Elements and Performance Criteria
- Provide direction for development of applied research strategy for ICT sustainability
- Provide vision for applied research strategy to meet sustainability requirements of identified research purpose
- Clarify and confirm applied research purpose and needs of target group
- Facilitate development of policies and procedures in relation to conducting applied research for enterprise
- Guide development of mechanisms for collecting and maintaining data in systematic manner
- Review factors affecting reliability and validity of data
- Review relevant research ethics and codes of conduct
- Control use of range of applied research techniques and resources
- Review and evaluate range of applied research methods and theories, and data collection techniques
- Guide selection of appropriate methods to gather and analyse data on sustainability relevant to research project
- Authorise access to appropriate sources of information relevant to research project
- Select sustainable management principles that will have most sustainable impact on project
- Ensure relevance of research through integrity of data collected and analysis tools used
- Promote findings
- Ensure accuracy of data and research details, and adherence to any legal requirements
- Evaluate relevance of collated and analysed data against original applied research strategy
- Evaluate impact of findings
- Recommend implementation strategies
- Ensure documentation and presentation of research findings is in clear and logical manner consistent with audience needs
- Identify need for and appropriate approach to further research
- Promote research findings and approach to further research