• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.21-39
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• 2013

As the utilization of information technology and the turbulence of technological change increase in organizations, the adoption of IT outsourcing also grows to manage IT resource more effectively and efficiently. In this new way of IT management technique, service level management(SLM) process becomes critical to derive success from the outsourcing in the view of end users in organization. Even though much of the research on service level management or agreement have been done during last decades, the performance of the service level management process have not been evaluated in terms of final objectives of the management efforts or success from the view of end-users. This study explores the relationship between SLM maturity and IT outsourcing success from the users' point of view by a analytical case study in four client organizations under an IT outsourcing vendor, which is a member company of a major Korean conglomerate. For setting up a model for the analysis, previous researches on service level management process maturity and information systems success are reviewed. In particular, information systems success from users' point of view are reviewed based the DeLone and McLean's study, which is argued and accepted as a comprehensively tested model of information systems success currently. The model proposed in this study argues that SLM process maturity influences information systems success, which is evaluated in terms of information quality, systems quality, service quality, and net effect proposed by DeLone and McLean. SLM process maturity can be measured in planning process, implementation process and operation and evaluation process. Instruments for measuring the factors in the proposed constructs of information systems success and SL management process maturity were collected from previous researches and evaluated for securing reliability and validity, utilizing appropriate statistical methods and pilot tests before exploring the case study. Four cases from four different companies under one vendor company were utilized for the analysis. All of the cases had been contracted in SLA(Service Level Agreement) and had implemented ITIL(IT Infrastructure Library), Six Sigma and BSC(Balanced Scored Card) methods since last several years, which means that all the client organizations pursued concerted efforts to acquire quality services from IT outsourcing from the organization and users' point of view. For comparing the differences among the four organizations in IT out-sourcing sucess, T-test and non-parametric analysis have been applied on the data set collected from the organization using survey instruments. The process maturities of planning and implementation phases of SLM are found not to influence on any dimensions of information systems success from users' point of view. It was found that the SLM maturity in the phase of operations and evaluation could influence systems quality only from users' view. This result seems to be quite against the arguments in IT outsourcing practices in the fields, which emphasize usually the importance of planning and implementation processes upfront in IT outsourcing projects. According to after-the-fact observation by an expert in an organization participating in the study, their needs and motivations for outsourcing contracts had been quite familiar already to the vendors as long-term partners under a same conglomerate, so that the maturity in the phases of planning and implementation seems not to be differentiating factors for the success of IT outsourcing. This study will be the foundation for the future research in the area of IT outsourcing management and success, in particular in the service level management. And also, it could guide managers in practice in IT outsourcing management to focus on service level management process in operation and evaluation stage especially for long-term outsourcing contracts under very unique context like Korean IT outsourcing projects. This study has some limitations in generalization because the sample size is small and the context itself is confined in an unique environment. For future exploration, survey based research could be designed and implemented.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2015

Purpose: Of late, the focus of service design is moving toward emphasizing customer satisfaction and taking users' experience more seriously. In addition to the change in perspective in service design, scholars in this area are paying more attention to service design methodology and process, as well as its theory and real-world case studies. In the case of medical space, there have been few studies in attempting to apply service design methods useful for deriving user-focused results. The author of this paper believes, however, case study-oriented approaches are more needed in this area rather than ones focusing on theoretical aspects. The author hopes thereby to expand the horizon to practical application of spatial design beyond service design methodology. Methods: In order to incorporate the strengths of service design methodology that can reflect a variety of user opinions, this study will introduce diverse tools in the framework of double diamond process. In addition, it will present field cases that successfully brought about best results in medical space design. It will end with summarizing the ideal process of medical space design which is reasonable and comprehensive. Results: Medical service encompasses preventive medicine as well as treatment of existing medical conditions. A study in establishing the platform of medical service design consists of a wide range of trend research, followed by the summary of two-matrix design classification based on results of the trend research. The draft of design process is divided into five stages composed of basic tools for establishing spatial flow lines created by matching service design tools with each stage of space design processes. In all this, most important elements to consider are communication and empathy. When service design is actually applied to space design, one can see that output has reflected the users' needs very well. The service design process for user-oriented medical space can thus be established by interactions on the final outcome and feedback on the results. Implications: One can see that the service design with the hospital at its center produces the result that encompasses the user's needs best. If the user-focused service design process for medical space can be extended to other space designs, the author believes that it would enhance the level of satisfaction for users and minimize trials and errors.

