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management with information, technology, and education components individually and combined. These efforts will establish a strong coupling between the ITEM activities and
resource management for effective implementation of the framework.
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For effective management and governance of education system, several efforts have been evolving
continuously by using Information Communication and Technology for Educational Management. The role
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massive growth of information, situation becomes difficult to manage these services. The present paper
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1) The document examines the implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system at Rolls-Royce, a large UK manufacturing organization.
2) It provides background on ERP systems and their benefits in integrating business processes and supply chains. ERP implementation requires managing organizational change as well as software installation.
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Progressive efforts have been evolving continuously for the betterment of the services of the Information Technology for Educational Management(ITEM). These services require data intensive and communication intensive applications. Due to the massive growth of information, situation becomes difficult to manage these services. Here the role of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure particularly data centre with communication components becomes important to facilitate these services. The present paper discusses the related issues such as competent staff, appropriate ICT infrastructure, ICT acceptance level etc. required for ITEM competence building framework considering the earlier approach for core competences for ITEM. It this connection, it is also necessary to consider the procurement of standard and appropriate ICT facilities. This will help in the integration of these facilities for the future expansion. This will also enable to create and foresee the impact of the pairing the management with information, technology, and education components individually and combined. These efforts will establish a strong coupling between the ITEM activities and resource management for effective implementation of the framework.
COMPETENCE BUILDING FRAMEWORK REQUIREMENTS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR EDU...csandit
Progressive efforts have been evolving continuously for the betterment of the services of the Information Technology for Educational Management(ITEM). These services require data
intensive and communication intensive applications. Due to the massive growth of information,situation becomes difficult to manage these services. Here the role of the Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure particularly data centre with communication components becomes important to facilitate these services. The present paper discusses the related issues such as competent staff, appropriate ICT infrastructure, ICT acceptance level etc.
required for ITEM competence building framework considering the earlier approach for core competences for ITEM. It this connection, it is also necessary to consider the procurement of
standard and appropriate ICT facilities. This will help in the integration of these facilities for the future expansion. This will also enable to create and foresee the impact of the pairing the
management with information, technology, and education components individually and combined. These efforts will establish a strong coupling between the ITEM activities and
resource management for effective implementation of the framework.
FRAMEWORK FOR EDUCATIONAL COMPETENCE WITH EMERGING SCENARIOijcsit
For effective management and governance of education system, several efforts have been evolving
continuously by using Information Communication and Technology for Educational Management. The role
of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure particularly services require for
the data intensive and communication intensive application becomes more important. Further, due to the
massive growth of information, situation becomes difficult to manage these services. The present paper
discusses the related issues such as competence building, creation of appropriate ICT infrastructure, ICT
acceptance level etc. required for Information Technology for Educational Management(ITEM)
competence building framework, considered in an earlier approach for core competences for ITEM.
Therefore, it becomes essential to consider the global standard and relevant ICT infrastructure. This effort
will help in activities and resource management for effective implementation of the framework.
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Effective deployment of a technology in an environment is the desire of many system developers. Positive uptake of a technology coupled with user acceptance is deemed as a key indicator towards technology acceptance. Knowledge is weighed as a strategic resource for any successful data driven decision making initiative. Institutions leverage on technological initiatives and tools to drive knowledge management (KM) initiatives that enhance quality service delivery and prudent data management. These initiatives provide the overall strategy for managing data resources. They make available knowledge organization tools and techniques while enabling regular updates. Derived benefits of positive deployment of a technological intervention are competency enhancement through gained knowledge, raised quality of service and promotion of healthy development of e-commerce. Successful and timely adoption of technological interventions through which knowledge management initiatives are deployed remains a key challenge to many organizations. This paper proposes the application of a wholesome multilevel technology acceptance management model towards effective technology deployment. The proposed model takes into account human, technological and organizational variables, which exist in a deployment environment. This model will be vital in driving early technology acceptance prediction and timely deployment of mitigation measures to deploy technological interventions successfully.
An empirical internal perceptions study of the implementation supply chain ma...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a study that analyzed the role of supply chain management (SCM) practices as a mediator between information technology utilization and organizational performance in large manufacturing companies in East Java, Indonesia. The study used a survey of 140 companies and structural equation modeling analysis. The results showed that SCM practices fully mediated the relationship between information technology and improved organizational performance. Specifically, (1) information technology can help companies implement SCM practices to boost performance, and (2) developing close customer relationships and supplier partnerships through long-term contracts is key to information technology's success in improving performance.
Application Of Distributed AI And Cooperative Problem Solving To Telecommunic...Claudia Acosta
This document discusses applying distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) and cooperative problem-solving approaches to telecommunications. It provides an overview of potential DAI applications in telecommunications, focusing on four systems in more detail. These include distributed traffic management and resolving service interactions in intelligent networks. The document argues that trends in the industry like converged networks require DAI approaches to integrate and coordinate existing AI systems and build distributed control systems with cooperative intelligent components.
Adaptive Structuration Theory Understanding How Advancing Technologies Drive...Rachel Doty
This document provides a literature review on how advancing technologies drive organizational change using Adaptive Structuration Theory (AST) as a framework. It discusses ten themes identified in the literature related to AST and organizational change. The first three themes directly support using AST to understand how technology adaptation within companies drives change. These themes are: 1) AST's treatment of structural theory in IS research, 2) viewing AST as a meta-theory for examining IS, and 3) examining AST's contextual and organizational elements in group support system research. The remaining themes provide context for how technology adaptation drives individual and organizational change.
THE ROLE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES AND ENTERPRISE SYSTEM IN DYSONsreeragtg
Dyson is a UK-based appliance manufacturer that produces vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and hand dryers. The report discusses how information resources and enterprise systems can provide Dyson with a competitive advantage. It analyzes how information impacts Dyson's value chain activities. The report recommends that Dyson implement an enterprise system using a best-of-breed approach to integrate information across its global operations and support business process reengineering.
This document discusses evaluating the integration of supply chain information systems through a case study. It proposes a framework for evaluating the portfolio of integration technologies used to unify inter-organizational and intra-organizational information systems. The framework classifies the different types of information systems according to their characteristics and integration requirements. The classifications are then used as part of the evaluation framework and tested empirically through a case study.
The art of value creation with information technology potentials in business ...Alexander Decker
This document discusses the role of strategic information systems in business value creation. It defines value creation as activities that reduce costs and increase profits through efficiency. Strategic information systems involves using information technology and managerial skills to identify business problems and create solutions that help organizations achieve their objectives. The document analyzes how strategic information systems can help realize value by focusing on business processes and capturing value through technologies like the internet, business intelligence, and collaboration systems. It argues that information systems strategy is important for competitive advantage and should be integrated with business strategy for organizations to effectively create value.
Organisational transformation of securities brokerage firmsArun Verma
This document discusses the organizational transformation of securities brokerage firms under electronic commerce environments. It presents a model relating environmental factors, transformation strategies, and performance. The strategies examined include adding product value, technology adoption, organizational changes, diversification, management systems, and marketing. The document reviews relevant literature and proposes relationships between the constructs. It describes a study using survey data and case studies to validate relationships in the model and understand brokerage firm behaviors under electronic commerce.
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Introduction
The use of Information Technologies in the business process is a wide and ever changing filed that is conferring various benefits and challenges in the field of business process managements. Various organizational structure challenges, and employee have exerted various resistances and challenges but the provision of the solutions have been studied and presented. This paper presents the summaries of various studies, objects, methodologies used, the study limitations and assumptions and a concise comment on the resource in relation to the source of the resource and recommendations on further studies in each study to better understanding in the entire field.
Albadvi, A., Keramati, A., & Razmi, J. (2007). Assessing the impact of information technology on firm performance considering the role of intervening variables: organizational infrastructures and business processes reengineering. International Journal of Production Research, 45(12), 2697-2734. Retrieved from Business Source Complete database.
The scope of this paper is on the relationship between information technology (IT) use and the firm general performance in the consideration of the variables like infrastructure and process reengineering intervening in organizations. The purpose of the research was to establish the roles of the intervening variables on the relationship between IT and firms performance. The instruments to be used in research of the relationship between IT and the firms performance and the role of the two intervening important variable focused on which were reengineering of the processes (BPRM) and organizational infrastructure (OIS) in the IT and firm performance relationship were presented. The study based on the empirical filed survey design where 200 car part producers were administered with questionnaires. The questionnaires addressed the OIS, BPRM, Performance measurement (PER) and IT usage (ITU). The findings of this study demonstrated that there was a moderating effects of the organizational infrastructure and the mediating roles of the business process reengineering on the association between IT use and the performance of a firm. The IT usage was significantly high in pecuniary affairs of most companies. Organizational infrastructures was significantly considered in most companies and that IT usage significantly influenced the products production reengineering process. This information was very resourceful in the entire coursework and also raised the confidence of the body of resources used in finding this information. The underlying assumptions of the study was that the measures used in this study had a high internal consistency thus giving highly correlated answers hence high stability of the used measures. The limitations of the study was a small sample population that was corrected by the stability of the study measures (H ...
