...Systems Thinking and Tools Darthula Diane Goetz MOL504A Systems Thinking and the Learning Organization Dr. Roger Martin Warner Pacific College August 31, 2012 System Thinking and Linear Thinking Systems Thinking is a process of viewing the entire entity and the paths or connections that allow each part of the entity or process connecting to the whole to be followed and analyzed as each decision affects the whole scheme of the social system/process or organization. This process of thought and understanding is different from the traditional process in that it no longer focuses on the individual piece or person, but the dynamics of the entire organization as the individual piece or person interacts and travels through the system. A system can be anything or any process. As stated by Donella Meadows in Thinking in Systems “words and sentences must, by necessity, come only one at a time in a linear, logical order. Systems happen all at once.” (Meadows, 2008, p. 5). The system being studied may be human or non-human. The concept of System Thinking is not the what is being studied but the how that something interacts with all the various other whats within the entire system. System thinking will frequently allow the individual studying any situation or process to come up with entirely different conclusions than when the same situation or process is studied using the traditional analysis of linear thinking which focuses on tracing a direct path to cause and effect...
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... Page 1. Organizational Background----------------------------------------------- 4 2. Current Information System----------------------------------------------- 5 3. Problems----------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 4. Feasibility of the study------------------------------------------------------ 8 5. Project Plan--------------------------------------------------------------------9 6. Requirements-----------------------------------------------------------------11 7. Modelling-----------------------------------------------------------------------23 8. Decision Table----------------------------------------------------------------26 9. E-R Diagram------------------------------------------------------------------27 10. Normalization-----------------------------------------------------------------28 1. Organizational Background Kear Pharmaceuticals PLC s newly organized for profit and the owners were shareholders of the same business. The company is physically located at Saris around Kadisco building Addis Ababa, Woreda 06, and House No. new in 1000sq meter....
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...General Question 6 5 4 3 2 1 1. Customer transaction xxx takes place Figure 2: Starting Point for a System Diagram of FastFit Business Information Flows 1. Mark the main flows of goods and money in the diagram (above) and employ a key or table of descriptive elements to explain your answer. 1 | Customers pay money to buy goods | 2 | Stores receive money from customers and submit payments to HQ for scrutiny | 3 | HQ pays supplier for received goods | 4 | Supplier delivers goods to warehouse as the orders from HQ | 5 | Warehouse delivers goods to store to replenish repertory | 6 | Store gives good to customer to exchange money | Customer Questions (focus on the customers and FastFit boxes) 2. a) List the specific items of information that are usually gathered at the POS (Point of Sale terminal or cash register) and recorded when a customer checks out (excluding obtaining the identity of the customer which is covered in Q3)? i. Data ii. Time iii. The price of good iv. The total payment v. Category of goods vi. Name of good vii. The quantity of good b) What are three important uses of this information at the store by the store manager and by headquarters management – a total of six uses? (use a table) (It is important that you give different responses/uses for store manager and HQ) item | Important uses | Store manager | By finding the more popular goods being sold, managers can make more orders...
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...MME 3113: Engineering Management ASSIGNMENT # 1 Total Marks: 100 Computation of financial or management ratios Problem #1 [8+3+3=14] Consider the balance sheet entries in Table 1 for Iron Eagle Corporation. (a) Compute (i) Current assets (ii) Current liabilities (iii) Working capital, (iv) Shareholders’ equity for the corporation. (b) If the firm had a net income of $550,000 after taxes, what is the earning per share? (c) When the firm issued its common stock, what was the market price of the share? | | |Table 1. Balance Sheet Statement as of December 31,2009 | |Assets | |Cash $160,000 | |Marketable securities 210,000 | |Accounts receivable 160, 000 | |Inventories 60,000 | |Prepaid taxes and insurance...
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...An Intelligent Recommender E-Business for Export Oriented Coconut Industry Based on Web Mining and Radar Chart Zafira Kanara Email: z_kanara@yahoo.com Dr. Ir. Yandra Arkeman, M.Eng Email: yandra_ipb@yahoo.com Dr. Eng. Taufik Djatna,S.TP, M.Si. Email: taufikdjatna@ipb.ac.id Agroindustrial Technology Department, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Bogor Agricultural University, IPB, Darmaga Campus, PO BOX 220 Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. ABSTRACT E-business, such as coconut based industry, has changed the whole outlook of traditional trading behavior especially for export oriented. However, the massive product information provided by the Internet Merchants causes the problem of information overload and this will reduces the customer’s satisfaction and interest. To overcome this problem, a recommender system based on web mining and radar chart is proposed in this paper. In this study, clustering using K-Means method is used. Radar chart uses graphic displayed in a Web form to evaluate multiple alternatives based on multiple criteria. This work helps to categorize and evaluate the product quality of customer preference. The results of this study show that the proposed system is potentially to give sensible recommendations, and be able to help customers make decisions. This research aims to design a web based intelligent business systems (intelligent e-business) for coconut commodities through developing an online transaction system, recommendation, and customer services. Scope of...
