The Impact Of Business Intelligence Systems on an Organization’s Effectiveness: The Role of Metadata Quality From a Developing Country’S View

ABSTRACT

Business Intelligence (BI) systems are extensively used by large hotels in Jordan; however their effectiveness has not yet been researched. The aim of this research is to explore the relationships among definitional metadata quality, data quality metadata quality, navigational metadata quality, lineage metadata quality, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and system effectiveness in enhancing organizational effectiveness of five star hotels in Aqaba, Jordan. To test the research hypotheses, 225 usable responses containing 37 items were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) and a Machine Learning technique. Results suggest that organizational effectiveness was directly and positively affected by perceived usefulness and BI systems effectiveness. Nevertheless, perceived usefulness did not impact BI systems effectiveness.     

How intelligent is Watson? Enabling digital transformation through artificial intelligence

Due to its intrinsic characteristics, artificial intelligence (AI) can be considered a general-purpose technology (GPT) in the digital era. Most studies in the field focus on the ex-post recognition and classification of GPT but in this article, we look at a GPT design ex-ante by reviewing the extreme and inspiring example of IBM’s Watson. Our objective is to shed light on how companies can create value through AI. In particular, our longitudinal case study highlights the strategic decisions IBM took to create value in two dimensions: internal development and external collaborations. We offer relevant implications for practitioners and academics eager to know more about AI in the digital world.     

The role of metaphors in the development of technologies. The case of the artificial intelligence

Technology plays a prominent role in configuring the way we live and work. In this paper we go further and think that it is a first level driver in the configuration of our deepest perceptions and has a paramount influence on shaping our worldviews and metaphors, though this aspect goes unnoticed for most of the population.In this paper we analyze how metaphors take action in the characterization of technologies, mainly emerging technologies, and in their evolution, and furthermore the impact of technologies and metaphors on the way we perceive our daily life. We analyze metaphors underlying brain nature and artificial intelligence, raising the connections between them and showing how metaphors in one of these fields impact on the way we understand the other. This fact has important consequences, for instance it conditions the evolution of computational systems, and we propose two scenarios for this evolution.This paper relies on the conceptual model and classification of metaphors proposed by Lakoff and Johnson in “Metaphors we live by”, from the orientational metaphors that show values and mantras, to the deepest structural metaphors that are reconfiguring how life is conceived. It also relies on CLA (Causal Layered Analysis) and to its reference book “CLA 2.0” in order to insert this analysis in a wider and future oriented framework and to analyze scenarios.     

谈柳州市竞争情报网络与应用经验分析

柳州市作为广西工业重镇,企业众多,但由于竞争情报意识不强,专门担任此工作的人才不足,更没有专门工作机构,有些企业甚至没有基础信息资源。柳州市科学技术情报研究所开展从咨询服务到竞争情报服务能力创新,加强竞争情报信息资源的建设、整合、传播和应用,引导企业把竞争情报视为一种需要长期积累和系统的工程来操作,推动柳州市科技创新与区域联合,开创柳州市科技情报事业新局面。     

浅谈未来人机界面的发展趋势

本文是针对当前人机界面的设计发展趋势做出的一个探讨和研究，通过对于人机界面理论和实际应用过程中的一些有力的论据，得到了关于人机界面未来发展趋势的可行性分析，并提出了多元化的发展思路。     

财商教育:大学生素质教育不可或缺的组成部分

市场经济要求大学生必须必备较高的财商,然而,财商教育的缺失使得当代大学生的财商水平整体低下,高校必须重视财商教育在大学生素质教育中的重要作用。     

组织竞争力的“4Q”模型分析

在新技术新知识层出不穷的时代,组织只有通过挖掘自身多方面的潜力和不断的向外界学习来应对来自各方面的压力,并以此来提升自己的整体智慧最终达到提升综合实力和竞争力的目的。分析组织竞争力的“4Q”模型,阐述组织智商、组织情商、组织心商和组织健商对提高组织综合竞争力的作用,使组织竞争力的途径得以升华。     

Multi-agent interaction processes: From oligopoly theory to decentralized artificial intelligence

This article examines the group processes studied in oligopoly theory and in decentralized artificial intelligence. We develop a unifying perspective for the research on the behavior of autonomous interacting agents. Among the many questions of interest in these disciplines are the ways of creating and reaching cooperation by a group of self-interested independent decentralized agents. In this respect, the models and results of oligopoly theory can also be used both in decentralized artificial intelligence and in many other areas of research, such as group decision making, negotiation support, and organizational theory. In particular, the important idea of reshaping goals with strategic information sharing and transmission—incentive communication—has received little attention outside the field of economics. On the other hand, oligopoly theory and experimental economics can especially benefit from the computational methods and tools of artificial intelligence and modern decision support technology. To demonstrate this we have built a prototype of an experimental market analysis environment. Its potential in the analysis of group processes is illustrated with examples.     

关于智能多媒体教学软件的研究

计算机多媒体辅助教学软件信息量大,操作简捷,易于突出教学重点和突破教学难点,且课件携带、修改方便,易于保存,利用率高;但也存在一些不足,交互能力差,网络功能差,因材施教能力差等,因此,应把计算机多媒体技术与人工智能技术相结合设计智能多媒体教学软件.     

情绪智力与工作绩效关系的研究综述

文章对近年来情绪智力与工作绩效关系的研究进行了回顾和总结,依据组织中不同层次的工作绩效的划分,综述了情绪智力与管理者工作绩效、员工工作绩效、团队工作绩效的关系,并指出了未来研究的五个方向：对情绪智力定义与结构的研究、情绪智力与关系绩效关系的研究、情绪智力影响工作绩效机理的研究、情绪智力与工作绩效关系的实证研究、情绪智力与工作绩效关系研究的本土化问题。