...Module 4 - Impementing technology Implementation Problems * Barriers to technology transfer... * Problems in the implementations of technology development projects... * Technology development project problems * Understanding costs, risks, benefits... * Understanding the application... * Lack of appropriate measures of progress... * GO/NO-GO decision making... * Communication... * Management commitment... * Slipping schedule... * Problems in implementation of developed process technology... * Developed process technology project problems * Resistance to change... * Logistics... * Inadequate resources... * Lack of appropriate measures of progress... * Communications... * Preoccupied with existing operations... * Slipping schedule... Barriers to technology transfer... Technology implementation is fraught with problems. On one hand there are a number of factors encouraging technological change. The potential benefits of the technology itself and the evangelistic endeavors of the technology experts push for change. The needs and frustrations of the user can provide a "market pull". However, these factors must have enough energy to break through the barriers to technology transfer that form a wall of resistance to change. The more that can be done to reduce or eliminate the barriers to technology transfer, the greater chance that the energy provided...
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...to the design of the data base application. Write this as though you are writing a memo to Martin Forondo. Ensure that your memo addresses the following points: a. Your approach to addressing the problem at hand (for example, specify the systems development life cycle or whatever approach you plan on taking). Mr. Forondo, FAME (Forndo Artist Management Excellence) needs technology support to track the contracts of artists, a proposal for contracts to new artists, calendars of artist schedules and the performance shows, etc. In any event, music manager today have to be informed about a lot more things than they used to in the past including music licensing, merchandising, sponsorships, branding, crowdfunding, endorsements, social media, direct-to-fan strategies, and more; and putting together a winning strategy for your artists requires the right information in the right context. You also have to have to figure how to acquire financing, make the right connections, get bookings, break through barriers, enter into strategic alliances and joint ventures, generate income for your artists from multiple sources and get maximum exposure for your artist in an ever-changing music industry landscape. This can be achieved by developing an application for your artist management and managing the artist data in the backend using SQL/DB2 database. The application can be managed by the admin, artist managers, and artists. They can login into the application and manage their events, marketing...
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.............................................. 9 Recommendations.............................................................................................................10 Conclusion........................................................................................................................12 References .......................................................................................................................12 Executive Summary This research report was based on an investigation into the impact of new information technology in the business sector. The study was focused on a new business, which was exposed to technologies and inventions that have emerged in the last five years. The objective of the study was to know whether the specified type of technology would be appropriate and effective for the business and its activities. The business that was focused on dealt with the supply of rubber tires to motorists. The company introduced touch screen display panels to facilitate its sales...
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...by others researchers. Result of this review will be the gaps that are found in the existing works and the good features that can be suggested for the proposed system. A data warehouse is projected in a way that data can be stored and accessed and is not restricted only to tables and relational lines. (Fink, 1998) As the data warehouse is separated from operational databases, user’s queries do not cause any impact in these systems. Data warehouse is protected from any non-authorized alteration or loss of data. Data warehouse contemplates the base and the resources needed for a Decision Support System (DSS), supplying historic and integrated data. These data are for top managers, decision makers, and partners, donors – who need brief, summarized and integrated information – and for low-level managers, for whom detailed data helps to observe some tactical aspects of the organization. In this way, data warehouse provides a specialized. For a centralized database oracle will be used for storing details of data being brought from different hostel location of the organization and saved into single database using oracle database management system. (BI / DW Insider, 2011) 2.2 BACKGROUND The architecture of data ware housing includes tools, one of those tools which can extract the data base from different and multiple operational database servers and from different external data base and surely which is used for cleaning the data,...
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...led to a situation that Coleen Colombo and five other female employees of BNC found themselves in. Coleen, a senior mortgage underwriter that was routinely receiving “exceed expectations” on her performance reviews, started seeing a troublesome pattern. Coleen alleges that in 2005 a male mortgage wholesaler began bringing her questionable loan applications that contained incorrect applicant information including salaries and home values. When she questioned these actions, she was offered bribes, known as spiffs, in an attempt to entice her to approve these fraudulent loan applications. Coleen refused to partake in mortgage fraud and her relationship with her coworker soured. Her salary plummeted; her complaints to her senior manager went unresolved and led to a hostile work environment. This environment cumulated with Coleen and five of her female coworkers suing for sexual harassment (Hellriegel &Slocum 250). Around that time these subprime loans started going bad and the lenders were forced to buy back these risky loans. Interest rates rose, and housing prices dropped leading to increased foreclosure rates (UNC). Finding of fact number 1: Sexual Harassment Refusing to partake in mortgage fraud, Coleen alleges that the wholesaler who attempted to bribe her started sexually harassing her. The EEOC defines sexual harassment as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal and physical harassment of a sexual nature (EEOC). The male colleague made...
