1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910138871103321

Autore

Ward John <1947->

Titolo

Benefits management [[electronic resource] ] : how to increase the business value of your IT projects / / by John Ward and Elizabeth Daniels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester [England], : ohn Wiley & Sons, 2012

ISBN

1-119-20824-6

1-118-38158-0

1-283-54279-X

9786613855244

1-118-38159-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DanielElizabeth <1962->

Disciplina

658.4/038011

658.4038

658.4038011

Soggetti

Information technology - Management

Information storage and retrieval systems - Business

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. ed. of: Benefits management : delivering value from IS & IT investments. c2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BENEFITS MANAGEMENT; Contents; About the authors; Preface; Chapter 1: The challenges of IS/IT projects; Dissatisfaction with current approaches to benefits delivery; The need for a fresh approach: benefits management; Benefits delivery; A focus on value; A business case linked to organizational strategy; The importance of change management; Commitment from business managers; IS/IT sufficient to do the job; Involvement of stakeholders; Educated in the use of technology; Post-implementation benefits review; The importance of a common language; Summary

Chapter 2: Understanding the strategic contextThe external and internal perspectives of business strategy: the competitive forces and resource-based views; Resources, competences and capabilities; Ends, ways and means; PEST analysis; Industry attractiveness and competitive



forces analysis; External value chain analysis; Internal value chain analysis; Alternative internal value chain configurations; Balancing the external and internal contexts: the dimensions of competence; Linking business, IS and IT strategies; Managing the portfolio of IS/IT investments

Organizational information competencesSummary; Chapter 3: The foundations of benefits management; The gaps in existing methods and the implications; The origins of the benefits management approach and process; An overview of the benefits management process; Step 1: Identifying and structuring the benefits; Step 2: Planning benefits realization; Step 3: Executing the benefits plan; Step 4: Reviewing and evaluating the results; Step 5: Establishing the potential for further benefits; What is different about this approach?; Summary; Chapter 4: Establishing the why, what and how

Why: identifying business and organizational driversEstablishing investment objectives; Linking the investment objectives to the drivers; What: the business benefits; How: the benefits dependency network; Measurement and ownership; Benefit and change templates; Worked example: improved control within a food processing organization; Summary; Chapter 5: Building the business case; Arguing the value of the project; Maintaining dependency: benefits are the result of changes; A structure for analysing and describing the benefits; Quantifying the benefits: the major challenge

Ways of overcoming the quantification problemFinancial benefits; Cost reductions; Revenue increases; Project cost assessment; Investment appraisal techniques; Variations in benefits and changes across the investment portfolio; Risk assessment; Completing the business case; Summary business case for the FoodCo project; Summary; Chapter 6: Stakeholder and change management; Assessing the feasibility of achieving the benefit; Stakeholder analysis and management techniques; From analysis to action; Completing the benefits plan; Approaches to managing change

Matching the management approach and stakeholder behaviours

Sommario/riassunto

The second edition of Benefits Management has been updated with current examples, further insights from experience and recent research. It shows how the enduring challenges achieving business value from information systems and technology projects can be addressed successfully. The approach, which is synthesized from best practices, sound theories and proven techniques from a range of management disciplines, is exemplified from the authors' extensive experience of working with a wide range of organizations. The book includes examples from a wide variety of projects including non-IT proje



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791735803321

Autore

Maguire Moira (Moira J.)

Titolo

Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland [[electronic resource] /] / Moira Maguire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

ISBN

1-84779-759-8

1-78170-260-8

1-84779-325-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

362.70869409415

Soggetti

Children with social disabilities - Government policy - Ireland - History - 20th century

Poor children - Government policy - Ireland - History - 20th century

Christianity and politics - Catholic Church - History - 20th century

Ireland Social conditions 20th century

Ireland Politics and government 1922-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Moira J. Maguire"--Book jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Poverty, family dysfunction, and state provision for neglected children -- Cherished equally? "Outdoor" provision for illegitimate children -- Cherished equally? Institutional provision for illegitimate children -- Legislating care and protection : the Carrigan Committee, the age of consent, and adoption -- The abused child? -- Sanctity of child life? Official responses to infanticide -- Desperate act or wilful choice? Infanticide and unwanted children.

Sommario/riassunto

This study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to cherish and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised and ignored them.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792967803321

Titolo

Culturally sustaining and revitalizing pedagogies : language, culture, and power / / Cathy Coulter, Margarita Jimenez-Silva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley : , : Emerald Publishing, , 2017

ISBN

1-78714-755-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Advances in research on teaching, , 1479-3687 ; ; v. 29

Disciplina

371.1

Soggetti

Culturally relevant pedagogy

Language and culture

Education - Teaching Methods & Materials - General

Teaching skills & techniques

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prelims -- Introduction -- Power -- Culture -- Language -- About the authors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Today's schools compartmentalize children and curriculum. Standardization dictates curricular content and assessment, narrowing the focus of classrooms and schools that serve diverse populations from varied geographical backgrounds. Against the backdrop of the western-derived, institutional framework of schooling are cultural ways of knowing that are place-based, holistic, experiential, and connected to oral storytelling. In the current movement toward acknowledging and understanding cultural knowledge, teacher education programs need to work in collaboration with cultural communities, honoring traditions and epistemologies and seeking to revitalize and sustain (Paris, 2012) language and culture. Such initiatives inform the big picture of educational reform and enrich mainstream university teacher education programs. This book highlights the journeys, challenges and unfolding stories of transformation that reside within university/community/school partnerships focused on cultural and linguistic revitalization through schooling.