| dc.description.abstract | Nowadays, Firms face huge competitions. The business models has replaces by 3 or 5 years. The profits have grown less unless the firm could change itself and follow the voices of markets and customers. A lot of firms use the data to understand, analyze, and predict the market in order to overcome the shortcomings, create the new business model to win the market.
Higher education, today, face the same situations, such as aging society with fewer children(less enrollments, less income), narrow the gap between learning the campus deliver and needs the firm ask for, and ssustainable operation. These issues need the scientific-evidences to find the way out. The board of directors, a president, other the administrator of academic affairs, student affairs, and research and development etc. need a systemic and global view to meet the challenges.
Institutional Research means that the campus shall build a data warehouse on which it could collect the structured and unstructured data, categorize the issues, analyze the correlation, warn the coming problems, and predict the learning pattern if possible. Meanwhile, the government could apply the useful and meaningful data to correct and modify the policy.
This study uses logit model to analyze the influential factors of purchasing the system or software from the market. It finds that independent variables, such as type, IR funds, the number of student, ratio of student to staff, degree of IR project owner, major section of president, achieve the level of significance. | en_US |