...The Transition from 2D Drafting to 3D Modeling Benchmark Report Improving Engineering Efficiency September 2006 — Underwritten, in Part, by — The Transition from 2D Drafting to 3D Modeling Benchmark Report Executive Summary D o more with less. The mandate hasn’t changed for manufacturers. They must develop more products with increasing complexity to address customer and competitive pressures. Yet, there’s no “give” in project timelines to adopt new technologies like 3D modeling to help them win. However, some manufacturers are not only adopting 3D modeling technology, but excelling at hitting their product development targets at the same time. How is it possible? Interestingly enough, it’s actually quite simple. Key Business Value Findings • Best in class manufacturers their hit revenue, cost, launch date, and quality targets for 84% or more of their products. • Best in class performers typically produce 1.4 fewer prototypes than average performers. • Best in class performers average 6.1 fewer change orders than laggard performers. • In total, best in class manufacturers of the most complex products get to market 99 days earlier with $50, 637 lower product development costs. Implications & Analysis How do they do it? • Best in class performers are 40% more likely to have engineers use CAD directly to ensure they stay close to the design. • Best in class performers are 24% more likely to take advantage of extended 3D modeling design capabilities. They are 55% more...
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...Shared Vision Gather Team • Develop a philosophy of literacy • Establish common teachable foundations by grade level and course for use of literacy strategies • Initiate an ongoing professional development Objectives • Focus on data driven instruction • Focus on student motivation • Focus on integrating differentiated • Teach reading in a manner which reflects quality research-based teaching practices. Materials and Curriculum • Focus on specific curriculum content and pedagogies needed to teach effectively. • Focus on differentiated instruction and cooperative learning. • Incorporate a program that is cross curricular and meets learning goals while offering differentiated support for all learners Desired Outcomes • Increase reading...
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...Mô hình năng lực Career and Competency Pathing: The Competency Modeling Approach By Maggie LaRocca Introduction Competencies are behaviors that encompass the knowledge, skills, and attributes required for successful performance. In addition to intelligence and aptitude, the underlying characteristics of a person, such as traits, habits, motives, social roles, and self-image, as well as the environment around them, enable a person to deliver superior performance in a given job, role, or situation.Competency modeling is the activity of determining the specific competencies that are characteristic of high performance and success in a given job. Competency modeling can be applied to a variety of human resource activities. This research paper will describe how organizations identify their core competencies and how they are applying this competency data to improve performance. It will also explain some emerging trends in competency modeling. Developing Competency Models Competencies enable employees to achieve results, thereby creating value. It follows that competencies aligned with business objectives help foster an organization's success. Organizations must understand their core competency needs - the skills, knowledge, behaviors, and abilities that are necessary for people in key roles to deliver business results.According to Boulter, et al (1998), there are six stages involved in defining a competency model for a given job role. These stages are: 1. Performance criteria -...
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...1 Motivating GLMMs I briefly summarize the motivations for GLMMs (in linguistic modeling): • The Language-as-fixed-effect-fallacy (Clark 1973 following Coleman 1964). If you want to make state- ments about a population but you are presenting a study of a fixed sample of items, then you cannot legitimately treat the items as a fixed effect (regardless of whether the identity of the item is a factor in the model or not) unless they are the whole population. – Extension: Your sample of items should be a random sample from the population about which claims are to be made. (Often, in practice, there are sampling biases, as Bresnan has discussed for linguistics in some of her recent work. This can invalidate any results.) • Ignoring the random effect (as is traditional in psycholinguistics) is wrong. Because the often significant correlation between data coming from one speaker or experimental item is not modeled, the standard error estimates, and hence significances are invalid. Any conclusion may only be true of your random sample of items, and not of another random sample. • Modeling random effects as fixed effects is not only conceptually wrong, but often makes it impossible to derive conclusions about fixed effects because (without regularization) unlimited variation can be attributed to a subject or item. Modeling these variables as random effects effectively limits how much variation is attributed to them (there is an assumed normal distribution on random effects)...
