...Financial Management • •STRUCTURE • Management Information Systems • SUSTAINABLE • Impact • Assessment • Career Development • Strategic Planning • SYSTEMS • Supervision • Objectives • Program DEVELOPMENT Series 2 ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT Monitoring and Evaluation • SUSTAINABILITY • Module 4 Monitoring and Evaluation and Management Information Systems (MIS) 2/ MIS, Monitoring & Evaluation Introduction Monitoring and Evaluation Process points: Types and levels of monitoring and evaluation activities Some monitoring and evaluation definitions What are indicators? Methods and tools for monitoring and evaluation Steps in planning and conducting monitoring and evaluation ❐ Tools and techniques: How to write your evaluation report Tips for improving monitoring and evaluation of your project Management Information Systems (MIS) ❐ What is on MIS? ❐ Why is an MIS important? Sources for decision making, monitoring, and evaluation ❐ Targets Designing an MIS Using data to inform your MIS: conducting a baseline study Performance information Key questions in designing an MIS Institutionalizing an MIS in an organization MIS: step-by-step Using MIS outputs for decision-making How is information used in the organization? ❐ How does information flow in your organization? A word about reporting ❐ Tips and Tools: Report preparation checklist A final word about evaluation ❐ Process evaluation ❐ Output evaluation ❐ Effects evaluation ...
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...Information Systems Proposal BIS/220, Business Information Systems Table of Contents Contents Introduction 3 Our Goal 4 Types of Information Systems 4 Transaction Processing System 4 Office Automation 4 Management Information System 5 Functional Area 5 Enterprise Resource Planning 5 Table 1 Information Systems 5 Conclusion 8 References 9 Information Systems Proposal Introduction This plan will discuss opening a brick and mortar music store that will cater to both the old and young alike. This will require loan of $75,000. The city of Temecula has experienced a large growth in their population over the last several years that enjoy shopping the boutiques that Old Town Temecula has to offer. There are a numbers of visitors and local residents that enjoy purchasing movies, clothing items, antiques, gifts, and music. Old Town Temecula does not offer a record store that provides music that is fairly priced and a wide selection of records from the past for the everyday listener or the serious collector. I propose that Old Town Temecula Records can sell a vast selection of music products to those who are devoted to music and provide a relaxing environment where patrons may have the opportunity to listen to the music prior to making their purchase. Our Goal Our ultimate goal of Old Town Temecula Records would provide a good quality and variety of nostalgic music products, excellent customer service at fair and competitive...
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...Information Systems Proposal October 6, 2014 BIS/220, Business Information Systems Table of Contents Introduction 3 Our Goal 3 Types of Information Systems 4 Transaction Processing System 4 Office Automation 4 Management Information System 4 Functional Area 4 Enterprise Resource Planning 4 Table 1 Information Systems 5 Conclusion 8 References 9 rcvg t Information Systems Proposal So, let's discuss opening a brick and mortar music store that will cater to both the old and young alike. This will require loan of $75,000. The city of Temecula has experienced a large growth in their population over the last several years that enjoy shopping the boutiques that Old Town Temecula has to offer. There are a numbers of visitors and local residents that enjoy purchasing movies, clothing items, antiques, gifts, and music. Old Town Temecula does not offer a record store that provides music that is fairly priced and a wide selection of records from the past for the everyday listener or the serious collector. I propose that Old Town Temecula Records can sell a vast selection of music products to those who are devoted to music and provide a relaxing environment where patrons may have the opportunity to listen to the music prior to making their purchase. Our Goal Our ultimate goal of Old Town Temecula Records would provide a good quality and variety of nostalgic music products, excellent customer service at fair and competitive prices....
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...Operational-level systems are information systems that support the: a. long-range planning activities of senior management. b. decision-making and administrative activities of middle managers. c. day-to-day processes of production and shipping only. d. elementary activities and transactions of the organization. Answer: d Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 40 | 2. | The principal purpose of __________________ is to answer routine questions and to track the flow of transactions through the organization. a. strategic-level systems. b. operational-level systems. c. management-level systems. d. knowledge management systems. Answer: b Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 40 | 3. | Management-level systems are information systems that support the: a. long-range planning activities of senior management. b. knowledge and data workers in an organization. c. decision-making and administrative activities of middle managers. d. day-to-day processes of production. Answer: c Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 40 | 4. | A relocation control system that reports on the total moving, house-hunting, and home financing costs for employees in all company divisions is an example of a(n): a. knowledge management system. b. operational-level systems. c. strategic-level system. d. management-level system. ...
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...INTRODUCTION TO MS ACCESS CH 4 STD VIII Q1. Very short answer type questions. i. The full form of RDBMS is Relational Database Management System. ii. Row wise information in table is called record. iii. The information stored column wise in a table is called fields. Q2. Short answer type questions. i. Information in a database is stored in a tabular format consisting of rows and columns i.e. a table organizes the data in the form of rows (records)and columns(fields).rows representing the complete information of individual items in a table are called records whereas columns representing a specific piece of information for all records are called fields. ii. Primary key is the name of the field or fields in a database table which uniquely identify each record in a table that is the value in this field/s are different for each record. For example, GR NO field in a student table is the primary key as it identifies each student uniquely in the table. iii. The steps are as follows 1. Click New button in the data base window to open New table dialog box and select the option table wizard or select Create table by using wizard to open Table Wizard dialog box. 2. Select Business or Personal depending upon the type of table. 3. Select the required table from sample table. The sample fields will appear. 4. To select field click >> button to select all the fields at a time or select...
