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Information Technology (IT) solutions have become a critical enabling tool in businesses and communities. As a result, organisations invest heavily in technology solutions to transform businesses. Motivated by rapid technological advancements, there have been radical changes in IT infrastructure management, IT applications, and IT services delivery. The recent COVID-19 pandemic also encouraged the rapid adoption of technology solutions. However, despite numerous prescriptive models and 'best practice frameworks' available in the field, and an increased uptake of ITG in organisations, achieving key ITG outcomes is consistently ranked as one of the top concerns of management. After establishing a theoretical foundation for effective ITG practices (via literature review), this study begins a pilot examination to determine if tech deployment failure can be attributed to poor ITG. © 2022 Authors. All rights reserved.
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Organisations continue to make significant investments in enabling business via Information Technology (IT). To ensure a return on investment in IT and the relevance and value of tech deployment, there is a need for a broader accountability focus on strategic technology initiatives alongside a structured and evaluative approach to the effective governance of IT. Ongoing changes in tech development and emerging technologies have broadened the role of IT as an enabler. Moreover, businesses and communities expect to see value from tech deployment in shorter time spans. The emergence of the C forced organisations in all sectors to deploy technology to minimise contact and implement lockdown regulations. However, some organisations were challenged with a lack of preparedness of employees and infrastructure needs to cope with tech deployment in a short time. Overall, the fast-paced developments of emerging technologies alongside the pandemic signals a need for effective IT or technology deployment governance. Systems, processes, standards, and best practice frameworks have been developed to facilitate effective IT governance throughout the last decade. However, a large number of IT initiatives fail to deliver. This chapter, motivated by recent developments (including the emerging tech and COVID-19), discusses the role of effective IT governance in successful IT deployment. Overall, the systematic literature review followed by the analysis of several failed IT deployment cases studies demonstrated a strong connection between failed tech adoption projects and poor governance practices. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.
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RNA therapeutics have taken a center stage during the pandemic, due to the successful development and launch of two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (by Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech). Although there are already multiple commercially successful RNA drugs for the treatment of orphan indications, this is the first time that RNA therapies unlock their commercial value in mass population. With the backdrop of massive capital and interest flooding into the field of RNA therapeutics, many companies began to expand their orphan-indication-centered RNA therapeutic portfolio into common diseases. In this article, we calculated the success rate of publicly available RNA therapeutic pipelines at each development stage as well as their likelihood of approval (LOA). We found those targeting common diseases have a much lower LOA rate when compared with pipelines targeting rare diseases (5.8% vs. 23.8%). Consequently, we discussed the underlying challenges and potential opportunities for RNA therapeutics moving from rare to common diseases.Copyright © 2022 Authors. All rights reserved.
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RNA therapeutics have taken a center stage during the pandemic, due to the successful development and launch of two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (by Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech). Although there are already multiple commercially successful RNA drugs for the treatment of orphan indications, this is the first time that RNA therapies unlock their commercial value in mass population. With the backdrop of massive capital and interest flooding into the field of RNA therapeutics, many companies began to expand their orphan-indication-centered RNA therapeutic portfolio into common diseases. In this article, we calculated the success rate of publicly available RNA therapeutic pipelines at each development stage as well as their likelihood of approval (LOA). We found those targeting common diseases have a much lower LOA rate when compared with pipelines targeting rare diseases (5.8% vs. 23.8%). Consequently, we discussed the underlying challenges and potential opportunities for RNA therapeutics moving from rare to common diseases. Copyright © 2022 Authors. All rights reserved.
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"NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION'' The emergency of protecting people from COVID-19 pandemic accelerated Technology development and Applications in various field. Technology became a part and parcel in one's life. Information technology played a vital role in diagnosing, medicating, communicating, and scaling down COVID-19. COVID -19 pandemic became uphill battle for the scholars, scientists, researchers of Information technology, medicine, health care system, education, economy of every country. The immediate necessity for new applications and technology in grappling pandemic situation instituted sophisticated software, medical devices, and applications. COVID- 19 made up people mind for future pandemic. This article further discusses about how Technology Development and Applications became a solution to COVID-19 pandemic. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.
