Implementing Corporate Distance Training Using Change Management, Strategic Planning and Project Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Zane L. Berge ◽  
Donna L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Distance Training ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
And Performance

As businesses expand to become more globally competitive, their needs grow to train geographically dispersed employees in a cost- effective manner. What must businesses do to implement distance education? An important role of the training and performance specialists in business is to help management solve complex problems within an organization. Still, distance education is usually not accomplished by a single group within an organization, nor through a single process. To change the way training is done, performance managers must use what is known about change management, strategic planning and project management in order to successfully implement technology-enhanced learning globally. One of the methods being used increasingly in the workplace is distance training.

Implementing Corporate Distance Training Using Change Management, Strategic Planning and Project Management

2000 ◽  
pp. 39-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zane L. Berge ◽  
Donna L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Distance Training ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
And Performance

As businesses expand to become more globally competitive, their needs grow to train geographically dispersed employees in a cost- effective manner. What must businesses do to implement distance education? An important role of the training and performance specialists in business is to help management solve complex problems within an organization. Still, distance education is usually not accomplished by a single group within an organization, nor through a single process. To change the way training is done, performance managers must use what is known about change management, strategic planning and project management in order to successfully implement technology-enhanced learning globally. One of the methods being used increasingly in the workplace is distance training.

Strategic planning in grassland farming: Principles andapplications

1997 ◽  
pp. 191-197
Author(s):  
W.J. Parker ◽  
N.M. Shadbolt ◽  
D.I. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Key Performance Indicators ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Farm Business ◽  
Pastoral Farming ◽  
Financial Environment

Three levels of planning can be distinguished in grassland farming: strategic, tactical and operational. The purpose of strategic planning is to achieve a sustainable long-term fit of the farm business with its physical, social and financial environment. In pastoral farming, this essentially means developing plans that maximise and best match pasture growth with animal demand, while generating sufficient income to maintain or enhance farm resources and improvements, and attain personal and financial goals. Strategic plans relate to the whole farm business and are focused on the means to achieve future needs. They should be routinely (at least annually) reviewed and monitored for effectiveness through key performance indicators (e.g., Economic Farm Surplus) that enable progress toward goals to be measured in a timely and cost-effective manner. Failure to link strategy with control is likely to result in unfulfilled plans. Keywords: management, performance

The Integrated Value Model (IVM)

2021 ◽  
pp. 198-220
Author(s):  
Basil J. White ◽  
Beth Archibald Martin ◽  
Ryan J. Wold
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Business Practice ◽  
Strategic Communications ◽  
Public Sector Organization ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Value Model

The integrated value model (IVM) empowers analysis of the interdependent aspects of policies, plans, performance measures, priorities, and programs (P5). As organizations are holistic systems of processes and performance, knowing how P5 adds value becomes critical to success and achievement of internal goals and responses to external demands. Modeling these artifacts and mapping them to policies and practices allows analysts to measure the alignment to initiatives. The IVM supports efforts in strategic communications, change management, strategic planning, and decision support. Elements of P5 have explicit hierarchical and relational connections, but modeling the connections and developing logical inferences is an uncommon strategic business practice. This chapter describes how to use those goals to create a logical model for a public sector organization and how to use this model to identify, describe, and align business value. Further, this chapter demonstrates the model's capabilities and suggests future applications.

Ensuring Data Integrity Scheme Based on Digital Signature and Iris Features in Cloud

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 452
Author(s):  
Salah H. Abbdal ◽  
Thair A. Kadhim ◽  
Zaid Ameen Abduljabbar ◽  
Zaid Alaa Hussien ◽  
Ali A. Yassin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Signature ◽  
Iris Recognition ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Data Integrity ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Individual Identification ◽  
Identity Verification ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Verification Systems

