The user interface provides access to collected and metasearched resources using innovative tools for summarization, categorization, and visualization. The effectiveness, efficiency, usability, and information quality of the EBizPort system were measured. EBizPort significantly outperformed Brint, a business search portal, in search effectiveness, information quality, user satisfaction, and usability. Users particularly liked EBizPort’s clean and user-friendly interface. Results from our evaluation
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development of the Internet and World Wide Web, was one of the instigators of changes in Public Administration and Management in the United States of America. The use of technology (computers) has a relatively long history in the country. President Lyndon B. Johnson received a Report to the President on the Management of Automatic Data in the Federal Government in 1965, with introductory remarks: “In the short span of a decade, the electronic computer has had an unprecedented effect upon the conduct of
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| 1. Differentiate between efficiency and effectiveness. • Efficiency-is defined in terms of the proportion of total organizational resources that contribute to productivity during manufacturing process through technology. • Effectiveness– is defined in terms of resources utilization in relation to organizational goal attainment through managerial skills. 2. Briefly
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Contents Introduction 2 Task 1: Nature and the Importance of Operation Management 2 Task 2: The Link between Operation Management and Strategic Planning 4 Task 3: Organizing a Typical Production Process 6 Task 4: Application of Relevant Technique to the Production of an Operational Plan for an Organization 7 Conclusion: 9 References: 10 Introduction Operation management is a part of overall function of a business organization. It means planning, organizing, staffing, leading and
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A Comparative Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Three Solvency Management Models By Enyi, Patrick Enyi Ph.D, MBA, B.Sc, ACA, ACCA, MFP, RFS. Fellow, American Academy of Financial Management (AAFM) Member, American Accounting Association (AAA) Head, Department of Accounting, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria A Comparative Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Three Solvency Management Models Abstract The introduction of the Altman’s Z-score model in 1983 and much recently the Enyi’s Relative
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frontier analysis of the efficiency of Nigerian banks Abstract Using the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) the efficiency of Nigerian banks was analysed. The result of the study proved that there is inefficiency in the Nigerian banking system and that the level of inefficiency ranged from 0 to 19 per cent of total cost. The study was able to derive the individual bank's level of inefficiency. Put differently, the study was able to derive the individual bank's level of efficiency. I. INTRODUCTION
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Managing Change Initiatives: Fantasy or Reality? The Case of Public Sector Organisations Ebrahim Soltani University of Kent Business School, Canterbury, UK Pei-chun Lai University of Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow, UK Abstract It is becoming a commonplace statement that change initiative programmes are key tools to organisational long-term success. To this end, the last two decades have witnessed a surge of interest in the take-up of various change initiative programmes. Organisational
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revivals rather than being ethic to protect the environment or maintain human welfare. Therefore, in this essay, author is going to discuss about the different between CSR as well as PR. Moreover, it will apply an example of IKEA to examine the effectiveness of its CSR in supply chain and analyze CSR as a business strategy to maintain the sustainability of business, financial control and risk management. Afterwards, author will highlight the limitations of CSR policy and finally provide some recommendations
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SIAM J. IMAGING SCIENCES Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 248–272 c 2008 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics A New Alternating Minimization Algorithm for Total Variation Image Reconstruction∗ Yilun Wang†, Junfeng Yang‡, Wotao Yin†, and Yin Zhang† Abstract. We propose, analyze, and test an alternating minimization algorithm for recovering images from blurry and noisy observations with total variation (TV) regularization. This algorithm arises from a new half-quadratic model applicable to not
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and several related factors. R O B E R T H. W A T E R M A N , J R . , T H O M A S J. P E T E R S , A N D J U L I E N R. P H I L L I P S 14 T h e Belgian surrealist Ren~ Magritte p a i n t e d a series of pipes and titled the series Ceci n'est pas une pipe: this is n o t a pipe. The p i c t u r e of the thing is n o t the thing. In the same w a y , a s t r u c t u r e is n o t an organization. We all k n o w that, b u t like as n o t , w h e n we reorganize w h a t we do is to r e s t r u c t u
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