Critical success factors for e-tendering implementation in construction collaborative environments : people and process issues

The construction industry is increasingly engulfed by globalisation where clients, business partners and customers are found in virtually every corner of the world. Communicating, reaching and supporting them are no longer optional but are imperative for continued business growth and success. A key component of enterprise communication reach is collaborative environments (for the construction industry) which allows customers, suppliers, partners and other project team members secure access to project information, products or services they need at any given moment. Implementation of the stated critical success factors of the project is essential to ensure optimal performance and benefits from the system to all parties involved. This paper presents critical success factors for the implementation of e-tendering in collaborative environments with particular considerations given to the people issues and process factors

An EPIIC Vision to Evolve Project Integration, Innovation, and Collaboration with Broad Impact for How NASA Executes Complex Projects

Evolving Project Integration, Innovation, and Collaboration (EPIIC) is a vision defined to transform the way projects manage information to support real-time decisions, capture best practices and lessons learned, perform assessments, and manage risk across a portfolio of projects. The foundational project management needs for data and information will be revolutionized through innovations on how we manage and access that data, implement configuration control, and certify compliance. The embedded intelligence of new interactive data interfaces integrate technical and programmatic data such that near real time analytics can be accomplished to more efficiently and accurately complete systems engineering and project management tasks. The system-wide data analytics that are integrated into customized data interfaces allows the growing team of engineers and managers required to develop and implement major NASA missions the ability to access authoritative source(s) of system information while greatly reducing the labor required to complete system assessments. This would allow, for example, much of what is accomplished in a scheduled design review to take place as needed, between any team members, at any time. An intelligent data interface that rigorously integrates systems engineering and project management information in near real time can provide substantially greater insight for systems engineers, project managers, and the large diverse teams required to complete a complex project. System engineers, programmatic personnel (those who focus on cost, schedule, and risk), the technical engineering disciplines, and project management can realize immediate benefit from the shared vision described herein. Implementation of the vision also enables significant improvements in the performance of the engineered system being developed

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS QUALITY SYSTEM OF STUDENT INFORMATION PROCESSING DATA NEW STUDENT SMK MUHAMMADIYAH 3 YOGYAKARTA

This research aims to design and analyze websites new Student Information System Acceptance SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta with PHP and MySQL that can manage data on the implementation of the prospective student Admission. This research is Research and Development. This website development method using modified waterfall. Tests carried out to test the quality of the website System Information by Olsina (1998), namely correctness, functionality, reliability, efficiency, maintainability, and usability. Correctness quality obtained with white-box testing (testing Looping) and black box (Graph-based testing). The quality of the obtained functionality testing State Transition Testing. Reliability Testing Load testing obtained from 30 students to enter data, and editing data and deletion of data. Efficiency assessment obtained by recording the time it takes to open a page devoted. Maintainability obtained from Cross-browser testing. Obtained from Alpa Usability testing by a team of expert website and beta testing by admin, user1, and guest. Data analysis techniques used in this research is descriptive statistical analysis. The results mennunjukkan that Admission Information System SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta can be developed and be able to perform data processing of new students of SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta. Assessment obtained information systems Admission SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta meet quality testing correctness Graph-Based and Looping testing. Admission Information Systems SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta assessed for each criterion usability. Assessment of quality functionality Admission Information Systems SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta run well on testing State transition testing. Response time performance testing conducted by Information Systems and response pages less than 2 seconds so that said system meets the quality efficiency by Shneiderman. Maintainability testing done with cross browser testing and obtained system is capable of running on Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer. Keywords: Information Systems, correctness, Usability, Functionality, Reliability, Efficiency, Maintainabilit

PERANCANGAN SISTEM APLIKASI DESKTOP PRODUKTIVITAS TIM VALIDASI PADA PERUSAHAAN MARKETING RESEARCH INDONESIA: Indonesia

Work productivity is the ability of employees to produce compared to the input used, an employee can be said to be productive if he is able to produce services in accordance with the expected time. The purpose of this study is to analyze the system that is running on the Validation Team. The research method used is the waterfall method to describe the running system and the design to be built. The method of analysis that the researcher uses is by conducting direct observations at the company, conducting research on problems, documentation by studying existing documents, and interviews with several parties involved in the Validation Team. Researchers get research results that the productivity management system is beneficial for companies, especially in the Validation Team. As for the benefits of increasing the performance of the Validation Team, the results of the information work produced will be more structured, accurate, and processing time becomes more effective. The conclusion of this research is the implementation of a productivity application system on the Validation Team, providing convenience in the work system, solving problems in recapitulating team work productivity data, and providing convenience in making the final productivity report.

