Performance Enhancement of Team Retailing Through Six Sigma Applications

2010 ◽  
pp. 212-225
Author(s):  
Amritanshu Rajagopal
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
Sales Team ◽  
Comprehensive Information ◽  
Clear Identification ◽  
Common Feeling ◽  
The Given

The basic attributes of a good team include clear identification of goals, clarity of roles, common feeling, motivation, commitment and collaborative attitude (Rajagopal and Rajagopal, 2006a). The team selling approach is followed by many multinational companies for various products and services, which the customer faces as a firsttime buy and salespeople need to support such negotiations with comprehensive information needs. Team selling would also be advantageous when an account requires special treatment or a large number of people are involved in the process of buying decision. In addition, team selling is more likely to be employed when the potential sale is large for the representative firm and when the product is new to the product line of salespeople (Rajagopal, 2007). In a sales team each member of the group shows interest in the achievement and follows a systems approach which provides the framework or organizational principal for evaluating task in parts (Cummings, 1980). The members develop confidence, trust, and commitment to work in a team and rely on group communication on the given tasks and schedule.

Analysis of the Information Needs of Volunteers: the Results of Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
Elena Y. Mazarakii
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Volunteer Organization ◽  
Comprehensive Information ◽  
Volunteer Organizations ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government

Volunteering is actively developing in the Russian Federation and around the world. Society that takes part in volunteer projects has a high level of civic identity, morality and forms humanistic values among young people. Volunteer movement is a tool to reduce the level of antisocial and extremist behaviour.Approximately 15% of the population of the Russian Federation is involved in volunteering activities at the present time. Thanks to the volunteer organizations created in educational institutions, the government creates positive image of a volunteer. At the same time, there is a problem of public distrust in this type of activity due to the lack of awareness of volunteer organizations and their projects. Organizers of the volunteer movement face the problem of lack of information about volunteering that entails the difficulties in setting goals and objectives of the volunteer organization. It is necessary to identify the information needs of volunteers, as well as to create an information field where they can meet these needs.There is no resource with comprehensive information about volunteering activity in Russia. Information needs of participants in such type of projects cannot be fully met. The main source of information is the portal “Volunteers of Russia”. It allows you to get e-book of a volunteer, register a volunteer organization, create an event and apply for participation in an existing project. However, the system has a number of factors that make it difficult to keep accurate records of volunteer activities; it is more designed to attract attention to projects.In 2018—2019, the study was conducted using the online survey (questionnaire). The survey involved volunteers (451 respondents) and their leaders (43 respondents) of the St. Petersburg Volunteer Movement “Our Future is in Our Hands”. The purpose of the study was to identify the information needs of volunteers and their managers. The survey results led to the conclusions: the availability of information resources on volunteering is not too high; the most interesting information is related to the experience of implementing volunteer activities, project development and management, the development of supra-professional skills. Volunteers prefer to use electronic documents.It is necessary to develop special programs and organize training courses on the formation of information culture of volunteers, to create a wider range of information resources for volunteers. One of the possibilities is to create a unified public resource that reflects different aspects of volunteering activities. It is important to form a comprehensive information support for volunteers.

Systems Thinking in Strategy Development

2012 ◽  
pp. 32-60
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Causal Models ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Marketing Process ◽  
The Given

Systems thinking is considered as an important tool in developing strategic decision in marketing. The systems approach enables connecting objects of various types to a single platform of thinking, to organize different forms of activity within the given time and space of the situation in business. This chapter describes how systems thinking could provide a framework to various marketing process and create a map of the value chain that specifies relationships among the components of the marketing processes. Discussions in the chapter provide a conceptual framework of the development of systems thinking and systems methodologies and explain how such approaches can deal with issues of market complexity. Causal models in developing marketing strategy are illustrated, and new insights on thinking as a method to achieve desired business performance are also discussed.

Experimental Study on Recent Advances in Differential Evolution Algorithm

2013 ◽  
pp. 111-133
Author(s):  
G. Jeyakumar ◽  
C. Shanmugavelayutham
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Differential Evolution ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Differential Evolution Algorithm ◽  
Competitive Performance ◽  
Trial Vector ◽  
Evolution Algorithm ◽  
Objective Function Values ◽  
The Given ◽  
Mixed Variant

The Differential Evolution (DE) is a well known Evolutionary Algorithm (EA), and is popular for its simplicity. Several novelties have been proposed in research to enhance the performance of DE. This paper focuses on demonstrating the performance enhancement of DE by implementing some of the recent ideas in DE’s research viz. Dynamic Differential Evolution (dDE), Multiple Trial Vector Differential Evolution (mtvDE), Mixed Variant Differential Evolution (mvDE), Best Trial Vector Differential Evolution (btvDE), Distributed Differential Evolution (diDE) and their combinations. The authors have chosen fourteen variants of DE and six benchmark functions with different modality viz. Unimodal Separable, Unimodal Nonseparable, Multimodal Separable, and Multimodal Nonseparable. On analyzing distributed DE and mixed variant DE, a novel mixed-variant distributed DE is proposed whereby the subpopulations (islands) employ different DE variants to cooperatively solve the given problem. The competitive performance of mixed-variant distributed DE on the chosen problem is also demonstrated. The variants are well compared by their mean objective function values and probability of convergence.

scholarly journals Event Time Relationship in Natural Language Text

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Vanitha Guda ◽  
SureshKumar Sanampudi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Natural Language Text ◽  
Event Time ◽  
The Given ◽  
Events Data ◽  
Language Text

