scholarly journals Understanding Matchmakers’ Experiences, Principles and Practices of Assembling Innovation Teams

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami Koivunen ◽  
Ekaterina Olshannikova ◽  
Thomas Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Team Formation ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Organizational Environments ◽  
It Systems ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
Topic Interest ◽  
Innovation Projects ◽  
Support Team ◽  
Team Assembly ◽  
Innovation Teams

AbstractThe team composition of a project team is an essential determinant of the success of innovation projects that aim to produce novel solution ideas. Team assembly is essentially complex and sensitive decision-making, yet little supported by information technology (IT). In order to design appropriate digital tools for team assembly, and team formation more broadly, we call for profoundly understanding the practices and principles of matchmakers who manually assemble teams in specific contexts. This paper reports interviews with 13 expert matchmakers who are regularly assembling multidisciplinary innovation teams in various organizational environments in Finland. Based on qualitative analysis of their experiences, we provide insights into their established practices and principles in team assembly. We conceptualize and describe common tactical approaches on different typical levels of team assembly, including arranging approaches like “key-skills-first”, “generalist-first” and “topic-interest-first”, and balancing approaches like “equally-skilled-teams” and “high-expertise-teams”. The reported empirical insights can help to design IT systems that support team assembly according to different tactics.

Entrepreneurial Team Assembly

2019 ◽  
pp. 629-654
Author(s):  
Martin Ganco ◽  
Florence Honoré ◽  
Joseph Raffiee
Keyword(s):  
Team Member ◽  
Customer Relationships ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Assortative Matching ◽  
Resource Transfer ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Entrepreneurial Team ◽  
Team Assembly ◽  
Matching Models

This chapter provides a review of the scholarly literature on entrepreneurial teams and team formation. It pays special attention to two emerging areas of research that present many promising opportunities for future work. First, the chapter discusses the role of resource transfer in the context of start-up firms. It argues that an understanding of the antecedents and consequences of the founding process would be significantly advanced by more explicit theorizing and effort to empirically identify the specific types of resources entrepreneurial team members bring to start-up firms. It highlights one recent advancement in this space—work that has focused on a team’s ability to transfer customer and client relationships from the parent to start-up firms—and provides an outline of open research questions in this realm. Second, the chapter provides a primer on a recent methodological advancement—the use of two-sided assortative matching models—that can be applied to entrepreneurial team assembly to alleviate ongoing concerns that team formation is fundamentally an endogenous process. It demonstrates how these models can be applied using a wide variety of founder, cofounder, and early team member attributes, including an individual’s ability to transfer customer relationships. Importantly, it proposes that synergies emerging from the use of two-sided assortative matching models to study a broader set of team member attributes that include resource transfer will open promising new avenues for future research.

Research Design in Team-Based Qualitative Research

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Project Organization ◽  
Data Archiving ◽  
Project Management System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Start Up

In the introduction to this chapter and interwoven throughout the text is the message that qualitative research begins and ends in writing, which in this case means that research design is a beginning point for that writing. This chapter is composed of three major sections that illustrate how team start-up is critical to how the writing will proceed down the line. The first section—Team Formation—provides detailed information on issues to consider in establishing the team in a manner that will be most beneficial to the conduct of qualitative research. The second section—Research Design and Project Organization—discusses early writing tasks, establishing a project management system, and the importance of linking all of this to a data archiving plan. Digital tools are discussed in some depth. The third section—Caring: Internalized and Externalized—suggests a novel approach to the issue of ethics and team management.

Breastfeeding Support Team: When to Add a Chiropractor

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Joyce Miller
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Plan ◽  
Chiropractic Care ◽  
Vacuum Extraction ◽  
Breastfeeding Support ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
Musculoskeletal Problems ◽  
Oral Motor Function ◽  
Support Team ◽  
Primary Care Clinicians ◽  
Breastfeeding Problems

ObjectiveChiropractors are primary care clinicians with a musculoskeletal focus. As community-based practitioners, they are educated and available to treat the common problems of infancy, including sub-optimal breastfeeding. The objective of this investigation was to highlight some of the key skills and techniques used by chiropractors to assist the breastfeeding dyad.MethodsThe method of this paper was a brief review of the evidence for chiropractic care to improve breastfeeding problems and to highlight the biological plausibility for that evidence. The primary evidence was evaluated by expert opinion.ResultsMechanical forces during intrauterine life and during birth may negatively affect the oral-motor function of the newborn. Although it is difficult to establish exact reasons for these problems, assisted births such as forceps, vacuum extraction and cesarean section have been implicated. It is the job of the chiropractor to examine the infant to detect and diagnose musculoskeletal problems that may impair the infant's feeding efficiency. After making a diagnosis, a treatment plan of precise, gentle manipulation can help maximize the functional effectiveness of the muscles and joints involved in breastfeeding and comfort for the child.ConclusionThe chiropractor is one of many professionals poised to support and assist effective breastfeeding. A collaborative team can be helpful to gain early establishment and continuation of breastfeeding.

scholarly journals Digital skills for workplace mentors in construction sector apprenticeships (CONDAP)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Peñalvo-López ◽  
Javier Cárcel-Carrasco ◽  
Jaime Llinares-Millán ◽  
Manuel Valcuende-Payá
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Skills Shortage ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
Digital Skills

Employers in the construction industry are regularly and increasingly reporting hiring difficulties, since the sector is experiencing a skills shortage in spite of numerous apprenticeship schemes. According to the European Construction Sector Observatory, the main reason of this skills shortage is two-fold: a) the inadequacy of VET provision, and b) the low attractiveness of the sector to young people, further hindered by the perception of its limited capacity for innovation. Correspondingly, modernising construction apprenticeships is crucial for the development of key skills and the improvement of the employability of young construction workers. Training the trainers and mentors to become more engaged and involved in the design of apprenticeships and to introduce new methods, digital tools, and innovative content during their teaching practices is essential to make training more flexible and effective. Such an approach could effectively address the misalignment between VET offerings and the demand for skills and innovation in the construction sector. This article shows the focus of the European project CONDAP, whose purpose is to improve learning in the construction sector.