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...Applying Information Security and SDLC to Business Nusiaba Abbas, Jason Jernigan, Patrick Kein, & Natasha Scott BIS/320 October 8, 2012 Gordon Hodgson Barnes & Noble Who and what is the bookstore? What is their mission? Barnes & Noble offers a huge selection of textbooks, newspapers, magazines, music, DVD’s, and EBooks. They are the Internet’s largest bookstore offering an easy way for customers to find precisely what they are looking for in books. Barnes & Noble offers over 100,000 unique book titles per store and customers can walk into the store at anytime looking for titles not on the bookshelf. What products do they sell? The Largest book store of all is Barnes & Noble.com. This website ships faster than any other online bookseller. Barnes & Noble has dedicated time and money to meeting business objectives successfully. Books created to include audio books, MP3 audio books, award winners, and bargain books. To offer millions of books, EBooks, Nook tablets from a network of trusted sellers. All purchased at a convenient price that’s secure. Who are their customers? Barnes & Noble is the destination for book lovers offering an array of content. B & N studio offers hundreds of video author interviews, Emmy-winning documents and features a weekly book show. Anyone looking for best children’s books, videos, music, DVD, Blue ray stores makes it a great...
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...administrator’s task is to choose the database type that will best work with the data provided. A database system consists of four components: database, a database management system, database application, and users. At my workplace various databases are in use. At Omega Engineering for three decades its handbooks have served as valuable reference tools for engineers around the world. Though it is an established direct-marketing pioneer, the people, facilities and superior client services go well beyond the original Omega handbooks and have progressed into a highly automated, online data warehouse accessed via its website www.omega.com. Omega's world-famous product handbooks and encyclopedias, online as well as in print, feature hundreds of thousands of products, technical tips, topical articles, reference charts and graphs, and some of the largest, most detailed product images in the industry. A document-oriented database layers other database systems, for example, a relational database. Structured query language (SQL) server databases are used extensively on-the-job, for example, to • Retrieve all records that match certain criteria • Update records in bulk • Cross reference records on different tables • Perform complex aggregate calculations These are only a few of the varying databases in use for manufacturing, sales, customer services, logistics/traffic management. The large-scale database uses the Structured Query Language...
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...Internal and External Audit Student’s Name Professor’s Name Institution Date Introduction Aztech Group Ltd is a Singapore-based investment holding company. The company is intending to enter into new market in Australia. Before the company can enter new market, a number of factors needs to be considered. In part 1 of this work, we proposed that the best entry mode to adopt would involve the strategic alliance. The reason why strategic alliance was chosen is that Aztech Group Ltd is most likely to face different challenges, which are broadly classified as cultural, legal, political, economic and market (Aztech Group Ltd 2012). Part 2, on the other hand, focused on the cultural and distribution factors. In this part, we would focus on whether the company has adequate internal and external mechanism that will enable it enter into new market successfully. Internal and external audit The company’s profile reveals that Aztech has well defined mission and vision. Its mission is based on principle of 5Es, which stands for Excelling, Extending, Enhancing, Engaging and Empowering. The organization strives to excel as far as innovation and product quality is concerned. The company also has a mission of extending its reach and presence in global market. In addition, the company strives to enhance the profitability and shareholders value and also to engage its customers. Another mission of Aztech group as far as 5 Es is concerned is to empower employees with resources and skills...
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...Records/Document/Information Management (RDIM): Integrated Document Management System for the Government of Canada Request for Proposal (RFP) Software Requirements Developed by the Interdepartmental RDIM RFP Sub-Committee, Shared Systems Program, Treasury Board Secretariat Information Management Standards and Practices Division National Archives of Canada May 1996 Table of Contents 1. 2. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 GENERAL FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1 Objectives of the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2 Guiding Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.3 Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.4 Summary of Key Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.5 Who, What, When, Where, Why, How . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.6 Profile Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.7 Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 DETAILED FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 Receipt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...Table of contents Introduction Page 6 Task 1 Page 7 Task 2 Page 10 Task 3 Page 14 Task 4 Page 17 Task 5 Page 19 Conclusion Page 20 Bibliography Page 21 Introduction In the following assignment I will present an introduction to databases which will demonstrate my knowledge through creating reports, defining key terms and there advantages and disadvantages, as well as designing an entity model. These will support my knowledge. TASK 1 Diagram 1: Marks & Spencer’s three-layer relational database architecture related to their online activities. Internal Schema (Server) Conceptual Schema (Programmer) External (Customer) ...
