PURPOSE To determine how productivity- and finance-related indicators are used by radiology departments to evaluate departmental performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study met the criteria to be exempt from institutional review board approval. All subjects were informed of the purpose of the study and that their questionnaire responses would be kept confidential. For the study, a survey was...

An indexing tool was built to provide for one of several information seeking tasks. In ac­ cordance with the basic principles of work held by the HUMLE laboratory at SICS, a so­ lution regarding indexing would be a semi-automatic tool. This approach is also relevant as the continuation of the indexing project is conducted in co-operation with the Swedish Parliament, where a staff of professiona...

This paper deals with the optimisation of collecting the accounts to be charged for a cable television company using of third generation mobile telephony. By using mobile telephony, a dramatic increase in the efficiency, productivity and a considerable saving in the logistic support and staff cost are obtained. The number of processes and participants involved in the proposed system are also cu...

This paper provides an overview of a study by Productivity Commission staff that sought to quantify the effects of domestic and foreign R&D on Australia’s productivity performance. The estimates obtained were sensitive and imprecise and standard models were shown to be mis-specified. The use of capitalised R&D expenditure to proxy knowledge stocks is one possible contributor to the estimation p...

We evaluated the impact of human resource (HR) managers’ capabilities on HR management effectiveness and the latter’s impact on corporate financial performance. For 293 U.S. firms, effectiveness was associated with capabilities and attributes of HR staff. We also found relationships between HR management effectiveness and productivity, cash flow, and market value. Findings were consistent acros...

The AEFTA (Application Enabler Technology for Factory Automation) experiment, which involves Digital Equipment Corporation, Politecnico di Torino and SYCO, with staff of seven, develops a factory automation product using BASEstar Open (1990) and object technology, notably OMT (Rumbaugh et al. 1991), G++ (Menga et al. 1993) and C++. The goal of the application experiment is to verify if object o...

The main aim of all types of libraries is to satisfy customers’ needs and expectations. Competent staff are essential to service excellence in any organization, and information centers are no exception. Competent and suitable LIS professionals in universities are essential to meeting the changing needs of customers in this digital environment. This is even more important in research organizatio...