Refine
Departments, institutes and facilities
Document Type
- Article (2)
- Conference Object (2)
- Part of a Book (1)
Language
- English (5) (remove)
Has Fulltext
- no (5)
Keywords
- Management (5) (remove)
IT-accessiblity is often treated as an orphan in companies. Even though the proportion of disabled people is substantial and people become older and more susceptible to disabilities. Besides cost factors, companies often do not have a plan how to implement and control IT-accessibility successfully. However, most companies are familiar with IT-maturity frameworks to evaluate and improve their own IT-infrastructure. It would facilitate dealing with IT-accessibility, if IT-maturity frameworks consider IT-accessibility and provide recommendations and solutions for a successful implementation. Therefore, this article conducts a review of an acknowledged IT-maturity framework with regard to its capability to enable implementation of IT-accessibility in an organization. The first part of this article will illustrate the motivation and background for the authors concern with such a topic. Afterwards the authors will introduce the reader to the reviewed IT-maturity framework and provide basic knowledge on IT-accessibility. The main part of the article will deal with the review of the applied IT-maturity framework and outline examples of critical capabilities for successfully implementing IT-accessibility in an organization. The final section will derive implications and close with planned future research activities in this field.
In this contribution, we describe the activities and promotion programs installed at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University as an institution and at the Department of Computer Science respectively for increasing the total number of computer science students and in particular the female rate. We report about our experiences in addressing gender aspects in education and try to evaluate the outcome of our programs with respect to our equal rights for women strategy. We propose a closer look at mental self-theories enabled by E-portfolios to address also gender issues in Computer Science. Moreover, reasons are identified and discussed which may be responsible for the reduced interest in particular of female young adults to choose a computer science study program.
It is widely accepted that strategic management should not only play an important role in large or established companies but also in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). These SMEs represent more than 90 percent of all enterprises in Europe and supply almost 70 percent of all jobs in Germany (OECD 2002b). Due to the crucial role of SMEs and their powerful market position in Germany, the German word Mittelstand has been absorbed into the Anglo-American management literature. These Mittelstand companies serve as a very important source of innovation and technological change, and thus increase economic welfare and competitiveness (OECD 2002a). Still, both media coverage and scientifi c research predominantly focus on large enterprises.