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With the recent pandemic due to COVID-19 and several other uncertain events (due to human error or natural disaster), designing and implementation of Business Continuity Plan (BCP) has become a vital part of any organization. The organizations must prepare in advance and identify all possible uncertain events which may cause hindrance in their services. They must also access the consequences due to such events, which helps them devise such a plan that their operations do not pause even in such a disaster. This research explores the possibilities and finds a standard set of steps that must be taken care of while designing, testing, and implementing BCP. In this research paper, a systematic literature review has been performed on a previous research paper in the area of Business Continuity Plan to explore various options that an organization may adopt during a disaster. The studies were of moderate quality and had a low chance of being skewed by publishing prejudice. Subgroup analyses were not possible due to the heterogeneity of outcome tests, follow-up durations, and research forms. The new research should be used to help create and evaluate executive training strategies that facilitate long-term adaptive coping with PSP and reduce PT-SIs. The aim of this systematic review and metanalysis is to assess PSP coping effects over time. The number of patients born with congenital heart disease need to be monitored for the rest of their lives. Discontinuity of treatment, on the other hand, is a well-known issue that tends to be worsening at the time of transition to adulthood.
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Due to the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, more older people are exposed to Information Technology(IT) in their daily lives. However, due to the lack of digital literacy capabilities of the elderly, it is difficult to use digital devices, making it difficult to live. Therefore, this paper outlined the impact of the digital divide on daily life and the ability of the elderly to use digital information. Through this, we propose an educational program that combines IT and humanities to improve digital literacy in the elderly. IT and humanities do not seem to match, but the convergence of the two is essential. Hardware and software, technology and technology, technology and design are being combined. Accordingly, technology and humanities can combine competency is becoming more critical. Therefore, the educational program proposed in this thesis combines a decision tree with a game and allows the elderly to acquire IT knowledge while playing a game naturally. This educational program was conducted for 23 older adults in their 60s in J city, South Korea. The average satisfaction of the study participants in education was 4.13(±0.65). In addition, the post-test mean of the recognition area in digital literacy was 3.02(±0.64) (p<.05), and the post-test mean of the behavior area in digital literacy was 3.67(±0.59) (p<.01), which was statistically significant compared to the pre-test. © 2022 Sciedu Press. All Rights Reserved.
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We theoretically and empirically examine how acquiring new skills and increased financial worries influenced entrepreneurship entry and exit intentions during the pandemic. To that end, we analyze primary individual-level survey data we collected in the aftermath of the COVID-19's first wave in Russia, which has had one of the highest COVID-19 infection rates globally. Our results show that acquiring new skills during the pandemic helped owners keep their existing businesses and encouraged start-ups in sectors other than information technology (IT). For IT start-ups, having previous experience matters more than new skills. While the pandemic-driven financial worries are associated with business closure intentions, they also inspire new business start-ups, highlighting the pandemic's creative destruction power. Furthermore, preferences for formal employment and remote work also matter for entrepreneurial intentions. Our findings enhance the understanding of entrepreneurship formation and closure in a time of adversity and suggest that implementing entrepreneurship training and upskilling policies during recurring waves of the COVID-19 pandemic can be an important policy tool for innovative small business development.
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This is evident that covid-19 has a devastating effect on businesses and employees worldwide. As we are slowly moving toward retrieval, it is very clear that the business and the way of doing work will change forever in the new normal phase. The experience of Covid-19 has drastically fastened the organization’s digital transformation. Thus, the purpose of our study is to explore the impact of AI-enabled work culture on employees’ satisfaction level post-pandemic. Companies now focus more on data-driven strategies and decision-making, which seems critical today for their business survival and success tomorrow. Few people may argue that technology has always been a part of an organization’s work culture then;what is new? Moreover, the answer will be the overnight shift of work on-site to work from home, leading to a drastic change in the work culture. The situation caused due to covid-19 has forced the employees and organizations to rely fully on technology, which had made the organizations adopt the use of technology as it was never. Organizations today are investing more in digitalization and automation to secure their business ventures in these shifting dynamics. However, how will AI change the dynamics of future work? As the digitalization and use of technology have evolved, AI development has increased the fear of losing their jobs in people’s minds influencing their work satisfaction. Therefore, our paper aims to study the impact of artificial intelligence on the work culture and its effect on employees’ work satisfaction. Moreover, the paper also discusses the related gap found in the skillset of employees and managers to work on AI and other related technologies during the pandemic and the probable solutions. The responses of 150 employees were collected, and the results have concluded that AI-enabled work culture will significantly impact the employees’ work satisfaction post-covid-19. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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It is inevitable that the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 is here, businesses are digitalizing their processes especially under the uncertainty inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic to stay competitive. However, businesses and governing agencies soon realizes the potential pitfall of excessive digitalization without addressing the security aspect of it with the sharp rise of cybersecurity incidents. Consequently, the area of cybersecurity management (CM) has been identified as one key area that can help businesses enjoy the full benefits of modern technology. Despite this, it is observed that not all business owners are convinced of the importance of cybersecurity management. This paper proposes a framework through the theoretical lens of Dynamic Capability View (DCV) and the Agency Theory to study what impact CM has on a firm's performance, providing a foundation for more in-depth study on the matter for practical and academic purpose. © 2021 IEEE.
