Challenges and influential factors in ERP adoption and implementation

The adoption and implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is a challenging and expensive task that not only requires rigorous efforts but also demands to have a detailed analysis of such factors that are critical to the adoption or implementation of ERP systems. Many efforts have been made to identify such influential factors for ERP; however, they are not filtered comprehensively in terms of the different perspectives. This paper focuses on the ERP critical success factors from five different perspectives such as: stakeholders; process; technology; organisation; and project. Results from the literature review are presented and 19 such factors are identified that are imperative for a successful ERP implementation, which are listed in order of their importance. Considering these factors can realize several benefits such as reducing costs and saving time or extra effort

2013 Research Day Abstract Listing

Highlighting and recognizing graduate and undergraduate student research throughout all disciplines at the University of Northern Colorado. Abstracts of oral and poster presentations from student researchers, presented at UNC\u27s Annual Research Conference during Academic Excellence Week

Ingénierie pédagogique des systèmes d'enseignement supérieur

Our works are set in the field of higher-education systems pedagogical engineering. Our early works deal with the modeling of university practices. We expressed a conceptual framework for the evolution of acquiring knowledge modules to integrate the acquisition of high-level cognitive skills and professional competencies. Next, we have defined a frame to help define pedagogical scenarios more formally. The challenge was to get pedagogical scenarios that favored a higher pedagogical expressiveness compared to existing standards such as IMS-Learning Design (IMS-LD), while begin formal enough to be implemented, at least semi-automatically, on different e-learning platforms. This approach was validated thanks to the Assistance for Contextualized MoDeling of learning systems (ACoMoD) method. Finally, we developed a project-based learning pedagogical method, Multi-Role Project, applied to the teaching of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). One goal is to project our results in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), which raise challenges of their ownNos travaux s'inscrivent dans le domaine de l'ingénierie pédagogique des systèmes d'enseignement supérieur. Nos premiers travaux se sont portés sur la modélisation des pratiques universitaires. Nous avons ainsi dégagé un cadre conceptuel d’évolution d’acquisition de connaissances disciplinaires en vue d'intégrer l’acquisition de compétences cognitives professionnelles et de haut niveau. Ensuite, nous avons travaillé à définir un cadre de définition de scénarios pédagogiques plus formel. L'enjeu était d'obtenir des scénarios pédagogiques qui permettent une expressivité pédagogique qui dépasse celle des standards existants tels IMS-Learning Design (IMS-LD) tout en étant suffisamment formalisé pour se prêter à un traitement informatique et être implémenté, au moins semi automatiquement, dans différentes plateformes de e-learning. Cette approche a été validée en utilisant la méthode Assistance for Contextualized MoDeling of learning systems (ACoMoD). Enfin nous développons une méthode de pédagogie par projet, Multi-Rôles Project, autour des problématiques de l'enseignement en Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Un des buts est de projeter nos résultats dans l'implémentation des Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) qui pose des défis particuliers

A novel approach to risk exposure and epigenetics—the use of multidimensional context to gain insights into the early origins of cardiometabolic and neurocognitive health

Background: Each mother–child dyad represents a unique combination of genetic and environmental factors. This constellation of variables impacts the expression of countless genes. Numerous studies have uncovered changes in DNA methylation (DNAm), a form of epigenetic regulation, in offspring related to maternal risk factors. How these changes work together to link maternal-child risks to childhood cardiometabolic and neurocognitive traits remains unknown. This question is a key research priority as such traits predispose to future non-communicable diseases (NCDs). We propose viewing risk and the genome through a multidimensional lens to identify common DNAm patterns shared among diverse risk profiles. Methods: We identified multifactorial Maternal Risk Profiles (MRPs) generated from population-based data (n = 15,454, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)). Using cord blood HumanMethylation450 BeadChip data, we identified genome-wide patterns of DNAm that co-vary with these MRPs. We tested the prospective relation of these DNAm patterns (n = 914) to future outcomes using decision tree analysis. We then tested the reproducibility of these patterns in (1) DNAm data at age 7 and 17 years within the same cohort (n = 973 and 974, respectively) and (2) cord DNAm in an independent cohort, the Generation R Study (n = 686).Results:We identified twenty MRP-related DNAm patterns at birth in ALSPAC. Four were prospectively related to cardiometabolic and/or neurocognitive childhood outcomes. These patterns were replicated in DNAm data from blood collected at later ages. Three of these patterns were externally validated in cord DNAm data in Generation R. Compared to previous literature, DNAm patterns exhibited novel spatial distribution across the genome that intersects with chromatin functional and tissue-specific signatures. Conclusions: To our knowledge, we are the first to leverage multifactorial population-wide data to detect patterns of variability in DNAm. This context-based approach decreases biases stemming from overreliance on specific samples or variables. We discovered molecular patterns demonstrating prospective and replicable relations to complex traits. Moreover, results suggest that patterns harbour a genome-wide organisation specific to chromatin regulation and target tissues. These preliminary findings warrant further investigation to better reflect the reality of human context in molecular studies of NCDs. Graphical Abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.].</p

