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Resource Planning Quarter (hereinafter, the Quarter) is the first of four lectures of Operations Quadrivium (hereinafter, the Quadrivium):
- The Quarter is designed to introduce its learners to enterprise discovery, or, in other words, to concepts related to obtaining data needed to administer the enterprise effort; and
- The Quadrivium examines concepts of administering various types of enterprises known as enterprise administration as a whole.
The Quadrivium is the first of seven modules of Septem Artes Administrativi, which is a course designed to introduce its learners to general concepts in business administration, management, and organizational behavior.
Contents
Outline
The predecessor lecture is Organizational Structure Quarter.
Concepts
- Information system. A structured, interacting, complex of persons, machines, and procedures designed to produce information which is collected from both internal and external sources for use as a basis for decision-making in specific contract/procurement actions.
- System. A collection of interrelated and/or interdependent elements working together as a unified whole to produce a desired output out of consumed input through one or more processes. System elements can include hardware, software, and people. One system can be a sub-element (or subsystem) of another system.
- Mission. An undertaking that is supported by the system to be designed to be successful (e.g. space mission).
- Open system. A system that interacts with its environment.
- Closed system. A system that is not influenced by and does not interact with its environment.
- External interface. An interface with other systems (hardware, software, and human) that a proposed system will interact with.
- Boundary. A separation between the interior of a system and what lies outside.
Methods
Instruments
Results
- Organizational development. A collection of planned change interventions, built on humanistic-democratic values, that seeks to improve organizational effectiveness and employee well-being.
- Organizational development. Change methods that focus on people and the nature and quality of interpersonal work relationships.
Practices
No successor lecture exists in the Course. Happy implementations of the learned concepts, methods, instruments, and practices on the fields!
