The National Offender Management Information System (C-NOMIS) initiative, begun in 2004, by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) to build a single offender management IT system for the prison and probation services has not delivered value for money. The project had been hampered by poor management leading to a three-year delay, a doubling in project costs and reductions in scope and benefits. More recently, the National Offender Management Service has made progress in getting the project back on track. The core aim of the original project of a single shared database of offenders will not be met, though the number of databases used has been reduced from 220 to three. The project was to be introduced by January 2008, and had an approved lifetime cost of £234 million to 2020. By July 2007, £155 million had been spent on the project, it was two years behind schedule, and estimated lifetime project costs had risen to £690 million. The project was halted while options to get the budget under control were sought. The causes of the delays and cost overruns were: inadequate management oversight; the technical complexity of the project was significantly underestimated; budget monitoring was absent and change control weak. In addition, the main supplier contracts were designed in such a way that sufficient pressure could not be brought to bear on suppliers to deliver to time and cost. In January 2008, NOMS began work on a rescoped programme with an estimated lifetime cost of £513 million and a delivery date of March 2011.
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common repository of data, fed from case management systems that enable
offender managers and staff within Offender Management Units in the National ...
"Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Applications" offers state-of-the-art research by a distinguished set of authors who span the MIS and HCI fields. The original chapters provide authoritative commentaries and in-depth descriptions of research programs that will guide 21st century scholars, graduate students, and industry professionals. Human-Computer Interaction (or Human Factors) in MIS is concerned with the ways humans interact with information, technologies, and tasks, especially in business, managerial, organizational, and cultural contexts. It is distinctive in many ways when compared with HCI studies in other disciplines. The MIS perspective affords special importance to managerial and organizational contexts by focusing on analysis of tasks and outcomes at a level that considers organizational effectiveness. With the recent advancement of technologies and development of many sophisticated applications, human-centeredness in MIS has become more critical than ever before. This work focuses on applications and evaluations including special case studies, specific contexts or tasks, HCI methodological concerns, and the use and adoption process.
Indeed, MIS centers on the study of information systems, rather than on
information technologies, which are these systems' constituent. Human actors
play an essential role in information systems. In the MIS field, HCI studies
humans in their ...
It also supplies employee payment history data for insurance, pension, and other
benefits calculations to the organization's human resource systems and
employee payment data to government agencies, etc.) Transaction processing
systems ...
July 2003 Highlights of GAO-03-692, a report to Congressional Committees
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS SCHOOLS New Facilities Management
Information System Promising, but Improved Data Accuracy Needed The Bureau
of Indian ...
Introduction. T. his study describes the concept of a management information
system (MIS) developed for the Center for International Forestry Research (
CIFOR). The introduction describes MIS in general and similarities with related
systems.
The main focus of the present collection of papers, comments, articles and extracts is on the prime requisitcs of effective management information system for the modern growthoriented and result-oriented corporate organisation. Such a system will enhance the scope and quality of the organisation s information collection and use. A large component of management literature is devoted to the analysis of system that are more technical-oriented than human-oriented, in terms of cost-saving and as merely support services. It needs to be recognised that the true management information system is one which focuses on effective support for managerial design-making. The material contained in this volume represents concepts, ideas, experiences and applications which together cover the dynamics of the modern management information system both as it is and as it should or needs to be. In their totality the papers extend beyond mere communications to deployment and application of collected information for optimal use in the interests of the corporate organisation. As such, the papers will be useful for not only students and scholars of the various aspects of information management but also for practising managers, consultants and middle and senior level executives of the modern corporate enterprises.
From our survey of the MIS literature we selected approximately four areas that
we considered fundamental to developing any type of information system: 1.
Explaining and clarifying information needs, 2. Determining input and output ...
