Citizenship through work-related learning and enterprise.

Libro dirigido a profesores que imparten la asignatura de educación para la ciudadanía en relación con el trabajo y la empresa, en los niveles Key Stage 3 y 4 (educación secundaria). Está estructurado en cinco secciones basadas en un tema clave: definición de empresa ¿en qué consiste?, involucrarse ¿cómo puedo ser un ciudadano activo en el 'sector servicios'?, ¿cuáles son mis derechos como consumidor?, el mundo es muy, muy pequeño, y ¿cuáles son los derechos y deberes de los trabajadores? El libro incluye un CD-Rom con material de apoyo.

Enterprise internships: modern fashion or real need?

The objectives of this work are twofold. First, it aims to reflect on student internship placements as a tool for developing the engineering curriculum. Secondly, we present a webbased software for the efficient management of enterprise internships. This tool is scalable, allowing the management of an increased number of students while minimizing the requirement for managing time

Semiotic modelling for complex enterprise systems

An enterprise is viewed as a complex system which can be engineered to accomplish organisational objectives. Systems analysis and modelling will enable to the planning and development of the enterprise and IT systems. Many IT systems design methods focus on functional and non-functional requirements of the IT systems. Most methods are normally capable of one but leave out other aspects. Analysing and modelling of both business and IT systems may often have to call on techniques from various suites of methods which may be placed on different philosophic and methodological underpinnings. Coherence and consistency between the analyses are hard to ensure. This paper introduces the Problem Articulation Method (PAM) which facilitates the design of an enterprise system infrastructure on which an IT system is built. Outcomes of this analysis represent requirements which can be further used for planning and designing a technical system. As a case study, a finance system, Agresso, for e-procurement has been used in this paper to illustrate the applicability of PAM in modelling complex systems.

Analysis of the dominant enterprise information assurance mechanisms

The purpose of this study is to analyse current data continuity mechanisms employed by the target group of businesses and to identify any inadequacies in the mechanisms as a whole. The questionnaire responses indicate that 47% of respondents do perceive backup methodologies as important, with a total of 70% of respondents having some backup methodology already in place. Businesses in Moulton Park perceive the loss of data to have a significant effect upon their business’ ability to function. Only 14% of respondents indicated that loss of data on computer systems would not affect their business at all, with 54% of respondents indicating that there would be either a “major effect” (or greater) on their ability to operate. Respondents that have experienced data loss were more likely to have backup methodologies in place (53%) than respondents that had not experienced data loss (18%). Although the number of respondents clearly affected the quality and conclusiveness of the results returned, the level of backup methodologies in place appears to be proportional to the company size. Further investigation is recommended into the subject in order to validate the information gleaned from the small number of respondents.