Case Study 1: Florida Department of Management Services‚ Part I Gwendolyn Harris Strayer University CIS 505/ Week 4 Case Study Introduction In the early 1990s‚ the Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) had built up a large information systems network that served state government agencies in 10 regional sites and connected these to the data center in Tallahassee. The network was based on the use of the proprietary Systems Network Architecture (SNA) from IBM and a mainframe
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Per capita income as a measure of prosperity Per capita income is often used as average income‚ a measure of the wealth of the population of a nation‚ particularly in comparison to other nations. Per capita income is often used to measure a country’s standard of living. It is usually expressed in terms of a commonly used international currency such as the Euro or United States dollar‚ and is useful because it is widely known‚ easily calculated from readily-available GDP and population estimates
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promoting the vision of an organization: 1. Educate staff about what a vision is and why it is important. 2. Develop a process to involve all staff in creating the vision. 3. Ask for specific input from the various groups within the organization. 4. Hold a planning session or retreat to gather input and shape the vision statement. 5. The leader should share information‚ lead the process‚ and shape the vision statement. 6. Draft the vision statement. 7. Communicate and reinforce the vision to staff
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In these times of internationalisation and globalisation‚ international human resource management is becoming an important concept for human resource practitioners to be aware of and to practise. This is vital for human resource managers in multinational corporations and international joint ventures‚ and also for domestic based human resource managers who import staff from overseas. In order to keep up with the pace‚ human resource managers will have to have a global vision of
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Explain and illustrate the roles and functions of a marketing department. The marketing department studies the market and the target customers‚ decides the best way to reach these customers‚ and works with the rest of the company to help determine the new product needs of the market. The marketing department of a company carries out marketing strategies and plans. If the company is very small‚ one person might do all of the marketing work such as research‚ selling‚ advertising
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Artifact-Centric Business Process Models: Brief Survey of Research Results and Challenges Richard Hull IBM T.J. Watson Research Center‚ Yorktown Heights‚ NY‚ USA Abstract. A data-centric approach to business process and workflow modeling has been emerging over the past several years. This short paper presents a structured framework for a class of data-centric business process models‚ which are based on “business artifacts”. The paper provides a brief survey of research results on artifact-centric
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technology (IT) in the world of business process improvement can take many forms. From an automation standpoint‚ no one knows more about the subject than the IT professionals within an organization. From the business unit perspective‚ no one knows more than the department professionals. The article selected for this analysis is titled "Whose is Process Improvement Anyway?" by Meridith Levinson. It describes two separate organizations that utilize IT in their business process improvement strategies. It
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Treasury Department is an executive agency responsible for promoting economic success and is a safeguard for the financial security of the United States (About). Established by Congress in 1789‚ the Treasury Department has changed and grown as the United States has‚ and today it is one of the most important agencies of our government. This paper will entail the history‚ functions‚ and differing viewpoints of the Treasury Department. First and foremost‚ there are the origins of the department. Established
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M12/3/BUSMT/HP1/ENG/TZ0/XX 22125011 BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT HIGHER LEVEL PAPER 1 Friday 18 May 2012 (afternoon) 2 hours 15 minutes INSTRUCTIONS to candidates not open this examination paper until instructed to do so. Do clean copy of the Business and Management case study is required for this examination A paper. Read the case study carefully. Section A: answer two questions. Section B: answer the compulsory question. Section C: answer the compulsory question
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1 Introduction Business Link‚ describes Business Plan as a “roadmap for future development” and has an essential role for every enterprises. The document narrates “a business‚ its objectives‚ its strategies‚ the market it is in and its financial forecasts” and it serves several functions to business unit from securing external funding to measuring success within the business (2008). As a statement of intent‚ business plan displays “where you are now and where you want to go” (Cracknell‚ 2006)
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