Ali Sharafi
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The purpose of this research is to evaluate the applicability of knowledge management software (MTAShare). This research is applied and carried out using an evaluation method and a case study. The statistical population of this study consists of 28 users of knowledge management software (MTAShare) in ...
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The purpose of this research is to evaluate the applicability of knowledge management software (MTAShare). This research is applied and carried out using an evaluation method and a case study. The statistical population of this study consists of 28 users of knowledge management software (MTAShare) in the Shahr Bank and Future Development Consultants Company. The data collection tool is a questionnaire. ISO / IEC 9126 model has been used to evaluate the applicability of the software and SPSS software was used for data analysis.Findings showed that the most satisfaction of the users in Future Development Consultants Company are respectively from categories of Reliability, transferability, efficiency, reliability, functionality and usability, and the highest satisfaction of Bank Shahr users, respectively are reliability, transferability, usability, efficiency, reliability and functionality. Also, the results of t-test showed that the average difference between applicability categories of the software are meaningful and the level of applicability of knowledge management software (MTAShare) from the perspective of users is desirable and this software is appropriate for internalizing, externalizing, socializing and combining knowledge in organizations. Also it is appropriate to create, organize, share and use knowledge in the organizations. The results show that the use of knowledge management software’s to implement of knowledge management processes in organizations is necessary and useful.
Ali Jalali Dizajji; Mehdi Alipour Hafezi; Hossein Adabi Firozjah
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Purpose: The aim of this studies evaluating the usability of digital libraries in governmental universities at Tehran.Methodology: Evaluative Survey methodology was used for the survey applying measures of search, navigation, forms layout, contrast and scan ability, optimization (size & print), help, ...
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Purpose: The aim of this studies evaluating the usability of digital libraries in governmental universities at Tehran.Methodology: Evaluative Survey methodology was used for the survey applying measures of search, navigation, forms layout, contrast and scan ability, optimization (size & print), help, usage of windows and speed and errors through a questionnaire containing 36 questions. The research population included 124,800 undergraduate, Master and PhD students, from three governmental universities of Tehran, Sanati Sharif and Sanati Amirkabir. Stratified random sampling method was applied to select 378 students as a sample. For data analysis, SPSS software was used along with descriptive techniques as well as independent test and ANOVA where needed. Findings: The findings indicated that the criteria relating to the usability of digital libraries in the three Tehran universities evaluated to be in relatively good condition and there is no significant difference between the digital libraries for the usability criteria. Conclution: Survey results show that these libraries should be improved by managers, librarians, and experts for a user-friendly system, thereby improving the quality of related universities digital libraries.
