Designing Examinations Information System Management : A comparative case study application of Soft Systems Methodology

ISBN-13: 9783330049659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 216 str.

Saifullah Memon

Opis

This interpretive action research uses SSM to compare two work situations: the Examination Departments of Mehran University (MUET) and Aalborg University (AAU). MUET is a primarily manual system, whereas Aalborg is extensively computerized. The objective is to design an improved system for MUET. Standard SSM analysis tools are integrated with interaction and transformation models (Rose, 2002), flowchart tools (JAI, 1995), physical workspace models and user interface prototypes from contextual design (Beyer & Holtzblatt, 1998), and the process of organizational meaning model (POM) (Checkland, 1998). A systematically desirable and culturally feasible examinations information system model is proposed for MUET. Much inspiration can be taken from study of the computerized work process at Aalborg, but care must be taken to accommodate the underlying cultural differences.

O autorze

Deputy Director of Planning & Development at Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro. Editor "IT Vision" Magazine, Author of two books "Infotech Insider" & "MIS Essentials", awarded "Star Laureate Award" by South Asia Publications, successfully defended MS dissertation research with Top grades 12/12(A) at Aalborg University-Denmark