contributes to increase its competitiveness through discovering new services and products increase the satisfaction of the customer’s desire.

Comparative Analysis of Weighted Emphirical Optimization Algorithm and Lazy Classification Algorithms

Health care has millions of centric data to discover the essential data is more important. In data mining the discovery of hidden information can be more innovative and useful for much necessity constraint in the field of forecasting, patient’s behavior, executive information system, e-governance the data mining tools and technique play a vital role. In Parkinson health care domain the hidden concept predicts the possibility of likelihood of the disease and also ensures the important feature attribute. The explicit patterns are converted to implicit by applying various algorithms i.e., association, clustering, classification to arrive at the full potential of the medical data. In this research work Parkinson dataset have been used with different classifiers to estimate the accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, kappa and roc characteristics.

Pembangunan Sistem Informasi Eksekutif Visualisasi Perencanaan Strategis Umkm Di Kota Cimahi

Department of cooperatives and small micro enterprises Cimahi is one of the technical services that manage and exploit all the economic potential in the city of Cimahi either in the form of potential human resources and other resources through the empowerment of cooperatives Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. Related to the process, there are some constraints in terms of data collection UMKM as a whole, one of them in terms of administrative data collection strategic planning. The process of making strategic planning carried out by UMKM. The process of making such a factor of success in the running of UMKM for a period of 5 to 10 years based on the reference contained in the strategic planning documents, the data renstra an UMKM that are not integrated with each other because dozens of UMKM in services with likely make difficulties in its management services. This study aims to establish an executive information system visualization for the preparation of strategic planning to facilitate the process of making strategic planning for UMKM Cimahi which can be integrated with the service cooperative UMKM, microfinance institutions and other related institutions

Using or Not Using Business Intelligence and Big Data for Strategic Management: An Empirical Study Based on Interviews with Executives in Various Sectors

Abstract Information Technology being an inevitable part of our lives changes the way of doing business every five or eight years. This known as technological cycle. The technology we use today becomes obsolete in several years’ time and managers have to adapt themselves to new systems and new management styles. When big data is so big and important, its usage for business planning and decision making is getting more crucial as well. Business Intelligence tools or Executive Information Systems are improving their ability with the help of the Big Data available. Executives may use the merits of new systems when they make their decisions easily and more accurately as subordinates do when they use computers for daily business operations. Today's software systems can help the top management with making long term business decisions as much as they can with tactical and operational activities. However, it is difficult to say that those tools are being used by the top managements as they should be. Executives avoid using them for different purposes. They may not refuse them but might simply think it is not the right time to depend on such a system when they make business plans. In this study ten interviews have been conducted with the top executives of the firms which are doing business in various sectors. The executives talked about how or how much they use Executive Information Systems when they make decisions. The findings of the study partly cover expectations or anticipations of the authors.

Review of never and serious events related to dentistry 2005-2014.

Aims To review never and serious events related to dentistry between 2005-2014 in England.Methods Data from the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), with agreed data protection and intelligence governance, was used - snapshot view using the timeframe January 2005 to May 2014. The Strategic Executive Information System (STEIS) database was reported separately for 2012-2013 and 2013-2014. The free text elements from the database were analysed thematically and reclassified according to the nature of the patient safety incident (PSI).Results From the NRLS dataset, 32,263 patient safety events were reported between 1 January 2005 and 30 May 2014. Never events (NEs) from STEIS files were all wrong site extractions (WSS), reported separately for 2012-2013 and 2013-2014. The total number was 43.36 of the 43 PSIs were WSS involving: multiple extractions and bimodal age distribution (very young or over 60 years). Forty-seven percent of never events resulted in no harm, 20% low harm, 7% moderate harm, less than 1% severe harm and 23 deaths over this period (five of which were not related to dentistry). Serious harm and death risk factors included: care in an acute trust ward, peri oncological, reconstructive surgery (OMFS), patient age over 67 years with concurrent medical complexity (Ischaemic heart disease). Sixty percent of PSIs occurred in OS/OMFS in acute trust inpatients and 20% in primary care. From STEIS 2012-2013, 21 WSS were reported of which 50% occurred in oral surgery (OS) or oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS). The reported sites were 45% in operating theatre and 42% in dental surgery.Conclusion Incidences of iatrogenic harm to dental patients do occur but their reporting is not widely carried out. Improved awareness and training, simplifying the reporting systems improved non-punitive support by regulators would allow the improvement of patient safety in dental practise.

