While research in academic and professional information technology (IT) journals address the need for strategic alignment and defined IT processes, there is little research about what factors should be considered when implementing specific IT hardware standards in an organization. The purpose of this study was to develop a set of factors for…

Describes the Operational Review Program, a process for evaluating the activities of a training organization, and comments on the program's impact. (VT)

The items selected employ or discuss the scientific method as it is applied to problems of library management. The references are grouped into four categories: General, Mathematical Programming, Modeling, and Systems Analysis. The bibliography covers approximately a fifteen-year period ending 1970. (151 references) (Author/NH)

Four sets of data and the corresponding conclusions found in Haire et al. (1966) were correlated with eight indicators obtained for fourteen countries. (Author)

Operations research methods, such as system modeling, computer simulation, mathematical programing, and the application of the theory of stochastic processes, could have validity in the field of planning in the public sector. In this volume the use of these methods in the areas of local government, urban planning, traffic control, transportation…

Research management is defined as the application of both management and management science to a particular field of research and development activities. Seven components of research management include theory and methodology; the planning, implementation, and evaluation of research programs; communications; utilization; and special applications.…

This review analyzes literaure dealing with applications of management information system (MIS) tools to educational management. Of the three levels of management--operational control, management control, and strategic planning-- the literature suggests that most activity is taking place at the operational control level. Fewest applications have…

Administering research and overseeing evaluation researchers make evident the role of attitudes and outlook in comparison to technical skill. The latter is important for evaluators. Evaluation research can be considered to have been originated in operations research. (Author/GK)

The nature and extent of systems analysis in education is discussed in terms of the following specific applications: (1) Instructional systems where the concern is with the components of the system (e.g., teachers, students, material to be taught, or audiovisual systems) and their interaction in the learning process, (2) project management systems…

Project Evaluation and Review Technique is a basic procedure for project management. (Editor)

There have been four objectives to this preliminary study on cost analysis procedures in higher education: to examine and evaluate materials on cost analysis recently gathered; to explain the basic techniques of cost studies and the uses to which they are put; to identify, if possible, the specific value of cost analysis as an administrative tool;…

A workshop conducted for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation served to orient field and central staff with a multi-disciplinary, generalist approach to environmental impact review. The program was designed to provide content input from many different environmentally-related disciplines. It was also designed to assist staff…

Systems analysis principles can be used to attain feedback'' from higher education institutions. (Author/PG)