Implementing a Managed Print Solution for Tainui NZ Ltd

<p>Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the failure of implementing a managed print solution to control costs and reduce waste associated with outsourcing practices in a complex and legacy environment. Design/methodology/approach – Project documentation and literature reviews versus interview results by key stakeholders of the project. Findings – It is found that there are critical successful factors would directly affect the result of a project implementation. Multi-party collaboration is quite challenging to each party, especially the product owner. It needs a strong leader to indicate each party’s responsibility and make sure communication can go through smoothly. Practical implications – Organizations who have more complex infrastructure and legacy systems would need to take extra care when integrating new systems. Originality/value – This paper can be used by Tainui or other organization leaders and project managers to be more effectively achieve future project success. Keywords - Print management, Printers, Waste, Cost saving, IT project, CSF, Multi-party collaboration, Outsourcing Paper type - Case study</p>

Implementing a Managed Print Solution for Tainui NZ Ltd

<p>Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the failure of implementing a managed print solution to control costs and reduce waste associated with outsourcing practices in a complex and legacy environment. Design/methodology/approach – Project documentation and literature reviews versus interview results by key stakeholders of the project. Findings – It is found that there are critical successful factors would directly affect the result of a project implementation. Multi-party collaboration is quite challenging to each party, especially the product owner. It needs a strong leader to indicate each party’s responsibility and make sure communication can go through smoothly. Practical implications – Organizations who have more complex infrastructure and legacy systems would need to take extra care when integrating new systems. Originality/value – This paper can be used by Tainui or other organization leaders and project managers to be more effectively achieve future project success. Keywords - Print management, Printers, Waste, Cost saving, IT project, CSF, Multi-party collaboration, Outsourcing Paper type - Case study</p>

Requirements for Project Managers—What Do Job Advertisements Say?

The growing number of projects and the key role of project managers in their implementation makes the competencies of managers a subject of many studies. An attempt can be made to determine the project manager competencies that employers appreciate the most through analyses of job advertisements. Due to a very large number of job advertisements, it may be difficult or even impossible to analyze their content manually. A solution may be to fetch and process job advertisements automatically. The main purpose of this paper was to identify the project manager competencies that are the most desired by employers. An analysis of job advertisements was performed to identify the project manager competencies required by employers. Job advertisements were automatically downloaded from online job boards. Fragments of job advertisements that described requirements were analyzed with text mining. The analysis included preprocessing, building of corpora of documents, construction of document-term matrices, application of traditional data mining methods, and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), which is a popular topic modeling algorithm. After the initial text processing (all characters except letters were removed, uppercase letters were converted to lowercase letters, words deemed useless were removed, and words were converted to their basic form), n-grams were built, and topics identified with LDA were generated. The most frequently used words and n-grams, along with the identified topics, were graphically represented. The meanings of the words and sentences were not analyzed in the text mining analysis of the job advertisements. The analysis did not take into account whether the words appeared side by side in the document-except for the intentional creation of n-grams (such as “communication skill”). The analysis, however, facilitated the identification of certain patterns and regularities in the occurrence of specific strings in the documents (fragments of advertisements describing the requirements). The interpretation of the results is based on the frequency of words and n-grams and frequency of words in topics identified by the LDA algorithm. This paper contributes to science by showing that text mining of job offers can, to some extent, help determine project manager competencies in demand. The method can be used by organizations training future project managers to modify and better adapt curricula to the needs of the labor market. It can be used to monitor the current trends in project manager requirements as well.

COP26 Visions for a Net Zero Future – Regional Profile for the Arabian Peninsula

This regional profile for the Arabian Peninsula was developed in the context of the BEIS COP26 Visions for a Net Zero Future project. It covers the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and has been developed with the input from in- country academic experts Prof. Annalisa Molini and Mr Luiz Friedrich (Khalifa University, UAE) and Prof. Juan Carlos Santamarina (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KSA). It sets out a synthesis of the available evidence base on regional challenges and opportunities for mitigation, adaptation, and resilience measures for both KSA and UAE and the wider Arabian Peninsula associated with climate change and a global transition to an inclusive, desirable, and resilient net-zero future.

Engaged Citizen Social Science or the public participation in social science research

Acknowledging the consolidation of citizen science, this paper aims to foster a collective debate on two visible gaps of the field. First, how to overcome the limited participation of social sciences and humanities in the broader field of citizen science, still dominated by natural sciences. Second, how to develop a citizen social science that allows for an active participation of citizens and for a critical engagement with contemporary societies. The authors coordinate a state-sponsored program of scientific dissemination within a Portuguese research institution and this paper intends to lay the groundwork for a future project of Citizen Social Science based on a new concept of “engaged citizen social science”.

Public Trust, Deliberative Engagement and Health Data Projects: Beyond Legal Provisions

In England, a new scheme for collating and sharing General Practitioners’ data has faced resistance from various quarters and has been deferred twice. While insufficient communication and ambiguous safeguards explain the widespread dissatisfaction expressed by the public and experts, we argue how dwindling public trust can be the most damaging variable in this picture - with implications not only for this scheme, but for any future project that aims to mobilise health data for medical research and innovation. We also highlight the indispensability of deliberative public engagement on the values being prioritised in health data initiatives, the significance of securing social license in addition to legal assurances, and the lessons in it of global pertinence.