An intelligent, user-sensitive portal to breast cancer knowledge online. Research indicates dissatisfaction with the quality of information provision amongst women with breast cancer and their families, particularly in rural and regional areas. Information and decision-support needs vary depending on disease stage, education, age, location, and ethnicity. Customised, in-time information access is critically important to BreastCare Victoria and the Breast Cancer Action Group as it impacts signifi ....An intelligent, user-sensitive portal to breast cancer knowledge online. Research indicates dissatisfaction with the quality of information provision amongst women with breast cancer and their families, particularly in rural and regional areas. Information and decision-support needs vary depending on disease stage, education, age, location, and ethnicity. Customised, in-time information access is critically important to BreastCare Victoria and the Breast Cancer Action Group as it impacts significantly on health and life-style decisions. This joint project analyses user needs, assesses and describes resources in user-sensitive ways, and designs and prototypes an intelligent portal that provides differentiated access to breast cancer resources online. It also advances general understandings of intelligent information provision.
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Smart Information Portals: Meeting knowledge and decision support needs of health care consumers for quality online information. Smart information portals, tailored to the communities needs, will contribute to emerging national information infrastructure for consumer focused information provision. They will support government initiatives promoting the role of online access to reliable, quality information in achieving good health, patient empowerment, participation in informed decision making, s ....Smart Information Portals: Meeting knowledge and decision support needs of health care consumers for quality online information. Smart information portals, tailored to the communities needs, will contribute to emerging national information infrastructure for consumer focused information provision. They will support government initiatives promoting the role of online access to reliable, quality information in achieving good health, patient empowerment, participation in informed decision making, self-management, and greater treatment compliance. Through the National Research Priority 3 goal of smart information use, the project addresses Priority 2 goals relating to ageing well; ageing productively; preventive health care; and strengthening the social and economic fabric to enable Australians to make choices that lead to healthy, productive and fulfilling lives.Read moreRead less
Competing on Business Analytics. Business analytics can provide Australian organisations with a means to gain competitive advantage in the face of increasing global competition. By using the Business Analytics Success Model, Australian organisations will be able to understand better how to gain competitive advantage with business analytics. The model is an original contribution in an important area of information systems research and will contribute to university teaching and research training. ....Competing on Business Analytics. Business analytics can provide Australian organisations with a means to gain competitive advantage in the face of increasing global competition. By using the Business Analytics Success Model, Australian organisations will be able to understand better how to gain competitive advantage with business analytics. The model is an original contribution in an important area of information systems research and will contribute to university teaching and research training. The empirical data and rigorous research protocols will enhance Australia's reputation as a leader in the area of organisational use of business-analytic systems.Read moreRead less
Succeeding with Enterprise Architecture Service Provision in Australian Organisations. This project aims to develop, test and refine an innovative model that explains how and why Australian organisations achieve benefits with enterprise architecture services. Enterprise architecture services involve the provision of relevant and timely advice about future IT systems, databases and digitised processes to strategic IT decision-makers. The model will enable Australian organisations to better unders ....Succeeding with Enterprise Architecture Service Provision in Australian Organisations. This project aims to develop, test and refine an innovative model that explains how and why Australian organisations achieve benefits with enterprise architecture services. Enterprise architecture services involve the provision of relevant and timely advice about future IT systems, databases and digitised processes to strategic IT decision-makers. The model will enable Australian organisations to better understand the capabilities required to achieve success with enterprise architecture services, the outcomes that can be achieved and the benefits realised. This will help Australian organisations to make more effective strategic investments in IT and remain globally competitive.Read moreRead less
