To improve outome school needs to find methods for analyzing, monitor-ing and using lessons learned in decisionmaking. This study aims to inve-stigate differences when it comes to support school leaders and their per-ceptions of what analyzis can do to decisionmaking. If there are any diffe-rences in school leaders perceptions of areas of development and im-provement of the ability to conduct analysis is also investigated. My theoretical foundation is presented in Westerman´s methodology (2006). The method is hermeneutically quantitative and seeks to detect underlying structures. Based on the framework of decision theory and ”Framework theory”, founded by the Swedish professors of pedagogy Ur-ban Dahlöf and Ulf P. Lundgren the concepts was operationalizied. To answer the questions I seek a questionnarie study was conducted where 126 school leaders from preschool to secondary schools participaded. The conclutions of the study shows there are differences. School leaders, who believes that analysis of data contributes to good insight in their op-eration also believes that they have a high degree of support from muni-cipality principle. School leaders´ perceptions of areas of developement show that primary school leaders to a greater extent concider that increa-sed quality in terms of structure (developing knowledge of data and deve-lopment methods for measuring results) would help develop analysis of data in their own administration context. The established differences may be of interest to school leader in terms of municipalities and in sup-porting school leaders. The study also shows defferences between deve-lopmental areas and background variables, wich may be of interest in evaluating how the process of analysis of data linked to decisions in gene-ral works within organsations. In the light of these differences – Does our analysis of data contribute to decision making? / Att hitta metoder för att analysera, följa upp och använda lärdomar i väl grundade beslut är förskolan och skolans ansvar lokalt. Syftet med före-liggande studie är att undersöka skillnader i rektorer och förskolechefer uppfattningar om vad analys av resultat kan bidra till i de väl grundade besluten, med avseende på upplevt stöd och om det finns skillnader i rek-torer och förskolechefers uppfattningar om utvecklingsområden av ana-lys av resultat undersöks också. Min teoretiska utgångspunkt finns i Westermans metodologi (2006). Me-toden är hermeneutisk kvantitativ och söker upptäcka underliggande strukturer. Utifrån beslutsteori och ramfaktorteori, grundad av pedago-gikprofessorerna Urban Dahlöf and Ulf P. Lundgren operationaliseras be-greppen. I en enkätstudie, som besvarades av 126 skolledare från förskola till gymnasium, söks sedan svar på frågeställningarna. Slutsatserna är att det finns skillnader. Skolledare som i hög utsträckning anser att analys av resultat bidrar till verksamhetsinsikt anser också att de i hög utsträckning har stöd från huvudmannen. Skolledares uppfatt-ningar om utvecklingsområden visar att grundskolans rektorer i högre ut-sträckning anser att ökad kvalitet vad gäller struktur (att utveckla sam-manställningar av underlag och utveckla sätten att mäta resultaten) bi-drar till att utveckla analys av resultat i den egna förvaltningen. Skillna-derna kan vara av intresse för huvudmannen när det gäller uppföljning och stöd till rektorer och förskolechefer. Studien visar även på skillnader mellan utvecklingsområden och bakgrundsvariabler, vilka kan vara av in-tresse vid utvärderingar av hur processen med analys av resultat kopplad till beslut i stort fungerar. Hur ser det ut hos oss med bakgrund av dessa skillnader – bidrar våra analyser av resultat till väl grundade beslut?

This thesis gives an example of how decision analytic methods can be applied to choices in the adoption of cloud computing. The lifecycle of IT systems from planning to retirement is rapidly changing. Making a technology decision that can be justified and explained in terms of outcomes and benefits can be increasingly challenging without a systematic approach underlying the decision making process. It is proposed that better, more informed cloud adoption decisions would be taken if organisations used a structured approach to frame the problem to be solved and then applied trade-offs using an additive utility model. The trade-offs that can be made in the context of cloud adoption decisions are typically complex and rarely intuitively obvious. A structured approach is beneficial in that it enables decision makers to define and seek outcomes that deliver optimum benefits, aligned with their risk profile. The case study demonstrated that proven decision tools are helpful to decision makers faced with a complex cloud adoption decision but are likely to be more suited to the more intractable decision situations.

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:08:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z / This study focuses on the data and experiment analysis. lt will help us to understand the use of data and experimental analysis on several business administration practices including: Decision and Risk Analysis, Business Process Reengineering, Six Sigma and Taguchi Quality Systems. It also discusses thinking methods and its implementation, illustrated by examples. In addition, the study also covers the use of those analyses to develop Business Intelligence within the organization. / Trata do problema de análise de dados na administração de negócios. Aborda as tecnologias de base estatística para análise de dados e informações e apoio ao processo decisório. Abrange o uso de tecnologia de delineamento de experimentos em diversas áreas da administração apresenta o uso de delineamento de experimentos (DOX) na filosofia de Taguchi, programa de qualidade Seis Sigma e na reengenharia de processos. Descreve a geração do conhecimento ou ‘inteligência’ a partir da transformação de dados em informações e informações em conhecimento.