Relationship between use of ict and small enterprise performancefredrickaila
1) The document discusses a study that assessed the relationship between adoption of information communication technologies (ICT) and the performance of small enterprises in Kisumu City, Kenya.
2) The study found that over 50% of small enterprises had adopted ICT, though adoption was relatively slow. There was a statistically significant association between levels of ICT adoption and business performance.
3) The study confirms that higher levels of ICT adoption are highly associated with better business performance and are an essential ingredient for small business success. The government of Kenya needs policies to improve small business access to, security of, and use of ICT.
Factors affecting effective implementation of containerAlexander Decker
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This document discusses how integrating e-business across supply chains can provide competitive advantages. It first defines e-business and supply chain management, noting that e-business uses internet technologies to link customers, suppliers, and employees, while supply chain management tracks inventory and information sharing across business processes and companies. The document then argues that integrating e-business applications and processes across supply chains can help firms gain competitive advantages by creating more efficient networks and faster, lower-cost ways of getting products to market compared to competitors. However, smaller businesses may face challenges adopting e-business due to limited resources and awareness of benefits.
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A System Approach For Defining Data Center Value Proposition.pdfVernette Whiteside
This document discusses defining the value proposition of a data center using a systems approach. It introduces a method to measure a data center's value using a set of metrics that capture the behavior and outcomes of a data center as a system. These metrics would provide measures for variables like performance, investments, operations, and services. Analyzing these metrics would provide a system model to define stakeholder value. Current methods for evaluating IT investments often focus only on financial metrics and lack consideration of external factors, behaviors, and qualitative impacts. A balanced, mixed approach is needed to fully capture a data center's true value proposition.
SESSION-05-Information System Organizations & Strategy.pptxcabdulaahicabdi2002
Organizations and information systems have a two-way relationship where they influence each other. An organization is a group of people working together for a shared purpose, and features of organizations include hierarchical structures, routines, politics, and culture. Information systems can impact organizations economically by reducing costs and changing information economics, and can flatten organizational structures by giving managers and employees more decision-making power through increased access to information. The internet increases information accessibility and distribution for organizations. Information systems can provide competitive advantage by helping firms address the five competitive forces that shape industry competition.
Employees Adoption of E-Procurement System: An Empirical StudyIJMIT JOURNAL
Today, organizations are investing a lot in their IT infrastructure and reengineering their business processes by digitizing firms. If organizational employees will not optimum utilize its IT infrastructure, the productivity gain reduced enormously. In Uttarakhand e-procurement system implemented by public sector under e-governance integrated mission mode projects. So, there is need to find the determinants which influence employee’s adoption and uses of e-procurement systems. This research study assesses the organizational and individual determinants that influence the use of e-procurement system in Uttarakhand public sector. This study provides managers with the valuable information to take intervention programs to achieve greater acceptance and usage of e-procurement system. Data collected for this study by the means of a survey conducted in Uttarakhand state in 2011. A total 1200 questionnaire forms were distributed personally and online to employees using e-procurement system in Uttarakhand.
The global networks of economic wealth, political power and media will depend more and more on knowledge generation. Society will become more and more symbolic - that is, the capacity to produce and distribute goods and services will become increasingly dependent on the ability to create and manipulate electronic symbols. Companies will have to adapt to this new environment, although the process will not be easy. Companies will have to conceive of themselves as located within a shifting network of suppliers, competitors and consumers; their boundaries will accordingly be highly fluid. Permanent flexibility will be the key to survival in the new economy.
A comparative analysis of cost and benefit of using information technology in...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a research study on analyzing the costs and benefits of using information technology in corporate institutions. The study used surveys of 120 IT employees from various sectors to collect data on the costs and benefits of IT use. The key costs identified include hiring and training IT staff, maintaining equipment, staff compensation, utility bills for IT equipment, and royalties. The main benefits included improved communication, increased production speed, faster service delivery, improved marketing avenues, better customer access, higher productivity, and increased market share. The study aimed to quantify these costs and benefits to determine the overall financial impact of IT use and identify how organizations can measure this impact.
Information technology for effective supervision of the marketing executives ...Alexander Decker
This document discusses a study that examined how information technology enhances supervision of marketing executives in the banking industry in Nigeria. The study used a three-tier information model and surveyed 180 marketing executives from eight banks in Lagos. Results found that personal computers can effectively serve as communication centers for managers to quickly receive and relay information to marketing executives. Computerized support systems were also found to improve marketing executive productivity and management effectiveness.
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Communicating an organisation's requirements in a semantically consistent and understandable manner
and then reflecting the potential impact of those requirements on the IT infrastructure presents a major
challenge among stakeholders. Initial research findings indicate a desire among business executives for a
tool that allows them to communicate organisational changes using natural language and a model of the IT
infrastructure that supports those changes. Building on a detailed analysis and evaluation of these findings,
the innovative CRESUS-T support tool was designed and implemented. The purpose of this research was to
investigate to what extent CRESUS-T both aids communication in the development of a shared
understanding and supports collaborative requirements elicitation to bring about organisational, and
associated IT infrastructural, change. In order to determine the extent shared understanding was fostered,
the support tool was evaluated in a case study of a business process for the roll out of the IT software
image at a third level educational institution. Statistical analysis showed that the CRESUS-T support tool
fostered shared understanding in the case study, through increased communication. Shared understanding
is also manifested in the creation of two knowledge representation artefacts namely, a requirements model
and the IT infrastructure model. The CRESUS-T support tool will be useful to requirements engineers and
business analysts that have to gather requirements asynchronously.
Develop a detailed outline for the data collection plan to include .docxbradburgess22840
The document outlines the requirements for a data collection plan, including obtaining permissions, proposing a sampling approach, outlining the collection steps for each instrument and data source, and including a data management plan. It also instructs to incorporate feedback to revise the sources of data/instruments and data collection sections of a prospectus.
Develop a 3–4 page research paper based on a selected case study rel.docxbradburgess22840
Develop a 3–4 page research paper based on a selected case study related to reproductive choices. Since the processes of reproduction and birth represent one of the potential biological outcomes of heterosexual activity, it is important to examine the biological foundations of human sexuality. This includes knowledge of fertilization and early development, including some of the most recent findings. There is more than a litany of birth control methods; this assessment offers a sound basis for understanding the issues to be weighed in personal decision making about contraception and abortion, which continue to generate debate and controversy.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Apply psychological theories to topics in human sexuality.
Apply psychological theories to a case study in human sexuality.
Competency 2: Apply scholarly research findings to topics in human sexuality.
Apply scholarly research findings to a case study in human sexuality.
Competency 3: Explain how ethics inform professional behavior in the field of human sexuality.
Explain how ethics inform professional behavior in the field of human sexuality.
Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.
Write coherently to support a central idea with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a psychology professional.
Use APA format and style.
APA Resources
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American Psychological Association. (2010).
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
(6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Available from the
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APA Paper Template [DOCX]
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Human Sexuality Case Studies: Sexuality Confronts Social Policy
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PSYC-FP2800 – Introduction to Human Sexuality Library Guide
can help direct your research. The Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.
Human Sexuality and Reproductive Choices
Kelly, G. F. (2015).
Sexuality today
(11th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
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This document discusses evaluating the integration of supply chain information systems through a case study. It proposes a framework for evaluating the portfolio of integration technologies used to unify inter-organizational and intra-organizational information systems. The framework classifies the different types of information systems according to their characteristics and integration requirements. The classifications are then used as part of the evaluation framework and tested empirically through a case study.
The art of value creation with information technology potentials in business ...Alexander Decker
This document discusses the role of strategic information systems in business value creation. It defines value creation as activities that reduce costs and increase profits through efficiency. Strategic information systems involves using information technology and managerial skills to identify business problems and create solutions that help organizations achieve their objectives. The document analyzes how strategic information systems can help realize value by focusing on business processes and capturing value through technologies like the internet, business intelligence, and collaboration systems. It argues that information systems strategy is important for competitive advantage and should be integrated with business strategy for organizations to effectively create value.
Organisational transformation of securities brokerage firmsArun Verma
This document discusses the organizational transformation of securities brokerage firms under electronic commerce environments. It presents a model relating environmental factors, transformation strategies, and performance. The strategies examined include adding product value, technology adoption, organizational changes, diversification, management systems, and marketing. The document reviews relevant literature and proposes relationships between the constructs. It describes a study using survey data and case studies to validate relationships in the model and understand brokerage firm behaviors under electronic commerce.
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Introduction
The use of Information Technologies in the business process is a wide and ever changing filed that is conferring various benefits and challenges in the field of business process managements. Various organizational structure challenges, and employee have exerted various resistances and challenges but the provision of the solutions have been studied and presented. This paper presents the summaries of various studies, objects, methodologies used, the study limitations and assumptions and a concise comment on the resource in relation to the source of the resource and recommendations on further studies in each study to better understanding in the entire field.
Albadvi, A., Keramati, A., & Razmi, J. (2007). Assessing the impact of information technology on firm performance considering the role of intervening variables: organizational infrastructures and business processes reengineering. International Journal of Production Research, 45(12), 2697-2734. Retrieved from Business Source Complete database.
