Information System Management - Science topic

Consider “digital transformation.” Skeptics say the process is more like an evolution than a transformation. It is a journey and should be treated like one, because once you get “this” done, there is more to do. More innovations happen, more technologies that can solve problems are introduced, and there’s always more to do.

So, is “digital transformation” an evolution or is it truly transformative? It’s actually both. Digital technologies had to evolve to get from where they were to where they are now. On the other hand, when appropriately applied, those same technologies are transforming companies for the better. A smooth digital transformation journey relies on data in digital form, processes that are digitally managed, and the right data at the right time...

smart pls is do better than spss based my experiences

Hi, you will find a lot of content by searching with "sourcing maturity model"

Yes, I truly believe that innovation is possible in large organisations. I do not know much about private commercial organisations, for whom their ability to survive and thrive might be very dependent on innovation ahead of their competition. However, I do know that in public service organisations (such as the NHS in England) that innovation is possible. Just like any organisation, it is important that the environment promotes and enables innovative thinking. There's plenty of evidence of innovation in the health sector too, so it's a reasonable thing to argue.

Hope this helps. Good luck with your work.

It depends on the product and the way the product is used by the organization. What I'm seeing lately is that the vendors are more willing to work with their clients to determine the right balance of license types. It's not just per seat or per core any longer. Some vendors base licenses on revenue or have a "basket" of licenses that anyone can use (we used to call this concurrent licensing).

Bottom line, there is no single answer to this question. It should be determined by analysis and should be able to change after the first year's usage have either confirmed the initial usage assumptions or called them into question.

Acceptance from individuals is not taking into consideration soft factors generally as IS as a topic encompass an audience of IT individuals who carry with them logical traits and do not leave much space to persuasion or ambiguity. However, in my experience, I have noticed that those people appreciate social experiments and if the methodology is human-centric you will have a better chance to be accepted. They are not necessarily monetary driven and you will require a value exchange that they need. Try to exchange new knowledge and breakthroughs instead of simple cooperation, find values that can be shared in order to achieve true collaboration. Confucius once said that knowing what you know and knowing what you do not know is real knowledge. Find that breakeven and start your exchange.

If we believe that organizations are not homogenous monoliths but rather quite diverse, then standardization would be more of an art than a science...

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I would recommend

What is this survey about? Is it still valid?

I do hope you find somethings interesting and helpful in the attached links:

I doubt there is one article with every model. You may have to find articles that do meta analysis in order to get a listing.

Check the following paper:

Mining Big Data - Challenges and Opportunities

International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 2015

As far as my knowledge is concerned, software will not be useful for capturing tacit knowledge. Because, it won't be able to capture that knowledge, which you are seeking. However, there are certain methods through which you can capture tacit knowledge such as communities of practice, storytelling, interview,..

By the way, your URL in the Question is incorrect. It has an extra space (that is causing problem to other readers). 

Correct Survey URL: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3120745/New-Survey 

I have completed the survey. 

Hi Swati, Yes they are of same invention..

Hi Ana Maria, 

If I understand and interprete your question correctly than you are looking for factors that influence the cost of compliance (behavior). Kenneth Merchant (1998)  identifies some factors i.e. elements of variabels (if you like) that constitutes the direct and indirect control system costs. Indirect control system costs are hidden and can be categorized along the nature of the costs. Examples are operational delays due to segregation of duty controls, negative attitudes due to action controls, negative attitudes due to result controls, gamesmanship and datamanipuliation et cetera. These type of costs are hard to control.  

Kind regards

Rob

Thank you Franz. I would settle for advancing something that could be built upon. The question is: How does the information inherent in a relationship, for example, the relationship that exists between two centers of gravity, relate to the force.

The information for this relationship is like a blueprint of sorts, it must be "stored" in some way to be available, perhaps in the relationship itself. Yet it is not material.  It is an idealization. Yet, physics works with idealizations, for example, with "point particles."

I have mathematics for the formation of bosonic energy near a gravitational center that might be correct. Or maybe not. Either way, what I still lack is a way to model how non-material information inherent in relationship forms or informs physicality.

