Monitoring Quarter

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Data Gathering Quarter (hereinafter, the Quarter) is the first of four lectures of Operations Quadrivium (hereinafter, the Quadrivium):

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.


Outline

The predecessor lecture is Chief Execution Quarter.

Concepts

  1. Enterprise data. All data that has been gathered to support all of the enterprise efforts.
    • Data. Factual communications, raw documents, unprocessed measurements, and/or recorded observations collected for further analysis in order to create information.
  2. Data source. A place, person, or thing from which data comes or can be obtained.
  3. Data research.
  4. Data collection mode.
  5. Data structure.
  6. Market research. The activity of gathering information about both or either consumers' needs and preferences and/or sellers' products on the market. Sometimes, the research is considered being the first phase of the market analysis.
    • Environmental scanning. Screening information to detect emerging trends.
    • Benchmarking. The search for the best practices among competitors or noncompetitors that lead to their superior performance.
    • Benchmark. The standard of excellence against which to measure and compare.
  7. Metadata. Data about data; it may include data sources, geolocation, the chronology related to data creation and further movement, data contexts, etc.
  8. Internal reporting.
  9. Knowledge base.

Methods

  1. Data-gathering technique. An established procedure for carrying out gathering of data.
  2. Interview. A data-gathering technique that represents an arranged meeting of people face-to-face, especially for consultation or other informational exchange.
  3. Meeting. An occasional or arranged gathering of people for informational, emotional, or physical exchanges; particularly, this gathering can serve as a data-gathering technique.
    • Town hall meeting. An informal public meeting where information can be relayed, issues can be discussed, or employees can be brought together to celebrate accomplishments.
  4. Event-powered survey. The data-gathering technique that is based on a systematic study of behavior of people at arranged events such as pooling, sampling, and/or querying, either virtual or physical, undertaken in order to gather data primarily of the results of their behavior.

Instruments

  1. Data-gathering tool. An tangible or software implement used to carry out gathering of data.
  2. Search engine. A software system that is designed to search for data on corporate networks or, as a web search engine, on World Wide Web.
  3. Prototype. A preliminary conceptual model of a deliverable to be developed; this model is used as a reference, publicity artifact, or data-gathering tool.
  4. Content gathering.

Practices

  • Assumption. The factor that, for planning purposes, is considered to be true, real, or certain. Assumptions affect all aspects of project planning, and are part of the progressive elaboration of the project. Project teams frequently identify, document, and validate assumptions as part of their planning process. Assumptions generally involve a degree of risk.

The successor lecture is Business Analysis Quarter.

Materials

Recorded audio

Recorded video

Live sessions

Texts and graphics

See also