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2015

최근 많은 IT 기업들이 클라우드 서비스 시장에 진입하면서 출시되는 클라우드 서비스의 숫자가 크게 늘어나고 있다. 이러한 이유로 발생하는 클라우드 서비스 선택의 문제들을 해결하고, 기술적인 역량이 부족한 클라우드 서비스 사용자들의 서비스 초기화와 운용을 돕기 위해서 클라우드 서비스 중개업 회사들이 크게 주목받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 원 클라우드 서비스 제공자들과 클라우드 서비스 중개업 회사들 간의 협업을 대표적인 사례들인 국내의 NCloud24와 미국의 RightScale을 통해 보았다. 두 회사의 비즈니스 모델을 비즈니스 모델 캔버스를 사용하여 분석하였으며, 클라우드 서비스 중개업 회사들의 출현을 IaaS(Infrastructure-as-a-Service) 클라우드 서비스 회사들의 언번들링(Unbundling) 과정으로 해석하였다. 그리고 두 사례간의 차이점을 비교하고, 이를 바탕으로 향후 국내 클라우드 서비스 중개업이 나아가야 할 방향에 대하여 조망하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.267-276
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• 2018

본 연구는 해외 관광객들의 문화욕구를 분석하고 감천문화마을에서 제공할 수 있는 문화 서비스 요소를 조사하여 문화 서비스를 개선하는 구체적인 방책을 제시하고 궁극적으로 감천문화마을을 우수한 국제 관광 문화 브랜드를 육성하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 외국관광객들의 문화욕구가 무엇인지 알아보기 위해 도시재생이 진행된 곳 가운데 감천문화마을을 대상으로 사례 연구를 수행하였다. 연구수행 기간은 4개월이었으며 6개국 외국관광객을 대상으로 문헌조사, 인터뷰, 참여관찰을 통해 기초자료를 수집하였다. 자료 분석은 도시재생, 문화욕구, 서비스 디자인 이론을 토대로 내용분석을 실시하였다. 본 연구는 감천문화마을의 5가지 문화 서비스 목표를 제시하였다. 첫째, 현지 특색문화의 전시 및 홍보, 둘째, 문화상품의 개발과 판매, 셋째, 좋은 관광이미지 부각, 넷째, 특이한 먹거리 제공, 다섯째, 문화체험 최적화이다. 본 연구를 통해 감천문화마을에 대한 문화서비스 향상에 도움을 줄 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.179-191
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• 2010

Service identification and composition is one of the key characteristics for a successful Service-Oriented Computing, being receiving a lot of attention from researchers in recent years. In the Service-Oriented Analysis, the identification of business services has to be preceded before application services are identified. Most approaches addressing the derivation of business services are based on heuristic methods and human experts. The manual identification of business services is highly expensive and ambiguous task, and it may result in the service design with bad quality because of errors and misconception. Although a few of approaches of automatic service identification are proposed, most of them are in focus on technical architectures and application services. In this paper, we propose a model on the automatic identification of business services by horizontal and vertical service alignment using Enterprise Architecture as an ontology. We verify the effectiveness of the proposed model of business services identification through a case study based on Department of Defense Enterprise Architecture.

• 한국농촌건축학회논문집
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.87-94
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• 2007

The recent change of social environment has influence on the configuration of space for the community social welfare center. And so the relation of space and the service function required the change of spatial configuration. The social welfare center fills the role of family welfare, domiciliary care, community service etc. In such sense, this research explore the conditions of spatial configuration for the community welfare service unit of social welfare center in small city. For this study, it was investigated the space role and service function, the service program, the usage characteristics, the room satisfaction of social workers. In sum, the useful data were collected, analyzed, and colligated by case study. It could be used in the basic design criteria of community service unit for the social welfare center in small city.

