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Application of visual management and Lean System 5S methods for improvement of administrative processes.
No full textThe enterprises intensively optimize the manufacturing processes. While solving the problems and losses the efficiency of administration activity is usually ignored. Due to the above reason the efficiency of the majority of offices involved in the administration activity is lower than anticipated, the debts tend to accumulate and major part of enterprises become bankrupt. The administration activity is characterized by two aspects: the material one and the organizational. The material aspect includes premises and equipment, and the organizational one involves organization management processes that ensure proper quality of information receipt and processing. It is apparent that administration is mandatory at the enterprise for the effective and profitable business. Otherwise it may become a reason for the business to crash. The obstructed workplace, difficult communication between departments, and disorder cause problems for the effective performance (Ugur Akinci, 2015). Organization of workplaces, documents sorting, marking of measures make a positive influence on administration efficiency (Kenneth Cartwright, 2015). The Lean system at the same time generally directs the enterprise activity, including the office activity as well. Every single detail should comply with the cost-saving principles. For the administration processes the Lean system is marginally applied – by reviewing the literary sources in regard to the office activity, attention is majorly given to cost-saving, but not efficiency. First, administration processes are sufficient for all enterprises, since ensure proper receipt and processing of information on the basis of which the enterprise can properly function, manufacture products or supply services. Second, there is no any obvious Lean system practical implementation method – every author treats the application methods differently. There is a lot of literary sources in which efficient office administration and losses reduction are discussed. All of the methods are related to the staff audit and workshops in order to communicate the Lean system idea to the employees. Third, the Lean system is not broadly applied along with visual management method. The problematic situation of such kind is the problem of this work, which can be expressed as a question: how to improve the administration efficiency by application of 5S tool and visual management method? Aim of the work – to improve administration activity by applying Lean system 5S tool and visual management method. For the accomplishment of the aim the following objectives are set: •To define influence of Lean system 5S tool and visual management method on administration efficiency by reviewing literary sources and research articles of various authors; •To define methodology suitable for the research, to improve the administration activity processes; •To make a research by applying the chosen methodology, to asses impact of the administration activity improvements. Object of the research – administration activity and its improvement by application of 5S tool and visual management method. Methods of the research – Longitudinal design where the data was collected in two points of time, i.e. before and after intervention of improvements. Administration division of an enterprise engaged in the commercial activity is chosen for the research. For the purpose of primary inquiry 45 respondents are offered to answer the questions. The inquiry form consists of four constructs (psychological comfort, works organization quality, job environment satisfaction, and organizational commitment). Based on the results of primary inquiry the most problematic construct is emphasized according to which the intervention to be implemented is prepared. Two months are devoted to the implementation of the intervention. Having completed the intervention the inquiry is repeated. Its scope involves 1 construct. To calculate the results Likert scale is used according to which average grades are worked out. Relevance of the topic – the paper creates the administration efficiency improvement model suitable for application by any enterprise by formulating the research constructs according to the nature of office activity at facing problematic functions, by enterprise that suffers losses but cannot identify problematic features that cause those losses as well as by enterprises interested in full integration of the lean manufacturing system. Structure of the work – the paper consists of five parts. The first part analyses problem of the research object based on the literary sources and research articles where the Lean system 5S tool and visual management method are defined. The second part provides necessary theoretical solutions for implementation of the anticipated research. The research methodology on the basis of which the research will be carried out is chosen in the third part. The fourth part contains the research results and discussion. The fifth part is intended for summary and recommendations. In addition, the research inquiry form sample is attached
Information technology risk assessment methods and improvement solutions
No full textThe legal tools applied in the context of IT technology development failing to solve the problems facing society. On the other hand, the development of innovation is sometimes hindered. The intensity of the development of information systems and technologies requires highly flexible and adaptive approaches to cybersecurity. One of these approaches is IT risk assessment. There are currently many methodologies that can be used to effectively assess cyber threats. For institutions with multiple exposures, the correlation between different positions may not be correctly estimated. Measuring known risk is a common problem in risk assessment practice. In order to develop a simple IT risk assessment method, the article examines existing IT risk assessment methods, proposes IT risk assessment solutions and presents the results of practical application.
Article in Lithuanian.
Informacinių technologijų rizikos vertinimo metodai ir tobulinimo sprendimai
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IT plėtros konteksto atžvilgiu taikomos teisinės priemonės nesugeba išspręsti problemų, su kuriomis tenka susidurti visuomenei, antra vertus, tam tikrais atvejais stabdoma inovacijų plėtra. Informacinių sistemų ir technologijų plėtros intensyvumas reikalauja labai lanksčių ir adaptyvių kibernetinės saugos užtikrinimo metodų taikymo būdų. Vienas iš šių metodų – IT rizikos vertinimas. Šiuo metu yra daug metodologijų, kuriomis remiantis būtų galima efektyviai vertinti kibernetinių grėsmių riziką. Įstaigai, turinčiai daugybę rizikų, skirtingų pozicijų koreliacija gali būti neteisingai įvertinta. Žinomos rizikos matavimas yra dažna rizikos vertinimo praktikos problema. Siekiant sukurti paprastą IT rizikos vertinimo metodą, straipsnyje nagrinėjami esami IT rizikos vertinimo metodai, siūlomi IT rizikos vertinimo sprendimai ir pateikiami praktinio pritaikymo rezultatai.
Article in Lithuanian.
Reikšminiai žodžiai: IT rizikos, metodas, kibernetinis saugumas, pažeidžiamumas, grėsmės
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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