The scope of this paper is on the relationship between information technology (IT) use and the firm general performance in the consideration of the variables like infrastructure and process reengineering intervening in organizations. The purpose of the research was to establish the roles of the intervening variables on the relationship between IT and firms performance. The instruments to be used in research of the relationship between IT and the firms performance and the role of the two intervening important variable focused on which were reengineering of the processes (BPRM) and organizational infrastructure (OIS) in the IT and firm performance relationship were presented. The study based on the empirical filed survey design where 200 car part producers were administered with questionnaires. The questionnaires addressed the OIS, BPRM, Performance measurement (PER) and IT usage (ITU). The findings of this study demonstrated that there was a moderating effects of the organizational infrastructure and the mediating roles of the business process reengineering on the association between IT use and the performance of a firm. The IT usage was significantly high in pecuniary affairs of most companies. Organizational infrastructures was significantly considered in most companies and that IT usage significantly influenced the products production reengineering process. This information was very resourceful in the entire coursework and also raised the confidence of the body of resources used in finding this information. The underlying assumptions of the study was that the measures used in this study had a high internal consistency thus giving highly correlated answers hence high stability of the used measures. The limitations of the study was a small sample population that was corrected by the stability of the study measures (H ...
Relationship between use of ict and small enterprise performancefredrickaila
1) The document discusses a study that assessed the relationship between adoption of information communication technologies (ICT) and the performance of small enterprises in Kisumu City, Kenya.
2) The study found that over 50% of small enterprises had adopted ICT, though adoption was relatively slow. There was a statistically significant association between levels of ICT adoption and business performance.
3) The study confirms that higher levels of ICT adoption are highly associated with better business performance and are an essential ingredient for small business success. The government of Kenya needs policies to improve small business access to, security of, and use of ICT.
Factors affecting effective implementation of containerAlexander Decker
The document discusses factors affecting effective implementation of Container Freight Station Management Information Systems (CFSMIS) at Interpel Investment Limited in Kenya. It finds that environmental factors like changes in government policies and customer requirements, as well as internal factors like organizational structure and lack of skills in some project teams can negatively impact CFSMIS implementation. Effective implementation requires addressing these challenges through measures such as adopting flat and flexible organizational structures, and ensuring project teams have the right skills for system integration and change management. The study contributes to understanding the complexities of implementing port and logistics technology systems in developing countries.
This document discusses how integrating e-business across supply chains can provide competitive advantages. It first defines e-business and supply chain management, noting that e-business uses internet technologies to link customers, suppliers, and employees, while supply chain management tracks inventory and information sharing across business processes and companies. The document then argues that integrating e-business applications and processes across supply chains can help firms gain competitive advantages by creating more efficient networks and faster, lower-cost ways of getting products to market compared to competitors. However, smaller businesses may face challenges adopting e-business due to limited resources and awareness of benefits.
SMUPI-BIS: a synthesis model for users’ perceived impact of business intelli...nooriasukmaningtyas
Business intelligence is a collection of methodologies, methods, architectures, and technologies that convert raw data into significant and useful information used by organizations to enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-making. In spite of several studies have examined the critical success factors and development of business intelligence system, but few relevant studies have investigated perceptions of end-user’s business intelligence systems. Furthermore, none of those studies was performed in a higher education sector in Iraq. Consequently, the study aims to determine the business intelligence system features influencing perceived impact end users’ and of using business intelligence systems in Iraqi educational institutes. A technology acceptance model and technology organization environment framework were syntheses as a basis to develop a research model for business intelligence users' perceived impact and adopt of business intelligence systems named (SMUPIBIS). Later, an online instrument (questionnaire) was designed to gather data from the business intelligence system users in five Iraqi universities. Twentyone hypotheses were proposed and later tested. The main outcomes of this study suggest that decision support, information quality, and real-time reporting are the most significant system characteristics influencing end users' perceived impact and their usage of business intelligence systems.
A System Approach For Defining Data Center Value Proposition.pdfVernette Whiteside
This document discusses defining the value proposition of a data center using a systems approach. It introduces a method to measure a data center's value using a set of metrics that capture the behavior and outcomes of a data center as a system. These metrics would provide measures for variables like performance, investments, operations, and services. Analyzing these metrics would provide a system model to define stakeholder value. Current methods for evaluating IT investments often focus only on financial metrics and lack consideration of external factors, behaviors, and qualitative impacts. A balanced, mixed approach is needed to fully capture a data center's true value proposition.
SESSION-05-Information System Organizations & Strategy.pptxcabdulaahicabdi2002
Organizations and information systems have a two-way relationship where they influence each other. An organization is a group of people working together for a shared purpose, and features of organizations include hierarchical structures, routines, politics, and culture. Information systems can impact organizations economically by reducing costs and changing information economics, and can flatten organizational structures by giving managers and employees more decision-making power through increased access to information. The internet increases information accessibility and distribution for organizations. Information systems can provide competitive advantage by helping firms address the five competitive forces that shape industry competition.
Employees Adoption of E-Procurement System: An Empirical StudyIJMIT JOURNAL
Today, organizations are investing a lot in their IT infrastructure and reengineering their business processes by digitizing firms. If organizational employees will not optimum utilize its IT infrastructure, the productivity gain reduced enormously. In Uttarakhand e-procurement system implemented by public sector under e-governance integrated mission mode projects. So, there is need to find the determinants which influence employee’s adoption and uses of e-procurement systems. This research study assesses the organizational and individual determinants that influence the use of e-procurement system in Uttarakhand public sector. This study provides managers with the valuable information to take intervention programs to achieve greater acceptance and usage of e-procurement system. Data collected for this study by the means of a survey conducted in Uttarakhand state in 2011. A total 1200 questionnaire forms were distributed personally and online to employees using e-procurement system in Uttarakhand.
The global networks of economic wealth, political power and media will depend more and more on knowledge generation. Society will become more and more symbolic - that is, the capacity to produce and distribute goods and services will become increasingly dependent on the ability to create and manipulate electronic symbols. Companies will have to adapt to this new environment, although the process will not be easy. Companies will have to conceive of themselves as located within a shifting network of suppliers, competitors and consumers; their boundaries will accordingly be highly fluid. Permanent flexibility will be the key to survival in the new economy.
A comparative analysis of cost and benefit of using information technology in...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a research study on analyzing the costs and benefits of using information technology in corporate institutions. The study used surveys of 120 IT employees from various sectors to collect data on the costs and benefits of IT use. The key costs identified include hiring and training IT staff, maintaining equipment, staff compensation, utility bills for IT equipment, and royalties. The main benefits included improved communication, increased production speed, faster service delivery, improved marketing avenues, better customer access, higher productivity, and increased market share. The study aimed to quantify these costs and benefits to determine the overall financial impact of IT use and identify how organizations can measure this impact.
Information technology for effective supervision of the marketing executives ...Alexander Decker
This document discusses a study that examined how information technology enhances supervision of marketing executives in the banking industry in Nigeria. The study used a three-tier information model and surveyed 180 marketing executives from eight banks in Lagos. Results found that personal computers can effectively serve as communication centers for managers to quickly receive and relay information to marketing executives. Computerized support systems were also found to improve marketing executive productivity and management effectiveness.
CRESUS-T: A COLLABORATIVE REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION SUPPORT TOOLijseajournal
Communicating an organisation's requirements in a semantically consistent and understandable manner
and then reflecting the potential impact of those requirements on the IT infrastructure presents a major
challenge among stakeholders. Initial research findings indicate a desire among business executives for a
tool that allows them to communicate organisational changes using natural language and a model of the IT
infrastructure that supports those changes. Building on a detailed analysis and evaluation of these findings,
the innovative CRESUS-T support tool was designed and implemented. The purpose of this research was to
investigate to what extent CRESUS-T both aids communication in the development of a shared
understanding and supports collaborative requirements elicitation to bring about organisational, and
associated IT infrastructural, change. In order to determine the extent shared understanding was fostered,
the support tool was evaluated in a case study of a business process for the roll out of the IT software
image at a third level educational institution. Statistical analysis showed that the CRESUS-T support tool
fostered shared understanding in the case study, through increased communication. Shared understanding
is also manifested in the creation of two knowledge representation artefacts namely, a requirements model
and the IT infrastructure model. The CRESUS-T support tool will be useful to requirements engineers and
business analysts that have to gather requirements asynchronously.
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Develop a detailed outline for the data collection plan to include .docxbradburgess22840
The document outlines the requirements for a data collection plan, including obtaining permissions, proposing a sampling approach, outlining the collection steps for each instrument and data source, and including a data management plan. It also instructs to incorporate feedback to revise the sources of data/instruments and data collection sections of a prospectus.
Develop a 3–4 page research paper based on a selected case study rel.docxbradburgess22840
Develop a 3–4 page research paper based on a selected case study related to reproductive choices. Since the processes of reproduction and birth represent one of the potential biological outcomes of heterosexual activity, it is important to examine the biological foundations of human sexuality. This includes knowledge of fertilization and early development, including some of the most recent findings. There is more than a litany of birth control methods; this assessment offers a sound basis for understanding the issues to be weighed in personal decision making about contraception and abortion, which continue to generate debate and controversy.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Apply psychological theories to topics in human sexuality.
Apply psychological theories to a case study in human sexuality.