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...of the software development companies. This paper presents how the Alpha Bay Corporation handled software development process and the type of software development methodology used by them and the recommendations for improvements which includes agile approaches including Extreme Programming, Agile Modeling and SCRUM, describes the differences between them and recommends when to use them. Company Profile Alpha Bay Corporation is building a world-class system called AIRSTM. Their software gives retailers the integrated, real-time data access they need to see where their inventory is, when they need it, across all channels of their business. This allows retailers to increase their revenues by raising the average order value, reducing out-of-stock situations and dramatically increasing customer loyalty. Alpha Bay’s AIRSTM suite, which includes applications such as Point-of-Service, Web Store, Catalog Order Management, Store Operations, Customer Management, Item Management, Business Intelligence, Reporting, and more. Alpha Bay also develops and deploys state-of-the-art database technologies to manage real-time retail information and deliver unsurpassed levels of data reliability and security. Their customers includes Wal-Mart, IBM, Microsoft, SAS, Entergy, the US...
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...Chap 1: A system is a set of steps (process) put together to accomplish a task. An information system (IS) is an arrangement of people, data, processes, and information technology that interact to collect, process, store, and provide as output the information needed to support an organization.Types of IS : A transaction processing system (TPS): captures and processes data about business transactions. A management information system (MIS): provides for management-oriented reporting based on other computer systems. A decision support system (DSS): provides information to help make decisions. An expert system: captures the expertise of workers and then simulates that expertise to the benefit of nonexperts. A communications and collaboration system: enables more effective communications between workers, partners, customers, and suppliers to enhance their ability to collaborate.An office automation system: supports the wide range of business office activities that provide for improved work flow between workers. Systems analyst – a specialist who studies the problems and needs of an organization to determine how people, data, processes, and information technology can best accomplish improvements for the business. Chap2 : Information systems architecture - a unifying framework into which various stakeholders with different perspectives can organize and view the fundamental building blocks of information systems. Knowledge (ERD), process (UML) and communication (Interface). Chap3 :...
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...the practice of iterative, methodical exploration of an organization’s data with emphasis on statistical analysis. It describes the skills, technologies, practices for continuous iterative exploration and investigation of past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning. Business analytics is used by companies committed to data-driven decision making. It focuses on developing new insights and understanding of business performance based on data and statistical methods. BA is used to gain insights that inform business decisions and can be used to automate and optimize business processes. Business analytics makes extensive use of statistical analysis, including explanatory and predictive modeling, and fact-based management to drive decision making. It is therefore closely related to management science. Analytics may be used as input for human decisions or may drive fully automated decisions. Data-driven companies treat their data as a corporate asset and leverage it for competitive advantage. Successful business analytics depends on data quality, skilled analysts who understand the technologies and the business and an organizational commitment to data-driven decision making. Once the business goal of the analysis is determined, an analysis methodology is selected and data is acquired to support the analysis. Data acquisition often involves extraction from one or more business systems, cleansing, and integration into a single repository such as a data warehouse or data...
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...development organization) that drives the development and evolution of security best practices and process improvements, serves as a source of expertise for the organization as a whole, and performs a review (the Final Security Review or FSR) before software is released. What are the activities that occur within each phase? Training Phase- Core Security Training Requirements Phase- Establish security requirements, create Quality Gates/Bug Bars, perform Privacy Risk assesments. Design Phase-Establish Design Requirements, perform Attack Surface Analysis/Reduction, use Threat Modeling Implementation Phase- Use approved tools, Deprecate unsafe functions perform static analysis Verification Phase- Perform Dynamic Analysis, Perform Fuzz Testing, Conduct Attack Surface Review Release Phase- Create an incident Response Plan, Conduct Final Security Review, Certify release and archive Response Phase- Execute Incident Response Plan Phase Activities Roles Tools Requirements - Establish Security Requirements -Create Quality Gates/Bug Bars -Perform Security and Privacy Risk Assessments -Project Managers -Security Analysts -Microsoft SDL Process Template for Visual Studio Team System - MSF-Agile + SDL Process Template Design -Establish Design Requirements -Perform Attack Surface Analysis/Reduction -Use Threat Modeling -Project Managers -Tester -Software Developers -Security Analysts -QA -Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool 2014 Implementation -Use Approved Tools -Deprecate Unsafe Functions ...