Orientador: Jose Wilson Magalhães Bassani / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T12:39:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rocha_LeticiaSantosda_D.pdf: 931669 bytes, checksum: a042ec9b535989c70d7e76efd1b732dc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: O Centro de Engenharia Biomédica (CEB) da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) gerencia as atividades de manutenção (corretivas e preventivas) de um parque de cerca de 10.000 equipamentos médicos da área de saúde da Universidade, que inclui dois hospitais, dois centros médicos e uma escola de medicina. Para controlar estes serviços, o setor de Engenharia Clínica do CEB possui um sistema de gerenciamento baseado em uma máquina de estados, no qual todas as ordens de serviço (OS) são caracterizadas por trajetórias compostas pelos estados pelos quais cada OS passa durante a sua execução. Os estados são microprocessos ativados para solução de tarefas específicas. Cada mudança entre microprocessos é denominada, neste sistema, transicão. A nossa hipótese de trabalho foi que seria possível implementar no CEB um método de cálculo do custo das OS utilizando a técnica de custeio por atividade (Activity Based Costing, ABC). Para testar esta hipótese, tomamos as atividades (unidades fundamentais para a composição do custo ABC) equivalentes às transicões. Com esta abordagem fomos capazes de extrair o custo ABC das ordens de serviço, calcular o custo dos serviços prestados, exercitar o conceito de lucratividade (simulando valores de venda para cada OS com base no mercado), explicitar os custos das atividades dos indivíduos dentro dos diversos setores do CEB e estudar o impacto sobre o serviço (conjunto de atividades) de um determinado excedente "planejado", mediante o oferecimento de serviços para o mercado. Tendo em vista a possibilidade de calcular lucros para cada tipo de OS, pudemos estudar a aplicação de um processo de decisão, usando a técnica processo de hierarquia analítica (Ana/ytic Hierarchy Process, AHP) para decidir sobre a escolha da manutenção feita por terceiros ou feita pela equipe da casa. Os exercícios de cálculo de custos em diferentes condições ilustram a possibilidade de uso do ABC para gerenciamento baseado em atividade (Activity Based Management, ABM) e resultaram valores compatíveis com a realidade do sistema público universitário de saúde (e.g. custo das OS, custo do trabalho e atividades no CEB). Concluímos que a estratégia adotada de equivalência entre atividades e transições viabiliza e facilita a implementação do sistema ABC (o que confirma a nossa hipótese) e que, tendo em vista os preços praticados no mercado, um excedente da venda de serviço pode ser gerado, mesmo em um sistema público de saúde como o da UNICAMP, no qual os custos, essencialmente fixos (e.g. pessoal, depreciação, custos gerais), não podem ser reduzidos de modo trivial / Abstract: The Center for Biomedical Engineering (CEB) at 8tate University of Campinas (UNICAMP) manages the maintenance activities (corrective and preventive) of about 10,000 medical devices for the health care area of the university, which is comprised by two hospitais, two medical centers and a medicine school. In order to control these maintenance activities, the Clinical Engineering department makes use of a state machine-based management system in which the service orders (80) are characterized by trajectories (sequence of states) constructed while the 80 is processed. The states are microprocesses, which are activated to solve specific tasks. Each transition between two microprocesses (the state transition) is named, in short, a transition. We worked under the hypothesis that it would be feasible to implement at CEB a method for 80 costing based on the Activity-Based Costing (ABC) technique. To test our hypothesis, we made activity, fundamental token for ABC, equivalent to transition. With this approach, we were able to extract the ABC cost of each 80, to estimate cost for a specific service proposal, to exercise the concept of profitability by simulating selling costs for each 80 based in the current market, to explicit activity costs for individual jobs in CEB, and to study the impact of offering external services upon the total amount of activities of a certain "planned profit". By the analysis of 80 involving third party services, we studied the possibility of using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique to choose between third party or in-house services. The different conditions of ABC application in the present work iIIustrated the possibility of using ABC for Activity-Based Management (ABM), with results compatible with the expected figures for a public university health system (which validated our hypothesis). We conclude that our strategy of equivalence between activity and transition made the ABC feasible and relatively simple. We also found that according to the current market prices it is possible to envisage profit even in a health system such as in UNICAMP, in which costs are essentially fixed (e.g. staff, depreciation, general costs) / Doutorado / Engenharia Biomedica / Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica