New Approaches to Business Process Redesign: A Case Study of Collaborative Group Technology and Service Mapping

Whether it is called reengineering, quality function deployment, quality circles, continuous improvement or total quality management, business process redesign (BPR) is occurring in many organizations. In the broadest sense, BPR includes nearly any kind of systematic effort by companies to realign their business processes so that they are more competitive. Successful business process redesign can lead to dramatic improvements in productivity and quality. But BPR typically requires vast amounts of time and money to implement, since extensive employee input is necessary during the redesign process. Group Decision Support Software (GDSS) provides a viable alternative to the traditional BPR approach. GDSS is defined as computer-based information systems used to support intelligent, collaborative work.This technology allows multiple users to meet and discuss topics simultaneously via a computer network, thus increasing employee commitment while decreasing time and cost.This paper describes a business process redesign project that was conducted for a division within a large government agency fall of 1993. The BPR was done using a type of Group Decision Support Software called Group Systems V. A services marketing tool called service mapping was also used to identify customer needs and interfaces. Data were collected throughout the project to measure employee attitudes about the redesign process and the GroupSystems technology. Time to complete tasks was also recorded. The results of the study showed that the business process redesign was accomplished more effectively in a shorter period of time than with traditional BPR methods previously used. Participants also indicated that the service mapping tool provided a perspective that is missing from many BPR approaches: an understanding of the service from the customer's perspective.     

企业跨国并购研究演进及热点知识图谱分析简

以利用wos数据库检索到的、发表于1997—2013年期间的、关于跨国并购的643篇英文文献为数据源,利用动态网络分析软件Citespace,通过作者共引分析确定了企业跨国并购研究领域中的知名学者,通过文献共引分析确定了企业跨国并购研究的理论基础,并分析理论发展规律。进一步分析得到目前跨国并购研究领域的高频主题词,包括文化、银行跨国并购、汽车产业、进入方式、战略联盟、法律、知识转移、贸易保护、中国企业、中国、学习能力、国家文化等。最后,结合实际,为跨国并购研究的进一步开展提供了参考建议。     

思维导图在智能控制课程教学中的应用

针对智能控制课程特点和教学现状，将思维导图引入智能控制课程教学中，对帮助学生梳理思维，衔接整体知识体系、激发学习兴趣、促进教学效果的提高等方面具有重要的作用。     

IOMAP实用程序设计

为了满足仿真系统具有对软硬件可重配置管理的性能需求，开发了IOMAP实用程序，对程序的功能、结构和工作流程进行了详细设计。设计完成的实用程序实现了可伸缩性和可维护性的设计要求，较好的满足了仿真系统的工作需要。     

论解放思想无止境

本文阐述了解放思想是马克思主义的基本原则,是马列主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论的精髓问题,指出了解放思想的原则性、重要性、必要性和紧迫性,提出了继续解放思想的基本要求.     

Refactoring affordances in corporate wikis: a case for the use of mind maps

The organisation of corporate wikis tends to deteriorate as time goes by. Rearranging categories, structuring articles and even moving sections among articles are cumbersome tasks in current wiki engines. This discourages the layman. But, it is the layman who writes the articles, knows the wiki content and detects refactoring opportunities. Our goal is to improve the refactoring affordances of current wiki engines by providing an alternative front-end tuned to refactoring. This is achieved by (1) surfacing the structure of the wiki corpus as a mind map, and (2) conducting refactoring as mind map reshaping. To this end, we introduce WikiWhirl, a domain-specific language for wiki refactoring. WikiWhirl is supported as an extension of FreeMind, a popular mind mapping tool. In this way, refactoring operations are intuitively conducted as actions upon mind map nodes. In a refactoring session a user imports the wiki structure as a FreeMind map; next, conducts the refactoring operations on the map, and finally, the effects are saved in the wiki database. The operational semantics of the WikiWhirl operations follow refactoring good practices (e.g., authorship preservation). Results from a controlled experiment suggest that WikiWhirl outperforms MediaWiki in three main affordance enablers: understandability, productivity and fulfillment of refactoring good practices.     