Competency 2: Apply scholarly research findings to topics in human sexuality.
Apply scholarly research findings to a case study in human sexuality.
Competency 3: Explain how ethics inform professional behavior in the field of human sexuality.
Explain how ethics inform professional behavior in the field of human sexuality.
Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.
Write coherently to support a central idea with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a psychology professional.
Use APA format and style.
APA Resources
Because this is a psychology course, you need to format this assessment according to APA guidelines. Additional resources about APA can be found in the Research Resources in the left navigation menu of your courseroom. Use the resources to guide your work as needed.
American Psychological Association. (2010).
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
(6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Available from the
bookstore
.
APA Paper Template [DOCX]
.
Required Resources
The following resource is required to complete the assessment.
Human Sexuality Case Studies: Sexuality Confronts Social Policy
|
Transcript
.
Suggested Resources
The resources provided here are optional and support the assessment. They provide helpful information about the topics. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The
PSYC-FP2800 – Introduction to Human Sexuality Library Guide
can help direct your research. The Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.
Human Sexuality and Reproductive Choices
Kelly, G. F. (2015).
Sexuality today
(11th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Available from the
bookstore
.
Chapter 10, "Reprod.
Develop a 5- to 6-slide PowerPoint presentation for a staff meet.docxbradburgess22840
Develop a 5- to 6-slide PowerPoint presentation for a staff meeting that addresses the following:
Identify your selected transition of care. ------" Transitions of care” refer to the movement of patients between health care practitioners, settings, and home as their condition and care need change. For example, a patient might receive care from a primary care physician or specialist in an outpatient setting, then transition to a hospital physician and nursing team during an inpatient admission before moving on to yet another care team at a skilled nursing facility. Finally, the patient might return home, where he or she may receive care from a visiting nurse or support from a family member or friend.
Explain how you, as a nurse leader, along with your healthcare team, would apply systems thinking when providing a transition of care aligned with the IHI Quadruple Aim framework in order to improve it. Explain what the fourth aim in your strategy would be and why.
These are the four areas:
Experience of care
Population health
Per capita cost
Care team well-being
Describe the key stakeholders that might be involved in this transition of care and how you would engage and influence them to improve the transition of care processes.
Explain how systems thinking would inform your improvement plan for your transition of care.
.
Develop a 5–10-year strategic plan for achieving specific health.docxbradburgess22840
Develop a 5–10-year strategic plan for achieving specific health care quality and safety improvements, based on the analysis you completed in Assessment 1. Use either an AI approach or your SWOT analysis and a chosen strategic planning model.
Note:
Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
SHOW LESS
Evaluation of strategic choices is important. The methods for selecting strategic alternatives help leaders organize significant issues to support decision making. However, it is important that the techniques do not make the decision. Rather, leaders should use the techniques to reveal the inherent situation and to organize their thought processes. This assessment provides you with an opportunity to evaluate and apply some of the techniques for successful strategy development and implementation.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Evaluate qualities and skills that promote effective leadership within health care organizations.
Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction.
Competency 2: Apply strategies to lead high-performing health care teams to meet organizational quality and safety goals.
Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that support the achievement of specific quality and safety improvements for a care setting.
Justify the relevance of proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, vision, and values of a care setting.
Competency 3: Apply cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations to leadership decision making.
Analyze the extent to which strategic goals and outcomes address the use of technology and the ethical, cultural, and regulatory environments.
Competency 4: Integrate leadership and health care theories into the role of the nurse leader.
Explain how relevant leadership and health care theories will be used to help achieve proposed strategic goals and objectives.
Competency 5: Communicate with stakeholders and constituencies to build collaborative partnerships and create inclusive work environments.
Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Suggested Resources
The resources provided here are optional. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The
MSN-FP6210: Leadership and Management for Nurse Executives Library Guide
can help direct your res.
Develop a 2–4-page proposal for a policy that should help to imp.docxbradburgess22840
Develop a 2–4-page proposal for a policy that should help to improve health care and outcomes for your target population.
Note
: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
Cost and access to care continue to be main concerns for patients and providers. As technology improves our ability to care for and improve outcomes in patients with chronic and complex illnesses, questions of cost and access become increasingly important. As a master’s-prepared nurse, you must be able to develop policies that will ensure the delivery of care that is effective and can be provided in an ethical and equitable manner.
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By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Design evidence-based advanced nursing care for achieving high-quality population outcomes.
Propose a policy and guidelines that will lead to improved outcomes and quality of care for a specific issue in a target population.
Competency 2: Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of interprofessional interventions in achieving desired population health outcomes.
Analyze the potential for an interprofessional approach to implementing a proposed policy to increase the efficiency or effectiveness of the care setting to achieve high quality outcomes.
Competency 3: Analyze population health outcomes in terms of their implications for health policy advocacy.
Advocate the need for a proposed policy in the context of current outcomes and quality of care for a specific issue in a target population.
Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Communicate proposal in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
CONTEXT:
As a master's-prepared nurse, you have a valuable viewpoint and voice with which to advocate for policy developments. As a nurse leader and health care practitioner, often on the front lines of helping individuals and populations, you are able to articulate and advocate for the patient more than any other professional group in health care. This is especially true of populations that may be underserved, underrepresented, or are otherwise lacking a voice. By advocating for and developing policies, you are able to help drive improvements in outcomes for specific populations. The policies you advocate for could be internal ones (just within a specific department or health care setting) that ensure quality care and compliance. Or they could be external policies (local, st.
Develop a 10- to 12- slide PowerPoint Presentation designed for .docxbradburgess22840
Develop a 10- to 12- slide PowerPoint Presentation designed for training the staff at a local high school. The PowerPoint Presentation should focus on strategies that promote communication skills among adolescents.
Students are encouraged to approach the assignment creatively, adding graphics, visuals, charts and/or graphs to their work. Slides should be designed to address the selected topic clearly and concisely. Each slide should be developed with professional presentation style (e.g., bulleted items in brief statements rather than complete sentences). Notes should complement the slides and provide details useful to the speaker if an oral presentation were to be given.
Creating the PowerPoint Presentation
The PowerPoint Presentation:
Must be 10 to 12 slides, and formatted according to APA style as outlined by the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a title slide with the following:
Title of the training
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must present a thesis statement regarding why social skills training would be appropriate for adolescents.
Must explain different types of communication (e.g., aggressive and assertive).
Must share four strategies on how adolescents could improve their communication skills.
Must create at least three hypothetical scenarios of problems that adolescents might encounter, including one that involves cultural/ethnic issues. The scenarios should show how adolescents could use improved communication skills to solve these problems.
Must develop conclusions that reiterate the opening thesis statement, include a summary of the social skills training discussed, and offer evidence of its effectiveness.
Must use at least four scholarly sources (in addition to the course text), including a minimum of two from the Ashford Online Library. References are to be provided as needed within the slides.
Must include a separate reference slide, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
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DetailsPlease answer the following questions. 1. Desc.docxbradburgess22840
Meiosis involves two rounds of cell division that result in four haploid cells from one diploid cell. A cross between a GgBb male and GgBb female would result in a 1:1:1:1 ratio of offspring with green/black, green/brown, purple/black, and purple/brown phenotypes according to a Punnett square. A mating between a normal female and hemophilic male would result in all male offspring being hemophilic according to a Punnett square, with 50% of total offspring being hemophilic. Linked genes are located close together on the same chromosome and may not assort independently during meiosis, but they are not an exception to Mendel's law of
Despite the literature supporting technology use in schools as ben.docxbradburgess22840
Despite the literature supporting technology use in schools as beneficial for students, and despite the wide use of social technology, schools continue to be slow to change its integration in the classroom (Livingstone, 2012). It is imperative that teachers increase their use of technology in the classroom in order to prepare our K-12 students referred to as "digital natives," for the 21st century. Though many schools have technology available for use (Alger & Kopcha, 2008), barriers exist in incorporating technology into lesson plans, namely teacher reluctance (Keengwe, Onchwari, & Wachira, 2008). Teachers' hesitation in using technology more frequently is due to a number of factors, such as lack of time to learn new technology and incorporate it into lesson plans, beliefs around using technology in instruction, availability of working technology and technical support, comprehensive professional development, and a culture that promotes using new technology, self-efficacy, and teaching methods (Alger & Kopcha, 2008).
Literature Review
Self-Efficacy toward Technology
According to Bandura (1986) individuals possess a self-system that determines how much effort people will expend on any activity. Bandura also asserts that self-efficacy beliefs may be a strong predictor of related performance. Studies have shown a positive correlation between self-efficacy in technology and technology ability (Anderson & Maninger, 2007; Anderson, Grouulx, & Maninger, 2011). According to the technology acceptance model introduced by Davis (1989), there is a correlation between users' perceived ease of use and predicted adoption of technology. In his study investigating Moodles, Yeou (2016) found self-efficacy to be a critical factor in undergraduates' use of the technology tool. In a similar study investigating pre-service teachers, Albion (2001) found that self-efficacy was the most significant factor in predicting technology use. Pre-service and in-service teachers who possess high self-efficacy in regard to technology are more apt to use technology in the classroom because they are more confident in their ability. In their study investigating teachers' use of technology, Holden and Rada (2011) found that self-efficacy directly influenced individuals' ease of use and usability of technology.
