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Information Technology Alignment in the Canadian Forces

2000· article· en· W1989206413 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l Administration · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicInformation Technology Governance and Strategy
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaSimon Fraser UniversityCanadian Armed Forces
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProfit (economics)Strategic planningPolitical scienceTerm (time)BusinessKnowledge managementOperations managementOperations researchProcess managementComputer scienceEngineeringMarketingEconomicsPhysics

Abstract

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Abstract This paper reports on a study of alignment between organizational and information technology (IT) objectives as found in the Canadian Forces at the base, or business unit, level. Eight Canadian Forces sites were examined to assess their current state of long‐ and short‐term alignment and to determine which factors influence this alignment. This study determined that parts of a model developed to explain alignment in the far‐profit sector were applicable to the Canadian Forces. One major difference stems from the historic practice of short‐term (year to year) planning horizons in the Forces. This has created a situation in which no long‐term alignment is present. Another, related difference was the lack of connection between business and IT planning due to the relatively immature business planning processes within the Forces. Based on this study, the authors recommend that the Canadian Forces pay more attention to the knowledge bases of people they hire and promote into IT positions and that they explicitly assist Administration branch personnel to gain more IT knowledge. We also suggest mechanisms to foster discussion of IT, such as steering groups and education sessions. In addition, if effective consideration of IT becomes a part of the business planning process, military organizations such as the Canadian Forces may begin to extract the full benefit and advantage from modern technological developments and procedures. Résumé Notre article rend compte d'une étude portant sur l'har‐monisation des objectifs organisationnels et des objectifs en matière de technologie de l'information au niveau de la base—l'unité fonctionnelle—dans les Forces cana‐diennes (FC). Nous avons étudié huit unités fonction‐nelles des FC afin de déterminer non seulement où en est l'harmonisation à court et à long terme, mais aussi quels en sont les facteurs déterminants. Notre étude vise à démontrer que certains éléments du modéle qui a été mis au point pour expliquer l'harmonisation des objectifs dans les corporations à but lucratif s'appliquent également aux FC. Par contre, la pratique séculaire de la planification à court terme (une année à la fois) qui caractérise les FC s'écarte sensiblement de ce modéle et n'a donc pas permis d'harmoniser les objectifs à long terme (en d'autres mots, de développer une vision commune dans le domaine de la technologie de l'information). En effet, il n'existe aucun lien entre la planification des opérations et la planification liée à la technologie de l'information à cause de l'état plus ou moins rudimentaire des méthodes de planification opérationnelle utilisées dans les FC. Les résultats de notre étude nous amènent à recom‐mander que les FC prětent une attention toute parti‐culière au tronc commun des connaìssances que doìvent avoir les personnes appelés—par voie de concours ou de promotions—à occuper des postes liés aux technologies de l'information. Nous recommandons également que les FC aident activement les employés de la Branche des services de l'administration à acquérir de plus amples connaissances dans le domaine de la technologie de l'information. Nous proposons par ailleurs des mécanismes susceptibles de favoriser les discussions dans ce domaine, notamment au moyen de groupes d'orientation et de séances d'information. En outre, si elles tenaient compte des technologies de l'information dans le proces‐sus de la planification opérationnelle, les organisations militaires telles que les Forces canadiennes pourraient commencer à tirer pleinement avantage des progrès techniques et des méthodes modernes.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.734
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0010.005
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.269
Teacher spread0.226 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it