Information Health Monitor: An Instrument to Assess the Product and Service Quality of Information. Information quality problems are widespread in practice and have significant economic impacts. This project will refine and extend a rigorous theoretical framework for understanding information quality and develop and validate the Information Health Monitor, an instrument for assessing the quality of information within organisations. Existing approaches to information quality are mostly not rigoro ....Information Health Monitor: An Instrument to Assess the Product and Service Quality of Information. Information quality problems are widespread in practice and have significant economic impacts. This project will refine and extend a rigorous theoretical framework for understanding information quality and develop and validate the Information Health Monitor, an instrument for assessing the quality of information within organisations. Existing approaches to information quality are mostly not rigorously defined and view information as a product. This work is significant and innovative as it is soundly based in existing theory, rigorously defined and views information as both a product and service. The instrument will enable organisations to better identify and address their information quality problems.Read moreRead less
Managing IT Service Provision and Sourcing in Australia, 2010-2019. Commoditization of IT and increasing globalization mean that the best ways to organize IT service provision in Australian organizations are changing rapidly. By studying the way IT is managed in 12 large Australian organizations over three years (2007-9), the primary benefit expected for this study is that we will be able to offer sound advice to Australian Chief Information Officers on the best ways to structure and manage IT ....Managing IT Service Provision and Sourcing in Australia, 2010-2019. Commoditization of IT and increasing globalization mean that the best ways to organize IT service provision in Australian organizations are changing rapidly. By studying the way IT is managed in 12 large Australian organizations over three years (2007-9), the primary benefit expected for this study is that we will be able to offer sound advice to Australian Chief Information Officers on the best ways to structure and manage IT service provision in Australian organizations. As a secondary benefit, we will be able to offer advice to students, on careers in IT, and to Information Systems Departments in Australian universities, on desirable curriculum content for the next decade.Read moreRead less
Comparative analysis and exploration of collections of data clusterings. Data clustering is an important technique for extracting knowledge from complex datasets. It is widely used by Australian science, government and industry, in areas such as genomics, proteomics, crime analysis, marketing and customer profiling. This project will develop new techniques that will allow users to explore and analyse collections of data clusterings. This will improve the current generation of clustering softw ....Comparative analysis and exploration of collections of data clusterings. Data clustering is an important technique for extracting knowledge from complex datasets. It is widely used by Australian science, government and industry, in areas such as genomics, proteomics, crime analysis, marketing and customer profiling. This project will develop new techniques that will allow users to explore and analyse collections of data clusterings. This will improve the current generation of clustering software and allow deeper investigation of challenging and complex data.
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Testing the Big Bets Theory of strategic IT decision making. This project will test a new theory of strategic IT decision making called the Big-Bets theory. If confirmed, senior decision makers will have grounds for requesting more evidence-based decision making for major IT projects such as the Australian Government's IT outsourcing initiative, Telstra's Siebel-based CRM, and Victoria's Myki.
Developing Robust Mobile Middleware for Large Scale Distributed On-line Applications. Existing electronic commerce have shown profound limitations when dealing with key issues related to electronic commerce applications, such as data interoperability, mobility and performance. The aim of this project is to understand the complexity of the underlying problems related to electronic commerce applications, and to subsequently produce a robust and efficient infrastructure to support them. It is sig ....Developing Robust Mobile Middleware for Large Scale Distributed On-line Applications. Existing electronic commerce have shown profound limitations when dealing with key issues related to electronic commerce applications, such as data interoperability, mobility and performance. The aim of this project is to understand the complexity of the underlying problems related to electronic commerce applications, and to subsequently produce a robust and efficient infrastructure to support them. It is significant because it is expected to automate most of the tedious and complex activities of on-line transactions. The main outcome will be a set of techniques and programs that will form the basis of the commercial software, with a significant export potential.Read moreRead less
The Impact of Strategy on Business Analytics Success. The successful implementation of business analytics systems will enhance the ability of Australian organisations to operate and compete efficiently and effectively within Australia and globally. By understanding the capabilities that lead to improved firm performance and their relationship to strategy, organisations can use the theoretical model to plan for business analytics systems implementation. The model is an original contribution in an ....The Impact of Strategy on Business Analytics Success. The successful implementation of business analytics systems will enhance the ability of Australian organisations to operate and compete efficiently and effectively within Australia and globally. By understanding the capabilities that lead to improved firm performance and their relationship to strategy, organisations can use the theoretical model to plan for business analytics systems implementation. The model is an original contribution in an important area of information systems research and will enhance Australia's reputation as a leader in the area of organizational use of information systems.Read moreRead less