Need for Technology Integration
With the adoption of the National Education Technology Plan (NETP), providing access to technology is no longer sufficient; the NETP stresses that schools are expected to ensure "all students understand how to use technologies as a tool to engage in creative, productive, lifelong learning" (p. 16 Herold, 2016). A key element in the plan is the need to move from passive to active use of technology. Often referred to as the "digital use and divide," a gap exists between learners who are using technology in active, creative ways to support their learning and those who predominantly use technology for passive content consumption.
To develop .
This document contains notifications from Sakai's version control system about recent changes made in Source code repositories. It describes 14 separate revisions made between January 4th and 5th, 2008. The revisions include changes to code related to gradebook, site management, messaging, and other tools.
Description:
Ch .17:
Newborn transitioning
Ch. 18:
Nursing management of the
newborn
Ch.19:
Nursing Management at risk:
Pregnancy-related complications
Ch.20:
Nursing Management of the
Pregnancy at Risk: Health
conditions and vulnerable populations
Ch. 21:
Nursing management of
labor and birth at risk
Ch. 22:
Nursing management of the
postpartum woman at risk
.
Description of the assignment The following 4 men created a p.docxbradburgess22840
Description of the assignment:
The following 4 men created a paradigm shift within Western culture: Luther, Columbus, Gutenberg, and Charles Darwin. In this assignment, explain which one of these you deem to have had the most influence on Western culture. Provide concrete reasons that clarify your position. If you include sources, cite them in current APA format. This assignment must be 250–300 words and must include the word count in parentheses. S
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Description of the AssignmentThis assignment presents a mo.docxbradburgess22840
Description of the Assignment
This assignment presents a modified method for conducting a concept analysis of
one
concept that is important and useful to the nurse practitioner role. The concept for this assignment must be supported by a published
nursing
theory. The selected concept is identified and then the elements of the analysis process are applied in order to synthesize knowledge for application as demonstrated through the creation of a model case. Theoretical applications of the concept are also discussed. Non-nursing theories may
not
be used. Scholarly literature is incorporated throughout the analysis.
Only the elements identified in this assignment should be used for this concept analysis.
Possible Concepts:
The following concepts are not required; students may select one of these concepts or find another concept. Each selected concept must be associated with a nursing theory; the use of non-nursing theories is
not
allowed. If you have any questions regarding your concept or the nursing theory, please consult with your faculty member for assistance.
Please note: the concepts of caring or cultural humility are not permitted for this assignment.
Adaptation
Burnout
Civility
Comfort
Compassion
Compassion fatigue
Competence
Empowerment
Engagement
Health
Leadership
Meaningfulness
Modeling
Noise
Pain
Palliative care
Quality of life
Resilience
Self-care
Sensory overload
Situational awareness
Criteria for Content
Definition/Explanation of the selected nursing concept
Defines/explains the concept using scholarly literature (a dictionary maybe used for this section
only
)
Support from nursing literature is required.
2.
Defining attributes:
A minimum of
three (3)
attributes are required.
Support from nursing literature is required.
Explanation: An attribute identifies characteristics of a concept. For this question, the characteristics of the selected nursing concept are identified and discussed.
Antecedent and Consequence
1 antecedent
of the selected nursing concept.
1 consequence
of the selected nursing concept.
Support from nursing literature is required.
Explanation:
An antecedent is an identifiable occurrence that happens before an event. An antecedent precedes a selected nursing concept. A consequence follows or is the result of an event. The selected consequence follows or is the result of the selected nursing concept.
4.
Model Case
1 Model Case
is created by the student and discussed substantively by demonstrating within the case each of the following areas:
Definition
All identified attributes
Theoretical Applications of the Concept
Explain how the concept applies to the selected nursing theory.
Support from nursing literature is required.
Reflection
Reflect on how the concept analysis findings apply to your advanced nursing practice, specifically as an NP.
Self-reflection may be written in first-person.
Preparing the Assi.
Description of theNationalMilitary Strategy2018.docxbradburgess22840
Description of the
National
Military
Strategy
2018
The Joint Staff
1
Overview
The 2018 National Military Strategy (NMS) provides the
Joint Force a framework for protecting and advancing U.S.
national interests. Pursuant to statute, it reflects a
comprehensive review conducted by the Chairman with the
other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the unified
combatant commanders.
As an overarching military strategic framework, this
strategy implements the substantial body of policy and
strategy direction provided in the 2017 National Security
Strategy, the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS), the
Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), and other documents.
The 2018 NMS provides the Chairman’s military advice for
how the Joint Force implements the defense objectives in
the NDS and the direction from the President and the
Secretary of Defense.
The 2018 NMS also reflects lessons learned from
implementing global integration over the last two years. The
strategy articulates a continuum of strategic direction to
frame global integration into three strategy horizons to meet
the challenges of the existing and future security
environment. Force employment addresses planning, force
management, and decisionmaking to fulfill the defense
objectives of the NDS. Force development adapts functions,
capabilities, and concepts to improve the current Joint
Force. Force design innovates to enable the Joint Force to
do what it does differently to retain a competitive advantage
against any adversary.
The vision of the Joint Force articulated in the 2018 NMS is
a Joint Force capable of defending the homeland and
projecting power globally, now and into the future.
2
Strategic Approach
From its global perspective, the NMS premises an adaptive
and innovative Joint Force capable of employing its
capabilities seamlessly across multiple regions and all
domains -- continuing the transition from a regional to a
global mindset and approach.
This strategy
anchors its
approach against a
set of clearly
identified security
trends outlined in
the NDS (see inset).
These trends,
especially those
posed by the
reemergence of
great power
competition with China and Russia, represent the most
difficult challenges facing the Joint Force. However, the full
scope of global integration must recognize uncertainty and
be vigilant for emerging threats to the security and interests
of the United States, its allies and partners. In a security
environment where the homeland is no longer a sanctuary
and every operating domain is contested, competitors and
adversaries will continue to operate across geographic
regions and span multiple domains to offset or erode Joint
Force advantages.
To achieve military advantage over competitors and
adversaries, the NMS introduces the notion of joint
combined arms, defined as the conduct of operational art
through the integration of joint capabilities.
Description This is a 4 page paper about either a creative genius o.docxbradburgess22840
Description: This is a 4 page paper about either a creative genius of your choosing (Thomas Edison? Einstein? Michelangelo? Beyonce? Lucille Ball?) or a creative business (DuPont, Corning, IDEO? Pixar?). You can either read a full biography or research the person or organization using several sources. The paper should include: Description and background of the person/organization, 2) why you chose him/her/it, 3) what this person/org achieved (briefly), 4) how he/she/it fuels their creativity (his or her own, or if a company, its workforce) and 5) include a self reflection. Knowing what they do, what are some things YOU DO to fuel your creativity? What else could you do going forward? . #4 and #5 are most important. At the end of the paper, summarize by listing at least ten to fifteen things that this individual did to fuel his/her/its creativity. Here are some examples:
Da Vinci kept journals and notebooks. He dissected eyes and other body parts. He learned many mediums - painting sculpting, etc.
Ian Flemming (author), designed golf courses in his spare time.
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1. Telecommunications Steering Committee
Managing
Telecommunications
by Steering
Committee
with firm size, planning practices, and top
management recognition and support. As firms
grow, they tend to more frequently use steering
committees for interunit coordination, setting
policies, allocating recourses, and monitoring pro-
gress. These steering committees can also pro-
mote organizational recognition and secure
funding commitments for the telecommunications
function.
By: Gholamreza Torkzadeh
Information Systems and
Operations Management
The University of Toledo
2801 West Bancroft Street
Toledo, Ohio 43606 U.S.A.
Weidong Xia
Information Systems and
Management Science
Beijing University of Aeronautics
and Astronautics
2. Beijing
People's Republic of China
Abstract
The increasing need for integration and the rapid
growth of oniine systems have made telecom-
munications a vital part of management informa-
tion systems (MiS). in search of competitive
advantage, organizations make significant in-
vestments in teiecomunications. Telecommunica-
tions management is becoming a top priority of
information systems executives. The MIS litera-
ture suggests that steering committees are effec-
tive means of managing information systems.
However, there is no information on how steer-
ing committees impact the management of the
telecommunications function. Drawing on
organizational theory and MIS iiterature, a
framework is presented that reiates firm size and
telecommunications steering committees to pian-
ning practices and organizational recognition and
support. Using a survey of 137 organizations, this
framework is examined. The results of this ex-
ploratory research suggest that use of a telecom-
munications steering committee is associated
' An earlier version of this article was presented at the DSI Na-
tional Conference in Miami, Florida, November 1991.
Keywords: Telecommunications, steering com-
mittee, strategic planning
ACM Categories: K.6.4, K.6.0, H.4.0, H.4.3
Introduction
Telecommunications technology is evolving in-
3. to a vital component of organizational strategy.
By powerful combinations of communications
and information processing systems, firms are
creating new vehicles for achieving critical
business goals. Management is learning how to
harness telecommunications resources for ad-
vanced marketing and logistics strategies to pro-
vide competitive advantage applications.