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...Original Contributions Data Mining Applications in Healthcare Hian Chye Koh and Gerald Tan A B S T R A C T Data mining has been used intensively and extensively by many organizations. In healthcare, data mining is becoming increasingly popular, if not increasingly essential. Data mining applications can greatly benefit all parties involved in the healthcare industry. For example, data mining can help healthcare insurers detect fraud and abuse, healthcare organizations make customer relationship management decisions, physicians identify effective treatments and best practices, and patients receive better and more affordable healthcare services. The huge amounts of data generated by healthcare transactions are too complex and voluminous to be processed and analyzed by traditional methods. Data mining provides the methodology and technology to transform these mounds of data into useful information for decision making. This article explores data mining applications in healthcare. In particular, it discusses data mining and its applications within healthcare in major areas such as the evaluation of treatment effectiveness, management of healthcare, customer relationship management, and the detection of fraud and abuse. It also gives an illustrative example of a healthcare data mining application involving the identification of risk factors associated with the onset of diabetes. Finally, the article highlights the limitations of data mining and discusses some future directions....
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...Case Study: Partners HealthCare Systems Case Study: Partners HealthCare Systems Partners HealthCare is a non-profit, health system located in Boston that created a data based transformation (Davenport, 2013). It integrated a new system that aligned the participating organizations to cohesively run as one and to help shape the future of the organization. The system didn’t stop there as it was responsible for bettering the patient financing experience and the delivery of healthcare information to other organizations (Davenport, 2013). The initial goal of the organization was making patient care more affordable and accountable by providing integrated, evidence based, patient-oriented care. Problem Identified Partners HealthCare, which was created by major contributing hospitals and medical facilities in the Northeast, initially began as a way to focus on the patient needs; however, the company soon found themselves separating from their initial goal. There was more than one problem identified within the realms of the company. There are three main issues that this case study produced. The first outlying issue is called Alert/Warning Fatigue (Davenport, 2013). This derives from alerts that were placed in the system to warn doctors of notices that could be anything from mixing prescriptions to simple notifications that most doctors already knew or was not in their field of study. A second issue that requires resolution to create a successful working system is the sense...
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...Using Simulation Modeling to Improve Patient Flow at an Outpatient Orthopedic Clinic Thomas R. Rohleder, PhD Division of Health Care Policy and Research Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester, Minnesota 55905 tel: 507-538-1532 Email: rohleder@mayo.edu Peter Lewkonia, MD Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta Diane Bischak, PhD Haskayne School of Business University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta Paul Duffy, MD Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta Rosa Hendijani Haskayne School of Business University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta July 2011 Abstract We report on the use of discrete event simulation modeling to support process improvements at an orthopedic outpatient clinic. The clinic was effective in treating patients, but waiting time and congestion in the clinic created patient dissatisfaction and staff morale issues. The modeling helped to identify improvement alternatives including optimized staffing levels, better patient scheduling, and an emphasis on staff arriving promptly. Quantitative results from the modeling provided motivation to implement the improvements. Statistical analysis of data taken before and after the implementation indicate that waiting time measures were significantly improved and overall patient time in the clinic was reduced. Keywords: Outpatient Clinic, Discrete Event Simulation, Process Improvement, Patient Waiting I. Introduction Visiting hospital outpatient clinics is a very common way for...