Executive Information System Modelling to Monitor Indonesian Criminal Rate

Similar to any other governments, Indonesia government has the role of protecting the security of its citizens via the established police unit. However, the executive unit is often unable to provide response in timely manner due to the huge data size. For the reason, an executive information system (EIS) is established in order to provide necessary information to leverage the decision making process. This work intends to establish and evaluate the executive information system and its support to facilitate the efforts to fight crimes in Indonesia territory. The EIS prototype is established and is evaluated on the basis of the six information system success factors where the required data are collected by means of questionnaire. The results suggest that the factors of system quality, information quality, easy-of-use, user satisfaction, and individual and organization impacts are very significant.

Executive Information System Modelling to Monitor Indonesian Criminal Rate

Similar to any other governments, Indonesia government has the role of protecting the security of its citizens via the established police unit. However, the executive unit is often unable to provide response in timely manner due to the huge data size. For the reason, an executive information system (EIS) is established in order to provide necessary information to leverage the decision making process. This work intends to establish and evaluate the executive information system and its support to facilitate the efforts to fight crimes in Indonesia territory. The EIS prototype is established and is evaluated on the basis of the six information system success factors where the required data are collected by means of questionnaire. The results suggest that the factors of system quality, information quality, easy-of-use, user satisfaction, and individual and organization impacts are very significant.

Aplikasi Business Intelligence Dashboard sebagai Alat Monitoring dan Bahan Pengambilan Keputusan Sales and Account Receivable

Information and data are the important assets for a company. To process data into useful information and getting to be knowledge in the decision making process at management level, there are so many companies which have difficulties, including PT XYZ which was engaging in the production of agricultural materials. PT XYZ had the difficulties in monitoring process and decision-making process related to its main business, sales and account receivable. Business Intelligence dashboard could be the best solution to overcome these problems. This research discusses related design, construction and implementation of business intelligence solutions dashboard starting from the architecture business intelligence, data warehouse in form of a data mart, ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading) process are useful for generating the quality of data, and visualization in the form of dashboard that would represent key business process with XYZ company. The method used in the development of business intelligence dashboard refers to the six-step method of executive information system that is of the justification, planning, business analysis, design, construction, deployment that would generate digital dashboard for level management. The result is a website application consisting of three digital dashboards that become visualization tools to display the information and knowledge needed in the monitoring process and become material to produce decisions related to sales and receivables. The BI solutions that are developed are in line with expectations and can meet the business needs of PT XYZ.

Aplikasi Business Intelligence Dashboard sebagai Alat Monitoring dan Bahan Pengambilan Keputusan Sales and Account Receivable

Information and data are the important assets for a company. To process data into useful information and getting to be knowledge in the decision making process at management level, there are so many companies which have difficulties, including PT XYZ which was engaging in the production of agricultural materials. PT XYZ had the difficulties in monitoring process and decision-making process related to its main business, sales and account receivable. Business Intelligence dashboard could be the best solution to overcome these problems. This research discusses related design, construction and implementation of business intelligence solutions dashboard starting from the architecture business intelligence, data warehouse in form of a data mart, ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading) process are useful for generating the quality of data, and visualization in the form of dashboard that would represent key business process with XYZ company. The method used in the development of business intelligence dashboard refers to the six-step method of executive information system that is of the justification, planning, business analysis, design, construction, deployment that would generate digital dashboard for level management. The result is a website application consisting of three digital dashboards that become visualization tools to display the information and knowledge needed in the monitoring process and become material to produce decisions related to sales and receivables. The BI solutions that are developed are in line with expectations and can meet the business needs of PT XYZ.

