...Reprinted from PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING® The Official Magazine of ISPE September/October 2011, Vol. 31 No. 5 www.ISPE.org ©Copyright ISPE 2011 The article presents the implementation of a suite of software packages that together provide a total Enterprise project management system. The Science of Project Management: Project Controls Systems Integration by Frederick Cramer, Susanne Keller, Christopher Law, Thomas Shih, and Britton Wolf G The concepts in this article were applied to the ECP-1 Facility, Overall Winner of the 2010 Facility of the Year Awards. For further information on this project, see “Case Study: Genentech’s ECP-1 Bacterial Manufacturing Facility, Overall Winner, 2010 Facility of the Year Awards” in the March/April 2011 issue of Pharmaceutical Engineering. Project Controls Systems Integration Background enentech is among the world’s leading biotech companies with multiple products on the market and a drive to discover, develop, manufacture, and commercialize new medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. In 2005, Genentech was ramping-up a build program due to increased demand for existing and new medicines about to come to market. By that time, Genentech had grown from a small biotech company with less than 3,000 employees in 1995 to more than 9,000 employees. It quickly became apparent that an ad hoc approach to project management of capital construction...
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...Storyline, Game, Game Development, High School Students, Ren’Py Visual Novel Engine, Story-driven, Visual Novel, ———————————————————— 1 INTRODUCTION In this past decade, computers revolutionized the way of living. Computers make our work faster, more reliable and more accurate. Computers can be in different form like mobile phone, tablet PC, or in the form of desktop computer. Computers help us in numerous ways; communication, transportation, education, entertainment and many more. While computers have entered millions of families in most countries, computer games also became increasingly popular and the main entertainment during leisure time among family members [9]. Today, there many kinds of games from personal computer games like Plants vs. Zombies and Angry Birds to local area network games like Warcraft III, and Counter-Strike up to online games like Special Forces and Audition. And it really becomes...
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...Modeling e-Framework Workshop Balbir Barn 12th February 2007 Agenda • • • • • Why we construct Business Process Models A historical context Approaches to business process modelling Business Process Modelling Notation Tools and standards summary 2 What is a Business Process? • Davenport & Short (1990) define business process as – "a set of logically related tasks performed to achieve a defined business outcome." A process is "a structured, measured set of activities designed to produce a specified output for a particular customer or market. • Business processes as transformations of inputs to outputs input output • Other models available: – Language-Action-Perspective (LAP) (Winograd and Flores 1986) • Production, coordination tasks using language for communication 3 Purposes of Business Process Modeling: Organization Design • • • • • • Process Documentation Process Reorganization Process Monitoring and Controlling Continuous Improvement Quality Management: ISO 9000 Benchmarking: Compare with best practice • Knowledge Management: 4 Purposes of Business Process Modeling: Information Systems Design • • • • • Selection of ERP software Model based Customizing Software Development Workflow Management Simulation 5 What to model of a business process • Tasks • Coordination between tasks – synchronization – decisions – parallel work – repetition –… • • • • Organizational responsibilities Required resources and constraints Information...
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...AUD Auditing & Attestation Roger Philipp, CPA AUDIT Written By: Roger Philipp, CPA Roger CPA Review 1288 Columbus Ave #278 San Francisco, CA 94133 www.RogerCPAreview.com 415-346-4CPA (4272) AUDIT Table of Contents Introduction…………………………….………………………………..………………1 AUDIT-1 Audit Standards & Planning…………………………………………….…………….…...2 AUDIT-2 Internal Control…………………………………………………………………….………...3 AUDIT-3 Audit Evidence…………………………………………………………….………………....4 AUDIT-4 Audit Sampling.......................................................................................................…...5 Audit Reports........................................................................................................…....6 AUDIT-5 Compilations and Reviews (SSARS)……………………………………….…………….7 Other Services and Reports………………………………………………….…………….8 Information Technology (IT)……………………………………………………..…………9 Appendix AICPA Released Questions……………….…………….…………….……..….Appendix AUD-2 Internal Control The following is an excerpt from the Roger CPA Review Text books, which are included with purchase of the Roger CPA Review course. Written and updated by your instructor, Roger Philipp, CPA, the textbooks are the perfect companion to our dynamic lectures. www.RogerCPAreview.com AUD-2 Internal Control The second standard of fieldwork states: “The auditor must obtain a sufficient understanding of the entity and the environment, including its internal control, to assess the risk of...
