by Ip Kin-ting, Joma. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-49). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.v / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Background --- p.1 / Objective --- p.2 / Report Organization --- p.2 / Chapter II. --- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY --- p.3 / Methodology --- p.3 / Problem Definition --- p.3 / Information Needs --- p.3 / Information Collection --- p.4 / Analysis and Conclusion --- p.4 / Chapter III. --- MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY - AN OVERVIEW --- p.5 / Definition --- p.5 / Benefits --- p.6 / Major Components of Multimedia systems --- p.6 / Typical Multimedia Systems --- p.12 / Multimedia Standards --- p.15 / Existing Multimedia Applications --- p.16 / The Trend --- p.18 / Summary --- p.20 / Chapter IV. --- PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT - AN OVERVIEW --- p.22 / Definition --- p.22 / Major Production Management Activities --- p.22 / Manufacturing Resource Planning --- p.26 / Just-in-time Manufacturing --- p.27 / Computerised Production Information Systems --- p.28 / The Trend --- p.32 / Summary --- p.34 / Chapter V. --- INTERVIEW REPORTS --- p.35 / Rototech --- p.35 / Kitty & Kettie Supermarket Limited --- p.36 / Summary --- p.36 / Chapter VI. --- MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY IN PRODUCTION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT --- p.37 / The Role of Multimedia Technology in Production Information Management --- p.37 / Existing Applications --- p.38 / The Opportunities --- p.41 / Summary --- p.43 / Chapter VII. --- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.44 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.47

by Ng Kam Hon. / Thesis (M.Sc.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 30-31). / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Project Management --- p.2 / Chapter 3. --- PERT and CPM --- p.3 / Chapter 4. --- Motivation for the proposed automation --- p.4 / Chapter 5 --- The Project Controller --- p.6 / Chapter 5.1 --- General --- p.6 / Chapter 5.2 --- System Design --- p.7 / Chapter 6. --- Project Preprocessing --- p.10 / Chapter 6.1 --- Determining the Earliest Start and Finish --- p.10 / Chapter 6.2 --- Determining the Latest Start and Finish --- p.11 / Chapter 6.3 --- Calculation of free slack and preliminary Schedule --- p.12 / Chapter 7. --- Job Scheduling --- p.13 / Chapter 7.1 --- The Rule Based System --- p.14 / Chapter 7.2 --- The Searcher --- p.17 / Chapter 8. --- Evaluation of the Project Controller --- p.23 / Chapter 8.1 --- Input Project Details --- p.23 / Chapter 8.2 --- Project analysis reports --- p.23 / Chapter 8.3 --- Job Scheduling capabilities --- p.23 / Chapter 9. --- Discussion --- p.27 / Chapter 9.1 --- Applications --- p.27 / Chapter 9.2 --- Future Enhancement --- p.27 / Chapter 9.3 --- Limitations --- p.28 / Chapter 10. --- Conclusion --- p.29 / Chapter 11. --- References --- p.30

Ma Ping. / Abstract in English and Chinese. / Thesis (MBA)--Chinese University of Hongkong. / Bibliography: leaf 81. / ABSTRACT --- p.iii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / LIST OF EXHIBITS --- p.v / Chapter Chapter I --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Definition of a MNC --- p.1 / Application of Information Flows in a MNC --- p.2 / Management of Human Resources through use of Information Flows System --- p.4 / Chapter Chapter II --- THE COMPANY IPC --- p.8 / Worldwide Operations --- p.9 / Subsidiaries --- p.9 / Groups --- p.10 / Line of Business --- p.13 / General Company Policy --- p.15 / Management of Human Resources in IPC --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter III --- PRESENT OPERATING SYSTEM --- p.18 / The SEAR of IPC Operations --- p.18 / Management of Human Resources in SEAR --- p.19 / The Manual System --- p.22 / The Problems --- p.25 / Chapter Chapter IV --- THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN --- p.26 / Manpower Planning --- p.26 / Control Objective --- p.28 / System Requirements --- p.30 / Timeliness --- p.31 / Flexibility --- p.33 / System Specifications --- p.34 / Convenient to Use --- p.34 / Flexibility --- p.34 / Timeliness --- p.35 / Identification of Relevant Items --- p.35 / Input --- p.37 / Report --- p.40 / Justification for Automation --- p.41 / Result of Implementation --- p.45 / APPENDIX --- p.46 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.81

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 1975. / "February 1975." Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 240-246. / by Ashok Malhotra. / Ph.D.

