Search

One would not expect Niles West High School to be a model of sustainability. Located in Skokie, Illinois, the facility is more than 50 years old and at 612,000 square feet, it stands among the nation's largest high schools. Last winter, Niles West became one of the first five schools in the United States to achieve certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance (EB: O&M). A shaky economy has forced many school districts to tighten their purse strings. However, school administrators, teamed with an experienced consultant team, can still build a realistic plan for creating a sustainable model that improves operational performance, creates healthier learning environments, enhances curricula, and promotes environmental stewardship. Best of all, realizing all these benefits does not require constructing an expensive new school or knocking down a single wall. The Niles West story teaches a valuable lesson: if a massive 50-year-old high school building can achieve higher energy efficiency and save operational dollars, so can most other education facilities. Distilled from the Niles West experience, some of these considerations discussed in this paper will help districts make the most of what they have without spending a fortune.

This research study demonstrates analysis of key success factors for business intelligence systems implementation. The analysis is based on the review of a large amount of literature on this subject matter, industrial presentations, and on the processing of data obtained from interviews with several companies.

IT has made remarkable progress over the last years. Business intelligence systems have been developing as an important part of IT. Enterprises often fail to realize importance and necessity of implementation of business intelligence solutions. This paper will deal with the approach for assessment of business intelligence in enterprises, based on maturity models. The significance of this paper is in the development of new conceptual research models which do not apply the usual thesis on maturity models.

This research study demonstrates analysis of key success factors for business intelligence systems implementation. The analysis is based on the review of a large amount of literature on this subject matter, industrial presentations, and on the processing of data obtained from interviews with several companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

IT has made remarkable progress over the last years. Business intelligence systems have been developing as an important part of IT. Enterprises often fail to realize importance and necessity of implementation of business intelligence solutions. This paper will deal with approach for assessment of business intelligence in enterprises, based on maturity models. The significance of this paper is in development of new conceptual research models which do not apply the usually thesis on maturity models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]