Beyond Digital Tools

2019 ◽  
pp. 132-142
Author(s):  
Khadijeh (Roya) Rouzbehani
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Online Health Information ◽  
Health It ◽  
The North ◽  
Subjective Satisfaction ◽  
It Systems ◽  
Value Based Care

As the North American healthcare system moves to online value-based care, the importance of engaging patients and families continues to intensify. However, simply engaging patients and families to improve their subjective satisfaction will not be enough for providers who want to maximize value. True optimization entails developing deep and long-term relationships with patients through understanding their needs. This chapter discusses the result of a research conducted in Canada. Questionnaires were given, and the collected data were analyzed using SPSS 20.0 statistical. The findings indicate that IT healthcare is rapidly growing. However, despite a significant number of initiatives in Canada related to online health information, lack of interoperability remains one of the major challenges in implementing successful health IT systems at this time.

Peering Beyond the Imperial Gaze: Using Digital Tools to Construct a Spatial History of Conquest

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy M. Mikecz
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Spanish Conquest ◽  
Digital Maps ◽  
Spatial History ◽  
Colonial Texts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spatial Narrative

Ethnohistorians and other scholars have long noted how European colonial texts often concealed the presence and participation of indigenous peoples in New World conquests. This scholarship has examined how European sources (both texts and maps) have denied indigenous history, omitted indigenous presence, elided indigenous agency, and ignored indigenous spaces all while exaggerating their own power and importance. These works provide examples of colonial authors performing these erasures, often as a means to dispossess. What they lack, however, is a systematic means of identifying, locating, and measuring these silences in space and time. This article proposes a spatial history methodology which can make visible, as well as measurable and quantifiable the ways in which indigenous people and spaces have been erased by colonial narratives. It presents two methods for doing this. First, narrative analysis and geovisualization are used to deconstruct the imperial histories found in colonial European sources. Second it combines text with maps to tell a new (spatial) narrative of conquest. This new narrative reconstructs indigenous activity through a variety of digital maps, including ‘mood maps’, indigenous activity maps, and maps of indigenous aid. The resulting spatial narrative shows the Spanish conquest of Peru was never inevitable and was dependent on the constant aid of immense numbers of indigenous people.

Content management of marine infrastructure innovation projects

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantin V. Koshkin ◽  
Aleksandr M. Voznyy ◽  
Irina V. Antykova
Keyword(s):  
Content Management ◽  
Innovation Projects

Customer Experience Maturity Models – Improving the Business Results

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 228
Author(s):  
Maria Enescu ◽  
Marian Enescu
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Proficiency Testing ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Business Results ◽  
Competency Evaluation

Customer experience maturity of any organization is important for its business results. This paper describes two kinds of maturity models, one based on competency evaluation of the employees on customer’s best applied practices, and the second on maturity of using digital tools to increase the customer good experience when working with the company. These approaches are useful when discuss the performance of enterprises providing products or services in the age of customer. The included case studies show the applicability of the procedures and open a way to be extended for proficiency testing workshops (for similar business) or in ranking the enterprises from the viewpoint of customer experience maturity.

Importance of Personal Data Protection Law for Commercial Air Transport

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Dawid Zadura
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
It Systems ◽  
Data Protection Law ◽  
The Law

Abstract In the review below the author presents a general overview of the selected contemporary legal issues related to the present growth of the aviation industry and the development of aviation technologies. The review is focused on the questions at the intersection of aviation law and personal data protection law. Massive processing of passenger data (Passenger Name Record, PNR) in IT systems is a daily activity for the contemporary aviation industry. Simultaneously, since the mid- 1990s we can observe the rapid growth of personal data protection law as a very new branch of the law. The importance of this new branch of the law for the aviation industry is however still questionable and unclear. This article includes the summary of the author’s own research conducted between 2011 and 2017, in particular his audits in LOT Polish Airlines (June 2011-April 2013) and Lublin Airport (July - September 2013) and the author’s analyses of public information shared by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), International Air Transport Association (IATA), Association of European Airlines (AEA), Civil Aviation Authority (ULC) and (GIODO). The purpose of the author’s research was to determine the applicability of the implementation of technical and organizational measures established by personal data protection law in aviation industry entities.

Reinforcing the cyber resilience of a credit institution in Industry 4.0

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 998-1012
Author(s):  
G.V. Fedotova ◽  
D.D. Tkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Credit Institution ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Banking Systems ◽  
It Systems ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
Banking Development

Subject. The article discusses the modeling of preventive protection of IT systems and evaluates their cyber resilience. Objectives. The study evaluates the existing threats and determines how informatization processes may unfold in the credit segment. Methods. Research is based on methods of regulatory and legislative analysis. We evaluate today’s public administration of cybersecurity in the financial and credit sector. To give a view of the existing situation and sum up the sector’s performance for the recent years, we performed the content analysis of statistics on data hacking and leakages. Results. The article highlights new trends in the financial and credit sector and the growing complexity of data security systems. As proposed by the Bank of Russia, the integration of smart technologies is showed to reinforce the cybersecurity of banking systems. Conclusions and Relevance. The informatization of all banking operation systems, growing complexity of procedures and work logs require new robust resources to be integrated into financial technologies. Stronger cybersecurity should lay a trend in the financial and credit sector in the nearest future. The findings can be used to flag strategic milestones of the banking development in the information-driven society.

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