Snapshot of Personnel Productivity Assessment in Indian IT Industry

2012 ◽  
pp. 220-234
Author(s):  
Thamaraiselvan Natarajan ◽  
Saraswathy R. Aravinda Rajah ◽  
Sivagnanasundaram Manikavasagam
Keyword(s):  
Illustrative Case ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Productivity Measurement ◽  
Effective Measure ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Common Criteria ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Productivity Assessment

Measuring the productivity of employees has been one of the concerns of IT organisations globally. It is indispensable to calculate the cost of the project vis-a-vis the time estimate. While calculating the lines of coding (Loc) has generally been the common criteria for programmers, it is not always considered an effective measure of the actual work done. The time spent on activities like attending training programmes, participating in meetings, co-coordinating with colleagues, or conceptualising, is presumably unaccounted. Questions lurking unanswered relate to the effective criteria and international benchmarks. Amusingly most companies have their own home-grown productivity calculators to track the progress of their projects. Productivity measurement is equally important for an organisation as well as an IT worker. Awareness of productivity paves way-for mutual progress-self and the organization. This paper, through illustrative-case examples, provides a holistic perspective of personnel productivity assessment methods used in Indian IT industry.

Snapshot of Personnel Productivity Assessment in Indian IT Industry

2011 ◽  
pp. 1094-1108
Author(s):  
Thamaraiselvan Natarajan ◽  
Saraswathy R. Aravinda Rajah ◽  
Sivagnanasundaram Manikavasagam
Keyword(s):  
Illustrative Case ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Productivity Measurement ◽  
Effective Measure ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Common Criteria ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Productivity Assessment

Measuring the productivity of employees has been one of the concerns of IT organisations globally. It is indispensable to calculate the cost of the project vis-a-vis the time estimate. While calculating the lines of coding (Loc) has generally been the common criteria for programmers, it is not always considered an effective measure of the actual work done. The time spent on activities like attending training programmes, participating in meetings, co-coordinating with colleagues, or conceptualising, is presumably unaccounted. Questions lurking unanswered relate to the effective criteria and international benchmarks. Amusingly most companies have their own home-grown productivity calculators to track the progress of their projects. Productivity measurement is equally important for an organisation as well as an IT worker. Awareness of productivity paves way-for mutual progress-self and the organization. This paper, through illustrative-case examples, provides a holistic perspective of personnel productivity assessment methods used in Indian IT industry.

Snapshot of Personnel Productivity Assessment in Indian IT Industry

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thamaraiselvan Natarajan ◽  
Saraswathy R. Aravinda Rajah ◽  
Sivagnanasundaram Manikavasagam
Keyword(s):  
Illustrative Case ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Productivity Measurement ◽  
Effective Measure ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Common Criteria ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Productivity Assessment

Measuring the productivity of employees has been one of the concerns of IT organisations globally. It is indispensable to calculate the cost of the project vis-a-vis the time estimate. While calculating the lines of coding (Loc) has generally been the common criteria for programmers, it is not always considered an effective measure of the actual work done. The time spent on activities like attending training programmes, participating in meetings, co-coordinating with colleagues, or conceptualising, is presumably unaccounted. Questions lurking unanswered relate to the effective criteria and international benchmarks. Amusingly most companies have their own home-grown productivity calculators to track the progress of their projects. Productivity measurement is equally important for an organisation as well as an IT worker. Awareness of productivity paves way-for mutual progress-self and the organization. This paper, through illustrative-case examples, provides a holistic perspective of personnel productivity assessment methods used in Indian IT industry.

Strategic Learning for Agile Maneuvering in High Technology SMEs

2017 ◽  
pp. 709-731
Author(s):  
Charlotta A. Sirén ◽  
Marko Kohtamäki
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Leadership Teams ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Strategic Learning ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Core Capabilities

This chapter illustrates four interrelated strategic learning processes, namely knowledge creation, dissemination, interpretation, and implementation, that are critical in ensuring the effective and rapid renewal of the core capabilities of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Based on a cluster analysis of 182 Finnish software companies and information from illustrative case examples, the chapter highlights success factors related to strategic learning practices necessary for survival and prosperity in the highly dynamic IT industry. By offering a consistent strategic learning framework and multiple practical examples, the chapter provides SME leadership teams with practical suggestions to facilitate strategic learning. In addition, the chapter considers learning traps that prevent firms from renewing their capabilities and highlights practices to avoid those traps to facilitate strategic learning in technology-based SMEs.

