...Golding, N (2007) in Beardwell, I., Claydon, T. & Beardwell,J. Human Resource Management: A Contemporary Approach, 5th Edition, Pearson Exploring the Relationship between Strategic Management and SHRM: The Best-Fit School of SHRM The Best-Fit (or contingency) school of SHRM explores the close link between strategic management and HRM, by assessing the extent to which there is vertical integration between an organisation’s business strategy and its HRM policies and practices. This is where an understanding of the strategic management process and context can enhance our understanding of the development of SHRM, both as an academic field of study and in its application in organisations. The notion of a link between business strategy and the performance of every individual in the organisation is central to ‘fit’ or vertical integration. Vertical integration can be explicitly demonstrated through the linking of a business goal to individual objective setting, to the measurement and rewarding of that business goal. Vertical integration between business strategy or the objectives of the business and individual behaviour and ultimately individual, team and organisational performance is at the core of many models of SHRM. Inherent in most treatments of fit is the premise that organisations are more efficient and /or effective when they achieve fit relative to when a lack of fit exists (Wright & Snell 1991:757) . This vertical integration or ‘fit’ where ‘leverage’ is gained through...
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...2012- 2013 GenRay HRIS Program Management Strategy Developed by: Brian James GenRay Inc. 2012- 2013 GenRay HRIS Program Management Strategy Developed by: Brian James Table of Contents GenRay’s hris project management tool Matrix Template 2 RMGT Task 1 - Section Overview 2 GenRay’s hris project management tool Matrix 2 GenRays Project Charter - HRIS project 2 genray HRIS Program Purpose 2 GEnRay HRIS Program Description 2 genray hris target state overview 2 GenRay HRIS PROGRAM BACKGROUND 2 Genray hris Success Criteria 2 GenRay hris Project Objectives 2 Genray estimated Funding 2013-2014 2 genray hris Acceptance Criteria 2 Genray HRIS Approval Requirements 2 Genray HRIS Project Manager 2 Genray HRIS Authorize Authority 2 Accountable Genray HRIS Executive 2 Genray hris goverance and decision bodies 2 genray hris Key External Processes 2 Genray HRIS Milestones and Deliverables 2 genray hris Milestone / Schedule 2 genray hris Charter Expiration 2 genray hris charter/ scope/ project plan Approval 2 GenRays HRIS Project Scope 2 Project Scope Description 2 genray hris target state overview 2 GenRay HRIS Integration Plan 2 Genray hris CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS 2 Genray hris Statement of Work (sow) 2 genray hris Background 2 Genray hris Tasks and Deliverables 2 SOW Task 1 - Project Management 2 genray hris Project Management Deliverables - sow 2 SOW Task 2- Process Change Management 2 SOW Task 3 - Technical Infrastructure...
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...Patton Fuller Community Hospital Team A BSA/376 - Systems Analysis and Design Instructor: John Neels April 15, 2013 Development of a patient management system More unified patient experience Tracking patient check-in Tracking patient appointments Tracking patient surgery Scope and Goal Planning Analyzing Designing Implementing Functions Needed for Project Meeting management requirements Compliance with standards ◦ Meeting company standards ◦ Meeting federal and state standards ◦ Meeting security standards Stakeholder satisfaction Supporting Measures for Success Business goals Compliance Requirements Supporting Strategies Prioritization Prevention Tangible Measures for Success Operational Technical Economic Summary of Project Feasibility Measurement of how proposed system solves the problem Management Commitment Dependent on Human Resources Operational Feasibility Analysis A large part of determining resources that has to do with assessing technical feasibility Contact with Vendors Internal Technical Capability Technical Feasibility Analysis Cost and benefits analysis Frequently used method Used to determine the benefits and savings Economic Feasibility Analysis Project Description Goals and Objectives Project Performance Project Assumptions Project Constraints Major Project Milestones Business Process Summary Business Process...
