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Application of Kansei Engineering Method in the development of e-Government job portals
Nowadays, companies often find it difficult to predict consumersâ needs and
requirements and have been looking for ways to quantify customersâ impression on
their products. Kansei Engineering (KE) is a method originated from Japan that could
be used in achieving the companiesâ goal. This method is often used in humanoriented
product development to generate products with improved economic value. In
this study, Kansei Engineering is applied in website development. This study reveals
that e-government websites in Malaysia have lower usability values among the others
website domains. There is a significant potential of improving the usability value of
the e-Government job portals by implementing a effective usability testing
methodology on them. This study aimed to use usability as a testing method by
applying Kansei Engineering in the evaluation of e-Government job portals in
Malaysia. This study proposes to improve the quality of job-seeking website managed
by Malaysia government by measuring the user experience of the website users. The
research is aimed to address the dominant factors that affect the impression of a user
on the website as well as to compare the design elements of other sample job-seeking
websites. Methodologies devised from the investigation are based on proven and
existing approaches by other researchers of the same field. Thus, recommendations
obtained and analysis of the results shall be useful to guide the improvement of
existing job portals to better serve the good cause of its existence
A highly configurable query-oriented portal for a co-operative environment
Web portals and âmyâ portals are now commonplace but they are constructed along familiar lines with
hierarchical management structure. Typically one or more owners of data will allow a larger group of
people to view data in rigid, pre-planned ways. Historically data on the web was presented on static
pages. Nowadays the data is likely to be drawn from a database, but it still tends to be presented in a
layout defined by the supplier. This suggests that it might be fruitful to consider what designs might be
natural or possible in a cooperative, trusting, egalitarian environment. Although this ideal situation is
rarely, if ever, truly found in real life it may be that some of the ideas will be appealing and find
application even in an imperfect environment
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Integrating information and knowledge for enterprise innovation
It has widely been accepted that enterprise integration, can be a source of socio-technical and cultural problems within organisations wishing to provide a focussed end-to-end business service. This can cause possible âstraitjacketingâ of business process architectures, thus suppressing responsive business re-engineering and competitive advantage for some companies. Accordingly, the current typology and emergent forms of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) technologies are set in the context of understanding information and knowledge integration philosophies. As such, key influences and trends in emerging IS integration choices, for end-to-end, cost-effective and flexible knowledge integration, are examined. As touch points across and outside organisations proliferate, via work-flow and relationship management-driven value innovation, aspects of knowledge refinement and knowledge integration pose challenges to maximising the potential of innovation and sustainable success, within enterprises. This is in terms of the increasing propensity for data fragmentation and the lack of effective information management, in the light of information overload. Furthermore, the nature of IS mediation which is inherent within decision making and workflow-based business processes, provides the basis for evaluation of the effects of information and knowledge integration. Hence, the authors propose a conceptual, holistic evaluation framework which encompasses these ideas. It is thus argued that such trends, and their implications regarding enterprise IS integration to engender sustainable competitive advantage, require fundamental re-thinking
A New Conception of War
In 1989, the Marine Corps formally adopted a theory of conflict called maneuver warfare and described its tenets in a short but revolutionary doctrinal manual simply titled Warfighting. This conflict theory evolved along two paths that wound their way through the landscape of the late Cold War period before coming together in 1989. A New Conception of War traces this story from the postâVietnam War years to the present. The first path was forged by U.S. Air Force colonel John R. Boyd, whose ideas on warfare were shaped by a military career during the height of the Cold War and his own passion for challenging conventional wisdom in the search for new and useful ideas. The second path was navigated by many thinkers within the Marine Corps during a period of institutional soul-searching after Vietnam, driven by the Corpsâ imperative to adapt to the exigencies of the day and thus remain a useful contributor to national defense. Drawing on new and previously unpublished material from the major players of this period, including a full transcript of Boydâs âPatterns of Conflictâ lecture, A New Conception of War captures a period of remarkable intellectual ferment within the Marine Corps and the development of a unique conceptual framework for warfighting that continues to inspire Marines today
The evolving landscape of learning technology
This paper provides an overview of the current and emerging issues in learning technology research, concentrating on structural issues such as infrastructure, policy and organizational context. It updates the vision of technology outlined by Squiresâ (1999) concept of peripatetic electronic teachers (PETs) where Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) provide an enabling medium to allow teachers to act as freelance agents in a virtual world and reflects to what extent this vision has been realized The paper begins with a survey of some of the key areas of ICT development and provides a contextualizing framework for the area in terms of external agendas and policy drivers. It then focuses upon learning technology developments which have occurred in the last five years in the UK and offers a number of alternative taxonomies to describe this. The paper concludes with a discussion of the issues which arise from this work
GUISET: A CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF A GRID-ENABLED PORTAL FOR E-COMMERCE ON-DEMAND SERVICES
Conventional grid-enabled portal designs have been largely influenced by the usual functional requirements such as security requirements, grid resource requirements and job management requirements. However, the pay-as-you-use service provisioning model of utility computing platforms mean that additional requirements must be considered in order to realize effective grid-enabled portals design for such platforms. This work investigates those relevant additional
requirements that must be considered for the design of grid-enabled portals for utility computing
contexts.