Cloud computing is a novel paradigm that allows users to remotely access their data through web- based tools and applications. Later, the users do not have the ability to monitor or arrange their data. In this case, many security challenges have been raised. One of these challenges is data integrity. Contentiously, the user cannot access his data directly and he could not know whether his data is modified or not. Therefore, the cloud service provider should provide efficient ways for the user to ascertain whether the integrity of his data is protected or compromised. In this paper, we focus on the problem of ensuring the integrity of data stored in the cloud. Additionally, we propose a method which combines biometric and cryptography techniques in a cost-effective manner for data owners to gain trust in the cloud. We present efficient and secure integrity based on the iris feature extraction and digital signature.  Iris recognition has become a new, emergent approach to individual identification in the last decade. It is one of the most accurate identity verification systems. This technique gives the cloud user more confidence in detecting any block that has been changed. Additionally, our proposed scheme employs user’s iris features to secure and integrate data in a manner difficult for any internal or external unauthorized entity to take or compromise it. Iris recognition is an internal organ that is well protected against damage and wear by a highly transparent and sensitive membrane. Extensive security and performance analysis show that our proposed scheme is highly efficient and provably secure.

scholarly journals Curating Local Knowledge: Experimental Evidence from Small Retailers in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricio S Dalton ◽  
Julius Rüschenpöhler ◽  
Burak Uras ◽  
Bilal Zia
Keyword(s):  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Behavioral Constraints ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Outstanding Question

Abstract Business practices and performance vary widely across businesses within the same sector. A key outstanding question is why profitable practices do not readily diffuse. We conduct a field experiment among urban retailers in Indonesia to study whether alleviating informational and behavioral frictions can facilitate such diffusion in a cost-effective manner. Through quantitative and qualitative fieldwork, we curate a handbook that associates locally relevant practices with performance, and provides idiosyncratic implementation guidance informed by exemplary local retailers. We complement this handbook with two light-touch interventions to facilitate behavior change. A subset of retailers is invited to a documentary movie screening featuring the paths to success of exemplary peers. Another subset is offered two 30 minute personal visits by a local facilitator. A third group is offered both. Eighteen months later, we find significant impacts on practice adoption when the handbook is coupled with the two behavioral nudges, and up to a 35% increase in profits and 16.7% increase in sales. These findings suggest both informational and behavioral constraints are at play. The types of practices adopted map the performance improvements to efficiency gains rather than other channels. A simple cost-benefit analysis shows such locally relevant knowledge can be codified and scaled successfully at relatively low cost.

A risk-based approach to improve monitoring and performance of remote waste stabilisation ponds

2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (8) ◽  
pp. 1735-1742 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Sweeney ◽  
J. Louey-Gung ◽  
A. Dysart
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
System Size ◽  
Monte Carlo Analysis ◽  
Waste Stabilisation Ponds ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Limited Sampling ◽  
Traditional Design ◽  
Risk Functions ◽  
Potential Environmental Impact ◽  
And Performance

A cost-effective risk-based system was developed for assessing the performance and potential environmental impact of a large number of geographically dispersed pond systems, where cost and logistical issues prevent direct monitoring. In the process, a range of risk functions were calculated for each site to take into account pond performance, receiving environment, influent quality, surrounding land use and system size. Pond performance was estimated using traditional design equations, including Monte Carlo analysis to account for uncertainty in boundary conditions. The calculation of combined risk functions for all systems enabled the quantitative ranking of systems, which can be used to prioritise limited sampling resources.

scholarly journals Understanding the Mechanism of Action of Indigenous Target Probiotic Yeast: Linking the Manipulation of Gut Microbiota and Performance in Animals

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shakira Ghazanfar
Keyword(s):  
Gut Microbiota ◽  
Mode Of Action ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Microbial Interactions ◽  
Food Storage ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Probiotic Yeast ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Function

