A web-enabled database for tracking the Personnel Qualifications of Information Professional Officers
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Authors
Aragon, Marc A.
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Boger, Dan C.
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2005-12
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Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School
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The US Navy's Information Professional Community currently qualifies its officers using a paperbased system. Candidates for the Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Qualifications use qualification books to attain knowledge and subsequently, prove possession of it. Once those books are filled with signatures, a board of Subject Matter Experts tests the candidate and verifies his mastery of that knowledge. Using Knowledge Value Added analysis and Business Process Reengineering, the return on knowledge (ROK) for the current Personnel Qualification System was estimated and improved processes were designed with the goal of maximizing ROK. First, the as-is ROK was estimated for the three processes and their various subprocesses. Then, a new to-be workflow for each of the three processes was designed emphasizing incremental improvements that could be implemented quickly. Finally, another workflow was designed, emphasizing radical, unlimited change. When it was proven that Web-enabling the PQS system indeed improves the knowledge-creating capability of these processes, a prototype Web-enabled database, called the Electronic Qualbook was developed as a demonstrator of the technologies and capabilities involved. This thesis includes appendices illustrating the design of the database schema and the Electronic Qualbook's Web interfaces. A third appendix lists the majority of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Active Server Pages (ASP) code integral to the Electronic Qualbook.
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Thesis
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Information Sciences (IS)
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Naval Postgraduate School
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xii, 131 p. : col. ill. ;
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.