168 research outputs found
The Role of Marketing Information Systems on Business Firms Competitiveness: Integrated Review Paper from Business Perspective
This review paper point out the role of management information Systems in businesses firms competitive advantage from business perspective. Currently, information systems and technologies are a imperative components of successful and competitive businesses. Information technologies consists of Internet-based information systems are playing a vital and expanding role in enhancing firms economic growth.The experience of organizations' managers needs to be provided with the necessary information to reduce risks and make the most appropriate decisions. Thus, firms turn to information systems for the provision of information as firms asset which supplements decision making and performance of business.For the last three decades, different types of information systems are emerged for different intention, depending on the need of the business firms. In today’s very competitive business world, there are various information systems are emerged such as transaction processing systems (TPS), office automation systems (OAS), managerial information systems (MIS), decision support systems (DSS), and executive information systems (EIS), Expert System (ES) and others that supports decision making at different levels of management. In addition to this, there are several functional business systems which enables functional areas managers to make right decision and support business operation in functional areas of business (marketing, manufacturing and production, human resource, accounting) and cross functional business information livelihood information-processing and decision-making needs of several departments such as Supply chain management systems (SCM), customer relationship management systems (CRM), enterprise resource planning systems (ERP). Each information systems, functional and cross functional systems plays a different role in organizational hierarchy and management operations. To purpose of this review, reviewer collected different information related with marketing/management information system that supports business decision making and enhances firms competitiveness. This review paper study endeavors to explain the role information systems in business organizations competitiveness. Keywords: Business Organ0i0 zation, Competitiveness, Strategic advantage, Information Systems. DOI: 10.7176/JMCR/72-01 Publication date:October 31st 202
Electronic Database Support Systems for Strategic Planning Activities in the Hospitality Industry
An electronic database support system for strategic planning activities can be built by providing conceptual and system specific information. The design and development of this type of system center around the information needs of strategy planners. Data that supply information on the organization\u27s internal and external environments must be originated, evaluated, collected, organized, managed, and analyzed. Strategy planners may use the resulting information to improve their decision making
Semi-Cycled Generative Adversarial Networks for Real-World Face Super-Resolution
Real-world face super-resolution (SR) is a highly ill-posed image restoration
task. The fully-cycled Cycle-GAN architecture is widely employed to achieve
promising performance on face SR, but prone to produce artifacts upon
challenging cases in real-world scenarios, since joint participation in the
same degradation branch will impact final performance due to huge domain gap
between real-world and synthetic LR ones obtained by generators. To better
exploit the powerful generative capability of GAN for real-world face SR, in
this paper, we establish two independent degradation branches in the forward
and backward cycle-consistent reconstruction processes, respectively, while the
two processes share the same restoration branch. Our Semi-Cycled Generative
Adversarial Networks (SCGAN) is able to alleviate the adverse effects of the
domain gap between the real-world LR face images and the synthetic LR ones, and
to achieve accurate and robust face SR performance by the shared restoration
branch regularized by both the forward and backward cycle-consistent learning
processes. Experiments on two synthetic and two real-world datasets demonstrate
that, our SCGAN outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on recovering the face
structures/details and quantitative metrics for real-world face SR. The code
will be publicly released at https://github.com/HaoHou-98/SCGAN
Framework for Adoption of Customer Relationship Management System in Hospital
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems enable hospitals to provide better quality of services, to improve customers' satisfaction, and to increase their profitability and competitiveness. However, there is little attention and lack of adoption of the CRM systems in private hospitals in Malaysia. Moreover, few studies have investigated the factors influencing the adoption of the CRM systems in private hospitals in Malaysia. The main objective of this study is therefore to develop an adoption framework of the CRM system for hospitals.Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect the data from the top management employees in private hospitals in Malaysia. A total of 148 questionnaires distributed in which 79 questionnaires (53%) were returned. The data of 72 valid questionnaires were analysed using Correlation and Multiple Regression techniques to validate the framework. The framework, adapted from the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) theory and the Model of Information System (IS) Innovation, was built to relate innovation, organizational, and environmental factors to the perception of the CRM system's benefits and implementation plans. Findings indicate that innovation, organizational, and environmental factors have positive significant relationships (p > 0.05). The results of the study such as the constructed framework, provide a set of adoption guidelines that contributes to a successful adoption and implementation of the CRM systems. The framework also contributes to the body of knowledge in the DOI theory, the Model of IS Innovation, and the CRM domain. In practical, the results have many implications such as emphasizing on the roles of the CRM systems on solving major problems in hospitals and encouraging the vendors of the CRM systems to improve their marketing strategies and to provide the CRM systems at reasonable prices
The Teachers\u27 Perspective of Critical Thinking Skills Development in Middle School Gifted Students in the Social Studies Classroom through the Use of Primary Sources
Gifted education, although having been a part of the United States educational fabric since the early 1900s, has various definitions and programs throughout the nation. Many gifted students are being placed in regular education programs without consideration of their needs. In 1991 Wineburg began researching and proposing using primary sources for analyzing and research skills in social studies classrooms as a possible way to meet the needs of gifted students while teaching problem solving and critical thinking skills. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to discover two connected concepts: The perception middle school social studies teachers\u27 have toward critical thinking skills and the development of critical thinking skills in gifted students, particularly through the use of primary sources. This phenomenon was researched with the cooperation of nine participants in a medium sized school district in South Carolina. Among the nine participants, three are National Board certified, two are endorsed for gifted education through the South Carolina Department of Education, and their teaching experience varied from one to twenty years. Using the constant comparative method, data were collected through survey, interviews, and classroom observations. The data indicated that these middle school social studies teachers had knowledge of and utilized primary sources to develop critical thinking skills even though they had not previously defined the concept. However, they were lacking professional development and knowledge of gifted students\u27 needs in the classroom
Image-based Decision Support Systems: Technical Concepts, Design Knowledge, and Applications for Sustainability
Unstructured data accounts for 80-90% of all data generated, with image data contributing its largest portion. In recent years, the field of computer vision, fueled by deep learning techniques, has made significant advances in exploiting this data to generate value. However, often computer vision models are not sufficient for value creation. In these cases, image-based decision support systems (IB-DSSs), i.e., decision support systems that rely on images and computer vision, can be used to create value by combining human and artificial intelligence. Despite its potential, there is only little work on IB-DSSs so far.
