Business Intelligence and Business Process Management

Business Intelligence Systems

Business Intelligence (BI): BI’s purpose is to collect data and generate information and KPIs to monitor businesses and measure the impacts of strategies, process optimizations, and project implementations. Business Analytics (inductive method) is used to extract information from diverse data, encompassing data mining and big data, without standardization or prior hypotheses.

Why Business Intelligence?

ERPs often include a BI module or provide data for analysis, aiming

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Understanding Organizations: Environment, Responsibility, and Processes

Proof of December: System Open

As it relates to the environment, there are constant exchanges.

Context

Organizations are open systems that relate to the context and are heavily influenced by it. The context is made up of all those factors that are outside the organization and affect its development.

General Environment

Composed of all those factors that influence the general social environment in which organizations develop their activities. Examples: Cultural factors, technological, educational.

Specific

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Social Stratification: Market Economies and Development

Social Stratification in Market Economies

In joint ventures involving social and market economies, as well as within capitalist systems, a primary method economists use to address imbalances is income redistribution through taxation. These taxes can be direct or indirectly applied to initial economic activities, such as purchasing goods or using professional services (e.g., VAT). A secondary approach involves allocating state revenues to social policies, including scholarships, social security, and

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Effective Decision-Making: Strategies, Models, and Overcoming Barriers

Effective Decision-Making: A Comprehensive Approach

Decision-making is the process during which a person must choose between one or several alternatives. In the administrative process, it begins in the first stage, which is forecasting. In the employment context, the manager is the key person in relation to decision-making. She is the one who usually makes decisions or guides them to be taken. The administrative process is the way in which the administration is carried out, and its first stage is

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Effective Search Strategies for Automated Systems & Google

Search Types in Automated Systems

Basic Searches: Single term searches; general searches.

Advanced Search: Combines terms for accurate information, creating sets and subsets with subject terms. Understanding consultation possibilities is crucial for obtaining reliable results.

Boolean Operators

  • Intersection (AND): Search results show documents addressing all specified terms simultaneously.
  • Negation (NOT): Excludes documents containing specified terms.
  • Union (OR): Includes documents addressing at least
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Healthcare Records Management: Retention and Lifecycle

Introduction to Healthcare Records Management

A healthcare organization (HCO) bears the legal responsibility for all clinical documentation generated and stored, whether on-site or externally. The HCO must ensure the security and integrity of these records. Procedures must be in place to prevent loss or destruction, guarantee security, and monitor storage conditions during both active and inactive periods, organized as comprehensively as possible.

Documentation custody encompasses:

  1. Conservation and
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