Advances in Information Systems Research, Education and Practice: Ifip 20th World Computer Congress, Tc 8, Information Systems, September 7-10, 2008, (Hardcover, 2008)

Information Systems Education.- The Practical Relevance of IT Education: Skill Requirements and Education Expectations of Practitioners.- Challenges of Professionalization: Bridging Research and Practice through a Body of Knowledge for IT Specialists.- Mapping Research Questions to Research Methods.- Keynote.- Reflections on 50 Years of Computing: Impact of Professionalism on Teaching, Practice and Research.- New Perspectives on Information Systems Development.- Advances in Information Systems Development: From Discipline and Predictability to Agility and Improvisation.- The Emergence of Partnership Networks in the Enterprise Application Development Industry: A Global Corporation Perspective.- Challenges of Consumer Information Systems Development: The Case of Interactive Television Services.- Defining, Modeling and Diffusing IS Projects.- Improving diffusion of Information Technology in communities in a developing world context.- 'Driving' IS projects.- Bridging the Gap Between Service-Oriented and Object-Oriented Architectures in Information Systems Development.- Keynote.- The IFIP International Professional Practice Partnership.- Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence.- Requirements Elicitation in Data Mining for Business Intelligence Projects.- Social Networks and KMS Use in US IT Services.- Realizing the Value of Business Intelligence.- Applications and Emerging Technologies.- An RFID Adoption Framework: A Container Supply Chain Analysis.- Adoption of Service Oriented Computing from the IT Professionals' Perspective: An e-Government Case Study.- of a Public Sector e-Procurement Solution: Lessons Learned from Disappointing Adoption.