In this thesis, we develop technical foundations and design knowledge for IBDSSs and demonstrate the possible positive effect of IB-DSSs on environmental sustainability. The theoretical contributions of this work are based on and evaluated in a series of artifacts in practical use cases: First, we use technical experiments to demonstrate the feasibility of innovative approaches to exploit images for IBDSSs.
We show the feasibility of deep-learning-based computer vision and identify future research opportunities based on one of our practical use cases. Building on this, we develop and evaluate a novel approach for combining human and artificial intelligence for value creation from image data. Second, we develop design knowledge that can serve as a blueprint for future IB-DSSs. We perform two design science research studies to formulate generalizable principles for purposeful design — one for IB-DSSs and one for the subclass of image-mining-based decision support systems (IM-DSSs). While IB-DSSs can provide decision support based on single images, IM-DSSs are suitable when large amounts of image data are available and required for decision-making. Third, we demonstrate the viability of applying IBDSSs to enhance environmental sustainability by performing life cycle assessments for two practical use cases — one in which the IB-DSS enables a prolonged product lifetime and one in which the IB-DSS facilitates an improvement of manufacturing processes.
We hope this thesis will contribute to expand the use and effectiveness of imagebased decision support systems in practice and will provide directions for future research
The Design of an Effective, Economical Executive Information System For Cedarville College
The managers of a corporation have an obligation to make the best use of available organizational resources for daily operational activities of the corporation and for long-range development. This requirement for efficient management certainly obtains for higher education, as declining student populations and shrinking funding sources argue for an even greater need to manage well. One important aspect of efficient management is having sufficient information for decision making. This dissertation addresses the need for electronic tools to assist officers of a higher education institution in the management of the institution by improving access to information. College administrators need information about the status of their institution, projections of enrollment and funding, and comparative data from other institutions. This dissertation presents a systems analysis model for provision of that management data in the form of an executive information system (EIS).
A review of the literature on executive information systems reveals extensive EIS activity in the commercial environment, but very little EIS activity within higher education. Recent declines in hardware pricing and the appearance of economical productivity software have made the development of an EIS more feasible within higher education. The literature review includes a discussion of information requirements for executives, historical development of executive information systems, and commercial executive information systems.
The design section of the dissertation presents a framework for development of an EIS for Cedarville College. The recent installation of a campus-wide network has provided desktop computing access to administrative officers of the college, but there is not yet an appropriate software system which would utilize this network for administrative information delivery. The design framework includes a requirements analysis, a preliminary feasibility study, testing procedures, and an implementation plan for the development of an executive information system for Cedarville College.
The requirements analysis performed as part of the study are based on interviews with administrators and middle-managers at Cedarville College. The identified requirements include a description of major decision making to be supported and the types of data which are typically used in support of that decision making. Following the requirements analysis, the author presents a review of five commercially-available EIS software packages. The review includes a description of each product, pricing information, and an overview of the data structures used by each product. As part of the analysis procedure, a prototype EIS was designed and implemented in three of the packages. The entire EIS design and prototype implementations were reviewed by Cedarville College participants and by four external reviewers. The systems analysis efforts performed as part of this study have resulted in an increased awareness of information requirements within the College administration and middle-management. The proposed EIS design and corresponding prototypes have demonstrated the feasibility of improving executive information support within the College. Such a design can provide an effective EIS for Cedarville College. However, development of the EIS prototypes has highlighted the importance of continued active participation by executives and systems analysts in the ongoing evolution of the executive information system. While EIS software costs can be identified and kept within a fairly small budget, personnel support issues may outweigh any software costs involved in an EIS project. Thus, delivery of an economical EIS for Cedarville College and other similar colleges remains an area for ongoing research
Early Intervention and Prediction of Risk Management Issues in Law Enforcement: A Phenomenological Study
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to research the Early Intervention Systems (EIS) and prediction of risk management issues in law enforcement. The following questions guided the study: How do law enforcement personnel describe their experience with EIS programs as an intervention for officers with behavioral or conduct issues? How do EIS programs affect law enforcement agencies as a whole? What indicators could law enforcement supervisors look for in officers to circumvent misconduct (on or off duty)? What interventions have been observed personally or with other officers regarding discipline, counseling, additional training, etc.?
The setting for this study was based on active and retired law enforcement personnel in various agencies throughout the United States, specifically South Carolina and Texas, that have experience with EIS programs. Interviews and surveys were coded and analyzed for major themes. The following themes were identified: EIS delivery methods are essential for troubled officers\u27 success; training is a crippling factor; lack of support and funding for such programs. Participants felt that a lack of funding and supervisor training on EIS programs is debilitating. Future research would be beneficial on this same topic with varying demographic populations, a more focused look at EIS software availability, and a survey to identify gaps in supervisors identifying officer misconduct
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