Improving the it Hiring Rate

In the culture of most organizations, IT people are treated as if they are different from other business-line employees. Although this treatment can cause friction between IT and the business organization, it can actually benefit the IT hiring process. Because of the tight IT labor market, IT professionals should not be bound to the hiring procedures that are used for other employees. Instead, if a promising candidate comes along, an organization should do whatever it can to make a satisfactory offer as quickly as possible.     

An MIS Manager's Guide to Hiring Programmers

By understanding the limitations of internal recruiting departments, carefully rethinking the true requirements of open positions, and reallocating funds away from headhunterfees and toward vendor training for new employees, MIS managers can attract and keep the programmers they need. This article explains how.     

An MIS Manager's Guide to Hiring Programmers

By understanding the limitations of internal recruiting departments, carefully rethinking the true requirements of open positions, and reallocating funds away from headhunterfees and toward vendor training for new employees, MIS managers can attract and keep the programmers they need. This article explains how.     

Successfully implementing configuration management

To increase product quality, development efficiency, and enterprise profitability, many organizations are striving to achieve repeatable, engineered software development processes. Effective configuration management is essential to reaching this goal. CM can organize project components and streamline and control software development processes. A fully deployed and integrated CM solution consists of several tools. By carefully designing how CM components fit your processes and how your processes will change as a result of using CM, you can significantly enhance your software quality. We suggest an approach and provide planning and implementation guidelines for a pilot client-server software development project     

Successfully applying software metrics

The word success is very powerful. It creates strong, but widely varied, images that may range from the final seconds of an athletic contest to a graduation ceremony to the loss of 10 pounds. Success makes us feel good; it's cause for celebration. All these examples of success are marked by a measurable end point, whether externally or self-created. Most of us who create software approach projects with some similar idea of success. Our feelings from project start to end are often strongly influenced by whether we spent any early time describing this success and how we might measure progress. Software metrics measure specific attributes of a software product or a software development process. In other words, they are measures of success. It's convenient to group the ways that we apply metrics to measure success into four areas. What do you need to measure and analyze to make your project a success? We show examples from many projects and Hewlett Packard divisions which may help you chart your course     

Successfully outsourcing embedded software development

A large US company, UIC successfully outsources embedded software development after applying people- and project-focused practices developed from a prior failed attempt. In this article the author describes 10 practices that have helped UIC create an offshore development strategy that produces embedded software at a lower cost while maintaining quality. These lessons show how both the people involved in offshore projects and the projects themselves must be treated differently from internally developed projects. Even with the high complexities and intellectual property concerns surrounding embedded software development, UIC has used these practices to establish processes that ensure successful delivery and protection of UIC's intellectual property.     

Hiring, Firing and Infighting: A Tale of Two Companies

We extend the hiring and firing framework of Shepp and Shiryaev (J Econ Dyn Control 20:1523?C1539, 1996) to include infighting, and solve the profit-maximization problem using our numerical technique. With infighting, we find a smaller optimal firm size, and lowered firm value that stems from reduced operations and rapid profit-taking. Upon calibrating our model to match the cases of Levi Strauss & Co. and Microsoft, we find with Levi??s, that our model matches media estimates of its loss in value fairly closely. With Microsoft, our model might explain its loss in value and poor decision-making, such as its recent acquisitions. The implications of our model for corporate governance might also help in reducing the current unemployment rate.     

Successfully Managing the Multivendor Environment

The coordination of services from multiple sources—management of the multivendor environment—is a many-faceted responsibility for the MIS manager. There are inherent problems in such an environment, but the MIS manager can take steps to ensure that the benefits and opportunities presented by the multivendor environment are realized.     

Successfully Managing the Multivendor Environment

Abstract

The coordination of services from multiple sources—management of the multivendor environment—is a many-faceted responsibility for the MIS manager. There are inherent problems in such an environment, but the MIS manager can take steps to ensure that the benefits and opportunities presented by the multivendor environment are realized.     

OfficeWorld办公设备展览会圆满落幕

<正>2011年第一届OfficeWorld办公设备展览会于4月20-22日在上海展览中心隆重举行,并于4月22日下午圆满落幕。本次展会与ReChina亚洲打印耗材展同期举行,展览面积共计15,000平方米,吸引了众多国内外专业观众前来参观采购。展会第一天早上还未到观众进场时间,展馆门口登记处就已排起了长队,观众们都迫不及待的准备入场参观。     

Successfully detecting and correcting false friends using channel profiles

The detection and correction of false friends—also called real-word errors—is a notoriously difficult problem. On realistic data, the break-even point for automatic correction so far could not be reached: the number of additional infelicitous corrections outnumbered the useful corrections. We present a new approach where we first compute a profile of the error channel for the given text. During the correction process, the profile (1) helps to restrict attention to a small set of “suspicious” lexical tokens of the input text where it is “plausible” to assume that the token represents a false friend. In this way, recognition of false friends is improved. Furthermore, the profile (2) helps to isolate the “most promising” correction suggestion for “suspicious” tokens. Using a conventional word trigram statistics for disambiguation we obtain a correction method that can be successfully applied to unrestricted text. In experiments for OCR documents, we show significant accuracy gains by fully automatic correction of false friends.     

带状高速定影技术研发成功

<正>随着数码印刷在传统印刷领域的发展,小批量及快速交付的可变数据打印需求的增长,要求供应商能在不同材质和厚重的介质上实现高速、高品质的印刷效果来满足这些日益增长的需求。定影器的性能一直以来成为制约数码印刷设备同时实现高生产力和宽泛的纸张适应性的因素之一。如果定影器温度不足会导致墨粉融化不充分同时不容易吸附在     

Developing and Retaining a Security Testing Mindset

Developing a security testing mindset is a hard task. Moreover, as hard as it is to develop it, it's just as hard to retain it and effectively apply it during testing. The authors discuss what it takes to conduct successful software security testing, primarily by describing how to develop a security testing mindset, retain it, and effectively apply it. In particular, they explore the different roles and processes an organization needs to maintain a high level of security assurance.     

基于人事信息系统的机构人员数据共享应用

信息数据共享一直是研究的热点,通过对机构、人员数据共享主要业务流程的介绍,设计了共享数据的结构表,详细描述了机构、人员数据分层次的树形调用方法,对机构、人员数据共享范围、方式和频率进行了分析,建立了一套适合浙江检验检疫全省系统的机构和人员共享基础数据表及应用的方法,有效提高了信息化建设和管理的效率。     

局域网环境下的时钟同步与保持

针对局域网环境下系统仿真的时钟同步需求,提出了一种时钟同步与保持方法.首先建立客户端与授时服务器的网络连接,通过多次网络通信,得到客户端与授时服务器时间差的不等式组,通过解不等式组求出时间差的有效范围,这样有效地提高了时钟同步的精度.然后通过两个校准时间参考点对系统的脉冲频率进行校准,使得已同步的时钟得以保持,从而避免了在仿真应用中频繁地进行同步,节省了时间开销.实验结果表明,这种方法的同步误差在50μs左右,且可以在较长时间内保持.