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...•-V-? __ H U MAN RESOURCE GLOBAL EDITION THIRTEENTH EDITION MANAGEMENT GARY DESSLER FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY PEARSON Boston Columbus Indianapolis Dubai New York London Sydney San Francisco Madrid Hong Kong Milan Seoul Upper Saddle River Munich Paris Montreal Taipei Toronto Amsterdam Delhi Cape Town Mexico City Sao Paulo Singapore Tokyo G O N T E N TS Preface 23 Acknowledgments PART ONE 1 INTRODUCTION 27 28 28 30 Introduction to Human Resource Management What Is Human Resource Management? 30 Why Is Human Resource Management Important to All Managers? Line and Staff Aspects of Human Resource Management 32 Line Managers' Human Resource Duties 33 Human Resource Manager's Duties 33 New Approaches to Organizing HR 35 Cooperative Line and Staff HR Management: An Example Globalization and Competition Trends 37 Indebtedness ("Leverage") and Deregulation Technological Trends 38 Trends in the Nature of Work 39 35 WHAT IS HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? 31 THE TRENDS SHAPING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 38 36 • HR AS A PROFIT CENTER: Boosting Customer Service Workforce and Demographic Trends 40 Economic Challenges and Trends 42 40 THE NEW HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGERS 43 Human Resource Management Yesterday and Today 43 They Focus More on Strategic, Big Picture Issues 43 • THE STRATEGIC CONTEXT: Building LL.Bean 43 44 They Use New Ways to Provide Transactional Services They Take an Integrated...
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...NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL Monterey, California THESIS AN ASSESSMENT OF THE SHIPBOARD TRAINING EFFECTIVENESS OF THE INTEGRATED DAMAGE CONTROL TRAINING TECHNOLOGY (DDCTT) VERSION 3.0 by Stephen J. Coughlin March 1998 Thesis Co-Advisors: Bernard J. Ulozas Alice Crawford Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. PTIC QUALITY INSPECTED 6 REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instruction, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302, and to the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (0704-0188) Washington DC 20S03. 1. AGENCY USE ONLY (Leave blank) 6. March 1998 Master's Thesis FUNDING NUMBERS TITLE AND SUBTITLE An Assessment of the Shipboard Training Effectiveness of the Integrated Damage Control Training Technology (IDCTT) Version 3.0 AUTHQR(S) Stephen J. Coughlin 7. 2. REPORT DATE 3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED PERFORMING ORGANIZATION...
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...•-V-? __ H U MAN RESOURCE GLOBAL EDITION THIRTEENTH EDITION MANAGEMENT GARY DESSLER FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY PEARSON Boston Columbus Indianapolis Dubai New York London Sydney San Francisco Madrid Hong Kong Milan Seoul Upper Saddle River Munich Paris Montreal Taipei Toronto Amsterdam Delhi Cape Town Mexico City Sao Paulo Singapore Tokyo G O N T E N TS Preface 23 Acknowledgments PART ONE 1 INTRODUCTION 27 28 28 30 Introduction to Human Resource Management What Is Human Resource Management? 30 Why Is Human Resource Management Important to All Managers? Line and Staff Aspects of Human Resource Management 32 Line Managers' Human Resource Duties 33 Human Resource Manager's Duties 33 New Approaches to Organizing HR 35 Cooperative Line and Staff HR Management: An Example Globalization and Competition Trends 37 Indebtedness ("Leverage") and Deregulation Technological Trends 38 Trends in the Nature of Work 39 35 WHAT IS HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? 31 THE TRENDS SHAPING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 38 36 • HR AS A PROFIT CENTER: Boosting Customer Service Workforce and Demographic Trends 40 Economic Challenges and Trends 42 40 THE NEW HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGERS 43 Human Resource Management Yesterday and Today 43 They Focus More on Strategic, Big Picture Issues 43 • THE STRATEGIC CONTEXT: Building LL.Bean 43 44 They Use New Ways to Provide Transactional Services They Take an Integrated...