Teaching Difficult Subjects in a Digital Society: Investigating the Application of Games and Technology for Inclusive Sex Education

Sex education in schools has become a topic of controversy in several Ontario communities since the launch, repeal, and re-launch of an update to the 1998 Health & Physical Education (H&PE) curriculum in 2015-2019. This research project investigates the relationship between children, education, technology and sexuality, with a focus on leveraging digital games for inclusive learning around difficult subjects that help to foster engagement and strengthen parent-teacher-student relationships. Various literature, pedagogical approaches, and game-based methods are analyzed, and a sex education game prototype, Inclusafe, is used as a test subject to establish a framework for digital game-based learning for difficult subjects. A new, remixed model is proposed, which the game is tested against, and recommendations are provided for future improvement. Although the focus of this paper is on sex education, the proposed model has potential to be reused and applied to the teaching of other difficult subjects

Facilities Redesign of Stockroom at Elcon Precision

Elcon Precision is a company based out of San Jose, California specializing in the photochemical processing of materials and brazing of metals and ceramics for a variety of different industries. Three students from the Industrial Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo were contacted by Elcon Precision to help redesign their stockroom and inventory areas in their San Jose location in order to allow for the future growth of the company. Elcon asked the Cal Poly project team to help increase efficiencies throughout the stockroom by creating an alternative layout that best suited the company\u27s needs. This report will provide an in depth analysis of the Cal Poly project team\u27s approach to achieve a more efficient layout for the Elcon Precision stockroom

Salford postgraduate annual research conference (SPARC) 2012 proceedings

These proceedings bring together a selection of papers from the 2012 Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference (SPARC). They reflect the breadth and diversity of research interests showcased at the conference, at which over 130 researchers from Salford, the North West and other UK universities presented their work. 21 papers are collated here from the humanities, arts, social sciences, health, engineering, environment and life sciences, built environment and business

Responding to Complexity with Humility: A Systems-oriented Approach to Strategic Communication

Systemic design has emerged as both a theory and a practice that integrates design thinking and systems thinking to work with complex issues. It acts as a platform for design disciplines to develop and evolve according to the scope of complexity that needs to be addressed. This Major Research Project (MRP) looks at how systemic design influences an organization’s communication practice. It explores how the practice of strategic communication – the planned process of delivering a relevant message to a specific audience to achieve an objective – can be adapted to help organizations better reflect and respond to the real-world complexity of their issues (wicked problems) and stakeholders. Using a case study focused on the Canadian news media ecosystem, a strategic communication plan is developed to reflect and respond to the interconnected problems and stakeholders across business, technology, regulatory, and cultural contexts. The paper identifies the first set of learnings on how the principles of systemic design can inform the development of “systems communications” and how this practice is distinguished from strategic communication. It offers future research areas to explore systems communications further and discover the potential value for organizations

Exploring the Role of Employee Age in Improving ICT Adoption Projects: Lessons Learned from Enterprise System Practitioners

This study aims to investigate the role of employees’ age in improving ICT adoption projects. In doing so, the current study draws from the opinions of enterprise systems (ES) practitioners collected during an exploratory research in Poland. The discovered recommendations for improving ES adoptions have been categorized into a two-level taxonomy and then analyzed from the respondent age perspective. The main findings suggest that the strong points of older workers involve their people-oriented approach to various issues connected with system, training, provider, and project preparation. However, on the other hand, the elderly need training on modern management techniques and ICT, which would reduce differences in their perception of the implementation process- and system-related areas as compared to younger workers. The awareness of strong and weak points of the elderly in the context of their experience with ES and eliminating shortcomings should contribute to their greater digital inclusion