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...The best methodologies, in my opinion, for the Project Stock would be Network Flow Diagram and Project Software. Using Network Flow Diagram will help ShoeRUs to visualize and understand how the project will work and proceed. This diagram will also display the link with all the components of the project. (Network Diagram, 2015) One more strength of this methodology is that the format of this diagram will make it easier to determine the flow of the project, where the current project is in its lifecycle and also link of activities taking place during the whole lifecycle. The main aim of this methodology is to enable to create a diagram for the project broken down into smaller tasks which are important for completing the whole project. Another methodology is the Project Software. There are a lot of strengths that comes with this type of methodology. One of its strengths is that it provides the company to evaluate the direction that the project is taking. It also helps the company to revisit every task in the project lifecycle. By doing this, the company will reduce the costs and the time that will take to finalize the project being developed. It also helps the company to build the project as expected. (Miranda Brookins, 2015) For the Project Moving House, I will choose the Budget Methodology and the Schedule Methodology. The Budget methodology will help the family to control the costs of moving their furniture and other personal belongings to their new house. By using this methodology...
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...Analysis is used to get a clear idea of what the existing system does. This is corresponds to dossier criterion A. Many students make the mistake of writing about the solution at this stage of their dossiers. With projects of any size, the analysis stage of gathering data is essential because you can gain clear insight into data input, processing and output without thinking about the computer system that may eventually be used. Data collection This process is sometimes referred to (or sometimes taken to include) fact finding. The classic fact-finding methods are: * Conduct interviews * Carry out questionnaires * Study existing documents * Search the literature for other solutions to the same problem. * Observe people working with the existing system Each of these methods has advantages and disadvantages which can be summarised as follows: Method | Advantages and disadvantages | interviews | Detailed data, can change questions during process (not like questionnaire). Time-consuming, problems classifying/quantifying data | questionnaires | Can reach a lot of people, quickly (comp to interview/observation); Numerical analysis possible. Questions may be mis-interpreted; people may not respond at all or may do only some questions. | document search | The data required for the system can be identified accurately. Documents may be lacking, out-of-date etc (interview could discover this) | literature search | Can find descriptions/problems...
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...A3: SAP SD The sales order exercise in the SAP system gives you practice in simulating the roles played by numerous users/departments in an actual business setting. As you work on this and other SAP assignments, see if you make your experience exploratory and playful. Using SAP, work through all the seven steps shown in the OSU lab 3: sales ordering exercise from our SAP Materials page. A. For EACH step 1 through 7, answer the following questions: 1. Explain in your own words what you are doing in this step and why it is necessary to perform the step. In this step, we create an inquiry to a customer that tells them the price of specific quantity of the product, they would like to order. An inquiry is created by following the menu path: Logistics Sales and Distribution Sales Inquiry Create. As shown in the figure below, Sold-to-Party and Ship-to-Party fields are populated by searching with dataset# 70 and selecting 70 West Hills Athletic Club. A purchase order number WH170 is created for the inquiry. Also the duration for which this inquiry is valid, is defined by setting Valid from and Valid to fields. The material which customer wants to buy is entered in the Material column and the quantity in Order Quantity column. The availability of the product can be viewed by selecting the row and clicking on the Display availability icon () The net cost and discount details can be viewed by selecting the row and clicking on item conditions icon (). Figure given below shows...
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...General Question 1. Store Customer Warehouse HQ Supplier Store Customer Warehouse HQ Supplier Mark the main flows of goods and money in the diagram (above) and employ a key or table of descriptive elements to explain your answer. 4 4 0 0 1, 3 1, 3 8, 11 8, 11 6, 12 6, 12 2 2 7 7 10 10 5 5 1. Customer enters store to buy sporting equipment 2. Store sells equipment to customer 3. Customer gives store money 4. Store sends money to HQ 5. Store informs warehouse of sporting equipment that is needed 6. Warehouse sends equipment to store 7. Warehouse informs HQ of what is being sold so HQ knows what inventory is being used up and is needed 8. HQ orders new equipment from suppliers 9. Supplier sends invoice to HQ for equipment 10. Suppliers send equipment to warehouses 11. HQ pays suppliers 12. Warehouse distributes equipment to stores and customers that made orders 2. A. List the specific items of information that are usually gathered at the POS (Point of Sale terminal or cash register) and recorded when a customer checks out (excluding obtaining the identity of the customer which is covered in Q3)? Staff Information | * Staff name * Staff position * Staff ID | Buying Product (s) | * Date and time * Transaction # * # of items sold | Cash Register Information | * Register # * Register model | Product Information | * Product barcode * Price of...
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...Caribbean Maritime Institute School of Academic Studies Associate Applied Science Degree in Industrial System, Operation & Maintenance Production Systems Group Assignment #3 Name and ID Number: Gavin Francis 20146834 Shelair Venair 20147670 Chevaughn Wright 20132043 Tevin Kitson 20146857 Brian White 20132042 Alex Mcfalane 20147378 Stream: II Course Name: Production System Date of Submission: November 16, 2015 Lecturer’s Name: Mr. Wynter 1. Discuss the terms Method Study and Work Study in relation to management control procedures. Answer: Method Study: Systematic recording and critical examination of existing and proposed ways of doing work, as a means of developing and applying easier and more effective methods and reducing cost. Advantages include: * Improvement in use of all inputs * Economy in human effort * Layout improvement * Improvement in design of plant and machinery * Improvement in safety standards and procedures * Better working environment Work Study: The systematic examination of the method of carrying on activities so as to improve the effective use of resources and to set up standards of performance for the activities being carried out. Benefits include: *...
