scholarly journals The Information Systems Academic Discipline in New Zealand

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Lehmann ◽  
Sid L. Huff
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Academic Discipline

Towards Private-Public Research Partnerships Combining Rigor and Relevance in DWH/BI Research

2012 ◽  
pp. 163-175
Author(s):  
Anne Cleven ◽  
Robert Winter ◽  
Felix Wortmann
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Data Warehousing ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Two Sides

Business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DWH) research represent two increasingly popular, but still emerging fields in the information systems (IS) academic discipline. As such, they raise two substantial questions: Firstly, “how rigorous, i.e., fundamental, constituent, and explanatory, is DWH BI research?” and, secondly, “how relevant, i.e., useful and purposeful, is this research to practitioners?” In this article, the authors uphold the position that relevance and rigor are by no means dichotomous, but two sides of the same coin. Naturally, this requires well-defined approaches and guidelines—for scholarship in general and DWH/BI research in particular. Therefore, this paper proposes the competence center (CC) approach—a private-public partnership between academia and practice. The authors illustrate how the CC approach can be applied within the field of DWH/BI and suggest that a close link between research and practice supports both enhancing relevance to practice and strengthening rigor of research.

Cultural Differences, Information and Code Systems

2006 ◽  
pp. 51-71
Author(s):  
Brian J. Corbitt ◽  
Konrad J. Peszynski ◽  
Saranond Inthanond ◽  
Byron Hill
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Structural Framework ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
And Behavior

This paper explores an alternative way of framing information systems research on the role and impact of national culture. It argues that the widely accepted structural framework of Hofstede reduces interpretation to a simplistic categorical description which in many cases ignores differentiation within cultures. The alternative model suggests, that national culture can be better understood by seeking out the dominant codes that frame the discourse pervasive in a culture and understanding how that discourse affects the obvious social codes of ritual, custom and behavior and the textual codes which express the nature of that culture. This framework is applied to two different case studies — one in New Zealand and one in Thailand — to demonstrate its applicability.

Implementing computerised school information systems: Case studies from New Zealand

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.J.Patrick Nolan ◽  
Deborah A. Ayres ◽  
Sandy Dunn ◽  
David H. McKinnon
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Case Studies

Regional Network Analysis of Primary-Industry Truck Traffic on Public Roads in New Zealand by Using Geographic Information Systems

2003 ◽  
Vol 1819 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Dairy Industry ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Regional Network ◽  
Truck Traffic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Logging Truck

Industrial forestry activities in New Zealand are now in a phase of unprecedented growth: the annual cut will double from 18 million m3 to well over 30 million m3 a year during the next 5 years. Given that most of the wood is taken from forest to mill or port by road in New Zealand, including a portion of the trip on public highways, the impacts of the doubling in logging truck traffic will be significant and severe. New Zealand’s roads have, for the most part, thin-sealed, unbound pavements. New Zealand’s second-largest industrial sector is tourism. Pavements and tourists will feel the impact of the looming increase in logging truck traffic unless steps are taken to anticipate the changes in traffic volumes and patterns. There is the complicating factor that the dairy industry too is now expanding rapidly with associated increases in raw milk tanker traffic. There is some friction between the forest industry and the dairy industry over which will be responsible for the increased strengthening, rehabilitation, and maintenance of roads. Research is under way to use regional network analysis and geographic information systems to predict the increases in heavy-truck traffic and changes in its distribution on public roads. This is the first step toward devising measures to mitigate the impacts and is a precursor to the implementation of pavement management. A unique opportunity exists in southern New Zealand: cooperation between forest operators and government agencies in the Otago and Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand on large-scale projects, providing the environment needed to examine such large, landscape-scale problems.

scholarly journals Where Do IT Staff Position Themselves: A Case Study Exploring Common Ground

10.28945/2604 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Fielden
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Poster Session ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Professional Affiliation ◽  
The Core

This paper describes a qualitative participatory research project conducted at the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications Conference in New Zealand (NACCQ2002). Data was gathered at a dynamic poster session. Results obtained indicated that majority of computing academics in the polytechnic community in New Zealand regard themselves as teaching in the core overlapping areas of Software Engineering, Computer Science and Information Systems, regardless of their professional affiliation. Most participants taught subjects that lay within the Information Systems area; very few positioned themselves in the exclusively Computer Science or Software Engineering areas, or in the ove r-lap between Software Engineering and Computer. Results from this research are discussed in the paper.

scholarly journals Driving farm performance using information systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 109-112
Author(s):  
C. Isaacs ◽  
T.A. White
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
System Integration ◽  
Red Meat ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Management Software ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
System A ◽  
Information Chain ◽  
Farm Performance

FarmIQ Systems Limited was established as a Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) between the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), the meat processor Silver Fern Farms and Landcorp Farming Limited. FarmIQ aims to create a truly integrated value and information chain for red meat from product back to farm. The major output of this partnership is the FarmIQ System ‒ farm management software developed in New Zealand for New Zealand farmers. Hill country farmers have historically been at a disadvantage compared to their lowland counterparts in terms of the ease of quantifying farm performance. The FarmIQ System is a cloudbased tool that addresses these challenges of scale and isolation. It allows all types of red meat farmers to plan, communicate, record, analyse and report information about land, feed and animals easily and accurately. Keywords: FarmIQ System, integration, better decisions

scholarly journals An Investigation into Organisational Learning by Public Officials Creating and Maintaining Multi-Channel Service Delivery Information Systems in the New Zealand Public Sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Allan John Sylvester
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Organisational Learning ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Service Delivery Systems ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Channel Service

<p>Public sector organisations in New Zealand increasingly use multi-channel service delivery strategies to achieve better, faster and cheaper services to citizens. Within these organisations, public sector officials envision, define and implement complex service delivery information systems. This study examines the organisational learning mechanisms that those officials use. This provides a deeper insight into the role that organisational learning plays in multi-channel service delivery systems definition in the context of the New Zealand Public Sector. A constructionist multiple-case study was undertaken with twenty nine officials from six public sector agencies that explores and characterises the learning mechanisms and knowledge transfer mechanisms that they use to understand and deliver services via physical and virtual channels. In addition, the research led to the development of a candidate conceptual model that integrates organisational learning, information systems and the unique organisational aspects of public sector service delivery.</p>

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