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Aim/Purpose This study collects empirical evidence to investigate the extent to which high school teachers adopted the tablet computer in their instruction within the context of the Tablet Project in Kuwait and explores what drove their adoption behavior. Background The role of information technology in education is prominent and takes different forms depending on the purpose of information technology adoption and the adopted information technology systems. To utilize emerging technology in education in Kuwait, the government launched an initiative to integrate the tablet computer into high school education during the 2015-2016 academic year. Three years later, some evidence doubting the project's value had had been circulated, which motivated undertaking a thorough investigation to assess the project's effectiveness, particularly from the teachers' perspectives and its influential factors. Methodology We adapted an expanded Technology Acceptance Model to assess the extent of high school teachers' use of the system in their teaching practice and to examine the effects of teaching efficacy, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness on that use behavior. To test the research hypotheses, a data set was collected from 206 teachers and analyzed using the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) method. Contribution Our empirically derived results confirm the scanty information that was in circulation at the time of this study and that claimed that the Tablet Project was not progressing sufficiently or achieving its objectives. These results could guide future efforts aimed at effectively integrating information technology into high school education in Kuwait and at enhancing the ongoing online education necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. They also advise that effective integration of information technology into teaching and learning mandates a comprehensive redesign and digitization of the targeted educational system. Findings Although teachers report minimal use of the system in teaching, teaching efficacy emerges as the strongest determinant of that use behavior, followed by perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness. The fitted model also has satisfactory explanatory power as it explains 43% of the variance in use behavior. Recommendations for Practitioners The results of this study suggest that, in the public schools of Kuwait, teaching efficacy is a more important determinant of the use behavior of information technology in teaching than perceived ease of use or perceived usefulness. In addition, it is difficult to adopt information technology into teaching where there is inadequate awareness of the role of technology in e-learning, a lack of content modules fit for information technology-assisted teaching, poor Internet connections, a lack of technical support, and a lack of adequate professional and technical training. Recommendations for Researchers This study offers significant empirical results from the Arabian milieu on the utility of the Technology Acceptance Model in elucidating public high school teachers' adoption of the tablet computer in teaching practice. Our results also enhance the growing global body of knowledge on the integration of hedonic systems as well as their individual and contextual determinants in education, in general, and in teaching practice, in particular. Furthermore, teaching efficacy is an important determinant of teachers' adoption of information technology in teaching. Impact on Society Information technology augments traditional, face-to-face teaching and learning in societies by incorporating rich, online learning experiences and creating a motivating and efficient learning environment. Yet, the value of information technology-enabled education depends significantly on the successful integration of the systems into the educational process, and the results of this study could serve as a foundation for policies and plans aimed at successfully integrating information technology into the educational systems in Kuwait and similar societies. Future Research The results and limitations of this study suggest several future research topics. Future research should explore the extent of students' adoption of the tablet computer in learning activities and its important determinants to gain a better understanding of the Kuwaiti Tablet Project initiative. In addition, future research should employ other research methods (e.g., qualitative analysis), use samples from private schools' teachers, and incorporate and test other possible determinants of teachers' adoption of information technology in teaching to verify the validity and generalizability of the reported results.
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By Asian digital economy, we refer to high-tech developments, business and social transformations, and information-driven changes in the region's growth. We discuss its background and foundations, significance in Asia and contribution to removal of historical barriers in traditional business. We assess how new value chains are transforming country-level involvement in worldwide manufacturing and note "smiling curve theory" predictions about the global value chain in Asia for high-tech firms and their economies. The takeaway is that the digital economy in Asian nations involves revamping business processes through technology innovation, government policies for growth, and digital entrepreneurship. We analyze the "digital economy and society index", and attributes of nations, societies and economies, as a basis for framing our ideas. We consider research directions prompted by data analytics and AI, the platform economy, digital trade, fintech innovation, and societal and economic sustainability. We further highlight new issues in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.