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...Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology Many students are being left behind by an educational system that some people believe is in crisis. Improving educational outcomes will require efforts on many fronts, but a central premise of this monograph is that one part of a solution involves helping students to better regulate their learning through the use of effective learning techniques. Fortunately, cognitive and educational psychologists have been developing and evaluating easy-to-use learning techniques that could help students achieve their learning goals. In this monograph, we discuss 10 learning techniques in detail and offer recommendations about their relative utility. We selected techniques that were expected to be relatively easy to use and hence could be adopted by many students. Also, some techniques (e.g., highlighting and rereading) were selected because students report relying heavily on them, which makes it especially important to examine how well they work. The techniques include elaborative interrogation, self-explanation, summarization, highlighting (or underlining), the keyword mnemonic, imagery use for text learning, rereading, practice testing, distributed practice, and interleaved practice. To offer recommendations about the relative utility of these techniques, we evaluated whether their benefits generalize across four categories of variables: learning...
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...The History of Information Technology March 2010 Draft version to appear in the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 45, 2011 Thomas Haigh thaigh@computer.org University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Thomas Haigh The History of Information Technology – ARIST Draft 2 In many scholarly fields the new entrant must work carefully to discover a gap in the existing literature. When writing a doctoral dissertation on the novels of Nabokov or the plays of Sophocles, clearing intellectual space for new construction can be as difficult as finding space to erect a new building in central London. A search ensues for an untapped archive, an unrecognized nuance, or a theoretical framework able to demolish a sufficiently large body of existing work. The history of information technology is not such a field. From the viewpoint of historians it is more like Chicago in the mid-nineteenth century (Cronon, 1991). Building space is plentiful. Natural resources are plentiful. Capital, infrastructure, and manpower are not. Boosters argue for its “natural advantages” and promise that one day a mighty settlement will rise there. Speculative development is proceeding rapidly and unevenly. But right now the settlers seem a little eccentric and the humble structures they have erected lack the scale and elegance of those in better developed regions. Development is uneven and streets fail to connect. The native inhabitants have their ideas about how things should be done, which sometimes...
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...HISTORY AND THEORY STUDIES FIRST YEAR Terms 1 and 2 Course Lecturers: CHRISTOPHER PIERCE / BRETT STEELE (Term 1) Course Lecturer: PIER VITTORIO AURELI (Term 2) Course Tutor: MOLLIE CLAYPOOL Teaching Assistants: FABRIZIO BALLABIO SHUMI BOSE POL ESTEVE Course Structure The course runs for 3 hours per week on Tuesday mornings in Terms 1 and 2. There are four parallel seminar sessions. Each seminar session is divided into parts, discussion and submission development. Seminar 10.00-12.00 Mollie Claypool, Fabrizio Ballabio, Shumi Bose and Pol Esteve Lecture 12.00-13.00 Christopher Pierce, Brett Steele and Pier Vittorio Aureli Attendance Attendance is mandatory to both seminars and lectures. We expect students to attend all lectures and seminars. Attendance is tracked to both seminars and lectures and repeated absence has the potential to affect your final mark and the course tutor and undergraduate coordinator will be notified. Marking Marking framework adheres to a High Pass with Distinction, High Pass, Pass, Low Pass, Complete-toPass system. Poor attendance can affect this final mark. Course Materials Readings for each week are provided both online on the course website at aafirstyearhts.wordpress.com and on the course library bookshelf. Students are expected to read each assigned reading every week to be discussed in seminar. The password to access the course readings is “readings”. TERM 1: CANONICAL BUILDINGS, PROJECTS, TEXTS In this first term of...
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...COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS IN RESEARCH METHODS(1) 1. PHILOSOPHY, LOGIC AND ETHICS OF SCIENCE A) General A1. A2. A3. Starbuck has suggested that "the properties shared by all organizations ought to be uninteresting TH and unimportant." He also notes that "although statements about averages bother very few, they ought to bother many" (Journal of Management Studies, vol. 30(6), 1993). Do you agree with these statements? If so, why, and what are the implications of your beliefs for research methods in strategic management and organization science? If not, why not, and what are the implications of your beliefs for research methods in those areas? Lay out the components of the Runkel and McGrath (1972) Research Cycle and the Martin (1982) Garbage Can Model of the research process. What are the aims of either approach? What assumptions does each approach make? What basic themes does each approach emphasize? What kinds of constraints on the process of doing research does each approach highlight? How are the two approaches alike and different in other ways? What are the likely pitfalls of viewing the research process from only one of these two viewpoints? Define (and discuss important features or issues concerning) the following constructs of Philosophy and Logic of Science. (Define any four terms). 1. Null hypothesis 3. Paradigm 4. Independent variable 5. Operational definition 6. Nomological network 8. The fallacy of affirming the consequent 9. Theory 2....
