Academic literature on the topic 'SISP maturity stages'

ABSTRAK: Pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk mengurangi kerugian petani dan pedagang bengkoang serta mengoptimalkan umbi bengkoang kelompok tani dengan peningkatan nilai tambah melalui produk bedak dingin. Umbi bengkoang yang tidak terjual lagi dan diangkap afkir dimana kurang layak untuk jadi produk olahan pangan dimanfaatkan untuk membuat bedak dingin. Pengabdian masyarakat ini dilakukan dengan tahapan : 1) Pembuatan dan pengujian bedak dingin bengkoang dengan menggunakan 3 (tiga) jenis ketuaan umbi bengkoang. Pengamatan yang dilakukan meliputi rendemen, derajat warna putih, pH dan uji organoleptik bedak dan uji iritasi ; dan 2) Penyuluhan dan demontrasi/pelatihan pembuatan bedak dingin pada kelompok mitra. Pada penyuluhan disampaikan: i) Potensi umbi bengkoang, ii) Faktor-foktor yang perlu diperhatikan dalam penentuan bengkoang afkir, dan iii) Faktor yang diperhatikan dalam membuat produk bermutu baik dan dapat disimpan dalam jangka waktu yang lama. Hasil dari kegiatan pengabdian ini adalah : 1) Bengkoang afkir (sisa yang tidak terjual) mempunyai potensi dan dapat serta aman untuk dijadikan bedak dingin; 2). Hasil penelitian (pengujian) bedak dingin bengkoang afkir memberikan hasil yang hampir sama dengan bedak dingin menggunakan bengkoang segar ataupun bengkoang yang panen tua (5-5.5 bulan). Pati bengkoang afkir lebih tinggi dari bengkoang segar dan kadar air yang lebih rendah; dan 3). Anggota kelompok wanita tani Berkat Yakin dapat memahami dan mampu membuat bedak dingin bengkoang afkir yang baik untuk dapat disimpan dalam waktu yang lama.Kata kunci: Bengkoang afkir, Bedak dingin, Pengabdian, Kelompok wanita tani Utilization of Reject Bengkoang (Pachyrhizus Erosus) on Cold Mask Production in Berkat Yakin Farmer Women Group at Sub District of Batang Anai District of Padang PariamanABSTRACT: The aim of the community service were to reduce losses of bengkoang farmers and traders, and also to optimize bengkoang tubers farmer groups with increased value added through cold mask products. Bengkoang tubers that not sell anymore and considered reject where less feasible to be food products used to make the cold mask. This community service was done by stages: 1) Making and testing of cold mask bengkoang by using 3 (three) maturity types of bengkoang tuber. The observations included rendement, white color, pH, organoleptic test of mask, and irritation test; and 2) Counseling and demonstration / training of making cold mask in group of partner. In the counseling delivered: i) Bengkoang tuber potency, ii) Factors to consider in determining reject bengkoang , and 3) Factors considered in making good quality products and can be stored for long periods. The results of this community service activity were: 1) Reject bengkoang (unsold remnant) has the potential and can and safe to be used as cold mask; 2). The cold mask product of reject bengkoang had same quality with cold mask using fresh bengkoang or old harvested bengkoang (5-5.5 month). Starch of reject bengkoang higher than fresh bengkoang and it’s water content is lower; and 3). Members of farmer women group Berkat Yakin can understand and able to make cold mask from reject bengkoang and good to be stored for a long time.Keywords: Reject bengkoang, Cold mask, Community service, Farmer women group

The aim of the study was to reveal spatial-temporal distribution of the blue swimming crab(Portunus pelagicus Linnaeus 1758) in terms of size and gonad maturity stage of both male andfemale. Sampling of crab was conducted with a gill net from April 2013 until March 2014 inLasongko Bay. Of the whole population the mean size of male was smaller than that of females.Spatially smaller crabs (juveniles and young ones) inhabited mostly inner side of the bay, whilemedium size crabs occurred in the middle part of the bay. Big crabs were mostly found in theouter side of the bay. In terms of time, big sise of male and female crabs were collected inperiod of October to November and September to March, respectively. Small size of male andfemale occurred in February to September and in April, respectively. Related to gonad maturity,the sizes of both sexes with mature stages were variable. Ovigerous female (OF) was presencewidely in the bay, but the size of ovigerous females living in the shallow part of the bay wassmaller than those living in the deeper part. Keywords: blue swimming crab, size distribution, carapace width, spatial-temporal, gonadmaturity

