Diffusing Software Product and Process Innovations

Preface. Message from the General Chair. Telling an Innovation Story; E. Burton Swanson. Part I: Implementation and Coordination Issues. A Web Innovations on Software Process-Center for Diffusing Techniques; C. Freericks. (BLANCK PURPER) Diffusion and Adoption of IT Products and Processes in a Danish Bank; J. Pries-Heje, S. Tryde. Part II: New Interpretations of Diffusion Theory. The Phenomenon of Diffusion; T.J. Larsen. A Perspective of the Innovation-Diffusion Process from the Self-Organizing System; T. Mitsufuji. The Illusion of Diffusion in Information Systems Research; T. McMaster. Part III: Software Process. Understanding and Changing Software Organizations; K.H. Kautz, H. Westergaard Hansen, K. Thaysen. Diagnosing Diffusion Practices Within a Software Organization; I. Andersson, K. Nilsson. Part IV: Contextual Factors. The Diffusion of Components; R. Veryard. Across the Divide: Two Organisations Form a Virtual Team and Codevelop a Product; L. Levine, G. Syzdek. What's Wrong with the Diffusion of Innovation Theory? K. Lyytinen, J. Damsgaard. Part V: Communication of Information. Influences of Sources of Communication on Adoption of a Communication Technology; W.D. Stuart, T. Callawat Russo, H.E. Sypher, T.E. Simons, L.K. Hallberg. Knowledge Creation in Improving a Software Organisation; P. Pourkomeyluian. Part VI: Experience Reports. How To Live With Software Problems; K.J. Jeppesen. Introducing Concurrent Functional Programming in the Telecommunications Industry; B. Dacker. Change and Adaptive Behavior in Organizations; A.P. Jansma. In Search of an Efficient EDIcebreaker; H. Zinner Henriksen. Process Definition in Web-Time; A.S. Koch.