Using Card-Based Games to Enhance the Value of Semi-Structured Interviews

Rowley, Jennifer; Jones, Rosalind; Vassiliou, Magda; Hanna, Sonya

doi:10.2501/ijmr-54-1-093-110

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“…The interpretivist approach was applied as it allows the researcher to analyse the interviewees' subjective reasoning (Rowley et al, 2011). The core idea of interpretivism is to understand the subjective meanings of persons (Goldkuhl, 2012).…”

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Deployment of Enterprise Architecture in the Namibian Government: The Use of Activity Theory to Examine the Influencing Factors

Shaanika

Iyamu

2015

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Government in both developed and developing countries strive to deliver effective and efficient services to its citizens. Hence the rapid increasing use of information technology to enhance service delivery. However, IT carries its own challenges, such as incompatibilities, lack of integration and lack of scalability. Many approaches, from both academic and professional domains have been employed to assess the challenges, for improvement purposes. Government of some countries have therefore introduced enterprise architecture (EA) to addressing IT challenges. Similarly, EA is influenced by many factors, making it not as easy as we are made to understand. Thus activity theory was applied to examine and understand how the challenges manifest into complexities, and in turn, have negative impacts on services delivery.The use of the activity theory (AT) helps to reveal that non-technical factors were completely ignored or sometimes considered to be less significant to the technical factors. Based on the interpretation of the findings, process, communication, lack of awareness, roles and responsibilities, actors' relationships, policies and people were uncovered as some of the influencing factors in the deployment of EA, in the Namibian government-wide Ministries. The communication between various business units and IT unit was influenced by those in authority as they make use of their power for individual interest. These types of legitimate actions through roles and responsibilities, contributed to the misalignments of business processes and activities in the deployment of EA in the Namibian government-wide Ministries. If both technical and nontechnical factors are not considered in the implementation of systems and technologies governments' service delivery will continue to be hampered as depicted in the framework presented in this article.

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Deployment of Enterprise Architecture in the Namibian Government: The Use of Activity Theory to Examine the Influencing Factors

Shaanika

Iyamu

2015

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…Following the interpretive approach, subjective reasoning was applied in the analysis of the qualitative data (Rowley, Jones, Vassiliou, & Hanna, ). According to Goldkuhl (), the core idea of interpretivism is to understand the subjective meanings that individuals associate to things and actions in their environments.…”

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Developing the enterprise architecture for the Namibian government

Shaanika

Iyamu

2018

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The Namibian government strive to use the enterprise architecture (EA), to address the incidents of disparities, such as obsolesce, incompatibility, duplications, lack of uniformity, and integration challenges that hampers processes and activities in providing socioeconomic services to the communities of the country. Through its domains, the aim of the EA is to facilitate services towards transformation, development, and growth of socioeconomic activities in the country. However, the deployment of the EA is a challenge because there are implications of practice, which are constraints to the aim of the concept. The objective of this study was therefore to develop a framework, which can be used to guide the deployment of the EA. Based on the framework, we examine the implications of practice, which is intended to improve service delivery through the deployment of the EA. The qualitative methods were used in the study. The semi‐structure technique was applied to collect qualitative data. Based on the findings from the data analysis, a framework was developed, which depicts how the EA is influenced by interactions and relationships that happens between the involved actors, and draws on the implications for services delivery. This study is important to both academic and government, as it reveals on how certain factors manifests themselves, to enable, and at the same time, constrain processes and activities of information systems and technologies.

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“…Cards acted as visual cues (Rowley et al., ) and facilitated discussion. Kitzinger () found this technique emboldened participants, thus revealing further insights.…”

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“…An 'Interview Schedule' was designed as a guide and a card-based game employed to structure sessions and engage interviewees. Three cards were created with intentionally contentious statements representing key concepts (Rowley, Jones, Vassiliou, & Hanna 2012):…”

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eBook management in NHS libraries in the North of England: perceptions and practice

Nicholas

2018

Health Info Libraries J

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In this article, Katie Nicholas presents the findings of a very topical piece of research into the use of eBooks in health libraries, which she completed for a Masters dissertation. Katie graduated with an MA in Library and Information Management (Distinction) from Manchester Metropolitan University in July 2017. She would like to acknowledge the support of her supervisor, Rachel Delbridge, in helping her to gain a Distinction in her dissertation. In the article, she points out that the use of eBooks in the NHS is low compared to other sectors and she presents the findings from her research, which help to explain this. She outlines the development of an electronic tool to help library and information staff make sense of the complexity around eBooks and makes further very practical recommendations for practitioners. A. M.

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Using Card-Based Games to Enhance the Value of Semi-Structured Interviews

Cited by 41 publications

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Deployment of Enterprise Architecture in the Namibian Government: The Use of Activity Theory to Examine the Influencing Factors

Deployment of Enterprise Architecture in the Namibian Government: The Use of Activity Theory to Examine the Influencing Factors

Developing the enterprise architecture for the Namibian government

eBook management in NHS libraries in the North of England: perceptions and practice

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