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Reviews the literature on personality and embodied physical action (EPA) robots. The book investigates the current state of human-robot personality research, discusses the unique role of personality in human-robot research, and offers guidance for future research.

Offers an overview of enterprise needs for speech analytics, a brief history of the speech recognition, the infrastructure of phonetic versus transcription approaches and real-time versus post-call solutions, major speech analytics vendors and their features, applications found within case studies, and recommendations and guidance.

Reviews research on investment funding to extract and classify the factors that have traditionally impacted investment decisions, and to identify emerging investment issues. The result is a set of six factors, each of which has multiple dimensions and characteristics that are described.

Failure to learn from past mistakes and successes has consistently been a major obstacle to improving IT project management. IT Project Management: Lessons Learned from Project Retrospectives 1999-2020 addresses this shortcoming by integrating, updating, and extending the research findings from four previous studies on IT project retrospectives.

Presents findings from a review of the alignment and innovation literature streams published between 1990 and 2020. The authors summarize approaches, challenges, and opportunities, and reveal that alignment scholars tend to overlook the complexities inherent in the process of innovating and view innovation as a black box.

Promotes the use of process theory as an essential part of the body of knowledge relative to information systems which should be nurtured and expanded. The book addresses why process theory is important, how it can enhance the discipline, and what needs to be tackled to make the development and application of process theory routine.