挠力河流域土地利用变化地形梯度效应分析

研究目的：探讨地形因素对土地利用格局变化的影响，揭示土地利用时空演变的原因、过程及机理，为区域土地利用规划与管理提供决策支持。研究方法：土地利用信息图谱法、地形位分析法和标准差椭圆分析法。研究结果：（1）各地类在地形梯度上表现出明显的层级分布特征，水田、草地、水域和未利用地的地形梯度优势分布区均为低区段，旱地和建设用地为低、中低区段，林地为中低、中高和高区段；（2）土地利用变化以稳定型和前期变化型为主，二者分布较为分散，稳定型主要为低、中低地形梯度的旱地和中、高地形梯度林地，前期变化型主要为低地形梯度的旱地和中地形梯度的林地二者转变为水田，其余图谱类型的比例均在5%以下，分布较为集中，主要表现为低地形梯度耕地内部结构转变。研究结论：在自然、社会和政策因素综合作用下，挠力河流域土地利用变化地形梯度效应显著，未来应加强对低地形梯度耕地和中、高地形梯度林地的规划管理。     

深入推进高职院校中国特色社会主义理论体系“三进”工作

中国特色社会主义理论体系具有十分丰富的科学内涵。高职院校要从加强主渠道建设和探索新途径方面推进中国特色社会主义理论体系进教材、进课堂、进学生头脑的工作并增强其针对性和实效性。     

中国土地整治研究热点与发展趋势——基于CiteSpace的知识图谱分析

[目的]利用Cite Space可视化文献分析软件,对1985~2015年CNKI总库中文核心期刊和CSSCI中文社会科学引文数据库中土地整治研究的5 309篇文献进行可视化分析,得出当前土地整治研究热点、作者群以及主要研究机构的知识结构图谱。[方法]文章采用了文献计量可视化方法和对比分析法。[结果](1)自中国土地学会成立以来,中国土地整治研究主要围绕"土地整理"、"土地整治"、"国土资源"等展开;(2)国土资源部、西南大学、中国地质大学(北京)等是主要的研究机构;(3)《中国土地》是土地整治相关研究刊载论文数量最多的期刊,《中国土地科学》、《农业工程学报》以及《资源科学》是刊载土地整治研究论文重要的核心期刊。[结论]除了传统的土地整治视角下,建设用地减量化,城乡建设用地增减挂钩项目区设置,农村居民点用地整治潜力评价、布局和空间结构优化以及农户整治意愿影响因素、未利用土地开发适宜性评价、工矿区土地复垦等研究外,在新的国内形势影响下,资源经济效益评价以及绩效评价等也是重点的研究方向。     

Unravelling the complexity of collective mental models: A method for developing and analysing scenarios in multi-organisational contexts

In multi-organisational contexts, scenario building has been used to engage stakeholders in a critical discussion on issues of mutual importance, and to gain their support with regards to possible future responses. A review of existing literature suggests that much has been written regarding the process of scenario development and the benefits of the process, but the detailed analysis of scenario building outcomes, which encompass a large number of issues and their complex interconnections, has not been made explicit for studying and enhancing understanding of a complex societal problem. This paper presents a systematic method for analysing such complex outcomes in order to facilitate reflective thinking on important issues within the wider context for policy development. The method was employed in a series of participative scenario development workshops, which yielded several causal maps around the theme of construction industry skills. A collective map merging the individual subject-specific causal maps was created to help provide a more holistic overview of the pertinent issues surrounding the construction skills debate. The analysis of this collective map promotes a better understanding of the issue in the wider context, the consequence of possible future events and actions, and of the pre-requisition required for certain events/desired outcomes to take place. The main benefit that could be derived from the method is the opportunity to help facilitate and encourage debate and discussion amongst key stakeholders regarding scenario theme, in this case skills improvement within construction. Due to its flexibility and adaptability, the method could potentially be applied to other areas requiring longer range planning and which contain multiple stakeholder perspectives.