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...NETWORK CAPABILITY – EMERGING AS PART OF AN INDUSTRIAL FIRMS COMPETENCE CONFIGURATION Jukka Vesalainen, University of Vaasa, Department of Management jukka.vesalainen@uva.fi Henri Hakala, University of Vaasa, Department of Management henri.hakala@uva.fi Abstract: The network capability refers to the firm’s ability to build, handle and exploit relationships. These capabilities are interwoven in the complex configuration with other capabilities and competencies of the firm and are, in practice, very difficult to separate from them. Rather than assuming that firms inherently possess network capability, our aim is to discover if this actually naturally occurs in the discourse of the top management teams. In order to understand how managers perceive, process and interpret network capability, the management teams of six industrial subcontractors were guided through a five-step process of introducing, identifying, critical screening, challenging and verifying the capabilities of the firm. The paper introduces strategic capability architecture and investigates how network capability emerges within the configuration of other capabilities in these firms. We found that in customer oriented capability sets, network capabilities are central to the formation this kind of capabilities. In other types of capability sets, networking capabilities play an important role as assets in the formation of the capability sets. Furthermore, we identified that the networking capabilities act in unison with...
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...Actions * Workstation domain- Vulnerability Management, configuration Management, Security controls * LAN Domain- Vulnerability Management, Configuration Management, Security Controls, Data Back-up, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery, Networking * LAN-to-WAN Domain- IP Networking, DNS, E-mail, Web, Remote Access via Internet, Internet Access, DMZ, VPNs, Secure Connectivity * WAN Domain- Service Providers SLAs, Managed Security Services, Monitoring, Reporting, etc. * Remote Access Domain- Secure Remote Access through Internet, Remote from Home, etc * Systems/Application Domain- Vulnerability Management, Configuration Management, Security Controls, Data Back-up, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery, Networking 2. Answer: The User Domain- Human Resources personnel and the CEO or president of the organization are required to provide proper authority and disciplinary roles and responsibilities for policy implementation and enforcement. 3. Answer: Separation of duties is a security control put in place by accounting and IT professionals whereby the same person cannot define, approve, and implement and action of the organization. 4. Answer: This helps mitigate risk by eliminating the possibility that the same person can perform and hide a specific action or task from an organization. 5. Answer: The positioning of a layered security strategy with a layered security management approach should be crystal clear in terms of its alignment...
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...Index: ITIL® v3 Foundation 2011 Study Notes 1. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Service Management as a Practice 2. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Service Strategy 3. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Service Strategy [2] 4. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Service Design 5. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Service Design [2] 6. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Service Design [3] 7. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Service Design [4] 8. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Service Transition 9. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Service Transition [2] 10. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Service Operation and Functions 11. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Service Operation [2] 12. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Service Operation [3] 13. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Continual Service Improvement 14. ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Last Minutes Revision Notes ITIL v3 Foundation Certification Notes: Service Management as a Practice Why IT Service Management is needed? * Higher IT service quality is always required while fewer resources are available * Users are not interested in the processes / technology, rather they just need to utilize the service to achieve business goals * As users are usually not directly responsible for the costs of IT services, they would endlessly request more and more IT services with higher and higher standards /...
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...advantage from the Resources and Internal activities of the Organisation! ! Introduction! Organisations have been subject to a vast majority of strategic frameworks over the past few decades, most notably so the research-based view (RBV), which aims to understand organisational activities and their competitive strategies (Kraaijenbrink et al 2010). The focus of this report is to state how organisations achieve competitive advantage from the use of their resources and internal activities. The report will give a brief summary of the RBV paradigm, followed, the main base of the report will focus on how firms use their recourses, capabilities and competencies to achieve competitive advantage. Concluding comments will then be made further discussing the concept of RBV.! ! The RBV summary! The Ricardian1 perspective of the heterogeneity and immobility of competitive capability producing and rent earning resources flows through the core of the RBV (Barney, 1991; Kraaijenbrink et al 2010). Organisations are seen to strive for above normal profit generation, in unmediated competition with other firms within the same market. It further views organisations as profit maximising entities, guided by rational managers operating in such markets that, to a point are predictable and moving towards equilibrium (Leiblein, 2003; Kraaijenbrink et al 2010). From this the RBV takes an inside-out approach to dealing with the competitive environment, focusing on the firms resources and internal capabilities...