I don't think this is only a philosophical question. I believe the answer will be needed for the next phase of physics. My paper doesn't really need this for completion, but it would be nice to have an answer for this seemingly unanswerable question.

Its amazing how many unanswerable questions in science have been answered by hard-headed people. I'm happy the see that there are others who wonder about such things! 

Very interesting question. This problem does exist  since stone age. We humans are simply so intelligent that we are caught up with either information overload, noise and/or inaccurate / irrelevant information. we perhaps need to learn from birds, beasts and even insects!!! 

Having said this, perhaps best predictors for information requirements are USERS!!! 

Irfan,

Take a look at :

A Large Benchmark Dataset for Web Document Clustering by  Mark P. Sinka and David W. Corne

Some of the challenges in deriving a dataset for information retrieval is the dependence of the initial selection of documents based on search engines. The best thing to do is to extract samples from as many search engines as possible to avoid bias.

Regards

Dear Fuji, how about Management Information Systems in the Hospitality Industry? You could compare existing MIS, present their advantages and disadvantages and suggest your own improvements.

I wish you success!

In data mining, first you should read the next link: http://www.the-data-mine.com/

After you can read the book: Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, you see in: https://cs.wmich.edu/~yang/teach/cs595/han/ch01.pdf

In taxonomy, an orthogonal classification is one in which no item is a member of more than one group, that is, the classifications are mutually exclusive.

from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonality 

Deborah,

I found something. I hope it's what you want.

If that does't work, I've added a Google Drive link.

I believe you need to start with the rich area of access control models: they already define assets, access rights, owners, etc. and this has been a very active area of research. (There is always adaptation of the model which is needed to your exact systems and security and privacy concerns, but these models are the starting point to understand access).

See: http://csrc.nist.gov/news_events/privilege-management-workshop/PvM-Model-Survey-Aug26-2009.pdf

I think a FB survey can be reported similarly to other SNS investigations.  There is an e-book 'Otto, A. (2011). Does Facebook make you happy?', and he used similar ways to report response rates, sampling etc.

"Sample

The sample employed for this research project consists of international young adults using Facebook. We focused on young adults (18 - 29), because they seem to be the main users of Facebook. 291 participants started the main part of the survey, but only 207 participants completed it. Of the 207 participants, 84 completed both the main survey and the follow-up survey. The respondents mean age is 24.19 (SD = 2.38) with 72 males (34.8%) and 135 females (65.2%). 55.6 per cent (115) of the participants answered “studying” to the question of their main current occupation, 48.6 per cent (80) “working” and 5.8 per cent (12) were unemployed at the moment participating the survey. The nationality of the respondents shows a high variety, with the largest group coming from Europe (82.1%)."

I think that as long as you can describe the usual details of who the survey was distributed to, what criteria were used for inclusion, how many responded etc, then it should be quite straight forward. If the data is not available to use the same statistical analysis you have used in the other methods, then opt for a simple descriptive approach.

Horizontal and vertical can also describe how a business is structured internally, and how communication flows.

In Horizontal organization, offices at equal levels on the organizational chart can talk to each other and the communication is "flattened."

Vertical organization is hierarchical and communication must go up the organizational hierarchy and down by another path to reach another office at the same level of the organizational chart.

You may be interested in:

Launders, Ivan (2011) "The Transaction Graph for Requirements Capture in Semantic Enterprise Architectures" (PhD), School of Computing / Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI), Sheffield Hallam University. Now available as: Launders, Ivan (2011) The Transaction Graph: Requirements Capture in Semantic Enterprise Architectures, Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN 978-3-8473-4148-2.

Ivan was my PhD student and successfully completed this work using Conceptual Graphs.

You make a good point about the need for speed (which would suggest that intuition would be the way to go). However, while intuition is useful for making quick decisions, it is not so useful for making successful one. Also, you make a point about the information being in a particular context. I've found is that the most useful knowledge is self-contextualized. For example, with Ohm's law, changes in volts, amps and ohms are understood in relation to each other. The application then becomes obvious - one uses the self-contextual knowledge only in those cases where the concepts relate to the situation (one having amps, volts, and ohms).