The gut associated microbiota of animal plays crucial rule in the conversion to accessible nutrients for improve animal health and well-beings. Probiotic yeast (PY) is commonly use to manipulate the gut microbial balance by inhibits the disease-causing microbes and increase the number and function of desirable microbes. PY produce many fermentation metabolites, intercellular effectors, minerals and enzymes that make it an idea nutritive feed supplement for ruminants. The mode of action of the PY is depends on the animal biological inheritance, breed, managemental condition and microbial feeding type. Therefore, PY must formulate using same ecological origin, alone with desirable target; as it would be more compatible with gut ecoysytem and would yield maximum outputs as compare to non-target or foreign probiotic (FP). Therefore, for development of the Indigenous Target Probiotic (ITP), the isolation source must be same ecological region with desirable target like improve animal health and productivity. In the situation of the increase food storage around the world, ITP may provide a useful feed supplements to improve the food production in cost effective manner as compare to FP. Probiotic effectiveness is considered to be population/breed/target specific due to difference in the feed intake, change gut microflora, different food habits and different host-microbial interactions. In this chapter, we will highlight the preparation of the ITP yeast and its mode of action on animal gut microbiota.

The Techniques of Teletraining—New Enhancements

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-144
Author(s):  
Mahima Ranjan Kundu
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Training Systems ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Complex Training

In this era of technology-based training and education, audio and video teletraining has become an effective tool for Distance Education. This article describes the potential benefits of teletraining, needs assessment for teletraining decisions, and the teletraining design techniques to deliver complex training systems and educational programs to enhance distance learning in remote education/training sites in a cost-effective manner.

scholarly journals Distance Learning for Teacher Training in Brazil

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvana Maria Bof
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Teacher Certification ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Administrative Unit

<p>Proformação is a distance teacher certification course aimed at providing training to 27,000 uncertified teachers in 15 Brazilian states. This innovative program organizes human and technical resources for delivering distance education in a cost-effective manner. Different from other institutional systems – which typically employ their own dedicated content, design, and instructional resource personnel, and accompanied by a large pool of administrative staff – Proformação leverages pre-existing learning resources such as content experts, technology specialists, instruction, and student support systems from several institutions. Proformação goal is to create a viable teacher certification course to upgrade thousands of non-certified teachers working in the field. Proformação is coordinated by an administrative unit of the Brazilian Ministry of Education. To support the program, an information system was implemented to continuously and consistently monitor the program’s activities and results. Results of an external evaluation have been positive; Proformação is regarded by some as an innovative model for delivering decentralized training opportunities to large student numbers. Therefore, the findings in this article may prove interesting to those charged with implementing distance learning initiatives in developing countries, in that the lessons learned in Brazil may help others interested in implementing similar distance training programs.</p> <p><B>Key Terms:</B> distance teacher training, distance education, in-service teacher training, distance education in developing countries</P>

scholarly journals An open access dataset for developing automated detectors of Antarctic baleen whale sounds and performance evaluation of two commonly used detectors

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian S. Miller ◽  
◽  
Naysa Balcazar ◽  
Sharon Nieukirk ◽  
Emmanuelle C. Leroy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Southern Ocean ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Processing Methods ◽  
Fin Whale ◽  
Spatiotemporal Trends ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Fin Whales ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Signal Processing Methods

AbstractSince 2001, hundreds of thousands of hours of underwater acoustic recordings have been made throughout the Southern Ocean south of 60° S. Detailed analysis of the occurrence of marine mammal sounds in these circumpolar recordings could provide novel insights into their ecology, but manual inspection of the entirety of all recordings would be prohibitively time consuming and expensive. Automated signal processing methods have now developed to the point that they can be applied to these data in a cost-effective manner. However training and evaluating the efficacy of these automated signal processing methods still requires a representative annotated library of sounds to identify the true presence and absence of different sound types. This work presents such a library of annotated recordings for the purpose of training and evaluating automated detectors of Antarctic blue and fin whale calls. Creation of the library has focused on the annotation of a representative sample of recordings to ensure that automated algorithms can be developed and tested across a broad range of instruments, locations, environmental conditions, and years. To demonstrate the utility of the library, we characterise the performance of two automated detection algorithms that have been commonly used to detect stereotyped calls of blue and fin whales. The availability of this library will facilitate development of improved detectors for the acoustic presence of Southern Ocean blue and fin whales. It can also be expanded upon to facilitate standardization of subsequent analysis of spatiotemporal trends in call-density of these circumpolar species.

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