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...The Six Sigma Handbook Revised and Expanded A Complete Guide for Green Belts, Black Belts, and Managers at All Levels THOMAS PYZDEK McGraw-Hill New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-HIll Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-141596-3 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-141015-5. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please contact George Hoare, Special Sales, at george_hoare@mcgraw-hill.com or (212) 904-4069. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“McGraw-Hill”) and its licensors reserve all...
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...Principles of Project Management Course Outline Volume I About the Microsoft Project Screens .........................................................................iv Segment 1. The Background of Project Management (Includes PMBOK® Guide Chapter 1 & 2) ....................................................................................................... 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 Introductions, course materials, housekeeping & homework Definition, examples and characteristics of projects About Project Management Institute & other PM organizations Projects and emerging industries Programs & portfolios and project management office Environmental enterprise factors and organizational process assets Project & product life cycles Stakeholders Organizational structures & influences Segment 1 questions......................................................................... 22 Segment 2. The Gospel According to PMBOK® Guide (Includes PMBOK® Guide Chapter 3) ........................................................................................................... 27 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 3.1 PMBOK® Guide Organization Initiation processes Planning processes Execution processes Monitoring & controlling processes Closing processes Course Guide Exercise: Memorize the process matrix ............................................... 46 Project Assessment 3.1.1 Benefit Measurement Methods 3.1.1.1 Life Cycle Costing & Net Present Value 3.1.1.2 Internal Rate of Return...
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...Research and Development of Freeform Gameplay in Computer Games Contextual Report Contents Section 1: Introduction………………………………………………………… | 1 | 1.1 The Project……………………………………………………………... | 1 | 1.1.1 Project Key Words…………………………………………… | 1 | 1.1.2 What is Freeform Gameplay?.............................. | 1 | 1.1.3 Project Goal…………………………………………………….. | 1 | 1.1.4 Project Context……………………………………………….. | 2 | 1.1.5 Project Objectives…………………………………………… | 3 | 1.1.6 Techniques for Realisation………………………………. | 3 | 1.1.7 Structure of This Report………………………………….. | 4 | Section 2: The Contextual Review……………………………………….. | 6 | 2.1 Market Research…………………………………………………….. | 6 | 2.1.1 Categorisation of Gameplay Elements…………….. | 6 | 2.1.2 Game Comparisons…………………………………………. | 8 | 2.1.3 Comparison Analysis………………………………………. | 9 | 2.2 Market Surveys……………………………………………………….. | 11 | 2.2.1 Target Audience……………………………………………… | 11 | 2.2.2 Survey Approach…………………………………………….. | 11 | 2.2.3 Questionnaire…………………………………………………. | 12 | 2.2.4 Survey Results………………………………………………… | 12 | Section 3: Project Planning………………………………………………….. | 17 | 3.1 Design Blueprints……………………………………………………. | 17 | 3.1.1 Design Approach……………………………………………...
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...opportunities for both new and seasoned educators to learn more about (1) the possibilities in teaching about organizational change and development; (2) ways to design courses or successful learning modules for diverse student audiences using Organization Development; and (3) suggested cases, activities, and other support materials that complement use of Organization Development. Overview of the Instructor’s Guide This instructor’s guide is divided into four parts. PART 1 provides an introduction to Organization Development: A Reader. It discusses the overall purpose and content of the book, the philosophy and central tenets that underpin it. PART 2 explores teaching with Organization Development. It contains chapter-by-chapter summaries and suggested ways to think about teaching various kinds and levels of OD and change courses. PART 3 provides a sample syllabus for a graduate-level change course, learning modules on consulting skills, teaching activities, and case suggestions. PART 4 summarizes sources for cases, films, videos, and other internet-based teaching materials. How to Use This Instructor’s Guide This instructor’s guide is designed to provide something for everyone...
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