Graduates of an undergraduate information systems (IS) program were surveyed to determine whether the curriculum could be better aligned with their career needs by adjusting the balance between technical and business content. A survey was designed and validated to measure managerial, technical, and interpersonal communication responsibilities as well as duration of employment and preference for...

Information Systems (IS) are integrated systems for providing information to support operations, processes, management analysis and decision-making functions in an organisation [1]. The IS area is characterised by rapid technical change and innovation. In recent years there has been a shift in IS from technological to managerial and organisational issues. This shift has led to increased interes...

This paper presents a review and classification of the literature regarding workforce planning problems incorporating skills. In many cases, technical research regarding workforce planning focuses very hard on the mathematical model and neglects the real life implications of the simplifications that were needed for the model to perform well. On the other hand, many managerial studies give an ex...

hospitals as the centers that consume the most resource of health system, based on their function have difference performance and efficiency. the purpose of this study was to assess the efficiency of ahvaz hospitals using data envelopment analysis (dea) method. this study is a descriptive-analytic study that assessed the efficiency of teaching and nonteaching hospitals in ahvaz using dea in 200...

In this paper we discuss expressive visualization techniques that smartly uncover the most important information in order to maximize the visual information in the resulting images. This is achieved through dynamic changes in visual representations, through deformations, or through spatial modifications of parts of the data. Such techniques originate from technical illustration and are called c...

this study attempted to investigate the process and barriers of flow of technical information in kwpa [1] . a survey method was used to collect the data. interviews with some key persons were also conducted. the target population included both experts and technical managers, and the information output of technical departments. descriptive statistics and spearman's rank correlation coefficient w...