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Pitfalls in Remote Team Coordination: Lessons Learned from a Case Study
2008
As companies become more and more distributed, multi-site development is becoming a norm. However along with the new opportunities, geographic distribution is proven to increase the complexity of software engineering introducing challenges for remote team communication, coordination and control. In this article we present an illustrative singe-case study with an intra-organizational intra-national context focussing on the effect of geographic distribution on team coordination practices and how this influences remote team performance. Based on our findings we conclude that a) distribution significantly influences the nature of coordination; b) remote team coordination mechanisms can't be cho…
Kvalitetsindikatorer for kreftbehandling : erfaringer til mellomledere i sykehus
2014
Masteroppgave i helse- og sosialinformatikk HSI 500 Universitetet i Agder 2014 Background: During the last couple of years, the government has increased their attention on quality indicators and measures that can contribute towards improving cancer- diagnosis and treatment. Quality indicators were in 2011 approved for initiation of treatment within 20 days for lung, breast, and colon cancer. Given this, it is conducted a qualitative study with assistant managers in a hospital. The purpose of the study is to increase knowledge and understanding of how assistant managers are affected by quality indicators. The aim of the study is to illustrate assistant managers’ experience with quality indic…
Choice models in nordic long-term care : care managers' experiences of privilege and disadvantage among older adults
2022
AbstractConsumer choice models have been introduced in eldercare services in several Western welfare societies. Choice models in eldercare emphasise the importance of individuals’ abilities to make informed choices and therefore entail a risk for increased inequalities among older adults with care needs. In the Nordic countries, such inequality risks are in stark contrast to universal policy ambitions of equal access to care services. Care managers, who are responsible for needs assessment for eldercare services, have a central role in implementing policies and, thus, have first-hand experience of their impact on older adults’ access to care. The aim of this study was to explore care manage…
From Healthcare Manager's Competencies to Helthcare Organization's Competences
2017
Competency identification systems need to identify both – personal (mostly managerial/leadership) competencies and organizational competences. This article is focused on identification the common competencies of healthcare managers significantly shaping core competences of such organizations. There are many models of healthcare managerial competencies – three of them are presented in this article. First is Competency Task Force (The Healthcare Leadership Alliance approach), second – Competency Directory Model (The Global Consortium for Healthcare Management Professionalization approach) and third - NCHL Competency Model (created by The National Center for Healthcare Leadership). In author’s…
ITIL rīki IT pārvaldībā
2020
Maģistra darbā tiek apskatīti nosacījumi labas IT pārvaldības nodrošināšanai, vadoties pēc ITIL pamatprincipiem. Darbā tiek praktiski analizēti IT pārvaldības nodrošināšanas paņēmieni trīs reālos uzņēmumos. Analīzes rezultātā tiek veidoti un ieviesti pielāgojumi uzņēmumos esošajiem rīkiem, lai nodrošinātu IT pārvaldības atbilstību ITIL labajai praksei, un praktiski izstrādāti pielāgojumi, kuru ieviešanu var plānot nākotnē. Pielāgojumu plānošanas un ieviešanas rezultāti darba noslēgumā pamato ITIL rīku nepieciešamību un to pielāgošanu veiksmīgas IT pārvaldības nodrošināšanai uzņēmumos. Gan darba teorētiskās, gan praktiskās daļas pamatā ir izmantotas ITIL labās prakses vadlīnijas.
Aligning Two Specifications for Controlling Information Security
2014
Assuring information security is a necessity in modern organizations. Many recommendations for information security management exist, which can be used to define a baseline of information security requirements. ISO/ IEC 27001 prescribes a process for an information security management system, and guidance to implement security controls is provided in ISO/IEC 27002. Finnish National Security Auditing Criteria (KATAKRI) has been developed by the national authorities in Finland as a tool to verify maturity of information security practices. KATAKRI defines both security control objectives and security controls to meet an objective. Here the authors compare and align these two specifications in…
Changes in personal work goals in relation to the psychosocial work environment: A two-year follow-up study
2011
Associations between changes in the psychosocial work environment and changes in personal work goals were investigated in a two-wave, two-year longitudinal study. Psychosocial work environment was studied within the context of the Effort–Reward Imbalance model (ERI; Siegrist, 1996). The participants consisted of 423 young Finnish managers. Their most important personal work goals were categorized into seven content categories of competence, progression, well-being, job change, job security, organization, and finance at both measurement times. There were differences, especially in changes in the career opportunities factor of reward, between participants whose goals changed during the study.…
Measuring the financial capability of investors
2011
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide further understanding of the financial capability of mutual fund investors, and compare internet and branch office investors. It seeks to examine mutual fund investors' abilities and awareness of the terms and risks of mutual fund investments using a novel measurement instrument.Design/methodology/approachAbility measurement techniques adapted from educational and psychological studies were applied in the paper. Empirical survey data were collected in Finland.FindingsThere were differences between different types of investors in terms of financial knowledge. The channel used by the investors in making investments differentiated the more knowled…
Scheduling in a continuous galvanizing line
2009
In this paper we address a sequencing problem in a Continuous Galvanizing Line of a Spanish Steel Company. Production scheduling in this context is an extremely complex task which needs to take into account many constraints. We present a conceptually simple model and a Tabu Search (TS) algorithm that efficiently solves it. The TS moves are defined in order to repair non-satisfied constraints, leading to smaller and more efficient neighbourhoods. The TS co-ordinates several intensification and diversification procedures guided by an evaluation function based on a shifting penalty strategy. This function reinforces the anticycling mechanism and makes the algorithm avoid already visited soluti…
Pieejas “Windows kā pakalpojums” izmantošana atjauninājumu instalēšanas automatizācijai organizācijas Windows operētājsistēmās
2020
Katru mēnesi tiek veikti operētājsistēmu uzlabojumi un izlaisti atjauninājumi. Tāpēc ir ļoti svarīgi nodrošināt, lai tehniskās ierīces būtu atjaunotas un tās saņemtu jaunākos drošības un funkcionalitātes labojumus, kas mazinātu operētājsistēmas darbības traucējumu rašanās risku. Darba mērķis ir veikt atjauninājumu instalēšanas automatizāciju organizācijas Windows operētājsistēmās izmantojot pieeju “Windows kā pakalpojums”. Darbā tika veikts vispārīgs pieejas “Windows kā pakalpojums” metožu apraksts un pielietotas pieejas metodes atjauninājumu automatizācijai, tādas kā Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) un Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM). Darba rezultātā ir veikta Windows …