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...metropolitan areas, has also faced, and continues to face, stagnation in overall population growth: there are few in-migrants to replace those not born due to a low birth rate and those who leave for better opportunities elsewhere. Thus, the population of elderly is shifting from the city to the suburbs over time (see Figure 1 and http://www.hdm.heinz.cmu.edu). This information is quite relevant for one sector of the economy: that devoted to services for the elderly. As people age, they are more likely to be homebound and thus in need of home-delivered services such as physical therapy, home cleaning, full-time nursing care and home-delivered meals. It is the last home-delivered service that is the focus of this project. Traditionally, meals-on-wheels has been provided by all-volunteer kitchens, staffed by cooks and drivers and often fiercely independent of oversight from external agencies. After all, they know their client base better than anyone else, as they have been friends or neighbors with their kitchen’s...
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...The psychology of change: understanding the guiding principles of effective change management Most change management models in use today are in the form of a process or set of steps. In fact, the most effective processes or methodologies are based on research and the experiences of change management experts from years of trial and error in the field. However, the underlying lessons and principles that produced these change management processes and tools are not always clear to the practitioner (especially if you are new to the field of change management). In many cases, the guiding principles and lessons-learned are not even discussed as part of the model or tools. The result: you learn the how but not the why. The years of practical experience and knowledge that formed the basis for these processes are not readily available to a person trying to make them work in a specific situation. This new tutorial series goes beyond the activities and tasks of managing change for one simple reason: understanding the “why” makes you better at doing the “how.” Change management is not a matter of simply following steps. No two changes are exactly alike, nor are any two organizations. Following a recipe for change management is insufficient to drive business results. The right approach will be specific to the situation. If you do not understand the why behind your actions as a change management practitioner, changes can fail even when reputable change management processes are followed...
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...science, in relation to administration, and as a profession, in terms of managerial skills and style of managers. Management is Combination of Art and Science Management knowledge exhibits characteristics of both art and science, the two not mutually exclusive but supplementary. Every discipline of art is always backed by science which is basic knowledge of that art. Similarly, every discipline of science is complete only when it is used in practice for solving various kinds of problems faced by human beings in an organisation or in other fields of social life which is more related to an art. Art basically deals with an application of knowledge personal skill and know-how in a specific situation for efficiently achieving a given objective. It is concerned with the best way of doing things and is consequently, personalised in nature. During the primitive stages of development of management knowledge, it was considered as an art. There was a jungle of managerial knowledge. It was not codified and systemised. People used it to get things done by others, in their own way giving an impression that whosoever uses it, knows the art of using it. This kind of loose and inadequate understanding of management supported the view that it was an art. Management as a Science Science means a systematic body of knowledge pertaining to a specific field of study. It contains general principles and facts which explains a phenomenon. These principles establish cause-and-effect relationship between two...
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...NLP: CONNECTOR BETWEEN MANAGER AND SUBORDINATE Palwasha Khan Sana Iqbal Sundus Younis Faculty of Engineering Management Center of Advance Studies in Engineering (CASE) Abstract: Neuro Linguistic Programming is thought to be an advance communication tool which incorporates Human cognition, behavioral contour, and unconscious verbal/nonverbal patterns in order to understand the way information is being perceived, processed and acted upon by the individual and how he interact with his environment including the human factor. It is continuously being probed for its impact over successful human interactions and relationship. Usage of NLP in business world is still unexplored in certain aspects. This research paper is meant to study the impact of appropriate NLP techniques over the relationships that typically exist between managers and subordinates. Using a survey questionnaire, data is being collected from employees of a variety of organizations and found out that though mostly, NLP is unconsciously applied in managerial sector, it does play its role in improving the perceived manager-subordinate relationship, through improving the trustworthiness of the managers and the social bonding that exist between the managers and their subordinates. NLP also impacts to a lesser degree upon the feedback process and participative management style of the manager. Currently managers give more credit to importance of NLP techniques in better relationship building than the subordinates....
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... An Oracle White Paper September 2011 HR Analytics: Driving Return on Human Capital Investment HR Analytics: Driving Return on Human Capital Investment The Business Need for Improved HR Analytics ................................. 3 Leading Practices for Improved Organizational Performance ............ 4 HR Analytics Contributes by Driving Insights to Action ...................... 5 Addressing Information Needs through Analytic Workflows ........... 5 About Oracle Business Intelligence Applications ............................... 7 The Foundation: OBIEE 11g .......................................................... 8 HR Analytics Subject Areas ........................................................... 9 A Case Story ................................................................................... 15 Benefits and ROI ............................................................................. 17 The Value of a Pre-Built Solution ................................................. 17 Business Value Adds Up ............................................................. 17 Maximizing Success – Next Steps ................................................... 19 Conclusion ...................................................................................... 20 The Business Need for Improved HR Analytics As worldwide economic and political conditions continue to concern business leaders, their attention turns to the various levers that can foster success...