I understand that cultures at the individual, organizational ad national levels are related and therefor

Furthermore, every organization creates its own "habitus"

Therefore information culture of organization is more of a sociological term than a technological term, and it must consider the K* perspective

Compare them with alternatives such as LibreOffice in terms of

1. Functionality your organisation(s) require.

2. Use of standardised protocols and document formats

3. Licensing and re-use restrictions

4. Cost

See

or

or many many others.

If you go open-source you can forget audits altogether (and the MS licensing fees).

Sarah -

Are you asking if reliability has the same definition, whether applied to a wireless network or a hardwired system? If your question is about jargon in a particular field, I don't know, and even "reliability" might be defined differently in different disciplines/subject matter fields. However, if you are comparing reliability for two kinds of systems, I would define them the same way. For example, if the reliability of a "connection oriented" system is measured by its mean time to failure, you would want to measure the reliability of a "connectionless" system by its mean time to failure also - and I'd also want to know their standard errors. If you want to measure reliability by probability of a successful operation, and you had subsystems in series, then the overall probability of success is the product of those subsystem probabilities. That would apply to both the connection oriented case and the connectionless case, even though they have different subsystems and even different numbers of subsystems.

Jim

I will add that this consilience (thanks for the word) will also deal with the question of human interactions by clarifying the divide between human and other symbolic systems: data and information for the latter, knowledge processing, decision making and responsibility for the former.

I can recommend you following two articles:

There is also report Evaluating and Selecting a Learning Management System (http://www.elearningguild.com/research/archives/index.cfm?id=167&action=viewonly&utm_campaign=research-lms13&utm_medium=link&utm_source=lsmag), but you have to register to download it.

In Czech Republic, there are no defined criteria for LMS, but Ministry of Education published criteria for e-learning courses (how should e-learning curse look like and what should it contain to meet Ministry's criteria for accreditation).

From the IS literature I've looked at, there needs to be a more holistic approach that includes investigating the human element and organisational environment/architecture for design requirements, under lying theory and to enable positive 'emergent' behaviour from all parts working together well.

I've learnt research boundaries are critical :)

Here's one paper that discusses it.

Akhlaghpour, S., Wu, J., Lapointe, L., & Pinsonneault, A. (2009). Re-examining the Status of "IT" in IT Research - An Update on Orlikowski and Iacono (2001). Paper presented at the Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco.

I have just added case study. Please see my contribution above. Have you used Stanford CoreNLP. Have you been in solving similar problem to mine?.Could you provide me any software might be useful for me.

Many thanks in advanced.

Hi there,

I would say that the answer heavily depends on the purpose of the comparison. i.e. are you looking for a similarity measure? Are you trying to find out which one better suits your needs?

Once you define why you are comparing them, extracting the right criteria becomes more intuitive.

See: Transitional leadership in the defence and aerospace industry: a critical analysis for recruiting and developing talent

Maurice Dawson, Emad Rahim

Inderscience

International Journal of Project Organisation and Management 01/2011; 3:164-183.

ABSTRACT This article proposes a framework to create effective transitional leadership in the defence and aerospace industry. The proposed framework identifies and maps traits and skills of military personnel in a manner that can be tested and validated in accordance with principles of human resource management. Applying this framework would assist hiring managers in their selection of program or project managers from the military in transition to a defence contractor support organisation. Employing a research approach embracing a mix of both qualitative and quantitative strategies, the study examined more than 50 respondents to a 34-question survey, focusing on 14 respondents who submitted fully completed surveys. The conceptual framework for this study is derived from investigations conducted by project management practitioners and scholars who have built upon the research of previous research, which studied project development models within various industries.

Your questions sounds like that suggested by Nicholas Carr in his infamous article "IT Doesn't Matter" from HBR. Carr argued that IT is infrastructure technology like electricity in which competitive advantage disappears once everyone has it. This article has been decisively refute by John Seeley Brown. He argues in response to Carr that IT doesn't provide strategic value by itself, but rather achieves value in the way that it is implemented in the organization. Only when the organization has the managerial skills to recognize and integrate IT into the organization does it achieve any kind of strategic advantage. Additionally, IT is different from the other infrastructural technologies because it has been undergoing continuous change and has migrated through several different platforms. Through the wonders of Moore's Law we will see this evolution continue for some time.