<p>Due to the numerous information needs, retrieval of events from a given natural language text is inevitable. In natural language processing (NLP) perspective, "Events" are situations, occurrences, real-world entities or facts. Extraction of events and arranging them on a timeline is helpful in various NLP application like building the summary of news articles, processing health records, and Question Answering System (QA) systems. This paper presents a framework for identifying the events and times from a given document and representing them using a graph data structure.  As a result, a graph is derived to show event-time relationships in the given text. Events form the nodes in a graph, and edges represent the temporal relations among the nodes. Time of an event occurrence exists in two forms namely qualitative (like before, after, duringetc) and quantitative (exact time points/periods). To build the event-time-event structure quantitative time is normalized to qualitative form. Thus obtained temporal information is used to label the edges among the events. Data set released in the shared task EvTExtract of (Forum for Information Retrieval Extraction) FIRE 2018 conference is identified to evaluate the framework. Precision and recall are used as evaluation metrics to access the performance of the proposed framework with other methods mentioned in state of the art with 85% of accuracy and 90% of precision.</p>

scholarly journals PRECISE LEVELLING DATA PROCESSING NEAR TERRACED LANDFORMS

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Silja Talvik
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Gravity Field ◽  
Field Gradient ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Gravity Data ◽  
Precise Levelling ◽  
The North ◽  
Gravity Database ◽  
The Given

Precise levelling results are affected by the Earth’s gravity field, especially in areas of abrupt changes of landscape, such as terraced landforms. To eliminate the effect of the gravity field gradient, corrections need to be used in precise levelling data processing. To estimate the expected range of the correction due to the gravity field gradient (here called the gravimetric correction) within a region of terraced landforms, an experiment was proceeded in Estonia. Gravity data together with GNSS coordinates were acquired in 2011 in an area where a levelling section crosses the North Estonian Klint (height difference of 30 m within the levelling section). The gravimetric correction for the given 300 m long section proved to be 1.2 mm. Practically the same correction value can be obtained using interpolation of existing gravity data. However, in the case study area the gravity database had an extremely good quality which may not be the case elsewhere in which case gravimetric information needs to be collected alongside levelling. In height network calculations it is important to note that in such challenging areas all points should obtain their height values from an adjustment or from a point on the same side of a terrace, otherwise errors in heights may be as large as the gravimetric correction across the terrace.

Management

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ofer Bergman ◽  
Steve Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Specific Time ◽  
Semantic Classification ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Laissez Faire

This chapter examines the active management processes that people engage in to promote future retrieval. Management is difficult because people have to organize information in a way that anticipates their information needs at the time of retrieval. This chapter describes two important strategies for management along with their costs and benefits. It contrasts filing, in which the user organizes information into folders based on systematic semantic classification, with piling which is a more laissez-faire strategy that organizes information into simple categories often based on the time that information was received. The chapter also draws distinctions between informative and actionable items. Actionable items require special treatment requiring them to be re-accessed at a specific time.

Institutional environment as the basis of accounting and information support for the management of a modern university

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 883-905
Author(s):  
E.M. Egorova ◽  
A.V. Glushchenko
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Information Support ◽  
University Management ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The University ◽  
Russian Universities

Subject. This article analyzes the institutional environment of the Russian universities' functioning in terms of its structural elements. Objectives. The article aims to investigate the institutional environment of the functioning of universities and its impact on the object base, the system of indicators and management accounting tools, as well as identify the accounting and information needs of the system of intra-university management. Methods. For the study, we used a systems approach, the methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, systematization, and the logical and statistical techniques. Results. The article identifies and classifies the external and internal environment factors of modern Russian universities. It proves that the institutional environment of the university, which is complex and deterministic, influences its accounting and information system. Conclusions. The paper concludes that environmental external and internal factors determine the accounting tools and accounting practices available to management for planning, organization, motivation, monitoring and accounting of the internal activities of universities and bringing them into line with the dynamic environment to ensure the efficient functioning and fulfillment of goals and mission.

Modeling Hospital Information Systems (Part 1): The Revised Three-layer Graph-based Meta Model 3LGM2

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (05) ◽  
pp. 544-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Brigl ◽  
T. Wendt ◽  
A. Winter
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Strategic Information ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
Comprehensive Information ◽  
Computer Based

Summary Objectives: Not only architects but also information managers need models and modeling tools for their subject of work. Especially for supporting strategic information management in hospitals, the meta model 3LGM2 is presented as an ontological basis for modeling the comprehensive information system of a hospital (HIS). Methods: In a case study, requirements for modeling HIS have been deduced. Accordingly 3LGM2 has been designed to describe HIS by concepts on three layers. The domain layer consists of enterprise functions and entity types, the logical tool layer focuses on application components and the physical tool layer describes physical data processing components. In contrast to other approaches a lot of inter-layer-relationships exist. 3LGM2 is defined using the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Results: Models of HIS can be created which comprise not only technical and semantic aspects but also computer-based and paper-based information processing. A software tool supporting the creation of 3LGM2 compliant models in a graphical way has been developed. The tool supports in detecting those shortcomings at the logical or the physical tool layers which make it impossible to satisfy the information needs at the domain layer. 3LGM2 can also be used as an ontology for describing HIS in natural language. Conclusions: Strategic information management even in large hospitals should be and can be supported by dedicated methods and tools. Although there have been good experiences with 3LGM2 concerning digital document archiving at the Leipzig University Hospital, which are presented in part 2, the benefit of the proposed method and tool has to be further evaluated.

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