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) is an important activity for helping Chief Information Executives (CIOs) and top management identify strategic applications and align Information Technology (IT) with business needs. Like all strategic planning, SISP requires measuring how well SISP is done and how planning is improving over time. The measurement of these intangibles is a complex exercise. There have been few efforts undertaken in the Information Systems (IS) literature to formally develop a model for assessing and measuring SISP efforts. In this study, two models were proposed: a five-stage SISP maturity model for defining SISP maturity and another one for assessing the degree of SISP maturity. The five SISP maturity levels were defined as: Rudimentary Planning, Ineffectual Planning, Attainable Planning, Sustainable Planning, and Adaptable Planning. The assessment model was structured as a third-order system, where eight first-order dimensions were termed as Form and Content, Collaboration, Policies, Stakeholders' Designation, Knowledge Bank, Technology, Time Dimension, and Viability. The first-order dimensions were grouped into three second-order constructs, namely Effectiveness, Efficiency and Manoeuvrability, which ultimately characterise the level of SISP success. This model was used to establish a theoretical benchmark for each SISP maturity level. To model the level of SISP maturity, an 'Integral Engineering' approach was established and the Analytic Network Process (ANP) theory was used. The study is a novel approach in using ANP to synthesize the measures of the various SISP constructs into a single overall measure of SISP maturity level. A survey was performed and data collected from 260 Australian organisations to examine the degree of SISP maturity and the relationships among SISP constructs. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to test the fit between the hypothesized model and the survey data The models were applied to the data collected and the findings suggested that the models fit the data well. While Effectiveness and Efficiency are well recognised planning constructs, Manoeuvrability as a measure of planning dynamics is not acknowledged in the literature as an equally important construct. This study confirmed a strong correlation between Manoeuvrability and SISP success and found it to be more important than the Efficiency construct. The empirical data did not confirm the existence of Rudimentary and Ineffectual planning levels of SISP maturity Australia-wide. SISP maturity in the majority of Australian organisations is at Sustainable and Attainable planning levels. A small percentage of the surveyed organisations have actually reached the highest planning level (Adaptable planning). The empirical data showed that current SISP is lacking strategic dimension and that the recently popularised one-year planning horizon may not be the best choice. Australian organisations did not consider the strategic relevance of IT as the key objective. IT/IS was seen as a business enabler, thus the strategic advan tage associated with IT came as a secondary objective.

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) maturity model is conceptualized as a five-stage maturity model. To identify the maturity stage of SISP, a model for assessment of SISP is developed. The development of these models is based on the ‘Integral Engineering’ approach and a unique implementation of the Analytical Network Process theory (ANP). The SISP assessment model is structured as a multi-order system. High level constructs are presented in this paper. A new approach to SISP offers improving our understanding of the concept of SISP, and a means of structured evaluation and reformulation of SISP. The SISP assessment model can be used as an early warning diagnostic tool to draw attention to particular aspects of the SISP that need improvement or to justify the undertaking of SISP.

In this paper Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) maturity models are empirically validated in Australian environment. A research instrument used to determine the degree of SISP maturity in Australian organisations is described. While empirical testing of a five-stage SISP model has only confirmed the existence of three levels of SISP maturity, statistical methods confirmed the adequacy of the establishment of the SISP assessment model as a third-order system. The study also opens the way for SISP thinking beyond the conventional approaches by introducing the Analytic Network Process and the Analytic Hierarchy Process methods to reduce complexity of SISP measurement in a natural and structural way. By using these methods, it was possible to obtain a single overall measure of SISP maturity, thus overcoming a problem of result synthesis measured by different scales.