Changes wrought by telecommunications
technology in information systems for air travel,
financial markets, and distributions (Copeiand
and McKenney, 1988; Ives and Learmonth, 1984)
have altered the way these industries compete.
Firms are discovering that managing the telecom-
munications infrastructure and portfolio is as im-
portant as managing the data resource. As
networks help information technology reach all
members of groups and organizations, oppor-
tunities proliferate to support and change the
ways companies compete.
Many firms use their data communications
facilities for traditional activities such as timeshar-
ing, inquiry and retrieval, data entry, and batch
and transaction processing (Kriebel, 1984). But
some of the most successful examples of infor-
mation systems are those that use telecom-
munications technology to link a company to its
suppliers, distributors, or customers. For exam-
ple, McKesson Drug Company's Economost
created a direct link between the company and
its customers and resulted in over 99 percent of
orders being placed electronically (Clemons,
1991). Barclays de Zoete Wedd, the largest
MiS Quarterly/June 1992 187
4. Telecommunications Steering Committee
market maker in the United Kingdom (Essinger,
1988), introduced an automatic order-entry
system for retail brokerage called TRADE, which
doubled the share of its orders from some brokers
and created a significant barrier to competitors.
It has been suggested that the emerging integra-
tion of computers and communications tech-
nology is expanding the realm of business
opportunities (Hammer and Mangurian, 1987).
The Harris Corporation's strategy to integrate
telecommunications resources (McCauley, 1983)
and Digital Equipment Corporation's ARPANET
(Crawford, 1982) are successful examples hav-
ing fundamental impacts on information systems
effectiveness. Others suggest that the best way
to manage computers is to manage the networks
that connect them (Donovan, 1988). Examples
of how retailers use information systems and
telecommunications technology (Dolen, 1986) in-
dicate how these firms view the network as a
critical tool in seizing new business opportuni-
ties, improving productivity and the quality of
work life, and gaining a competitive edge in the
marketplace.
Most large organizations make significant in-
vestments in telecommunications resources.
Such resources must be allocated wisely, and
management practices must be established for
the development and use of telecommunications
5. technology. If it is mismanaged, the adverse
results may involve permanent loss of com-
petitive strength within the industry. This may in-
clude, for example, loss of opportunities for:
improving customer services, efficiently manag-
ing diversified activities or sharing critical
resources, globalizing operations, responding
quickly to changing worldwide business condi-
tions, or reducing overall costs. In this context,
steering committees provide a mechanism to en-
sure proper management; they have gained sig-
nificant acceptance in many organizations for
managing the information systems development
resource (Doll and Torkzadeh, 1987; McKeen
and Guimaraes, 1985).
Steering committees composed of top manage-
ment, users, and service personnel can provide
a broad perspective to focus on management of
the telecommunications resource. Many
similarities exist between telecommunications
and information systems management practices.
In communications-intensive information
systems, the roles of computing and com-
municating are so intertwined that the business
value of the communications and processing
functions cannot be distinguished. However, to
integrate telecommunications technology, firms
need better coordination between organizational
functions; these efforts may or may not be iden-
tical to coordination within MIS. Therefore, each
function may require a separate steering
committee.
Little research has been done on the relationship
6. between steering committees and management
of the telecommunications function. Strategic
telecommunications planning is also a relatively
new, under-researched area. Research on the
operating procedures and composition of steer-
ing committees, as well as on their relationships
with the telecommunications function, could be
valuable in promoting the effective establishment
of such committees.
To explore the effectiveness of steering commit-
tees for the management of the telecommuni-
cations function, this article first presents a
framework that relates telecommunications steer-
ing committees to firm size, planning practices,
and organizational recognition and support.
Then, using a survey of 137 corporations, this
framework is explored further. The intent of this
exploratory research is to discover areas in which
further research is required.
A Framework for
Telecommunications
Steering Committees
Previous research has examined the relationship
between steering committees and management
information systems. Doll and Torkzadeh (1987)
report that firms having MIS steering committees
are more likely to have an overall written plan for
systems development, have separate plans and
budgets for maintenance and new development,
achieve mutual agreement on a set of criteria for
deciding which projects to do first, and secure
the organization's long- term commitment to pro-
vide stable funding for systems development ac-
titivies. Others report that steering committees
7. improve the information systems project portfolio
(McKeen and Guimaraes, 1985); promote a
favorable psychological climate that positively im-
pacts information systems success (Ein-Dor and
Segev, 1978); and provide perceived benefits to
188 MIS Quarterly/June 1992
Telecommunications Steering Committee
top management, users, and data processing
personnel (Drury, 1984).
Most research on organizational issues deals with
information systems rather than specifically
focuses on the telecommunications function.
Reviewing more than 9,800 articles covering over
11 years of MIS research, Adams, et al. (1990)
contend that researchers have not placed the
same emphasis as practitioners on telecommuni-
cations management. They contend that: "The
majority of telecommunications research focuses
on lower level management issues, such as in-
stalling a network, rather than using IS for com-
petitive advantage" (p. 35). They suggest more
research in telecommunications is needed to pro-
vide information systems executives with insights
on how to manage the telecommunications
function.
Although there are similarities between MIS and
telecommunications steering committees, their
focuses may vary. This is reflected in the
management practices of telecommunications
8. and information systems (Donovan, 1988;
Premkumar and King, 1990). While MIS is con-
sidered an established function within most
organizations, the telecommunications function
is generally still seeking recognition and support
for its strategic role. Telecommunications has
traditionally been a support unit within the
information systems function. As its role in-
creases, the telecommunications function may
require an independent identity and organiza-
tional recognition. A steering committee can
focus attention to the use of telecommunications
as a competitive weapon.
Telecommunications steering
committee
The telecommunications steering committee can
act as a kind of board of directors by setting
policies, allocating resources, and monitoring
progress. It can be a liaison device, necessary
as the organization grows, or it can be used to
achieve interunit coordination via developing
plans and improving planning effectiveness, set-
ting priorities, and securing funding com-
mitments. The steering committee can seek
recognition and support for this new technology
appropriate for its intended role in expanding the
realm of business opportunities. The members
of the committee are expected to view telecom-
munications as a corporate resource with in-
vestments in it treated as a business within a
business. The mission, policy, and vision for this
business will be determined by the telecommu-
nications steering committee. The composition
and operation of such committees will differ
9. among organizations. However, the membership
typically includes executives from several
functional areas of the firm providing a breadth
of perspectives. The committee is usually chaired
by a senior executive member, such as a vice
president.
Research questions
Organizational size is often cited as a major
determinant of organizational structure and plan-
ning (Blau and Schoenherr, 1971; Child and
Mansfield, 1972; Miller, 1986; Pugh, etal., 1968;
1969). As organizations evolve and grow, infor-
mation systems planning practices may become
more formalized (Doll and Torkzadeh, 1987). As
they do, steering committees will be used more
frequently (Galbraith, 1973; Khandwalla, 1974).
Large firms with complex distributed information
processing systems face more organizational and
personnel problems than technical ones (Felix
and Harrison, 1984) and require more careful
planning practices.
It has been suggested that a firm's planning prac-
tices be conducted within an organizational con-
text (Ein-Dor, 1978) and is influenced by the
nature of the firm's strategic business plan (King,
1978), the function's competitive impact (Millar
and Porter, 1985), and the business planning pro-
cess (McLean and Soden, 1977). The methodol-
ogies developed in MIS planning for the analysis
of the business environment and to identify com-
petitive advantage applications are equally ap-
plicable in telecommunications; most strategic
system applications are based on an integration
of computer and telecommunications technology.
10. This is specifically true as telecommunications
technology creates what Konsynski and
McFarlan (1990) call "information partnership"
and provides a new basis for differentiation.
Significant research questions relate to the
management and organizational structure of the
telecommunications function. In this study, these
research questions are expressed in terms of
relationships to be examined through a set of
propositions. Based on the review of the literature,
four variables are expected to interact and in-
MIS Quarterly/June 1992 189
Telecommunications Steering Committee
fluence telecommunications success: the size of
the organization; liaison devices, such as steer-
ing committees; planning practices; and
organizational recognition and support (see
Figure 1).
As organizations increase in size, they develop
differentiated subunits and increase investment
in telecommunications resources in search of ad-
vanced marketing and logistics strategies. They
tend to have steering committees to coordinate
and monitor policy, resources, and progress.
Telecommunications steering committees
facilitate user and top management involvement
in this function. As a firm's size increases, the
interunit coordinations become more complex. A
11. steering committee can help create the
necessary fit between the telecommunications
and organizational strategies. This leads to
Proposition 1: Large firms are more iikeiy to
have teiecommunications steering commit-
tees (Link A).
Furthermore, as the organizations's number of
employees, annual budget, or total assets grow
and the telecommunications function deals with
more complex development problems, it is ex-
Firm Size
r
Telecommunications
Steering Committee
D
Organizational
Support and
Recognition for
Telecommunications
•B-
Telecommunications
Planning Practices
Figure 1. A Framework for Teiecommunications Steering
Committees
12. 190 MIS Quarterly/June 1992
Telecommunications Steering Committee
pected to have more systematic and formalized
planning practices. Thus,
Proposition 2: Large firms are more likely to
have formaiized planning practices for their
teiecommunications function (Link B).