Although there are several solutions available in the industry to manage the vendor risk confronting corporate purchasers in their practices of traditional procurement mechanism, they are not widely accepted among industries practicing the traditional procurement mechanism. Moreover, they are unfeasible to be implemented in the eProcurement mechanism. They rely heavily on self-assessment data provided by vendors or transaction records from purchasing departments, and there is a lack of a systematic approach to accumulate the collective experience of the corporation in vendor risk management. / Moreover, the risk cause taxonomy identified in this study lays out the theoretical grounds for the development of any software applications relating to the deployment of risk perceptions held by procurement professionals and practitioners. / Recently, electronic procurement or eProcurement has gradually acquired wide acceptance in various industries as an effective, efficient, and cost-saving mechanism to search for and contact potential vendors over the Internet. However, it is also a common situation that purchasers do not have handy and reliable tools for the evaluation of the risk deriving from their choices of selecting seemingly promising but unfamiliar vendors, identified through the eProcurement mechanism. The purchasing corporations need to implement a systematic framework to identify, and assess the risks associated with their vendor choices, that is, the vendor risk, and even to memorize their collective experience on risk analysis, while they try to gain benefits from the practice of the eProcurement strategy. / The structure for the establishment of the semantic application identified in this study can be generalized as the common framework for developing an automatic information extractor to acquire Internet content as the support for making important business decisions. The structure is composed of three basic components: (1) an information collection method to identify specific information over the Internet through the deployment of semantic technology, (2) an ontology repository to associate the collected data and the specific data schema, and (3) a scheme to associate the data schema with the analytical methods which would be deployed to provide decision support. / This study proposes the establishment of the Vendor Risk Analysis (VRA) system to assist procurement officers in vendor risk analysis as a support to their decision of seeking promising vendors over the Internet. The VRA system adopts a Semantic-Assisted Risk Analysis (SARA) framework to implement an innovative approach in the implementation of risk assessment. The SARA framework deploys the collaboration of a knowledge-based Expert System and several emerging semantic technologies, including Information Extraction, a Community Template Repository, and a Semantic Platform for Information Indexing and Retrieval, to enhance the capability of the VRA system in the capability of acquiring sufficient risk evidence over the Internet to provide timely and reliable risk assessment support to vendor choice decisions. / Chou, Ling Yu. / "July 2007." / Advisers: Vincent Sie-king Lai; Timon Chih-ting Du. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-12, Section: A, page: 5128. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-186). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest dissertations and theses, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