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...Engineering and Technology Management Tools and Applications For a listing of recent titles in the Artech House Technology Management and Professional Development Library, turn to the back of this book. Engineering and Technology Management Tools and Applications B. S. Dhillon Artech House Boston • London www.artechhouse.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dhillon, B. S. Engineering and technology management tools and applications/B.S. Dhillon. p. cm. — (Artech House technology management and professional development library) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-58053-265-9 (alk. paper) 1. Engineering—Management. 2. Technology—Management. I. Title. II. Series. TA190 .D47 2002 620’.0068—dc21 2002074491 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Dhillon, B. S. Engineering and technology management tools and applications. (Artech House technology management and professional development library) 1. Engineering—Management 2. Technology—Management I. Title 620’ . 0068 ISBN 1-58053-265-9 Cover design by Igor Valdman © 2002 ARTECH HOUSE, INC. 685 Canton Street Norwood, MA 02062 All rights reserved. Printed and bound in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. All terms mentioned in this book that...
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...be used without modifications required for your unique project. Table of Contents 1 Overview 3 1.1 Project Objectives 4 1.2 Project Constraints 4 1.3 Project Risks 4 2 Proposed Solution 5 2.1 Business Requirements 5 2.2 Architecture 6 2.3 Development 6 2.4 Testing 6 2.5 Deployment 8 3 Project Resources 8 3.1 Roles and Responsibilities 8 3.2 Issue Escalation 8 3.3 Project Staffing Plan 8 3.4 Project Materials 8 4 Project Approach 9 4.1 Development Model 9 4.2 Configuration Management 9 4.3 Communication Management 10 4.4 Change Management 10 4.5 Testing 10 4.6 Documentation 10 5 Estimate 11 6 Schedule 11 1 Overview The intent of this document is to provide a sample application development project plan. The scope of this document covers the project planning phase and demonstrates how Business Systems Integration and its associated development might be incorporated into key project documents. This document also provides a possible structure for presenting: • Project deliverables • Project risks and opportunities • Estimates • Project resource information • Project delivery method • Configuration and change management A project manager would generally use this section of the document to provide an overview of the entire project. Need for project This section discusses why the project is being undertaken. There are many reasons for undertaking a project, including: • Legislative or legal requirements • Competitive advantage ...
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...has taken new twists, the perspectives on strategy have evolved using the framework of various eclectic schools of thought within two broad approaches: the prescriptive approach and the descriptive/emergent approach (Mintzberg et al., 1999). Some schools propose that strategy formation is the outcome of systematic analysis and logical planning. It is a deliberate process that is carried out by specialists who ensure that strategy implementation is the direct translation of the planned strategy. Others, like the learning school, argue that strategy is emergent. It takes shape as the result of learning that happens during organisational functioning at all levels. “...strategists can be found throughout the organisation, and so called formulation and implementation intertwine” (Mintzberg et al., 1999, p.25) but is facilitated and enabled by a ‘strategy champion’ – usually the CEO (Stalk et al., 1992, p.62). One supporter of the latter approach is Henry Mintzberg who argues that “Strategy is pushed along by sheer creativity of managers, because they explore new ways of doing things” (Mintzberg et al., 1999, p.29). Literature Review The debate on ‘what constitutes strategy?’ is intense. Is effective strategy an outcome of analysing the industry or is it about identifying and consolidating organisation’s ‘resources’ and ‘core competences’ into capabilities? The former is a market-based (MBV), outside-in, prescriptive viewpoint (Chamberlain, 1932; Caves and Porter, 1977; 1978;...