• 한국비블리아학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.291-314
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• 2019

본 연구는 병원 내 도서관 이용자의 만족도를 제고시키고 향후 병원 내 도서관의 활성화 방안을 고찰하기 위해, 이용자와 비이용자를 대상으로 장서, 시설 및 환경, 직원, 서비스, 프로그램 등의 만족도 및 수요도를 조사하여, 이용자가 만족하는 도서관의 운영 방안을 모색하고자 하였다. 그 결과, 병원 내 도서관 활성화 방안으로 첫째, 최신성을 갖춘 다양한 주제의 장서 수 확대가 필요하다. 둘째, 병원 내 도서관의 직원 수확대가 시급하며, 이와 함께 의학 전문 지식 기반 의사소통 능력 향상 및 이용자 요구에 대한 신속한 대응 능력이 필요하다. 셋째, 시설 및 환경으로 병원 내 도서관 규모 확대와 편의시설 확대가 필요하다. 넷째, 서비스 질 향상과 다양한 서비스 제공이 필요하며, 이용자 대상에 따라 전문가는 주제검색서비스, 의학관련 정보원 제공 서비스를, 일반인(환자 및 보호자 등) 건강정보서비스 등을 제공해야 한다. 마지막으로 프로그램 운영을 위한 인프라 확대와 대상의 다양화, 프로그램 지속성 등이 확보되어야 한다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2008년도 정보통신설비 학술대회
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• pp.495-499
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• 2008

Last year UMTS (UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) 3G service started and these days 3 its service subscribers sharply increased. Now totally we have been increasing 13 million subscribers, every month 0.8 million people join 3G Service. MSC (Mobile Switching Center) is most important equipment in 3G system, so we call it 'core' network. Higher capacity MSC required to accommodating 1 million subscribers. It is very important whether MSC can accommodate maximum subscriber or not. So systematic analysis, reliable test results are required. This article presents WCDMA MSC performance evaluation case. This would be some direction for designing and developing some communication equipment. This Case Study demonstrates our MSC system performance.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.23-55
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• 2004

Interests on Service Level Agreement(SLA), an immanence operating tool for managing the level of the information system service objectively and qualitatively, were raised among IT outsourcing service providers, outsourcers, and operating departments. Yet, only a few domestic conglomerates adopted the SLA, and exact usage of the SLA is currently unknown. Because of the importance of the SLA between a service recipient and a service provider, the agreement is treated with high confidentiality. This raised the problems to organizations which are considering the SLA but lack in the concrete guide line to internalize SLA management process. This study provides the process model of implementation for SLA by conducting multiple case research. The sampled companies are currently implementing the SLA over 1 year of usage period. Factors were used to provide the managerial contribution for implementing the SLA. To analyse the case samples, in-depth interview method was conducted for each sampled company. As a result, if SLA can be used as an immanence managerial tool and can be actively implemented, it will be an strategic tool for various decision making in IT management practice with long term relationship, better shared partnership, and continuous service improvement.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.444-455
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• 2002

Purpose: This study was performed to develop the case management program that can provide the qualitative health care service to satisfy the increasing needs for health care elderly and prevent the increase in medical cost cased by prolonged and repetitive hospitalization. Method: The survey was completed as follows. First, 290 elderly patients who would be soon discharged in 4 hospitals are participated in the survey on needs of nursing care and case management programs. Second, 70 professionals working at 5 hospitals including doctors, nurses, social workers and so on are participated in the survey on the case management team operation. Result: Level of needs to Nursing care and case management programs showed so high. Professionals suggested on the case management team operation. Finally, based on the survey and literature review, the case management program was developed. Conclusion: In this study, the specific models for the five case management services were suggested. It is thought that the service provision by the case management team based on the multi-disciplinary case management program model suggested in this study would be suggested as a constituent of the effective health care delivery system for the hospitalized elderly patients.