A simulation and decision-support software product for aquaculture facility design and management planning is described (AquaFarm, Oregon State University��), including comprehensive documentation and applications to practical problems. AquaFarm provides (1) simulation of physical, chemical, and biological unit processes, (2) simulation of facility and fish culture management, (3) compilation of facility resource and enterprise budgets, and (4) a graphical user interface and data management capabilities. These analytical tools are combined into an interactive, decision support system, for the analysis and development of facility design specifications and management strategies. Intended user groups include aquaculture research, engineering, education, and production. As guided by the user, aquaculture facilities can be of any type, configuration, and management objectives, for purposes of broodfish maturation, egg incubation, and/or growout of finfish or crustaceans in cage, single pass, serial reuse, water recirculation, or solar-algae pond systems. User-accessible specifications include (1) site climate and water supplies, (2) components and configurations offish culture systems, (3) fish and facility management strategies, (4) unit costs for budget items, (5) production objectives (species, time schedules, and fish numbers and weights), and (6) parameters of unit-process and fish performance models. Based on these specifications, aquaculture facilities are simulated, resource requirements are compiled, and operation schedules are determined so that production objectives are achieved. Facility performance is reported to the user as management schedules, summary reports, resource and graphical compilations of time-series data for unit process, fish, and water quality variables. If unsatisfactory resource requirements or unattainable production objectives are found, procedures of iterative design and management refinement are supported. To provide this analytical capacity, a wide range of existing and newly developed, quantitative methods and models are assembled and synthesized into an integrated analytical framework, including aquatic chemistry, aquatic biology, fish biology, aquacultural engineering, and simulation techniques. Unit-process and system-level validation exercises are demonstrated for a wide range of aquaculture facilities, in which (1) facilities are constructed according to reported studies, (2) simulation trials are accomplished, and (3) good agreement between predicted performance and empirical observations is demonstrated, given that sufficient specification of site-specific variables is provided. / Graduation date: 2000

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The purpose of the research was to improve the use of electronic human resource management in South African businesses by investigating that there is a positive impact when implementing e-HRM on the human resource management function. The research was carried out within a South African business, whose parent business concern is based overseas and has branches operating within South Africa The research was significant as it shaped the researcher’s concern as to whether electronic human resource would be beneficial to a South African business if the business superiors decide to implement e-HRM within their business opinion and what impact it would have. The methodological components that guided the research were a structured questionnaire that was distributed by using a combination of convenience, snowball, and judgemental sampling techniques. Certain aspects highlighted in the literature review were used as the framework for the development of a questionnaire to assess how people perceive the implementation of e-HR on their working environment and if e-HR has helped the business run more efficiently and effectively. Six hypotheses were tested and all were accepted. The potential for generalisations of the findings are that given the potential that e-HRM has for the transformation of human resource, it is reasonable to expect that the sizeable changes required, both in organisation and mindset, are likely to provoke resistance from various end users. What was learned was that HR is often hindered by a multitude of manual, paper based processes and transactions, such as tax, payroll and benefits information, that are costly, prone to errors and time-consuming to manage. This makes it difficult for HR organisations to focus on higher value business in initiatives that may help to drive the profitability and efficiency of the organisations. The implication of the findings about the impact of the implementation of e-HR on the Human Resource Management function was that firms need to figure out how to make technology feasible and industrious, as managers and Human Resource professionals are responsible for redefining how work at their firms or business flow as they need to keep ahead of the information curve and therefore learn how to influence information for business results to be more efficient and effective. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed and recommendations based on these findings are provided.

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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Commerce, / Logistics is a management discipline that has been spoken about for years and is yet to deliver the full potential that it purports to bring about. Excellence in logistics has been identified as one of the major challenges that products related organisations currently face to ensure continued success in an increasingly competitive, global market. One of the key enablers to integration is the effective application of information technology. Most managers easily accept this as fact but few are clear in describing how this can be achieved. Two prime works used as reference for this research are Bowersox's research into logistics, providing a reference framework on the role of logistics in organisations, and Cilliers's study of logistics at ISO South African companies, providing a South African reference point, It is the combination of the Bowersox attributes and the Cilliers qualified sample of South African companies that provides the basis for an exciting research initiative establishing the role of information technology in achieving logistics excellence in South Africa Both successful and less successful organisations were measured against a set of attributes to determine which were most crucial in achieving logistics excellence: It is clear from the survey that logistics excellent companies have a marked difference in their approach to information teclmology as compared to those who are not logistics excellent. This is mapped out in the paper in some detail and some of the detailed responses may be somewhat of a surprise to the reader as they challenge conventional wisdom. The results of the survey were encapsulated into a simple model. This should act as a quick reference to IT professionals seeking to playa leading role in driving their company towards logistics excellence. Information technology plays a vital role in achieving logistics excellence. This paper provides some insight into the factors that are critical in achieving this goal. / Andrew Chakane 2018