This research paper undertakes to outline factors of Information Management that organisations should consider when attempting a restructuring process. Conversely, valuable information and knowledge are often mislaid, overlooked or discarded to the eventual detriment of an organisation during the processes of downsizing, rightsizing, restructuring, reorganisation, reengineering, transformation or change. In the global economy organisations are always striving to keep ahead of competition and ultimately to improve their net profit. Information is at the very core of any organisation, its ads value, structure and power to an organisation. Information Management assists with the locating, storing and use of corporate information. A means of controlling and structuring corporate information is via the use of the Information Management elements. A case study using an organisation that is in the process of change and transformation was performed. Potential loss of knowledge and information was identified and examined. The organisation’s implementation of an information portal was highlighted as an effective way to minimise the loss of knowledge and information during the period of change. / Professor A.S.A. du Toit

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Carleton University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-196). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisors: Gary R. Heald and Laura M. Arpan, Florida State University, College of Communication, Dept. of Communication. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 6, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains ix,109 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the World Wide Web.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 30-November 02, 1995 / Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada / The Test and Evaluation Community Network (TECNET) has existed as a means of electronically exchanging unclassified information between Test and Evaluation (T&E) practitioners since 1983. The test and evaluation community in the Department of Defense (DoD) is heavily reliant on telemetry products. Thus, it is no surprise that TECNET deals substantively with telemetering matters. TECNET currently provides unclassified electronic mail, bulletin board, file manipulation and information retrieval services to the Test and Evaluation (T&E) community via an unclassified host computer operated and maintained by the Naval Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland and a classified host computer located at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Maryland. National packet switched network capabilities are provided via the MILNET component of the Defense Data Network (DDN), the Defense Research Engineering Network (DREN) and a the Federal Telephone System for 2000 (FTS -2000) data network. The second TECNET computer provides a system high secret secure capability for TECNET via STU -III dial-up and the Defense Secure Network (DSNET) component of DDN. TECNET is a Joint Service network operating under the auspices of a tri-service Steering Committee which reports to a Board of Operating Directors (BoOD). TECNET supports a number of capabilities for the Range Commander's Council (RCC) community, including all scheduling for the RADCAL satellite. Presently TECNET supports a growing population of over 7,000 validated users from service Program Management Offices (PMO) and both the operational and developmental T&E communities in all the services. In the future TECNET envisions support to test planning, execution and reporting through the use of protected Multi -Level Secure (MLS) communication channels. This capability will dispense meaningfully detailed T&E related data bases and tools. The ability to provide needed, accurate, protected, high integrity, value added information at the right time and place and in the right format with the right amount of detail to the right decision makers adds direct value to the T&E process. In essence, the capability enhances the efficiency of the entire T&E process by making timely T&E information and tools more available to both its practitioners and consumers.

