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Processes Systems and Information An Introduction To Mis 1st Edition Kroenke Solutions Manual
Processes Systems and Information An Introduction To Mis 1st Edition Kroenke Solutions Manual
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Chapter 2
Business Processes, Information Systems, and
Information
Study Questions
Swimlane – a column in a BPMN diagram that identifies all the activities for a
particular role.
b. Identify and briefly describe three to five key activities for the
process.
Payroll:
1) Collection and determination of work time for hourly employees.
2) Update list of current employees.
3) Calculation of federal taxes.
4) Deduction of employee-paid benefits.
5) Direct deposit of employee net pay into employee bank accounts.
Mail distribution:
1) Receipt of mail from USPS, UPS, Federal Express.
2) Collection of intra-campus mail.
3) Mail sorting for distribution.
4) Distribution of mail to employee and student mail boxes.
5) Distribution of mail to specific employees/departments that require
a receipt signature.
Student recruiting:
1) General advertising of school academic and extra-curricular
offerings.
2) Training of campus tour guides and admissions counselors.
3) Maintenance of print material sent/given to prospective students.
4) Campus tours for prospective students and families.
5) Maintenance of the “Prospective Students” section of the school
Web site, Facebook page, Twitter account, etc.
c. Describe performance measures that management can use to assess
the process.
Payroll:
Process completion time relative to pay date – payroll must be on
time
Error rate – number of corrections required to paychecks each pay
period/total number of checks issued
Mail distribution:
Total pieces of mail/# of mail distribution employees
Total pieces of mail/# of mail distribution employee hours
Total pieces of mail/mail distribution budget
Student recruiting:
Total number of students contacted/time period
Total number of recruited students that actually matriculate
Prospect conversion: Total number of recruited students that
matriculate/total number of recruited students
Per student recruiting costs: Total number of matriculated
students/student recruiting budget
d. If the process is assisted with information systems, describe how. If
you don’t know if the process is assisted by information systems,
describe how you think information systems could be used.
Payroll – is entirely computerized. The only exceptions would be where
human interaction is required between payroll personnel and other
Language: English
FIFTY STUDIES
BY
WILHELM KUHNERT
ACCOMPANIED BY A SERIES OF
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
BY
R. LYDEKKER
F.R.S.
London
F R E D E R I C K WA R N E & C º .
& New York
(All rights reserved)
C , 1912
BY
F W C .
FOREWORD
The cubs, generally two or three in number, come into the world, unlike
kittens, with their eyes open, and are then about one-third the size of a
cat. As already mentioned, they are heavily mottled with brown on a
tawny ground, and it is very significant that these markings are to a great
extent intermediate in character between the rosettes of leopards and
jaguars and the stripes of the tiger. A peculiar feature in which the cubs
of lions differ from those of leopards and jaguars, and thereby resemble
those of tigers, is the presence of a white spot near the summit of the
back of each ear. From these facts it has been inferred, in the first place,
that the lion is most nearly related to the tiger, and, in the second place,
that lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars are all members of a single group.
As regards the mutual relationships of these species, it is generally
believed that spots represent an earlier and more primitive type of
colouring than transverse stripes, and it is therefore inferred that the
stripes of the tiger, which are very frequently partially split or double,
have been derived from the fusion of leopard-like rosettes into transverse
chains. As the self-coloured coat of the adult lion is evidently a modern
feature, it seems clear that tigers and lions are to be regarded as the most
specialised members of the whole group.
Before the investigations which led up to these modern advanced views
had been undertaken, it was very generally believed, on account of its
self-coloured tawny coat, that the American puma—locally known as the
American lion—was one of the nearest relatives of Felis leo. If,
however, beauty be but skin deep, colour is an even less deeply seated
feature among animals; and, as the result of the study of the markings of
young cubs of the puma, it seems certain that this species has acquired its
uniform tawny livery quite independently of the lion. For newly born
puma cubs exhibit a pattern of quadrangular blackish markings totally
different in form and arrangement from those of young lions, tigers,
leopards, or jaguars, and approximating in some degree to those of the
smaller cats. Accordingly, in the opinion of the investigator to whom we
are indebted for these very interesting views with regard to the inter-
relationships of the various members of the feline tribe, it seems highly
probable that the puma may be an overgrown self-coloured
representative of the group of smaller cats typified by the ordinary
domesticated species and its wild relatives.
A remarkable feature connected with the tuft at the tip of the tail of the
lion is the frequent presence of a horny spur or claw, the function of
which is still unknown, although it is certain that it is not employed, as
was once thought to be the case, to goad the animal into fury when the
tail is lashed against the flanks. It has been asserted that this spur is
found only in the Indian lion; but this is as erroneous as the statement
made by the same writer that it represents the last joint of the vertebræ of
the tail to which the blood is unable to obtain access. A very similar
structure exists in one member of the kangaroo tribe, known as the spur-
tailed wallaby, in which, however, the spur is common to both sexes and
quite constant in its development.
Menagerie lions, it may be mentioned, generally display a greater
luxuriance and profusion of mane than their wild relatives; while it is in
the former alone that any marked development of long hair on the under
surface of the body is noticeable. The reason for this is, of course, too
obvious to require explanation, more especially when it is borne in mind
that lions inhabiting open plains with grass-jungle have larger manes
than those which have to get their living in a country overgrown with
thorn-bushes.
THE MANCHURIAN TIGER
(Felis tigris mongolica)