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...Using Simulation Modeling to Improve Patient Flow at an Outpatient Orthopedic Clinic Thomas R. Rohleder, PhD Division of Health Care Policy and Research Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester, Minnesota 55905 tel: 507-538-1532 Email: rohleder@mayo.edu Peter Lewkonia, MD Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta Diane Bischak, PhD Haskayne School of Business University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta Paul Duffy, MD Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta Rosa Hendijani Haskayne School of Business University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta July 2011 Abstract We report on the use of discrete event simulation modeling to support process improvements at an orthopedic outpatient clinic. The clinic was effective in treating patients, but waiting time and congestion in the clinic created patient dissatisfaction and staff morale issues. The modeling helped to identify improvement alternatives including optimized staffing levels, better patient scheduling, and an emphasis on staff arriving promptly. Quantitative results from the modeling provided motivation to implement the improvements. Statistical analysis of data taken before and after the implementation indicate that waiting time measures were significantly improved and overall patient time in the clinic was reduced. Keywords: Outpatient Clinic, Discrete Event Simulation, Process Improvement, Patient Waiting I. Introduction Visiting hospital outpatient...
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...University of Ottawa ABSTRACT The objective of this article is to give advice for carrying out a proper and effective simulation activity for protocol design. It challenges some of the existing criticisms of simulation practices that emphasized validation aspects. This article advocates the use of simple models, matching assumptions and metrics in the problem statement and simulation to provide a basic “proof of concept,” and comparison with truly competing solutions, which is possible only after a thorough and critical literature review. Then the complexity of the models can be increased (one parameter at a time), revising the algorithms themselves by adapting them to new assumptions, metrics, and the corresponding simulation environment. Selected independent variables should explain performance under a wide range of scenarios. unclear which protocol will perform well under a wide range of scenarios. It is our view that each article should be judged on its overall contribution, including the assumptions used, theory developed, new algorithms introduced, protocol details, simulation results, and relevance to an ultimate goal of staying on a path toward creating applications. We begin with a literature review of existing criticism for simulation practices, and then discuss what we believe are the main issues. We take a more general view of simulation as a support for new ideas and theories, providing a platform for their comparison with truly competing existing solutions,...
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...BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DATA MINING Business intelligence is a computerized technique used is searching, storing and analyzing useful business information (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence). Business intelligence is an increasing strategy employed by many modern ventures, in the attempt to providing quick access to information and helps the business in making appropriate decisions. Holistic information on ones business environment is an important tool, since it does not only shows your past trend, but also prepares the firm for the future improvements. This sets a challenge in establishing the methods to source for the information, and how to use this information to improve a business position . Data mining is the sourcing of any hidden and predictive business information from a relevant database. It involves a thorough analysis of data gained from various sources, manipulating it into useful tool - a tool that leads to raising business revenue, saving on the running costs or both (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining). Data mining tool incorporates analytical tools that helps build a useful predictive relationship. Data mining tools helps get answers as it scrutinizes data from different perspective to a precision, than any expert could do. Interplay of data mining process with software and hardware utilities is a big step in data analysis. The integration of artificial intelligence and databases heightens the data-mining goal as the information is translated...
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...Business Process Management Case story - July 19th 2008 Helps Build Best Practices for Port Logistics Standardized process methodologies and intuitive modeling/collaboration tools enables EFFORTS to gain a comprehensive view of port operations Introduction A port is like a miniature city. Built around commerce and industry, a port is constantly in motion, always growing and changing. This presents organizational challenges of a major scale. With many different entities competing for access to the same waterway, the variety of industry and commerce operating in the port, and the constant volume of incoming and outgoing ships, capturing the processes that underlay port operations is like trying to understand the dependencies and subtle connections that underlay a city. Every port has its own specific way of doing things because it developed in its own unique way. The result leaves very little certainty over how to improve practices, how to plan future expansion, and how to protect the environment that surrounds the port. EFFORTS (Effective Operation in Ports) The Objectives is an initiative funded by the European Commission that seeks to take on this huge task. Made up of 37 partner organizations from 13 different European countries, EFFORTS seeks to streamline the movement of ships, transportation trucks, and other clients to European ports for the overall reduction in wait times due to unnecessary traffic. Their method of choice is Business Process Management...
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