{"id":538,"date":"2008-02-04T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T15:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=538"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:01:51","slug":"faculty-members-research-addresses-future-needs-of-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2008\/02\/faculty-members-research-addresses-future-needs-of-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty member's research addresses future needs of the workplace."},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow\u2019s businesses likely will eschew the vertical structural models of today in favor of assembling teams of experts for time-limited, project-specific collaborations, said\u00a0Irma Becerra-Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> (PhD \u201994), associate professor, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems in the College of Business Administration. In this new environment, how will businesses amass the human capital and expertise needed to meet their goals for productivity and efficiency?<\/p>\n

In \u201cSearching for Experts on the Web: A Review of Contemporary Expertise Locator Systems,\u201d Becerra-Fern\u00e1ndez discusses the potential for knowledge management systems (KMS) to help companies adapt to this reality. The paper\u2014published in the Association of Computer Management\u2019s\u00a0Transactions on Internet Technology<\/em>, a leading journal\u2014details her development of two prototypes of such systems for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).<\/p>\n

\u201cNASA asked me to design KMS that would identify experts within and outside their organization,\u201d Becerra-Fern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cSimilar systems existed but relied on individuals\u2019 self-assessments of their capabilities. NASA needed something more reliable.\u201d<\/p>\n

She constructed the first Searchable Answer Generating Environment (SAGE), using a searchable, online database of researchers in Florida universities with sponsored research projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cFunded researchers undergo a peer-review process that objectively establishes their expertise in certain areas,\u201d she said. \u201cI could guarantee NASA that those the system identified had been validated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second KMS she developed, Expert Seeker (ES), helps NASA pinpoint expertise across its centers, extracting information from NASA sources\u2014employee performance evaluations, skills assessments, etc.\u2014and combining it with data from employees\u2019 web sites to produce updated profiles.<\/p>\n

Expert locators can expedite businesses\u2019 access to critical expertise.<\/em><\/p>\n

Becerra-Fern\u00e1ndez envisions myriad scenarios in which expert locators could aid organizations and companies: a car company compiling an auto design team or a professional organization searching the country for conference speakers, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow\u2019s businesses likely will eschew the vertical structural models of today in favor of assembling teams of experts for time-limited, project-specific collaborations, said\u00a0Irma Becerra-Fern\u00e1ndez (PhD \u201994), associate professor, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems in the College of Business Administration. In this new environment, how will businesses amass the human capital and expertise needed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1517,2229],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24183,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/24183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}