I've include Brown's response to Carr's article in my post.

I suggest using simulation

The person who practice business. This means that this practitioner is currently in business.

Any organization is a structured entity, defined by its membership(number of employees), and authority responsibility relationship (organization structure). Information system links & interlinks all the functional areas of the organization; thereby developing Management Information System, which is an important management tool. If the question is about information system dealing with HR and has been named as Human Resource Information system, then the elements are specifically related to the employees at all levels in the organization which will tell about employees' educational background,experience, achievement, on the job performance, training needs if any, potential for growth etc. These information will help in identifying and developing Human Capital as per the strategic requirement of the organization to create competitive advantage for growth and development. Competitive advantage can be created through strategic approach towards organizational resources, which are Human resource, Financial resource and Technological resource.

A fantastic comment yesterday from a previous head of school talking about how effectively the central administration were able to direct each school, and generally on the issue of managing academics - "We've got no carrots and no sticks". I tried to develop a small IT system to work across schools, and one person didn't want to join in. That killed the project.

Your major challenge is not a technical one.

There are various types of infrastructure, information and ways of storing the information. A key data component of all infrastructure is its spatial location.

Consultants working on a design review of a metro project in Vietnam are using a task and information (~ documents) management system called DrawMGT. The government agency responsible for the project with take over the information system when the project has been completed.

see http://wiki.softxs.ch/softxs/DrawMGT/Overview

In Bangladesh the Local Government Engineering Department is using GIS as a basis for planning and managing rural roads (see the document "Planning Guidelines for Rural Road Master Plan" from the LGED's GIS unit)

New Zealand apparently has a Location Referencing Management System which includes an Exor Spatial Data Manager. It is run by the New Zealand Transit Agency.

Germany must have several GIS-based road network information applications. The road and transport research society FGSV will hold ist next related conference, called Strassen-Geo-Kongress 2013, in March of next year.

The German company Logiball has worked on a GIS system for forest roads, working with the Kuratorium für Waldarbeit und Forsttechnik e.V. - but I am not sure what data has been included or related to the GIS.

Do you want to be able to map a new user to one of existing profile based on user behavior? I have done this before

Management Information System (MIS) arose from the key element of assisting management of an organisation or enterprise in capturing, processing, storage and retireval of relevant, up-to-date and demand driven data and information for management functions including follow up on the daily actitvities of the entity. This became absolutely necessary with the introduction of computers or with the development of a computer supported working environment. Since most functions and activities of an organisation are carried out or assisted with the increasing use and application of computers in either a standalone, local or wide area network with several layers of staff in any enterprise, there is increasing need to capture, process and retrieve data/information to the different layers of management to allow them carry out decisions and other related management functions, thus the term MIS. Now since the environment is collaborative ie 'shared' for example in the field of education where there are managers, policy makers, teachers, and students, this certainly demands the exchange and sharing of vital information amongst the many players in either the execution of duties, policy direction and further to furnish data and information to guide in decision making and to yield valuable statistics on eg studend enrolment, course schedules, admissions, examinations, recruitment, promotions and provision of exam results. This calls for the collaborative envrionment and the creation of either a local, wide or virtual information/electronic network to facilitate the creation of joint databases, platforms and hubs of data/information that could easily feed and serve all the people involved in the field of education. This would certainly have several querries/search engines for the relevant information from all the stakeholders. MIS has over the years increasingly grown to include almost all the functions/areas of management of an enterprise in all fields of knowledge and practice. Therefore MIS efficiently and effectively works in a computer assisted environmnent unlike those days when paper records were the mode of communication and storage of data/information. Records management in the olden days used paper based storage and processing facilities that had a lot of disadvantages including huge volumes of data/lack of storage space and difficulty in retrieval of relevant information. Thus the advent of the computer facilitated the use of electronic information processing/management that eventually led to the development of MIS in today's modern management portfolios. Collobration amongst all stakeholders has been greatly augmented with the increasing use, application and promotion of computer-based environments where speed, accuracy, retrieval and computational aspects of information processing have benefited. Therfore the use of MIS in the field of education cannot be overemphasised since this applies to almost all the fields of knowledge and practice the world over.