Strategic Learning for Agile Maneuvering in High Technology SMEs

2014 ◽  
pp. 55-76
Author(s):  
Charlotta A. Sirén ◽  
Marko Kohtamäki
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Leadership Teams ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Strategic Learning ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Core Capabilities

This chapter illustrates four interrelated strategic learning processes, namely knowledge creation, dissemination, interpretation, and implementation, that are critical in ensuring the effective and rapid renewal of the core capabilities of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Based on a cluster analysis of 182 Finnish software companies and information from illustrative case examples, the chapter highlights success factors related to strategic learning practices necessary for survival and prosperity in the highly dynamic IT industry. By offering a consistent strategic learning framework and multiple practical examples, the chapter provides SME leadership teams with practical suggestions to facilitate strategic learning. In addition, the chapter considers learning traps that prevent firms from renewing their capabilities and highlights practices to avoid those traps to facilitate strategic learning in technology-based SMEs.

Operational Research and Aviation Management

1965 ◽  
Vol 69 (658) ◽  
pp. 699-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Longton
Keyword(s):  
Capital Investment ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Problem Area ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Subsequent Work ◽  
Aviation Management ◽  
Illustrative Case Study ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Work Done

This paper is in effect an illustrative case study based in part on an actual study but including also a large amount of subsequent work.In the previous paper the cost structure of an air transport system was considered and some models appropriate to capital investment and procurement programmes were discussed. The importance of obtaining optimal utilisation of this capital equipment was stressed, and delays, especially during turn-round of aircraft at airports, were mentioned as one group of factors which reduce utilisation both of aircraft and airports and which therefore merit attention by the OR scientist.Instead of proceeding immediately with the broad survey of models referred to in the second article, the opportunity is taken at this point to consider intensively one particular set of investigations focused on this problem area. It is based on field work done some years ago on the apron of an airport by A. M. Lee and the author, and is concerned with the human controller of turn-round operations.It is of special interest in that it demonstrates the increasing ability of science to tackle problems previously considered intractable to any rigorous scientific method.

LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION FOR SCHOOL DROP OUTS IN TAMAN SARI, DISTRICT BOGOR REGENCY

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Stefani Nawati EKORESTI
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Skills Education ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Drop Outs ◽  
Life Skills Education

Taman Sari Sub-District, Bogor Regency has the potential for fertile soil. But these lands have not been tilled properly. Narrow housing conditions, especially for poor people, do not allow residents to plant crops. Causing the lack of consumption of vegetables; which causes residents become easily sick. In addition, there is also a lot of plastic waste, especially bottled drinking water and other things that come from tourists and fishermen who have not been processed. This condition gave rise to the idea to provide life skills training in making vertical gardens, hydroponic plants and waste management. Besides the need for makeup and haircutting skills also needed especially for orphans fostered by Yasayan Usawatun Hasanah. Community Service Activities (PkM) aims to foster community awareness of the cleanliness of the environment and empower citizens to be more creative and entrepreneurial. Therefore, in addition to the types of activities requested by the residents, UPBJJ-UT Bogor will also teach about identifying the economic value of the work done in the form of determining the cost of goods sold / production. This activity was attended by 50 orphans and it ran smoothly and successfully. Now orphans already have life skills that hope can lift their economy.

scholarly journals Cost-Effectiveness of an Exercise Programme that Provided Group or Individual Training to Reduce the Fall Risk in Healthy Community-Dwelling People Aged 65–80: A Secondary Data Analysis

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 714
Author(s):  
Isaac Aranda-Reneo ◽  
Laura Albornos-Muñoz ◽  
Manuel Rich-Ruiz ◽  
María Ángeles Cidoncha-Moreno ◽  
Ángeles Pastor-López ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Older People ◽  
Incremental Cost ◽  
Fall Risk ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Effective Measure ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Individual Training

