Is concept mapping "science" or "art"? Can one legitimately claim that concept maps represent reality, or are they primarily suggestive devices, which might stimulate new ways to look at the experiences? Here, the scientific side of concept mapping is viewed as "soft science" and the artistic one as "hard art"...
A few months ago, Rick brought up the topic of work collaboration through "mind mapping" using the web tool MindMeister. If the concept of mind mapping is still a bit daunting, check out the simple and stripped-down app called bubbl.us that the folks at Web Worker Daily were just playing...
This article presents an overview of National Pipeline Mapping System NPMS. The NPMS is a geographic information system GIS database that depicts the location of the gas transmission and hazardous liquid pipelines, liquefied natural gas LNG facilities and breakout tanks under OPS jurisdiction. The United States Congress ("Congress") has required...
CMA Canada is developing an innovative competency framework that will ensure CMAs remain the premier strategic financial management professionals who lead successful enterprises in the global marketplace. The mapping framework defines each competency stage, encompassing the career level, the competency approach (i.e. the knowledge, functional skills, enabling skills, and experience...
In the paper a high resolution ECG mapping system based on personal computer or notebook equipped with fast IEEE 1284 parallel port working in ECP mode is introduced. Concept of the device enables high-resolution multi-channel ECG mapping using up to 256 ECG leads. Concept of the device and description of...
Skills are what you do best. The way to discover the jobs related to your skills in the industry is to acknowledge the skills you have and to communicate the significance of them to a potential employer. Many of the most useful skills are the ones being used in wide...
The residential foundation slab construction process mapping effort coupled with process simulation demonstrated the existence of opportunities for residential foundation slab construction process improvements. This has motivated the homebuilder partners to further pursue the issue by developing a residential foundation slab construction process to a stage where several prototype foundation...
An organization is a collection of processes. The key to the success of the organization lies in efficiently managing these processes. Business Process Re-engineering BPR is a change management strategy wherein major modifications are effected in organizational processes. BPR enables strategic streamlining of business processes towards efficiently managing organizational processes....
This study was undertaken to develop and test a 3-dimensional (3D) color thickness mapping technique on Levatorani imaged with magnetic resonance imaging MRI. Color thickness mapping is feasible. It may be used to compare levators in symptomatic and asymptomatic women, to study relationships between levator thickness and pelvic floor dysfunction....
A media map serves as a useful tool for a company towards the realization of a general strategy for reaching targets. The paper delves on the importance of the media-mapping tool and looks at the step-by-step development of the same. Such a tool can be used by anyone willing to...
The highly dynamic business environment strategy has never been more important. To succeed organizations need to continuously reshape themselves. This requires tremendous strategic agility as well as superior execution of the chosen strategy. This white paper addresses the issues of creating, cascading, aligning and analyzing the strategy maps. It also...
Mapping Your Innovation StrategyBig Ideas to Big ResultsThe January edition of HBR has several articles on this topic and makes a great case for the approach in the new book Big Ideas to Big Results. A link to the article is below...http://bigideastobigresults.com/archives/58
It has become apparent in recent years that the planning and management of location has become increasingly important to outlet-based retail and service organisations. This paper seeks to explore how locational decision-makers visualise potential retail locations through a preliminary discussion of the role of spatial cognition and cognitive mapping. For...
Organizations implementing knowledge management depend on maps to locate internal knowledge, much like an explorer follows a map in the wilderness. The process of knowledge mapping, focuses on a dynamic, ever-changing process, and for this reason, organizations find it an extremely valuable exercise. The article explains why to use maps,...
Skills-based recruiting is the term given to the recruiter-driven process of matching skills to a perceived hiring need. The emphasis is on the recruiter driving the process, actively pursuing the information he or she needs to assess a match between the candidate's skills and the requirements of the job position....
Observations suggest that every person in an organization possesses some amount of interpersonal skills. It is the onus of the managers to boost the organization’s productivity by judiciously utilizing the skills of the employees. The interpersonal skills help in undertaking personnel choices, project assignments, and career development. The manager must...
Globalization is here to stay. So where are the skilled employees? In the 2005 Global Skills Report, Brainbench ranks the most popular skills in the United States and around the globe. We reveal the most commonly certified skills, trends, and changes from our 2003 study, and offer insights into these...
This study indicates such a system that may represent a user-friendly and robust approach to exploratory data analysis. It may allow users to gain better insights into the underlying data structure, detect potential outliers and assess assumptions about the cluster composition of the data. This research assesses a relaxation method...