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...Chapter 1 Managerial Accounting and the Business Environment Solutions to Questions 1-1 Managerial accounting is concerned with providing information to managers for use within the organization. Financial accounting is concerned with providing information to stockholders, creditors, and others outside of the organization. 1-2 A strategy is a game plan that enables a company to attract customers by distinguishing itself from competitors. The focal point of a company’s strategy should be its target customers. 1-3 Customer value propositions fall into three broad categories—customer intimacy, operational excellence, and product leadership. A company with a customer intimacy strategy attempts to better understand and respond to its customers’ individual needs than its competitors. A company that adopts an operational excellence strategy attempts to deliver products faster, more conveniently, and at a lower price than its competitors. A company that has a product leadership strategy attempts to offer higher quality products than its competitors. 1-4 Managers carry out three major activities in an organization: planning, directing and motivating, and controlling. Planning involves establishing a basic strategy, selecting a course of action, and specifying how the action will be implemented. Directing and motivating involves mobilizing people to carry out plans and run routine operations. Controlling involves ensuring that the plan is actually carried out and is appropriately...
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...Developing an Ethical Business Environment: A Report to Executive Management Introduction Ethics and business rules always go together. The fact that business policing is based upon the different measures of complete recognition of social norms and social limitations, ethics is indeed a large part of the ways by which business organizations try to strive to be able to become more effective within their operational engagements with regards their aim of being able to influence the society as well. It is indeed certain that the rules and regulation that a business puts up should be able to meet certain standards of social compromises. Any business organization could not afford to be questioned simply because of the fact that the business procedures that they are adapting to are not meeting the set standards for business organizations. (Kuhn, 2005, 12) To be able to have a clearer view of the matter being reported herein, it is first most importantly to be given attention to as to how management is indeed in relation with the actual application of ethical standards within the society. To be able to do this, there are three major points to consider. The said points are as follows: • The effect of organizational culture on ethical operation • The roles and responsibilities of executive management in fostering an ethical operating environment • The impact of ethical standards as they are used in business operations Through the consideration given to these particular...
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... 7. Improving HR in Focus Group: 10 key elements 8. Conclusions 9. References 1. Abstract Human Resource Management is the organizational function that deals with issues related to people such as compensation, hiring, performance management, organization development, safety, wellness, benefits, employee motivation, communication, administration, and training (http://humanresources.about.com/od/glossaryh/f/hr_management.htm) 2. Introduction In our project we choose to study the human resources department in the company Focus Consult Group from Bucharest. We had as a main advantage the fact that one of us did an internship at this company last year and had the opportunity of observing how the HR department actually works within this firm. Moreover, another important reason was the fact that one of us assisted to a job interview. In this way it was easier for us to gather information about the recruitment and selection processes. The goal of this project is to find “What Is the Human Resource Department?” and how it actually performs its tasks. In order to answer this question we decided to study 3 main aspects regarding the HR department in the company: the recruitment and selection processes, the learning and development methods and ways of improving the HR in the company. 3. Presentation of the company Focus Consult Group is a business process outsourcing and consulting firm based in Bucharest...
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...to replace her due to budget cut and a friend of the boss is also applying for the position. The second case is Marty has miss applied an expense for a local community development committee dinner meeting. Case 1: Stephanie Lyncheski, after careful consideration and working through the Checklist for Making Ethical Decisions matrix (Schermerhorn Jr., 2010), I have made my decision to allow Kay Smith to apply for a new position within the company. I know that I would not be allowed to replace Kay due to budget cuts and she is a high performer for my group. The decision is what is best for the company and Kay. I want to walk you through my decision process to provide you an understanding of why I believe it is the best decision to allow Kay to apply for the new position within the company. I utilized the Checklist for Making Ethical Decisions matrix with the steps below: • Step 1: Recognize the ethical dilemma. • Step 2: Get the facts. • Step 3: Identify your options. • Step 4: Test each option: Is it legal? Is it right? Is it beneficial? • Step 5: Decide which option to follow. • Step 6: Double-check your decision by asking these two follow-up questions: o “How would I feel if my family finds out about my decision?” o “How would I feel if my decision is printed in the local newspaper?” • Step 7: Take action. Step 1: Recognizing the ethical dilemma: Which...
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...Corp. Governance 04/28/2013 Dr. Charles Fleming As a manager and supervisor of an accounting department, discuss the following issues related to the employment-at-will doctrine and liability of an employer based on actions and responses to the employee’s behavior and actions. Jennifer, a recent graduate, has recently been hired by your accounting firm out of college. Upon being hired, she engages in a number of different behaviors that need your attention. 1. Describe what steps you would take to address the following scenario involving skills, competence, and abilities: * The employee seems to be unable to learn the computer applications that are basic to her job responsibilities, but, consistently “tells” her boss that she is “a good worker and a genius” and that he does not “appreciate her”. Even after a few months of training and support, she is unable to use the computer tools to be productive and efficient in completing the required tasks. The employee was hired for the specific position which requires the use of the computer applications to complete the required tasks. However, there is obviously a mismatch between her skills and the required work for that position. The computer applications are basic to her job which means that if she really was “a good worker and a genius” she would be able to learn quickly and apply that knowledge and those skills to the job. The computer applications could be very complicated and difficult to master, but the word...
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