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2024-03-28T17:46:01ZReasonable accommodations and the ADA: The impact of technology
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12164/135
Title: Reasonable accommodations and the ADA: The impact of technology
Authors: Roberts, Thomas G.; Betts, Stephen C.; Huzey, Dennis
Abstract: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for disabled employees. The law has not been changed significantly in more than two decades and the requirement for reasonable accommodations has remained the same. However the interpretation of what constitutes reasonable accommodations has evolved considerably. Many technologies have developed that have drastically changed the workplace in general and the types of accommodations that can be made. This paper will explore some of the changes in technology that have impacted the idea of reasonable accommodations. The paper starts with an overview of the ADA. It continues with an exploration of how technology had raised the bar. An argument is made that everyone benefits from the new enabling technology. Potential problems and groups left behind as technology changes the workplace is discussed next. The paper ends with some recommendations for practitioners and researchers.2014-01-01T00:00:00ZLearning the hard way vs. vicarious learning: Post crisis learning for small business
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12164/134
Title: Learning the hard way vs. vicarious learning: Post crisis learning for small business
Authors: Huzey, Dennis; Betts, Stephen C.; Vicari, Vincent
Abstract: Crisis management is a critical responsibility for all organizations. Regardless of the size of the organization, it is essential to address three general phases - pre-crisis planning, management and recovery during and immediately after the crisis and learning and adjustment recovery after the crisis. Entrepreneurial concerns and small businesses, however, differ from larger, more established businesses in the mechanisms for avoidance and/or reacting to crises, specific types of crises they may face and the disproportionate effect crises has on them, and the ways in which they learn and adjust after a crisis. This paper explores the critical phase of learning from crisis through a small business/ entrepreneurial lens. The authors propose a five step process to recover from crisis and prepare for the future that emphasizes learning not only from your own experience and the external environment, but from other businesses that faced challenges during the crisis.2014-01-01T00:00:00ZStrategic Directions for Big Data Analytics in E-Commerce with Machine Learning and Tactical Synopses: Propositions for Intelligence Based Strategic Information Modeling (SIM)
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12164/133
Title: Strategic Directions for Big Data Analytics in E-Commerce with Machine Learning and Tactical Synopses: Propositions for Intelligence Based Strategic Information Modeling (SIM)
Authors: Samuel, Jim; Kashyap, Rajiv; Betts, Stephen
Abstract: E-commerce has seen tremendous growth in big data and the continued acceleration in growth of information facets. There has been a significant scaling up of information quantity, granularity, complexity, equivocality and variety. Data analytics tools and techniques (DATT) such as machine learning and artificial intelligence have been widely leveraged to gain competitive advantage and such resources are readily available. However, there has been a lack of clarity surrounding, what we term as 'strategic information modeling' (SIM). Our research presents propositions to provide contextual clarity to the rapidly expanding Big Data environment and also an articulation of the emerging informational challenges in e-commerce. Our analysis provides insights into the potential role of SIM and SIM generated competitive advantages and concludes with e-commerce relevant propositions for an optimal path towards SIM and machine learning.2018-01-01T00:00:00ZA Conceptual Investigation: Towards an Integrative Perspective of Risks in Information Systems Development & Usage
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12164/131
Title: A Conceptual Investigation: Towards an Integrative Perspective of Risks in Information Systems Development & Usage
Authors: Samuel, Jim
Abstract: A review of existing literature in academia and in profession, along with real cases, reveals a fragmented approach to risk identification and management in information systems development and usage (ISDU). Such a disjointed approach to risk management fails to consider critical threat components and under evaluates the maximum potential risks involved in a situation. The present study argues that ISDU Risks need to be expansively identified and perceived in an integrative manner. The views generally exercised by IS researcher's, within the limited attention provided to risk, are segmented and microscopic with no defined risk ecosystem to place them in . So also, practitioner groups have been individualistically producing IS artifacts for risk mitigation with a primary purpose of creating significant ROI, adding to fragmented perspectives on ISDU risks. We observe significantly high failure rates for IS projects, in spite of the claims of the application of highly advanced risk management models. In any domain, the presence of an abnormally high rate of failure would imply an absence of successful risk management and imply that not all significant risks have been accounted for. The present study identifies various cross-domain risk measures and risk constructs with macro-level relevance to the ISDU ecosystem. Based on literature review and observational reflections, a taxonomy for the classification of types of risks is presented. The present paper is an attempt at expanding the portfolio of risk concepts associated with ISDU and posits an early stage high-level integrative risk perception framework that will represent various cross-domain measures and dimensions of risk in an integrative manner. This theoretical contribution and its continued development is expected to initiate additional scholarly work on integrative perspectives on risks and new dimensions of risks associated with IS, open up a new stream of risk-related research in IS and lead to the development of enhanced risk management models.
Description: In the Proceedings of the 8th Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA '13), June 4-5, 2013, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY. https://www.albany.edu/iasymposium/proceedings.2013.shtml2013-01-01T00:00:00Z