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) Practices In Health Care Sectors Of Bangladesh

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) has been a topic of considerable importance and interest to Information Systems (IS) professionals since the 1970's and consistently ranked as a top issue for IS executives in both developed and developing countries. Studies have shown that SISP can assist manager in defining the information systems, develop IS strategy, and allocate resources for IS strategy. However, the use of SISP in healthcare sectors in developing countries like Bangladesh is underdeveloped and under-researched. This study examined the benefits of SISP in healthcare organization in developing countries in general and Bangladesh in particular. This study also focused on the current practice and key implementation challenges of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) in healthcare sectors in developing and transitional economies. Finally, some recommendations are proposed to overcome the challenges using a ‘hybrid’ approach.

Pressure ulcer and wounds reporting in NHS hospitals in England part 1: Audit of monitoring systems

Internationally, health-care systems have attempted to assess the scale of and demonstrate improvement in patient harms. Pressure ulcer (PU) monitoring systems have been introduced across NHS in-patient facilities in England, including the Safety Thermometer (STh) (prevalence), Incident Reporting Systems (IRS) and the Strategic Executive Information System (STEIS) for serious incidents. This is the first of two related papers considering PU monitoring systems across NHS in-patient facilities in England and focusses on a Wound Audit (PUWA) to assess the accuracy of these systems. Part 2 of this work and recommendations are reported pp *-*.The PUWA was undertaken in line with ‘gold-standard’ PU prevalence methods in a stratified random sample of NHS Trusts; 24/34 (72.7%) invited NHS Trusts participated, from which 121 randomly selected wards and 2239 patients agreed to participate. Prevalence of existing PUsThe PUWA identified 160 (7.1%) patients with an existing PU, compared to 105 (4.7%) on STh. STh had a weighted sensitivity of 48.2% (95%CI 35.4%–56.7%) and weighted specificity of 99.0% (95%CI 98.99%–99.01%). Existing/healed PUsThe PUWA identified 189 (8.4%) patients with an existing/healed PU compared to 135 (6.0%) on IRS. IRS had an unweighted sensitivity of 53.4% (95%CI 46.3%–60.4%) and unweighted specificity of 98.3% (95%CI 97.7%–98.8%). 83 patients had one or more potentially serious PU on PUWA and 8 (9.6%) of these patients were reported on STEIS.The results identified high levels of under-reporting for all systems and highlighted data capture challenges, including the use of clinical staff to inform national monitoring systems and the completeness of clinical records for PUs.

The roots of executive information system development risks

Context: Executive information systems (EIS) are valuable tools that enable executives to formulate and execute strategic decisions in their organizations. However, implementation of an EIS is complex and laden with numerous risks.Objective: We apply the socio-technical model (STM) to propose a framework of risks for the development and implementation of an EIS. Such a framework may serve to guide risk management strategies and procedures beyond current practices.Method: To assess, and better understand, the risks associated with implementing an EIS, interviews were conducted with the employees of three principle stakeholders of a taxation EIS. The interviews centered on the detailed experiences of the participants applying and working with EIS projects at their respective organizations.Results: Content analysis of the interviews confirmed an ability to designate risks to both the project and the product of development through dimensions of task, actor, structure and technology as well as the fit between each combination. The result adds credence to the model for purposes of risk management in the development of an EIS.Conclusion: Executive information systems play an integral role in business decision making. The successful construction and implementation of an EIS are reliant upon a clear understanding of the appropriate technology to be used, the end-user accessing the system, and the tasks executed. The STM is a useful tool for the identification of risks in the creation of an EIS. Further work should consider the extendability to other systems and its compatibility with development approaches.

