Smart Technology Applications in Business Environments (Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics) - Hardcover

Issa, Tomayess; Kommers, Piet; Issa, Theodora; Isaias, Pedro; Issa, Touma B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1522524924 ISBN 13: 9781522524922

Publisher: Business Science Reference, 2017

Synopsis

"This book covers topics in relation to the journey of Smart technology and ICT: Smart Technology Applications, Smart Technology Risks, Smart Technology and Businesses, Smart Technology and Design, Smart Technology and Sustainability, Smart Technology and Green IT. This book will assist the Business sector with Smart Technology adoption, since these tools will improve job performance and productivity"--

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About the Author

Dr. Tomayess Issa is a senior lecturer at the School of Information Systems at Curtin University, Australia. Tomayess completed her doctoral research in Web development and Human Factors. As an academic, she is also interested in establishing teaching methods and styles to enhance the students learning experiences and resolve problems that students face. Tomayess Issa is a Project leader in the International research network (IRNet-EU (Jan2014 Dec 2017)) to study and develop new tools and methods for advanced pedagogical science in the field of ICT instruments, e-learning and intercultural competences and she is a senior research member of ISRLAb (Information Society Research Lab) from International Association for Development of the Information Society.

Piet Kommers focused his teaching and research on the topic Media, Education and Communication. His study Pedagogy and School Education at the University of Utrecht was dedicated to find out how learning dialogues can be made adaptive to the actual state in the learner's mind. The University of Utrecht offered Piet Kommers the appointment of junior researcher at the topic of ""Small group learning through collaborative problem solving"". During the episode 1982-2015 Piet Kommers was appointed by the University of Twente that made him elaborate further research into educational technology, new media like hypertext, concept mapping and virtual spaces for surgical training. Fontys University for Applied Sciences welcomed his part-time position as professor at the aspect of ""Didactic Integration of ICT"" (2003-2005). In this function he conveyed teacher trainers in the new media prospects like mobile- and networked learning. He is Associate- en Executive Editor of the respective journals International Journal of Continuous Engineering Education and Life-long Learning and the International Journal for Web-based Communities.

Theodora Issa is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at Curtin University. She has published and continues to publish research work on business ethics, sustainability, technology, social media, corporate social responsibility, and higher education. Currently, Theodora is conducting her post-doctoral research on ethical mindsets, spirituality and aesthetics and currently working on a manuscript for a book on Ethical Mindsets: A Comparative Study for publication with Springer, Switzerland. Theodora is an Associate Editor, and a member of editorial committees of international journals and a member of organising committees of international conferences, also a reviewer of journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics.

Pedro Isaías is an associate professor at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Previously he was associate professor at the Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University) in Lisbon, Portugal, responsible for several courses and director of the master degree program in Management / MBA. He holds a PhD in Information Management (in the specialty of information and decision systems) from the New University of Lisbon. At the moment he conducts research activity related to E-Commerce and E-Business, E-Learning, Information Systems in general, and WWW related areas.

Touma B. Issa holds Ph.D. from Murdoch University, Western Australia. He is an Adjunct Research Associate at Murdoch University. He has an over twenty-five years experience in academia and industry in chemistry. His research interests include: analytical chemistry particularly relating to atmospheric pollution, electrochemistry as applied to batteries where he was involved in planning and conducting research and development activities to optimize the smart flow battery chemistry technologies, surface modified electrodes, waste water purification and remediation of ground drinking water.

Edition details

• Publisher: Business Science Reference
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1522524924
• ISBN 13: 9781522524922
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 429