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Handbook of Research on Business Social Networking: Organizational, Managerial, and Technological Dimensions
Power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect.
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Evaluating IBMEC-RJ’s Intranet Usability Using Fuzzy Logic
Ana Beatriz Cavaleiro dos Reis Velloso (IBMEC Business School, Brazil), Walter Gassenferth (IBMEC Business School, Brazil), and Maria Augusta Soares Machado (IBMEC Business School, Brazil)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-168-9.ch010
Abstract
System usability is a concept that goes beyond the ease of use, and includes several criteria for measurement. This study aims to evaluate the usability and thus the quality of IBMEC-RJ’s Intranet in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by the fact that it is of great assistance to teachers and students. The method is applied research through questionnaires. The universe of users was limited by a convenience sample of IBMEC. The methodology that had used Microsoft Excel and Matlab from Mathworks is innovative. Fuzzy logic is a fundamental tool for consolidating and analyzing data.
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Measuring Effectiveness in Online Instruction
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What-If Analysis on the Evaluation of User Interface Usability
The degree to which some action is successful in producing a desired result and achieving success.
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Lean Logistics of the Transportation of Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) in the Palm Oil Industry
It is the degree to which objectives are achieved and the extent to which targeted problems are solved and is determined without reference to costs. Effectiveness means “doing the right thing” to address sustainability.
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Improving Virtual Teams through Swift Structure
An absolute objective measure that examines a team success in operating a task.
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Transgenerational Designs in Mobile Technology
The term reflects the degree to which system objectives (e.g., tasks) are being achieved.
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Usability Evaluation of Digital Library
Effectiveness is measured by the accuracy of tasks performed by the users, for example, the number of correct answers.
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Designing and Developing Competency-Based Education Courses Using Standards
The ability to achieve intended goals or objectives. In competency based education effectiveness is related to the ability to achieve the desired outcomes via the chosen delivery method and strategies.
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Governance for Higher Education Robustness: Case of Universities
Effectiveness relates to performing the correct activity or operation ( Kenny, 2008 ). In other words, completing a work assignment or task correctly.
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Academicians Quality of Work Life and Its Influence on Value of Education
It is referred as the capability of producing a desired result or the ability to produce desired output.
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Challenges for Social Enterprises in Special Education
Implies the skillful use of resources or energy or industry to accomplish desired results with little waste of effort.
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The Development of Technology Integration in a Graduate Course for Practicing Teachers
The effectiveness for learning of a specific technology in a specific content domain based on research evidence.
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Strategic Alignment Between Business and Information Technology
In the context of IT, the measurement of the capacity of the outputs of an information system or of an IT application to fulfill the requirements of the company and to achieve its goals, making this company more competitive. In other words, effectiveness can be understood as the ability of “do the right thing.”
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Knowledge Intensive Work in a Network of Counter-Terrorism Communities
Improvement that is broader than efficiency. Improvements can include increased relevance, perceived value, acceptance by stakeholders, protection of assets, achievement of results, secondary benefits, and so on.
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Evaluating Usability to Improve Efficiency in E-Learning Programs
Degree of achievement of a goal. Its measurement makes a connection between the fixed goals and the precision of the achieved goals. The simplest effectiveness index addresses the achievement of a goal: a product is effective when it allows the accomplishment of a task. If the goal is not achieved, effectiveness can be measured in terms of the number of operations necessary to accomplish the task. Another way to measure effectiveness involves the quality of the achieved results.
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Planning, Budgeting, and Green Controlling: The Budgetary Process of an Economic Entity
The extent to which the objectives of an intervention have been or are expected to be achieved taking into account their importance.
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Measuring Relative Efficiency and Effectiveness
The degree to which goals are met, or results are achieved.
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Board-Level Diversity Management as a Strategy to Enhance Organizational Performance
Effectiveness implies the skillful use of resources or energy or industry to accomplish desired results with little waste of effort.
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Approaches towards Measuring Success in Public Elementary Schools
The capability of producing a desired result. The literary meaning of effectiveness is goal attainment. Effectiveness can be described as the extent to which the desired level of output is achieved.
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E-Government in Malaysia: Barriers and Progress
Refers to doing the right thing which is satisfying and sustainable rather than producing output without a sense of its relevance to the society.
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E-Therapy
Producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect (intent or purpose).
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Assessing the Effectiveness of a Basic Writing Course
Effectiveness refers to desirable change in performance, be it student or institutional performance. It is measured through the data gathered by the instruments used to collect information on student learning and development.
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Quality and Effectiveness of ERP Software: Data Mining Perspective
The extent to which a system functions as intended offering the expected results.
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Compass and Connotation of Multigenerational Leadership in the Contemporary Workplace
A combination of quality and quantity of performance of a group or unit of work managed by a responsible/leader.
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Evaluating Mobile Human-Computer Interaction
The ability of a given user to employ a given product to achieve a desired goal in a given context of use
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Information Systems and Small Business
The ability to accomplish a task with fewer errors.
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Leader Competence Effectiveness
Is a combination of quality and quantity of performance of a group or unit of work managed by a responsible/leader.
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Lean Logistics of the Transportation of Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) in the Palm Oil Industry
It is the degree to which objectives are achieved and the extent to which targeted problems are solved and is determined without reference to costs. Effectiveness means “doing the right thing” to address sustainability.
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Visual Methods for Analyzing Human Health Data
A visual representation is effective if it has been generated in accordance with the capabilities of the human visual system.
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Effectiveness of Computer-Managed Instruction on Students' Performance in Tertiary Institutions
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Word Formation Study in Developing Naming Guidelines in the Translation of English Medical Terms Into Persian
“Effective” or “ineffective” are the terms which are employed in this study for the effectiveness of the applied translation procedures in the translation process of English medical terms into Persian. It is evaluated based on four terminological factors suggested by Meyer and Bowker (2006 AU9: The citation "Bowker (2006" was preceded with "Meyer and ". It may be part of a longer citation. Please check the citation. : p.117) which belong to morphosemantics in linguistics. Conciseness, absence of competing terms, derivative form capability, and compliance with the rules of the language are the four factors that can all contribute to the effectiveness of the applied translation procedures in translating the English medical terms into Persian.
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Sustainability of Social Enterprises
Implies the skillful use of resources or energy or industry to accomplish desired results with little waste of effort.
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Perception of VO Reliability
Effective management is the one which gives profit to owners and good jobs to employees. The relation between expenditure and result in this context is called effectiveness.
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A Systematic Review of Gamification Within E-Learning
The attainment of the desired or intended outcome of a process, model, or framework.
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Usable Security
The properties which measures to what extent interactions achieve objective process efficiency indicators (i.e. concrete results of user actions while using the addressed product).
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The Idealization of an Integrated BIM, Lean, and Green Model (BLG)
The primary quest for finding what is the right thing to do; a qualitative issue that is philosophical in nature answering the why within the context of the benefit to the whole. See Fernández-Solís.
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