Measuring organizational impacts by integrating competitive intelligence into executive information system

Despite the progress that has been achieved using modern methods of decision support, competitive intelligence is one of the most economical methods of instrument for executive information system with a relatively high rate of effectiveness. The objectives of this study are (1) to investigate the conception of competitive intelligence and the furtherance of competitive intelligence on the executive information system stage; (2) to form an innovative structural equation modelling for executive information system through the perspectives of competitive intelligence; (3) to examine the influences of competitive intelligence on executive information system and organizational performances. Questionnaire survey methodology was applied to receive data from executives in Taiwan. The process, the product of competitive intelligence, and organizational performances were observed as three considerable axles in this investigation. The results reveal testimony that competitive intelligence is positively related to organizational performances, indicating that competitive intelligence does influence the behavior of decision-making both of enterprise executives and the entire organization. The findings of this study disclose that integrating competitive intelligence activities exert a complete function on executive information system for enterprise executives.

From Innovative I.S. Strategy to Customer Value

While information systems (IS) have traditionally been used primarily for firm-wide operational efficiency, emerging theoretical perspectives have shifted scholarly focus to IS as a force that can drive value through business innovation. This study examines how IS strategy creates customer value through an innovative business orientation and how IS leadership and the organizational context can influence the relationship between innovative IS and business strategies. Integrating several research streams under the umbrella of the IS strategic management literature, we develop and empirically validate a research model based on confirmatory analysis and structural equation modeling applied to survey data collected from senior IS executives in 165 organizations based in the United States and India. Our results suggest that organizations that have an innovative IS strategy are well positioned to engage in business innovation, which in turn yields greater customer value. Furthermore, we find that strong IS leadership and a creative organizational climate enhance the relationship between an innovative IS strategy and innovative business orientation.

CIO/CTO Job Roles: An Emerging Organizational Model

The position of Chief Information Systems Officer (CIO) has become a daunting job due to the myriad of business and technical responsibilities assigned to the organization’s top information systems (IS) executive. CIOs are being asked to successfully ensure the firm’s IS investments are continually aligned with its strategic business objectives, while also planning and maintaining an IT infrastructure that will meet the firm’s current and future information processing needs. Many CIOs are finding it extremely difficult to balance the two key roles of technician and businessperson successfully. Many business experts that have analyzed this problem have concluded that the tasks and responsibilities assigned to a typical CIO may be too overwhelming for a single person. This paper advances a formal organizational structure in which the typical responsibilities of the CIO position are “re-allocated” to two IS executives – the CIO and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). This paper also describes which responsibilities should be retained by the CIO and which responsibilities should be delegated to the CTO. Finally, a discussion of the challenges and benefits associated with the implementation of CIO/CTO organizational leadership structure is presented.

Development of Performance Dashboards in Healthcare Sector: Key Practical Issues.

Background:Static nature of performance reporting systems in health care sector has resulted in inconsistent, incomparable, time consuming, and static performance reports that are not able to transparently reflect a round picture of performance and effectively support healthcare managers’ decision makings. So, the healthcare sector needs interactive performance management tools such as performance dashboards to measure, monitor, and manage performance more effectively. The aim of this article was to identify key issues that need to be addressed for developing high-quality performance dashboards in healthcare sector.Methods:A literature review was established to search electronic research databases, e-journals collections, and printed journals, books, dissertations, and theses for relevant articles. The search strategy interchangeably used the terms of “dashboard”, “performance measurement system”, and “executive information system” with the term of “design” combined with operator “AND”. Search results (n=250) were adjusted for duplications, screened based on their abstract relevancy and full-text availability (n=147) and then assessed for eligibility (n=40). Eligible articles were included if they had explicitly focused on dashboards, performance measurement systems or executive information systems design. Finally, 28 relevant articles included in the study.Results:Creating high-quality performance dashboards requires addressing both performance measurement and executive information systems design issues. Covering these two fields, identified contents were categorized to four main domains: KPIs development, Data Sources and data generation, Integration of dashboards to source systems, and Information presentation issues.Conclusion:This study implies the main steps to develop dashboards for the purpose of performance management. Performance dashboards developed on performance measurement and executive information systems principles and supported by proper back-end infrastructure will result in creation of dynamic reports that help healthcare managers to consistently measure the performance, continuously detect outliers, deeply analyze causes of poor performance, and effectively plan for the future.