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...returning customers. It provides a complete online food ordering system for your customers that works well across all devices and engages them to order food easily with in no time. It even makes ordering process more convenient for your customers by providing an advance ordering feature that allows them to select a future date and time to order. eOrder builds a complete platform for online food ordering websites which comes with a strong framework to support your daily business operations like eCRM, eStock, order management, delivery management/tracking, raw material management etc., effortlessly and efficiently. It provides a natural interactive experience for the users as well to quickly place online food orders, using clean order selection flows...
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...INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CONTENTS • ACKNOWLEDGEMENT • INTRODUCTION • PURPOSE • INVENTORY INVESTMENT CONTROL • FACTOR THAT AFFECT INVENTORY MANAGEMNT • INVENTORY REPLENISHMENT • REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATIONS • DATA FLOW DIAGRAM (DFD) • ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM (ERD) • REFERENCES ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I am thankful to miss Maneet kaur for providing me the task of preparing the term paper on INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. I am at lovely believe in taking challenges and the term paper provided me the opportunity to tackle a challenge in the subject of data base management system. This term paper tested my patience at every step of preparation but the courage provided by my teacher helped me to swing against the tide and move against the winds. I am also thankful to my friends and my laptop to providing me help at every step of preparation of the term paper. INTRODUCTION You are in trouble if you have to keep telling customers, "I'm sorry we're out of that size. May we order it for you?" Even though the shirts are selling briskly, you will lose customers if you don't have an item in stock. When the customer spends, you have got to be ready with the goods. This is what inventory management is all about. In many retail and wholesale operations, the single largest asset is inventory. Control of this investment is vital. It will eliminate a number of the problems associated with capital shortages and will also provide capital to permit expansion of operations for increased sales and profit...
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...SYSTEM-------------------------- 3. DFD –CONTEXT DIAGRAM----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. DFD –LEVE; 0 ALL SUB-SYSTEMS---------------------------------------------------------------- 5 DFD –LEVEL 1------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. SYSTEM ARCHICTURE------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. HARDWARE REQUIREMENT------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. HTML PAGES FOR AB Super Market---------------------------------------------------------------- 9 SUMMARY---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 REFERENCES----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Online AB Super Marketing system Executive Summary: In this report we designs and data flow diagrams for modelling according to requirement that define in the previous assignment. In this report for the website development of AB Supermarket process accomplished with the help of the data flow diagrams and system environment and system architecture. The report generation of AB Supermarket website all requirement supplied by General Manager and IT Manager of the company. The design of complete functioning of this website requirement there are various components and network infrastructures of AB Supermarkets. The dataflow diagrams are part of the Information...
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...Chapter 2 Review MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Which is the best statement about the way economists study the economy? a. They study the past, but do not try to predict the future. b. They use a probabilistic approach based on correlations between economic events. c. They devise theories, collect data, then analyze the data to test the theories. d. They use controlled experiments much the same way a biologist or physicist does. 2. Terms used by an economist would include a. vector spaces and axioms. b. torts and venues. c. ego and cognitive dissonance. d. comparative advantage and elasticity. 3. A common thread between economics and other sciences such as physics is that a. experiments are most often conducted in a lab. b. real-world observations often lead to theories. c. a Ph.D. is required to truly understand any science. d. both deal primarily with abstract concepts. 4. The use of theory and observation is more difficult in economics than in sciences such as physics due to the difficulty in a. evaluating an economic experiment. b. devising an economic experiment. c. actually performing an experiment in an economic system. d. All of the above are correct. 5. Economists make assumptions a. to diminish the chance of wrong answers. b. to make the world easier to understand. c. because all scientists make assumptions. ...
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...Data Flow Diagram Tutorial Objectives After completion of study of this unit you should be able to: Describe the use of data flow diagrams Produce a data flow diagram from a given case study including different levels Distinguish between the different categories of data flow diagrams 1. Introduction 1.1 CASE tools 1.2 Development and purpose of Data Flow Diagrams 2. Components of Data Flow Diagrams 2.1 Components 2.2 Hints on drawing 2.3 Data flows 3. Developing Data Flow Diagrams 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Context diagram 3.3 Level 1 Data Flow Diagram 3.4 Lower levels of Data Flow Diagrams 3.5 Check list 4. Categories of Data Flow Diagrams 4.1 Physical 4.2 Logical 4.3 The relationship between logical and physical Data Flow Diagrams 5. An example of the development of a Data Flow Diagram 6. Process models 7. Summary 8. Activities 9. Bibliography 10. Commentary on activities 1. Introduction This unit deals with one of the major techniques for recording the requirements of a user for a new computer application. An initial diagram is constructed to show the processes which are being implemented in an existing system. The diagram helps to show how information is used to produce the functions that are required by the current system. It also shows what information is provided to the system and what information...
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