National plan to enhance aviation safety through human factors improvements

The purpose of this section of the plan is to establish a development and implementation strategy plan for improving safety and efficiency in the Air Traffic Control (ATC) system. These improvements will be achieved through the proper applications of human factors considerations to the present and future systems. The program will have four basic goals: (1) prepare for the future system through proper hiring and training; (2) develop a controller work station team concept (managing human errors); (3) understand and address the human factors implications of negative system results; and (4) define the proper division of responsibilities and interactions between the human and the machine in ATC systems. This plan addresses six program elements which together address the overall purpose. The six program elements are: (1) determine principles of human-centered automation that will enhance aviation safety and the efficiency of the air traffic controller; (2) provide new and/or enhanced methods and techniques to measure, assess, and improve human performance in the ATC environment; (3) determine system needs and methods for information transfer between and within controller teams and between controller teams and the cockpit; (4) determine how new controller work station technology can optimally be applied and integrated to enhance safety and efficiency; (5) assess training needs and develop improved techniques and strategies for selection, training, and evaluation of controllers; and (6) develop standards, methods, and procedures for the certification and validation of human engineering in the design, testing, and implementation of any hardware or software system element which affects information flow to or from the human

Value Based Purchasing: Positioning a Healthcare Organization for the Future

In 2005, the Deficit Reduction Act introduced Value Based Purchasing (VBP) into the healthcare system as a means of hospital reimbursement for acute care hospitals receiving reimbursements from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). The purpose of this Capstone Project was to increase the knowledge of healthcare executives concerning Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) and VBP and the effect it will place on the organization though the utilization of a consultant program. The role of the consultant in this project is to provide expert advice to healthcare executives about the impacts of HCAHPS and provide organizational strategies to increase hospital reimbursements related to CMS and VBP. The nurse consultant theory used in this project is central to the process of health service modernization, helping to provide clients with services that are organized and structured and served as the framework for this capstone project. Robb’s (2006) guiding principles and techniques were used to guide the framework through its entirety. Additionally, using the American Association of College of Nursing’s (AACN) (2006) Doctoral of Nursing Practice (DNP) Essentials II and V supported this capstone through system changes related to healthcare policy redesign. The entire senior leadership team (7 members) of a rural acute care hospital in southwest Mississippi participated in the consultant program. A post-implementation evaluation was utilized by the DNP to give the organization a starting point for performance improvement. The DNP in this project will continue to monitor the organization for one year post implementation of the project. Information will be provided to the DNP through the Performance Improvement Committee initiated in this project. The Performance Improvement Team will use original HCAHPS scores from September 2012 and provide monthly feedback of new scores until September 2013. After this time the Performance Improvement Team will only submit data to their senior leadership team

SLS Model Based Design: A Navigation Perspective

The SLS Program has implemented a Model-based Design (MBD) and Model-based Requirements approach for managing component design information and system requirements. This approach differs from previous large-scale design efforts at Marshall Space Flight Center where design documentation alone conveyed information required for vehicle design and analysis and where extensive requirements sets were used to scope and constrain the design. The SLS Navigation Team is responsible for the Program-controlled Design Math Models (DMMs) which describe and represent the performance of the Inertial Navigation System (INS) and the Rate Gyro Assemblies (RGAs) used by Guidance, Navigation, and Controls (GN&C). The SLS Navigation Team is also responsible for navigation algorithms. The navigation algorithms are delivered for implementation on the flight hardware as a DMM. For the SLS Block 1B design, the additional GPS Receiver hardware model is managed as a DMM at the vehicle design level. This paper describes the models, and discusses the processes and methods used to engineer, design, and coordinate engineering trades and performance assessments using SLS practices as applied to the GN&C system, with a particular focus on the navigation components

Development of Dutatani Website Using Rapid Application Development

Rapid Application Development (RAD) is a methodology used to develop software. This method is able to reduce time to develop software. This becomes consideration in order to choose the Rapid Application Development as a methodology to develop Dutatani Website. Dutatani is a portal and a part of Integrated Agriculture Information System (IAIS). IAIS is an agriculture information system that has some subsystems that are connected and linked to each other. It also has an integrated database. In particular, Dutatani is able to manage user, manage content, and manage link in the IAIS. This website will be a link to other applications in the IAIS. This article especially discusses the development of the Dutatani Website using Rapid Application Development that is implemented by combining iterative development and system prototyping. There are some phases in the development using the RAD: planning, analysis, main design specific design, implementation and testing, and integrating prototype. This system was developed by a team which consists five members. The implementation of this prototyping technique was done by dividing five people into two groups in which each group had different responsibilities to different module/functions. This website had been developed within 150 days. Thus, in implementing the RAD, it is important for the team leader to monitor continuously. Monitoring is a useful technique to ensure the productivity and performance of each members in order to gain optimal development process

New Frontiers AO: Advanced Materials Bi-propellant Rocket (AMBR) Engine Information Summary

The Advanced Material Bi-propellant Rocket (AMBR) engine is a high performance (I(sub sp)), higher thrust, radiation cooled, storable bi-propellant space engine of the same physical envelope as the High Performance Apogee Thruster (HiPAT(TradeMark)). To provide further information about the AMBR engine, this document provides details on performance, development, mission implementation, key spacecraft integration considerations, project participants and approach, contact information, system specifications, and a list of references. The In-Space Propulsion Technology (ISPT) project team at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) leads the technology development of the AMBR engine. Their NASA partners were Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Aerojet leads the industrial partners selected competitively for the technology development via the NASA Research Announcement (NRA) process