Telecommunications steering committees are ex-
pected to link business strategy with telecommu-
nications strategy by providing a forum where
senior managers and users discuss direction,
match corporate concerns with technological
potential, and build commitment to policies. They
are therefore expected to influence planning
practices. Thus,
Proposition 3: Firms with teiecommunications
steering committees are more iikeiy to have
formaiized pianning practices for their
teiecommunications functions (Link C).
Due to its dynamic, complex nature and its role
in expanding the realm of business opportunities,
telecommunications requires a long-term
organizational commitment to provide adequate
investment. Telecommunications steering com-
mittees tend to enhance an executive's
understanding and recognition of the business
value and potential applications derived from this
technology. Thus,
13. Proposition 4: Firms with teiecommunications
steering committees are more iikeiy to pro-
vide organizationai support and recognition
for the teiecommunications functions (Link
D).
The Study
In order to examine these four propositions, a
questionnaire was developed and implemented.
Using a directory of 3,000 MIS and telecom-
munications managers/directors of firms in the
United States, a list was compiled of individuals
who, according to their titles, were responsible
for the telecommunications function. The ques-
tionnaire was mailed to 622 telecommunication
managers. Responses were received from 137
firms (22 percent).
Sample characteristics
Respondents' titles include: data communication
director/manager, networl< director/manager,
communication chief, communication coor-
dinator, and data communication supervisor. The
respondents are experienced professionals: 35
percent had been with their respective organiza-
tions for more than 14 years, about 9 percent be-
tween 11 to 14 years, 17 percent between 7 to
10 years, 25 percent between 3 to 6 years, and
14 percent for less than 3 years. Respondents
represent a variety of industries (see Table 1).
Measures
To more carefully assess the impact of steering
committees on the level of support, top manage-
14. ment understanding, and the firm's recognition
of telecommunications, eight specific questions
Tabie 1. Respondents by Type of industry
Firm Type
Manufacturing and Processing
Finance, Bani<ing, and Insurance
Educational Institutions
Wholesale and Retail
Transportation, Communication, and Utilities
Government Agencies
Health Services/Hospitals
Other
Total
Frequency
43
29
14
10
15
18
5
11
145*
Percentage
29.7
20.0
15. 9.7
6.9
10.3
12.4
3.4
7.6
100.0
Some firms participate in more than one industry.
MIS Quarterly/June 1992 191
Teiecommunications Steering Committee
were developed using a scale varing from 1
(strongly agree) to 5 (strongly disagree). These
questions measure the perceived importance of
telecommunications for achieving the long- and
short-term objectives to the organization. Multi-
ple items were used to assess each scale.
To develop reliable, valid measures of organiza-
tional support for telecommunications, the re-
searchers employed well-established methods of
instrument development (see the Appendix for
details). The result is a five-item scale, shown in
Table 2, for measuring organizational support for
telecommunications. To examine the validity of
this multiple-item scale, a single-item global scale
measuring perceived overall organizational sup-
port was also included in the questionnaire. This
16. global measure asked: "Overall, how would you
rate organizational support for the development
of telecommunications in your organization?"
Both the five-item and single-item global scales
were used to examine the relationship between
the telecommunications steering committee and
organizational support.
Results
The survey responses were used to examine the
four propositions described earlier. The results
presented here should be interpreted with cau-
tion. Organizations participating in this study
were not specifically collected for their size,
though size is widely considered to be an impor-
tant factor in determining organizational struc-
ture. Furthermore, no study has specifically
examined the relationships between size of firm,
steering committees, planning practices, or top
management support for the telecommunications
function.
The results suggest that large firms are more like-
ly to use telecommunications steering commit-
tees. The respondents were classified into small
(less than 500 employees) and large (500 or more
employees) organizations. Large firms have a
significant investment in information technology
in search of competitive advantage, and telecom-
munications infrastructure is vital for the success
of this business objective. They tend to more fre-
quently use liaison devices such as steering com-
mittees to coordinate and monitor policy,
resources, and progress. Large firms had
significantly (p < .05) more telecommunications
steering committees than small firms (see Table
17. 3). Large and small firms were equally likely to
have a telecommunications plan. This supports
proposition 1, but not proposition 2.
Most (61 percent) telecommunications steering
committees were comprised of representatives
from various functional areas of the organization.
Some (29.5 percent) included members of the in-
formation systems department only, and a few
(9.5 percent) were made up of top level manage-
ment only. The steering committees existed in
these firms from one to 10 years with an average
of 3.7 years.
To more clearly identify the extent and nature of
the steering committee's responsibilities, a set
of eight questions was included in the question-
naire. Respondents were asked to indicate
whether each task was relevant to their steering
committee. Tabie 4 shows the telecommu-
nications steering committees' major tasks and,
for each task, the percentage of times identified
by the respondents. The organization's future
needs for telecommunications and how it could
contribute to accomplishing organizational objec-
tives were most frequently mentioned. The steer-
Tabie 2. iMeasures of Organizationai Support
1. Top management understands the importance of
telecommunications.
2. Top management supports the development of
telecommunications.
3. Telecommunications capabilities are considered in the
18. organization's strategic
planning process.
4. Telecommunications has been recognized as an important
tool in strategic planning.
5. Budget allocation toward telecommunications has been
favorably considered by
management.
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ing committees were less likely to be concerned
with technical questions such as the integration
of voice and data. These results are consistent
with the definition and responsibilities of the
telecommunications steering committee and are
similar to the tasks for an MIS steering commit-
tee as described in the literature.
The survey results indicate a significant (p < .001)
relationship between steering committees
and planning practices. One of the most impor-
tant responsibilities of steering committees is to
provide a plan consistent with the organizationai
objectives and strategies. In the past, the tele-
communications function essentially performed
the role of a support function and, hence, was
shielded to a large extent from market forces. A
steering committee is an effective mechanism for
creating the necessary fit between telecom-
19. munications technology and a business plan. In
this sample, 96 percent of firms with steering
committees had an overall plan for telecom-
munications. Thus, proposition 3 is supported.
Unlike proposition 2 (large firms are more likely
to have formalized planning practices for their
Tabie 3. The Reiationship of Firm Size to Teiecommunications
Steering Committee and Planning Practices
Question
Do you have a committee that
makes policy decisions relating
to telecommunications?
Do you have an overall plan for
telecommunications?
Percentage of
Affirmative Responses
Smaii Large
(n = 36) (n = 101)
25 40
86 78
Significance
of Difference
Between Smali
and Large Firms
20. p < .05
p < .15
Tabie 4. Tasks of Teiecommunications Steering Committee
Questionnaire item
Make decisions on future telecommunication needs of the
organization.
Discuss how the development of telecommunications can
contribute
toward accomplishing organizational objectives.
Discuss how telecommunications could improve the
performance of other
operating functions.
Discuss how the telecommunications system can be managed to
ensure
the efficient and effective use of resources.
Discuss ways in which telecommunications technology can be
used in
strategic planning.
Meet regularly.
Discuss ways in which telecommunications technology can be
used to
achieve competitive advantage.
Decide how the integration of voice and data can be achieved.
Percentage of
21. Affirmative
Responses
96
96
94
92
87
81
77
71
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telecommunications), proposition 3 (firms with
telecommunications steering committees are
more likely to have formalized planning practices
for their telecommunications function) is sup-
ported; one might expect both to be supported.
A possible explanation for these findings may be
that smaller firms have MIS steering committees
that also oversee telecommunications functions.
The study did not include questions on MIS steer-
ing committees.
22. i//ithin the responding organizations, firms with
steering committees had significantly (p < .001)
more overall support for the development of
telecommunications in the organization. The
telecommunications steering committees provide
a forum where senior managers and representa-
tives of other functional areas discuss direction
and facilitate top management commitment,
recognition, and support for telecommunications.
Table 5 shows the specific nature of this recogni-
tion and support for the telecornmunications func-
tion. The mean responses for all measures are
significantly (p < .05) different for firms with and
without steering committees. This supports prop-
osition 4.
These strategic or long-term issues are directly
related to a firm's competitive advantage. The
planning for telecommunications requires a multi-
year horizon and, consequently, a close link to
anticipated enterprise requirements. Recent
studies have indicated the growing emphasis on
the strategic role of the telecommunications func-
tion within organizations (Premkumar and King,
1990).
Summary and Discussion
Organizations invest significantly in their informa-
tion systems and teiecommunications to ex-
change information, enhance communication,
and support business strategy. Telecommunica-
tions technology has been used to improve pro-
ductivity, enhance the delivery of product and
services, raise barriers to entry for new com-
petitors, or introduce switching costs to
customers. The growth of telecommunications
23. and its potential role in creating competitive ad-
vantage for the organizations necessitates a
greater understanding for its management and
how this function can best be used to achieve
organizational objectives.
The technology strategy literature views technolo-
gy as a means for implementing corporate
strategy (Morone, 1989). The emphasis is on find-
ing ways in which corporate technology efforts
can be organized to fit and support company
strategy. Morone suggests it is one thing to make
technology decisions consistent with corporate
strategy (technology strategy) and quite another
to bring the potential opportunities that
technology creates to bear on the formulation of
corporate strategy (strategic use of technology).