Yang, Zhaojun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-99). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- SDS Architecture --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Dialog Model --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- SDS Evaluation --- p.4 / Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis Outline --- p.7 / Chapter 2 --- Previous Work --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1 --- Approaches to Dialog Modeling --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Handcrafted Dialog Modeling --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Statistical Dialog Modeling --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2 --- Evaluation Metrics --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Subjective User Judgments --- p.17 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Interaction Metrics --- p.18 / Chapter 2.3 --- The PARADISE Framework --- p.19 / Chapter 2.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.22 / Chapter 3 --- Implementation of a Dialog System based on POMDP --- p.23 / Chapter 3.1 --- Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) --- p.24 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Formal Definition --- p.24 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Value Iteration --- p.26 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Point-based Value Iteration --- p.27 / Chapter 3.1.4 --- A Toy Example of POMDP: The NaiveBusInfo System --- p.27 / Chapter 3.2 --- The SDS-POMDP Model --- p.31 / Chapter 3.3 --- Composite Summary Point-based Value Iteration (CSPBVI) --- p.33 / Chapter 3.4 --- Application of SDS-POMDP Model: The Buslnfo System --- p.35 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- System Description --- p.35 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Demonstration Description --- p.39 / Chapter 3.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.42 / Chapter 4 --- Collecting User Judgments on Spoken Dialogs with Crowdsourcing --- p.46 / Chapter 4.1 --- Dialog Corpus and Automatic Dialog Classification --- p.47 / Chapter 4.2 --- User Judgments Collection with Crowdsourcing --- p.50 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- HITs on Dialog Evaluation --- p.51 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- HITs on Inter-rater Agreement --- p.53 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Approval of Ratings --- p.54 / Chapter 4.3 --- Collected Results and Analysis --- p.55 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Approval Rates and Comments from Mturk Workers --- p.55 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Consistency between Automatic Dialog Classification and Manual Ratings --- p.57 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Inter-rater Agreement Among Workers --- p.60 / Chapter 4.4 --- Comparing Experts to Non-experts --- p.64 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Inter-rater Agreement on the Let's Go! System --- p.65 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Consistency Between Expert and Non-expert Annotations on SDC Systems --- p.66 / Chapter 4.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.68 / Chapter 5 --- Collaborative Filtering for Performance Prediction --- p.70 / Chapter 5.1 --- Item-Based Collaborative Filtering --- p.71 / Chapter 5.2 --- CF Model for User Satisfaction Prediction --- p.72 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- ICFM for User Satisfaction Prediction --- p.72 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Extended ICFM for User Satisfaction Prediction --- p.73 / Chapter 5.3 --- Extraction of Interaction Features --- p.74 / Chapter 5.4 --- Experimental Results and Analysis --- p.76 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Prediction of User Satisfaction --- p.76 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Analysis of Prediction Results --- p.79 / Chapter 5.5 --- Verifying the Generalibility of CF Model --- p.81 / Chapter 5.6 --- Evaluation of The Buslnfo System --- p.86 / Chapter 5.7 --- Chapter Summary --- p.87 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.89 / Chapter 6.1 --- Thesis Summary --- p.89 / Chapter 6.2 --- Future Work --- p.90 / Bibliography --- p.92

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The central concern of this study is to identify the role of power and politics in systems implementation. The current literature on systems implementation is typically divided into two areas, process modelling and factor based studies. Process modelling classifies the implementation into a linear process, whereas factor based studies have argued that in order to ‘successfully’ implement a system, particular critical factors are required. This literature misses the complexities involved in systems implementation through the human factors and political nature of systems implementation and is simplistic in its nature and essentially de-contextualises the implementation process. Literature has investigated some aspects of human factors in systems implementation. However, it is believed that these studies have taken a simplistic view of power and politics. It is argued in this thesis that human factors in systems implementation are constantly changing and essentially operating in a dynamic relationship affecting the implementation process. The concept of power relations, as proposed by Foucault (1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982), have been utilised in order to identify the dynamic nature of power and politics. Foucault (1978) argued that power is a dynamic set of relationships constantly changing from one point in time to the next. It is this recognition that is lacking from information systems. Furthermore, these power relations are created through the use of discourse. Discourse represents meaning and social relationships, forming both subjectivity and power relations. Discourses are also the practices of talk, text and argument that continuously form that which actors speak. A post-structuralist view of power as both an obvious and hidden concept has provided the researcher a lens through which the selection and implementation of an enterprise-wide learning management system can be observed. The framework aimed to identify the obvious process of system selection implementation, and then deconstruct that process to expose the hegemonic nature of policy, the reproduction of organisational culture, the emancipation within discourse, and the nature of resistance and power relations. A critical case study of the selection and implementation of an enterprise-wide learning management system at the University of Australia was presented providing an in-depth investigation of the implementation of an enterprise-wide learning management system, spanning five years. This critical case study was analysed using social dramas to distinguish between the front stage issues of power and the hidden discourses underpinning the front stage dramas. The enterprise-wide learning management system implemented in the University of Australia in 2003 is a system which enables academic staff to manage learners, the students, by keeping track of their progress and performance across all types of training activities. Through telling the story of the selection and implementation of an enterprise-wide learning management system at the University of Australia discourses emerged. The key findings from this study have indicated that the system selection and implementation works at two levels. The low level is the selection and implementation process, which operates for the period of the project. The high level is the arena of power and politics, which runs simultaneously to the selection and implementation process. Challenges for power are acted out in the front stage, or public forums between various actors. The social dramas, as they have been described here, are superfluous to the discourse underpinning the front stage. It is the discourse that remains the same throughout the system selection and implementation process, but it is through various social dramas that reflect those discourses. Furthermore, the enactment of policy legitimises power and establishes the discourse, limiting resistance. Additionally, this research has identified the role of the ‘State’ and its influence at the organisational level, which had been previously suggested in education literature (Ball, 1990).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [160]-165). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [160]-165). Also available on the Internet.