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...An effective IT infrastructure can suppor t a business vision and strategy; a poor, decentralized one can break a company. More and more companies are turning to off-the-shelf ERP solutions for IT planning and legacy systems management. The authors have developed a framework to help managers successfully plan and implement an ERP project. A Critical Success Factors Model For ERP Implementation FROM THE TRENCHES: Wolfgang B. Strigel, editor • wstrigel@spc.ca Christopher P. Holland and Ben Light, Manchester Business School ompanies are radically changing their information technology strategies by purchasing prepackaged software instead of developing IT systems in-house. Price Waterhouse predicts that by 2000, two-thirds of all business software will be bought off the shelf. More specifically, Deloitte and Touche states that businesses prefer to replace legacy systems with enterprise resource planning systems. According to AMR Research, the ERP systems market was $15.68 billion in 1997 and is likely to increase at a compound rate of 36 percent, to $72.63 billion, by 2002. The associated consultancy market is approximately $30 billion. These statistics clearly indicate a shift in the ERP market. There are mixed reports concerning the outcome of ERP projects. Successful ERP implementations are certainly publicized, such as Pioneer New Media Technologies (see http://Datamation.com/PlugIn/erp/index.htm) and Monsanto,1 but less successful projects have led to bankruptcy proceedings...
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...A Technical quality approach" is the general orders and objectives regarding quality that are laid out by an organization's administration and formalized in a composed report. The Technical quality approach characterizes the orders and stakes persued as far as recipient fulfillment. The essential quality and extent of our administration to customers is characterized in our Technical Quality Procedures. These spread the specialized outline strategies of all our expert administrations and are audited intermittently to guarantee they are as per acknowledged current configuration rehearse and our customers necessities. A Technical Quality Procedure is delivered for every outline train the practice embraces and sets a system of adequate techniques...
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...following steps in the correct order. 1. Obtain a general description of company operations 2. Interview the shop manager 3. Interview the mechanics. 4. Create a description of each system process 5. Draw a data flow diagram and flowcharts. 6. Create a conceptual model using ER diagrams 7. Normalize the conceptual model 8. Create the file (table) structures. 9. Load the database 10. Create the application programs 11. Test the system b. Describe the various modules that you believe the system should include. Car Configuration: this module will contain the different types of cars SILENT services and their configurations. The cars will be uniquely identified with part of a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). Each car has a configuration of types of parts that make it up as well as recommended servicing. Inventory: this module will track the SILENT shop’s inventory of parts, which is tied into the car configuration module....
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...school´s one word definitions Design: Spider Plan: squirrel Position: position How should I approach (positioning school) Vision: wolf, I have a vision Perception: Owl, Patterns: Monkey, Agenda: Lion, Belief: Peacock, Response: Ostrich, Stage: Chameleon, Timeline of the ten schools Planning and design school came in the 70-80´s. Then Porter came with the positioning school in the 90´s. Why ten schools? Organizations vary and change greatly, so we need more than 1 school. The five p´s of strategy Plan: Forward looking. Can be dangerous if it is strictly planned and something unforeseen happens. Patterns: Backwards looking Positions and perspective. Locating a particular product in a particular market: Strategy of positioning a product. Example: Introduce breakfast at McDonalds to use restaurant in the morning. The new position is consistent with existing perspective. The strategy of absent strategy Deliberately using absent strategy promotes flexibility, experimentation and innovation. Management control. Chapter 1 in the book. Management control is the systematic process by which the organization’s higher-level managers influence the organization’s lower- level managers to implement the organization’s strategies. Decentralization is the single most important reason for organizations to need management control systems. So, Management Control is about decentralized organizations. Need for control Decentralized managers do...
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...which have permitted globalization. Due to globalization human resource management has been forced to take a more international approach, and has demonstrated that a more effective management of human resources internationally is imperative for the success of companies in international business (Shen). Therefore international organizations need to understand the roll that plays the international human resource management (IHRM) department, and the importance of adopting an effective recruiting, selecting, and training strategies that will enable the company to select the right talent for the right places. IHRM plays a very important and challenging roll in the international setting of organizations because “they must develop practices which will maintain congruence with the overall strategic plan of their respective multinational corporations, while balancing the economic, social, political, and legal constraints of the host countries” (Caligiuri). Companies understand that the only way to develop strong and successful global leaders, which are keys to competitive advantage, is through an IHRM department that has a well develop competitive strategy in place. Multinational Corporations (MNCs) like Unilever and Huawei Technologies Co., a Chinese networking and telecommunications supplier, have understood the importance of a well develop IHRM department and have implemented strategies that are aligned with a global approach that support the business operation worldwide (Gartsdie)...
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