DocumentCode :
2186651
Title :
Analyzing Usability Alternatives in Multi-criteria Decision Making During ERP Training
Author :
Mahadevan, V. ; Agbinya, J. ; Braun, R.
Author_Institution :
ICT Group, Univ. of Technol. Sydney, Sydney, NSW
fYear :
2006
fDate :
10-13 July 2006
Firstpage :
296
Lastpage :
309
Abstract :
Lack of high-level usability awareness often leads the e-business communities to a missing relative assessment of capability of collaborative businesses effectively in terms of achieving strategic and competitive advantages. In this paper, we propose a new strategic framework for an evolutionary Collaborative Space of Opportunities (CSO) whilst using a Telecollaboration (TC) business system during Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) training. Initially, we apply Callos´s General System Theory (GST) with the description of logistics elements of this framework. Next, we provide a business logistics management perspective within CSO, addressing organizational effectiveness, technology integration control efficiency and user satisfaction. This includes formation of co- evolutionary loops to induce the apparent system usability objectives to explore the emergence of business logistics portfolios and technology integration control profiles of the users. We then describe our proposed Collaborative Space of Opportunities Matrices (CSOM) to analyse the apparent usability alternatives in this multi-criteria decision making environment. In this context, we apply the general form of Saaty´s Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to demonstrate how these matrices could be used as a generic elicitation tool. It is here, we provide a set of systematic, explicit, rigorous and robust reinforcement mechanisms for quantifying and prioritizing the Decision elements (De) involved. We assume that the exposition on AHP has the Business process Re- engineering (BPR) effect to measure and synthesize the often conflicting apparent usability objectives and alternatives of a TC business system during ERP training.
Keywords :
business process re-engineering; computer based training; decision making; decision theory; electronic commerce; enterprise resource planning; groupware; human factors; logistics data processing; management education; BPR effect; Callos general system theory; ERP training; Saaty analytic hierarchy process; TC business system; business logistics management perspective; business process re-engineering; co-evolutionary loops; collaborative business; collaborative space of opportunities matrices; decision elements; e-business communities; elicitation tool; enterprise resource planning; evolutionary CSO framework; high-level usability awareness; multicriteria decision making environment; organizational effectiveness; reinforcement mechanisms; technology integration control efficiency; telecollaboration business system; user satisfaction; Collaboration; Decision making; Disaster management; Enterprise resource planning; Logistics; Management training; Portfolios; Space technology; Technology management; Usability;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, 2006. ITHET '06. 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0405-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0406-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ITHET.2006.339778
Filename :
4141641
Link To Document :
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