10,516 research outputs found
Prioritization and optimization of software deployment: rationale for large scale software upgrade to enhance performance and deployment methodologies to minimize time to completion, and the effects of managerial and political interference in information technology strategic decisions
No full textPlan BAs technology continues to advance, companies are forced to keep up with these changes or lose their competitive advantage. However, there are significant costs also associated with the implementation or acquisition and installation of that technology. In order to make the most efficient use of the resources to gain the most benefit from that technology, it is important that these implementations are done in a cost effective manner. Many factors contribute to the cost of implementing or upgrading to new technology. Some of these are fixed costs, or have very little flexibility. Many are necessary in order to complete the project, no matter what other choices are made. Some choices, however, have a significant impact on the cost of implementation without providing any additional efficiency for that cost. Decisions regarding the methods and mode of software deployment are one group with such an impact. Poor decisions, frequently made by managers with no Information Technology (IT) experience, can significantly raise the cost of a deployment project. This study looks at the impact of allowing political prioritization to take precedence over IT based decisions. When these decision strategies were compared within a division of the University of Wisconsin – Stout, significant variations were discovered. This scenario led to a 38% cost overrun between the models, and 2 weeks of additional time to complete the project with no benefit to the division as a result
Howard University Players on TV 2
No full textSubcategory: Education - Univesitites and Colleges; Pulitzer Prize winning author and Poet Laureate, Toni Morrison, Acts Out a Scene with the Howard Players at Howard Universityhttps://dh.howard.edu/pittcourier_eduuni/1018/thumbnail.jp
Murray, Pauli
No full textTitle: Papers, 1943-1944 Description: 0.5 linear ft.
Notes: Lawyer, author, educator, civil rights activist. Relates to Murray\u27s role as tactician and advisor to undergraduate activists during the sit-in demonstrations of the Civil Rights Committee at Howard University. Includes biographical data, letters, reports, minutes, notes on tactics, address lists, press releases, newspaper clippings, and notes relating to the activities of the Civil Rights Committee.
Subjects: Civil rights Demonstrations; Washington, DC; Howard University Howard University; Administration Howard University; Civil Rights Committee Howard University; Demonstrations Howard University; Students; Political activity Washington, DC; Demonstrations; Howard University Washington, DC; Race relations
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.8
COOK, George
No full textTitle: Papers, 1855-1931 Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Author, educator. Includes correspondence, manuscripts, addresses, biographical sketches, memorials, photographs, a scrapbook and a song composed by William Weston Patton, President of Howard University. Gift, 1958.
Subjects: Business; Education; Washington (DC). Childers, Lulu V. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963; As correspondent Funeral rites and ceremonies; Cook, George William Howard University; Administration Howard University; Faculty; Cook, George William Howard University; Presidents; Patton, William Weston Howard University; Students; Cook, George William Howard University, Washington (DC); Faculty members\u27 papers Howard University, Washington (DC); School of Commerce and Finance Patton, William Weston Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; As correspondent Spingarn, J. E. (Joel Elias), 1875-1939 Tunnell, W. V. White, Walter F. (Walter Francis), 1893-1955; As correspondent Wilkinson, F. D. Woodson, Carter G. (Carter Godwin), 1875-1950
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.22 NUCMC Number: MS 83-122
BURCH.Charles
No full textTitle: Papers, 1913-1948 (bulk 1936-1948) Description: 2 linear ft.
Notes: Educator, author, school administrator. Chairman of the English Dept. at Howard University. Biographical materials, correspondence, writings and research notes concerning Daniel Defoe, miscellaneous printed matter, clippings, and photographs. Correspondents include Henry C. Hutchins, John Robert Moore, William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Still. Burch\u27s extensive library of eighteenth century English literature is housed in Howard University\u27s Founders Library. Received from Hepburn Carver, 1952.
Subjects: Afro-American college teachers -- Washington (DC). lcsh College teachers -- Washington (DC). lcsh Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Howard University. Dept. of English. Other authors: Arvey, Verna, 1910- , correspondent. Hutchins, Henry Clinton, b. 1889, correspondent. Moore, John Robert, 1890-1973 correspondent. Still, William Grant, 1895- , correspondent.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.11 NUCMC Number: DCLV96-A33
Nigger - NI\u27G-IR,- or NIG-IR\u27O is writing
No full textA confusing exposition on the origin of writing in two chapters submitted to Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1938. 21 p. 25 cm Holograph. Author unknown.https://dh.howard.edu/og_hu/1006/thumbnail.jp
LOGAN, Rayford W.
No full textTitle: Papers, 1917-1980s Description: 44 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American historian, administrator, author, civil rights activist, and Howard University faculty member. Personal and family papers, teaching materials, correspondence, travel documents, speeches, writings and book reviews, organizational files, subject files, printed materials, photographs, memorabilia, and audiotapes and films, relating to Logan\u27s activities as a scholar and advocate of human rights. Includes materials relating to his association with Alpha Phi Alpha, Howard University, the Peace Corps, and Unesco, and to the preparation of the Dictionary of American Negro Biography (1982). Dictionary of American Negro Biography files restricted. Gift of Michael Winston, 1983.
Subjects: Afro-American authors -- Washington (DC) lcsh Afro-American college teachers -- Washington (DC) lcsh Afro-American historians -- Washington (DC) lcsh Afro-Americans -- Civil rights. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Human rights workers -- Washington (DC) lcsh Human rights advocacy. Howard University -- Faculty. Peace Corps (US) Unesco.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NUCMC #: DCLV96-A94
FRAZIER, E. FRANKLIN
No full textE. Franklin Frazier was a sociologist, educator, author, lecturer, and head of the Department of Sociology at Howard University from 1934-1959. The papers, which consist of personal and family materials, correspondence, subject files, writings by Frazier and others, research projects and notebooks, photographs, memorabilia, awards, certificates, and scrapbooks, were donated by his wife, Marie Brown Frazier, in 1977. The materials span the years 1908-1962 and total 75 linear feet
HIMES, CHESTER B.
No full textTitle: Letters, 1955-1956 Description: 0.5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American novelist; Author. Contains correspondence between Himes and Walter Freeman, an editor at New American Library, regarding the editing and revision of Himes\u27s novels, The Primitive, The Third Generation, and Mamie Mason. Purchase, 1966.
Subjects: Afro-American novelists. lcsh Authors and publishers -- United States. Freeman, Walter, correspondent.
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Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.52 NUCMC #: DCLV96-A58
CLARKE, THOMAS
No full textTitle: Collection, 1904-1947 Description:1.5 linear ft.
Notes: Author, columnist. Consists of scrapbooks about the citizens of Washington, D.C., and the deep South. Contains clippings about race relations, politics, and foreign affairs, pictures of prominent Negroes, programs, letters,and articles from his columns in the Guardian (Boston, MA). Also includes Clarke\u27s manuscript, Virginia\u27s Contribution to the Republic and biographical data about Clarke.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC
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