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...Quality Management Systems Introduction An organisation will benefit from establishing an effective quality management system (QMS). The cornerstone of a quality organisation is the concept of the customer and supplier working together for their mutual benefit. For this to become effective, the customer-supplier interfaces must extend into, and outside of, the organisation, beyond the immediate customers and suppliers. A QMS can be defined as: “A set of co-ordinated activities to direct and control an organisation in order to continually improve the effectiveness and efficiency of its performance.” These activities interact and are affected by being in the system, so the isolation and study of each one in detail will not necessarily lead to an understanding of the system as a whole. The main thrust of a QMS is in defining the processes, which will result in the production of quality products and services, rather than in detecting defective products or services after they have been produced. The benefits of a QMS A fully documented QMS will ensure that two important requirements are met: • The customers’ requirements – confidence in the ability of the organisation to deliver the desired product and service consistently meeting their needs and expectations. • The organisation’s requirements – both internally and externally, and at an optimum cost with efficient use of the available resources – materials, human, technology and information. These requirements can only be truly met...
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...Accessing the Oracle Server Adewale Sonubi Professor Brian Smith CIS 111: Introduction to Database Management System October 13, 2013 Through this assignment, I was able to experience logging into the Strayer University Oracle Server. The process started a little rough for me because I did not have the necessary credentials, but once I received them from I was able to log in. the screen I attained at the end of the exercise is shown below: I googled putty on the google search engine and found www.putty.org; I was able to save the download on my desktop for future use. One I opened it, I entered “unix-online.strayer.edu” in the host section using port 22. I also entered “Student UNIX Server” I the saved session and saved it also for future use. After entering both required information, I clicked “OPEN” and the command screen opened. I was prompted for a login and password of which I entered the information provided to me by the professor and I was able to log into the UNIX server. I also typed in the oracle command provided to me and I was able to log into the oracle server. I made sure I tried the process more than once to ensure I properly understand the process. After finishing the exercise, I searched for the snipping tool on my desktop, and was able to take a snapshot of the screen and save to my desktop. I then copied and pasted the screen into this document to show that the assignment was done and that my credentials...
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...A STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF FARIDABAD METAL UDYOG PVT LTD A STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF FARIDABAD METAL UDYOG PVT LTD ------------------------------------------------- SUBMITTED BY:- ------------------------------------------------- HARSHITA VERMA () ------------------------------------------------- ISHITA BHUYAN (12810038) ------------------------------------------------- NIKHIL () ------------------------------------------------- JYOTI NALKHALIYA () ------------------------------------------------- KARUN SETHI () ------------------------------------------------- KAMAL DEEP () ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- SUBMITTED BY:- ------------------------------------------------- HARSHITA VERMA () ------------------------------------------------- ISHITA BHUYAN (12810038) ------------------------------------------------- NIKHIL () ------------------------------------------------- JYOTI NALKHALIYA () ------------------------------------------------- KARUN SETHI () ------------------------------------------------- KAMAL DEEP () ------------------------------------------------- Contents INTRODUCTION FARIDABAD METAL UDYOG PVT LTD is largely into manufacturing of high quality LPG cylinders. The main focus is being committed to customer satisfaction adhering to the highest standards of quality. Faridabad...
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...requirements of management”, is in the CIO’s list “Society is bombarded with data”( Scams & Fraud, 2012). Often so much information is received and as a result we feel overloaded! There's e-mail, web processing, instant messaging, voice mails, and a myriad of other means of communication that are constantly streamed to us daily. Dealing with the organization and management of information can be frustrating and make us want to pull our hair out, but nonetheless, it must be given serious attention. Businesses are driven by data, and the information derived from data is an extremely valuable asset in today's environment and most organizations are dependent on its availability and accuracy. The electronic age has brought new challenges in managing information that previously was non-existent prior to computers and the Internet. While technology has generated higher efficiency, access, and integrity with the newer ways to organize and manage information, it can be overwhelming. Managing data information has become a job in itself, yet it is an important one. In today's global economy, networks have created ways to rapidly transmit data. As a result managers must be able to obtain current data quickly in order to make informed and up to date decisions. This requires readily accessible information at their fingertips in order to analyze. Instantaneous recall information is often crucial, and in order to achieve this, efficient file management is a must. How can information management be effectively...
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...MOOC：Revolution in education While open courseware and large, distance learning programs have been around for over a decade, 2011-2012 saw the rapid launch of a new phenomenon—the “massive open online course” or MOOC, which has garnered the attention of lots of folks, from VC investors to big name universities. Lots of people are talking about how the new technology is going to change the education dramatically. And this article is aimed to give a quick review and reflection upon this massive trend. 1. What is it? As its name suggests, massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web . In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive various ways that help the students and instructors more easily engaged in an active learning experience. The instructors relied on computer-graded quizzes, exercises, and examinations to assess participants, eliminating the need for an army of teaching assistants and endless hours of manual grading. A thriving discussion forum and virtual study groups arose around the content, allowing students from around the world to ask and answer questions, post links to related resources, and submit new ideas. Students even added new, interactive exercises and platforms to the course and volunteers translated video dialogue and course materials into different languages. 2. Why it matters? Education is economically important...
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