Research has demonstrated that some exercise programs are effective for reducing fall rates in community-dwelling older people; however, the literature is limited in providing clear recommendations of individual or group training as a result of economic evaluation. The objective of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of the Otago Exercise Program (OEP) for reducing the fall risk in healthy, non-institutionalized older people. An economic evaluation of a multicenter, blinded, randomized, non-inferiority clinical trial was performed on 498 patients aged over 65 in primary care. Participants were randomly allocated to the treatment or control arms, and group or individual training. The program was delivered in primary healthcare settings and comprised five initial sessions, ongoing encouragement and support to exercise at home, and a reinforcement session after six months. Our hypothesis was that the patients who received the intervention would achieve better health outcomes and therefore need lower healthcare resources during the follow-up, thus, lower healthcare costs. The primary outcome was the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio, which used the timed up and go test results as an effective measure for preventing falls. The secondary outcomes included differently validated tools that assessed the fall risk. The cost per patient was USD 51.28 lower for the group than the individual sessions in the control group, and the fall risk was 10% lower when exercises had a group delivery. The OEP program delivered in a group manner was superior to the individual method. We observed slight differences in the incremental cost estimations when using different tools to assess the risk of fall, but all of them indicated the dominance of the intervention group. The OEP group sessions were more cost-effective than the individual sessions, and the fall risk was 10% lower.

Review of physical fitness, physiological demands and performance characteristics of jockeys

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
K.A. Legg ◽  
D.J. Cochrane ◽  
E.K. Gee ◽  
C.W. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Strength And Conditioning ◽  
Search Terms ◽  
Physiological Capacity ◽  
Movement Dynamics ◽  
Physiological Demands ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Work Done

This narrative review collates data from different equestrian disciplines, both amateur and professional, to describe the physiological demands, muscle activity and synchronicity of movement involved in jockeys riding in a race and to identify limitations within our current knowledge. A literature search was conducted in Web of Science, Google Scholar, PubMed and Scopus using search terms related to jockeys, equestrian riders and their physiological demands, muscle use, movement dynamics and experience. Abstracts, theses and non-peer reviewed articles were excluded from the analysis. Jockeys work at close to their physiological capacity during a race. The quasi-isometric maintenance of the jockey position requires muscular strength and endurance, specifically from the legs and the core, both to maintain their position and adapt to the movement of the horse. Synchronous movement between horse and rider requires a coordinated activation pattern of the rider’s core muscles, resulting in less work done by the horse to carry the rider, possibly leading to a competitive advantage in race riding. Reports of chronic fatigue in jockeys demonstrate poor quantification of workload and recovery. The lack of quantitative workload metrics for jockeys’ limits calculation of a threshold required to reach race riding competency and development of sport-specific training programmes. Until the sport-specific demands of race riding are quantified, the development of evidence-based sport specific and potentially performance enhancing jockey strength and conditioning programmes cannot be realised.

Using artificial intelligence to create value in insurance

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1145-1168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Riikkinen ◽  
Hannu Saarijärvi ◽  
Peter Sarlin ◽  
Ilkka Lähteenmäki
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Customer Data ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Service Logic ◽  
Access To Data ◽  
Convenient Access

Purpose Recent technological and digital developments have opened new avenues for customer data utilization in insurance services. One form of this data transformation is automated chatbots that provide convenient access to data leveraged through a discussion-like interface. The purpose of this paper is to uncover how insurance chatbots support customers’ value creation. Design/methodology/approach Three complementary theoretical perspectives – artificial intelligence, service logic, and reverse use of customer data – are briefly discussed and integrated into a conceptual framework. The suggested framework is further shown through illustrative case examples that characterize different ways of supporting customers’ value creation. Findings Chatbots represent a new type of interaction through which companies can influence customers’ value creation by providing them with additional resources. Based on the proposed conceptual framework and the illustrative case examples, four metaphors are identified that characterize how insurance chatbots can support customers’ value creation. Research limitations/implications The study is conceptual in nature, and the case examples are used for illustrative purposes. No representative data from those users who will eventually determine whether chatbots are of value was used. Practical implications Using the suggested framework, which is aligned with provider service logic, insurance companies can consider what kind of a role they wish to play in customers’ value-creating processes. Originality/value Automated chatbots provide convenient access to data leveraged through a discussion-like interface. This study is among the earliest to address their value-creating potential in insurance.

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