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New Approaches to Technology in HE Management
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Cobb, Chris – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2012
Most UK universities can trace their current management information systems back to significant investments made in the 1990s, largely fuelled by concerns about the millenium bug and a change from character interfaces to graphical user interfaces following the introduction of the personal computer. It was during this period that institutions also…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Foreign Countries, Computer Interfaces, Technology Uses in Education
An Exploration of the Impact of an Open Governance Approach on Strategic Decision Making, Collaboration, Organizational Change, and Sustainability
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Hensley, Kendra – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Total quality management based governance models tend to focus on incremental improvements within the boundaries of a single organization. This may limit the benefits of information technology because they are not complex enough to address business or performance problems that extend beyond the boundaries of a single organization. The research…
Descriptors: Total Quality Management, Cooperation, Interviews, Program Effectiveness
Achieving Solution Success: An Investigation of User Participation Approaches
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Mattia, Angela Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
User participation and its relationship to system success have been discussed in the information systems (IS) literature from many theoretical and practical perspectives. In reality, most of this discussion is grounded in empirical research that has yielded mixed results on the importance of user participation and its relationship to system…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Computer System Design, Investigations, Network Analysis
Bibliographic Information Retrieval Systems: Increasing Cognitive Compatibility.
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Smith, Philip J.; And Others – Information Services and Use, 1987
Discusses the impact of research in artificial intelligence and human computer interaction on the design of bibliographic information retrieval systems, and presents design principles of a prototype system that uses semantically based searches and a knowledge base consisting of conceptual frames. (10 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Style, Human Factors Engineering, Man Machine Systems
The Big 5: The Evolution of the Performance Systems Model
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Tosti, Donald T. – Performance Improvement, 2005
Human Performance Technology (HPT) consists of a few principles and a host of applications. The power of HPT comes from the fact that it is fundamental to an understanding of all forms of purposeful activity, ranging from the actions of an individual to the actions of an international organization. As a practical discipline, HPT began some 40…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Systems Approach, Human Factors Engineering, Systems Development
New Look at Education Systems Analysis in Our Schools and Colleges.
Pfeiffer, John – 1968
A demand for more and better education has driven educators to seek the help of systems analysis in the process of decision making. Basic to the entire systems notion is the concept of a model, a simplified but controllable version of the real world. The systems approach, once the problem is defined, is to specify the subfunctions and…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Educational Administration