Based on a thorough review of literature, we identified a number of those relevant additional
requirements, and developed a grid-enabled portal prototype for the Grid-based Utility
Infrastructure for SMME-enabling Technology (GUISET) initiative â a utility computing platform.
The GUISET portal was designed to cater for both the traditional grid requirements and some of
the relevant additional requirements for utility computing contexts. The result of the evaluation of
the GUISET portal prototype using a set of benchmark requirements (standards) revealed that it
fulfilled the minimum requirements to be suitable for the utility context
Best Practices of Creating Innovation Exchange Web Portals Across the States
Since their initial development in the late 1990s, expert web portals have been an evolving tool for universities, systems of higher education, and economic development organizations. The web portals are searchable, web-based databases of university scholars and researchers that feature, at a minimum, information on their expertise, innovation products and publications. Many of the portals are growing to include information on universitiesâ physical assets and equipment, regional strengths, and additional services such as networking and analytical tools for research.
Although these searchable databases have proven useful in helping economic development leaders, government, research colleagues, and internal university staff, their role in generating industry-university collaboration is disputable. Recently, more demonstrable and tangible results of deploying innovation and building partnerships from these portals are becoming a sought-after objective for funders and stakeholders. However, none of the portalsâ administrative teams have been able to specifically measure the impact of interaction generated via the portal on industry or the regional economy at large. Developing and sustaining these tools is costly and time consuming; instead, many stakeholders involved deem them a necessary public good â a ânon-rivalrous and non-excludableâ knowledge resource that everyone can consume with no restrictions. Therefore, evaluation of the return on investment of these portals has been largely ignored by involved parties. This, along with the cost of developing and maintaining such portals, serves as a growing obstacle to sustaining them. It has been argued that unless these portals are specifically designed with industry in mind, they do very little for commercial users.
This report is a summary of the results of a study assessing best practices and challenges facing existing web portals created to promote university resources to a broader audience. It intends to inform interested parties in Ohio about the ecosystems that surround existing web portals in other states. The report analyzes ecologies of existing web portals in other states, addresses the role of âsuper usersâ (i.e. organizations that can reach industry users, such as economic development agencies) play in enhancing the successful utilization of a web portal, and considers sustainable funding and training mechanisms surrounding existing web portals.
This study was conducted by researchers from the Center for Economic Development at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. The research was funded by the Ohio Manufacturing Institute of Ohio State University through an Ohio Development Services Agency grant and with input from the Ohio Department of Higher Education Ohio Innovation Exchange industry engagement team.
The study is based on a review of the latest academic literature concerning university-industry relationships, applied and technical reports provided by relevant web portals, and extensive interviews with selected portalsâ managing teams. Additionally, the report provides a methodology, summarizes lessons learned, and illustrates a detailed description of seven web portals: Florida ExpertNet, Michigan MCRN, New York FuzeHub, North Carolina ReachNC, Texas InFluuent, Arizona Experts, and University of Californiaâs Technology Transfer. The report concludes with recommendations for developing Innovation Exchange Hub in Ohio and Appendices detailing the literature review
Estimating Errors: the Politics of Environmental Impact Assessment Along the Savannah River
In this dissertation research, I investigate three interrelated conflicts which emerged as part of an environmental impact assessment along the Savannah River in the late 1990s: a controversial plan to improve water quality through supplemental oxygen injection; a lengthy struggle over federal funding policies that constrained efforts to address scientific uncertainty; and an entrenched refusal to investigate human health risks from air toxics at the Port of Savannah. In each of these conflicts, I trace the dismantling of controversy, investigating how, and with what effect, the slow and tedious work of building consensus has reshaped the governance of the lower Savannah River. Drawing on extensive archival and ethnographic work in Savannah, Georgia, I find that different constitutions, manipulations, and deployments of space--in the form of habitat suitability maps or containerized cargo forecast projections--enabled long-standing and intensified controversies to be channeled into consensus. In doing so, I argue that environmental impact assessment in Savannah is aimed at constituting the city and the river as sites of both modern industrial port operations and sleepy, moss-covered, bucolic Southern landscapes, in a tension-filled effort to remain articulated with both the tremendous flows of financial capital from global shipping and historic tourism that converge on the city. First, my analysis of efforts to improve water quality through supplemental oxygen highlights the intricate spatial arrangements necessary to make these efforts work. Next, my study of adaptive management politics reveals the ways in which memory and its material traces erode institutional risk-aversion, opening new opportunities for better resource management and increased ecological resilience. Lastly, my investigation of air toxics at the Port of Savannah reveals how different constructions of space are combined, intersected, and overlapped in ways that erase human health risks and construct compliance with federal environmental justice policy. Taken together, these conflicts suggest that space serves as a strategic resource in environmental impact assessments, contributing to how problems get defined and solutions get proposed. Further, this research underlines the need for greater attention to the active role of spatial constructs--boundaries, networks, scales, or pathways--in environmental impact assessment practice and policy
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