He contends the strategic use of technology oc-
curs when technology-based opportunities
become integral to corporate strategy, so integral
that they are viewed not as "technology" but as
"strategic opportunities."
The results of this study suggest that liaison
devices such as steering committees or task
forces might be important mechanisms for
managing the telecommunications function and
may help the strategic use of this technology.
Such policy-making and monitoring committees
can be an effective avenue for top-management
involvement in the successful development of
telecommunications. Their work can facilitate
organizationai recognition and support for this
function. As the role of telecommunications in
creating a competitive advantage is increased,
24. organizations will likely tend to develop a more
systematic and formalized approach toward the
management of this function. Steering committees
also tend to reduce planning problems facing
telecommunications managers while providing
necessary congruence between the telecommu-
nications plan and organizational objectives. Large
firms, due to their level of investment in informa-
tion technology and the complexity of their
organizational and strategic issues, tend to rely
more on steering committees.
These findings have potential implications for the
manager of a telecommunications function.
Telecommunications technology is moving up on
the priority list of many organizations; it may
therefore benefit from its own steering committee.
The emerging network technology, increasing
complexity, and wider offerings available after the
deregulation of the industry necessitate careful in-
terunit coordination, resource planning, and con-
tinuous improvement in order to achieve and
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Table 5. The Relationship of Telecommunications Steering
Committee to
Organizationai Recognition and Support
Questionnaire item
1. Top management understands the importance of
25. telecommunications.
2. Top management supports the development of
telecommunications.
3. Telecommunications capabilities are considered in
the organization's strategic planning process.
4. Telecommunications has been recognized as an im-
portant tool in strategic planning.
5. Budget allocation toward telecommunications has
been favorably considered by management.
iVieans of
Firms
With
Committee
2.04
1.94
2.31
2.13
2.18
Responses
Firms
Without
26. Committee
2.45*
2.43**
2.71*
2.63*
2.75**
Note: Respondents' perceptions were measured on five-point
Likert-type scales;
* p < .05; ** p < .001.
support business objectives. The telecom-
munications planning process must be as close-
ly linked to business needs as it is to technological
opportunities. The telecommunications steering
committee can produce a portfolio of justified
communications and networks development plans
that contribute to business success.
Several important research questions are related
to the management of the telecommunications
function. Further research efforts might focus on:
(1) examining the relationship between the
telecommunications steering committee and the
MIS steering committee; (2) examining deregula-
tion of the industry and its impact on planning
practices; (3) studying the impact of business en-
vironment on the telecommunications function; (4)
assessing the relationships between telecom-
munications steering committees and the pattern
of competitive advantage in organizations; (5)
27. evaluating the role and impact of steering com-
mittees for the successful development of
telecommunications; and (6) studying the dif-
ferences in structure, composition, and role of
telecommunications steering committees in dif-
ferent industries. While some firms seize upon the
strategic opportunities provided by telecom-
munications technology, others fail to do so. We
need to better understand the actual behavior of
firms and why different firms facing similar situa-
tions respond differently.
Conciusions
This study has developed and assessed a set of
relationships between firm size, telecom-
munications steering committees, planning prac-
tices, and organizational support. The results
suggest that telecommunications technology of-
fers a strategic opportunity that requires increased
management attention. Finding and evaluating
strategic opportunities to use telecommunications
technology and justifying the decision to make the
necessary investment for this technology require
a set of more focused management skills different
from those historically required of information
systems executives. Investing in this technology,
assessing its strategic value, and securing stable
funding for its enhancement and maintenance all
require a careful management approach. Rapid
expansion and deregulation of the telecommu-
nications industry increases the risk of failure.
Steering committees are important mechanisms
MIS Quarterly/June 1992 195
28. Telecommunications Steering Committee
for managing that risk for the telecommunications
function. They facilitate recognition and support
and can play a strategic role in the application of
telecommunications. These committees can pro-
vide a more careful planning approach that can
facilitate alignment with overarching organizational
objectives. For an organization with an expensive
investment in telecommunications, a steering
committee may be a necessity.
Acknowledgement
We would like to thank T.S. Raghunathan for his
comments on an earlier draft of this article.
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of Great Britain, TIMS, DSI, ACM, and SIM. He
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Appendix
The Instrument Development Process
To improve the content and focus of the initial questionnaire, it
was first administered in five interviews
with experienced telecommunications managers from
manufacturing, services, and wholesale industries
and two academics involved in research studies on the
management of telecommunications. Their feed-
back helped improve the scope and wording of items. Next, this
improved questionnaire was mailed
to 622 telecommunication managers, and 137 useable responses
were collected. This sample was used
for instrument development and data analysis.
34. To ensure that the items measured the organizational support for
telecommunications, the construct
validity of each item was examined. Kerlinger (1978) suggests
two methods of construct validation: (1)
correlations between total scores and item scores, and (2) factor
analysis. The first approach assumes
that the total score is valid; thus, the extent to which the item
correlates with the total score is indicative
of construct validity for the item. In this study each item score
was subtracted from the total score in
order to avoid a spurious part-whole correlation; the result is a
corrected item total, which was then cor-
related with the item score. Factor analysis was also used to
identify the underlying factors or components
of support construct. This enabled us to identify factorially pure
items that would facilitate the testing
of more specific hypotheses.
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A measure of criterion-related validity (Kerlinger, 1978) was
also examined to identify items that were
not closely related to the organizational support construct. A
global item measuring perceived overall
support was assumed to be a valid measure and was used as a
criterion scale. This criterion scale was:
"Overall, how would you rate organizational support for the
development of telecommunications in your
organization?" To the extent that each item was correlated with
this criterion, the scale provided a measure
of criterion-related validity.
35. Using the sample of 137 responses, the eight-item scale was
examined for reliability and construct validity.
Bartlett's test of sphericity had a chi-square value of 774.84 and
a significance level of .0000, suggesting
that the intercorrelation matrix contains enough common
variance to make factor analysis worth pursu-
ing. The data were examined using principal components
analysis as the extraction technique and varimax
as a method of rotation. Two factors with eigen values greater
than 1 emerged and explained 65.0 per-
cent of the variance. The loadings of the eight measures on each
factor (for factor loading greater than
.30) is shown in Table A1. Two items had multiple loadings.
Except for items 3, 4, and 6, each item had a corrected item
total correlation above .66 (a measure
of internal consistency) and a correlation with the criterion
measure above .44 (see Table A2). These
three items did not specifically relate to top management
activities or strategic role of telecommunica-
tions in organizations and were therefore omitted. The cutoffs
for the remaining five items were con-
sidered high enough to ensure that the items retained were
adequate measures of Factor 1.
This five-item scale for measuring organizational support for
telecommunications had a reliability of .89
and a criterion-related validity of .70. With a minimum standard
of .80 suggested for basic research,
this scale's reliability is adequate for measuring organizational
support for telecommunications. Factor
analysis of this scale resulted in one factor with an eigen value
of 3.5 that explained 69 percent of the
variance. Item descriptions, corrected item total correlations,
correlations with criterion, and factor loadings
36. are provided in Table A3.
Tabie A 1 . Rotated Factor iVIatrix of Recognition/Support
items
item Description
1. Top management understands the importance of
telecommunications.
2. Top management supports the development of
telecommunications.
3. Telecommunications is used as a supporting function
to accomplish company goals and objectives.
4. Telecommunications can help solve operating problems.
5. Telecommunications capabilities are considered in the
organization's strategic planning process.
6. Telecommunications is vital to the organization.
7. Telecommunications has been recognized as an
important tool in strategic planning.
8. Budget allocation toward telecommunications has
been favorably considered by management.
Factor 1 Factor 2
.86507
.89350
.57291 .31944
37. .78400
.75729
.79992
.73648 .34310
.79256
Note: Variance explained: Factor 1 = 50.6%; Factor 2 = 14.3%.
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Tabie A2. Reiiability and Criterion-Reiated Vaiidity of
Organizational Support IMeasures
item Description
1. Top management understands the importance of
telecommunications.
2. Top management supports the development of
telecommunications.
3. Telecommunications is used as a supporting function
to accomplish company goals and objectives.
4. Telecommunications can help solve operating problems.
5. Telecommunications capabilities are considered in the
38. organization's strategic planning process.
6. Telecommunications is vital to the organization.
7. Telecommunications has been recognized as an
important tool in strategic planning.
8. Budget allocation toward telecommunications has
been favorably considered by management.
Corrected
Item-Total
Correlation
.70
.77
.54
.36
.66
.31
.73
.70
Correiation
With
Criterion
.63
39. .76
.30
.20
.45
.20
.44
.65
Tabie A3. iVIeasures of Organizationai Support
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
item Description
Top management understands the importance of
telecommunications.
Top management supports the development of
telecommunications.
Telecommunications capabilities are considered in the
40. organization's strategic planning process.
Telecommunications has been recognized as an
important tool in strategic planning.
Budget allocation toward telecommunications has
been favorably considered by management.
Corrected
item-Total
Correiation
.74
.80
.68
.72
.70
Correiation
With
Criterion
.63*
.76*
.45*
.44*
.65*