Gatekeeping from Within

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-74
Author(s):  
Michael Sy Uy
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Program Directors ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
American Writer ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Dwight Macdonald

This chapter elucidates the previously opaque and little-understood roles of foundation and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) staff and officers, or “philanthropoids” as famous American writer Dwight Macdonald referred to them in his famous New Yorker article. These officers included program directors Walter Anderson (NEA) and Norman Lloyd (Rockefeller); vice president W. McNeil Lowry (Ford); and chairmen Roger Stevens (NEA) and Nancy Hanks (NEA). Foundation and NEA officers, as well as board of trustee members, were “interactional experts”—experts knowledgeable about a field, even if not actively contributing to new knowledge or self-identifying as experts—with tremendous influence in the operation of the system. They decided the kinds of outside voices that were heard in the decision-making process. They were gatekeepers, interlocutors, and translators between the outside consultants they recruited and grant applicants. They wielded the almighty red and black pens and their Rolodexes were a who’s who of asked experts.

scholarly journals Aplicação de Mineração de Dados para o Auxílio da Tomada de Decisão em Gestão de Pessoas

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Brati Favarin ◽  
Rafael Ballottin Martins
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Data Mining ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Software Company ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Resource Specialists

People are the foundation of organizations. For companies remain competitive, they need to develop and maintain their human resources. Professionals of the area, must rely on data to make their decisions, otherwise, it can generate bad decisions, taken only by intuition or experience. In this context, this project aimed to help the future decision making process made by human resource specialists of a People Management Software Company using the KDD process to generate new knowledge. In the data mining stage were used The Decision Tree, Neural Network, APRIORI and K-Means algorithms, generating patterns to be analysed with human resource specialists. Preliminary results demonstrate that it is possible to observe standards that classify employees as highly engaged, engaged, neutral and disengaged.

scholarly journals Creative Decision-Making Processes in Parametric Design

Buildings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 242
Author(s):  
Ju Hyun Lee ◽  
Michael J. Ostwald
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Protocol Analysis ◽  
Parametric Design ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Design Alternatives ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Decision-making in design is a cognitive process wherein alternatives are generated and evaluated, potentially enabling a more creative design process. In recent years parametric design’s heightened capacity for automatically generating and evaluating options has been celebrated by researchers and designers, but it has also placed an increased emphasis on decision-making activities which have not previously been studied in this context. This paper conducts the first in-depth protocol analysis of the decision-making process (DMP) in parametric design. Using empirical data, it identifies three parametric DMPs at the conceptual design stage: (i) “conclusive” DMP, (ii) “confirmative” DMP, and (iii) “simulative” DMP. The results of this research indicate that while conclusive DMP generates and evaluates design alternatives, its “forward incrementation” approach has only limited potential for creativity. The confirmative DMP develops three creative operation loops in parametric design, suggesting it may be an important creative process. The simulative DMP simultaneously addresses divergent and convergent thinking, also indicating potential creative operations and outcomes. The identification and analysis of these DMPs contributes to developing new knowledge about the processes used in parametric design and their capacity to support creative results.

scholarly journals Aspectos lógicos de la intuición: Aproximación análisis de decisión económica en contexto de globalización

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-144
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Economic Decision ◽  
Economic Decisions ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Toma De Decisiones ◽  
First Moment

Resumen: El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar la utilidad que puede representar el análisis de una decisión en el que se tengan en cuenta los aspectos lógicos de la intuición. Para ello, en un primer momento, definimos qué entendemos por decisióny por intuición,y qué identificamos como sus aspectos lógicos.Luego, presentamos un caso de toma de decisiones de un vicepresidente de una empresa de inversión en bolsa de valores, ubicando algunos aspectos importantes en relación con la globalización, tema central de estas jornadas. A continuación, resaltamos los elementos lógico-intuitivos que aparecen en el proceso decisorio del caso analizado. Finalmente, argumentamos qué papel cumple la intuición en este caso de toma de decisiones económicas en un contexto de globalización y qué implicaciones tiene esta propuesta de análisis sobre las decisiones existenciales que, en última instancia, puede terminar siendo cada una de las decisiones que tomamos. Palabras clave: Lógica, intuición, toma de decisiones, decisiones económicas, decisiones existenciales.Logical aspects of intuition: Approximation to the analysis of an economic decision in a context of globalization Abstract.-The objective of this article is to show the usefulness of the analysis of a decision that takes into account the logical aspects of intuition. To do that, at a first moment, we define what we understand by decision and intuition, and what we identify as its logical aspects. Then, we present a case of decision making of a vice president of an investment company in stock market, placing some important aspects in relation to globalization, the central theme of these days. Next, we highlight the logical-intuitive elements that appear in the decision-making process of the analyzed case. Finally, we argue what role intuition plays in this case of economic decision making in a context of globalization and what implications this proposal of analysis has on the existential decisions that, in the end, can end up being each of the decisions we make. Keywords:Logic, intuition, decision making, economic decisions, existential decisions.

scholarly journals Transdisciplinary Approach for Building Societal Resilience to Disasters – Interpreting the Processes of Creating New Knowledge in the Context of Knowledge Management –

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 868-877
Author(s):  
Senro Kuraoka ◽  
Youb Raj Paudyal ◽  
Khamarrul Azahari Razak ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Technical Committee ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
And Training

Past disasters may indicate that scientific knowledge is not necessarily incorporated in the decision-making process of disaster risk reduction (DRR). The 21st Technical Committee (TC21) of the Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC) was established in 2016 to promote transdisciplinary approach (TDA). The TDA seeks for systematic organizational structures and processes that make all disciplines and sectors work together to make scientific knowledge become integral part of the decision-making process. The TC21 performed a session at the 2019 World Bosai Forum held in Sendai city, Japan. The presentations commonly touched on the issues of how to create and transfer new knowledge of DRR through the TDA. As a follow-up, the authors reviewed the presentations and studied the processes of creating new knowledge in terms of “modes and cycles of knowledge.” Two novel cases are presented in this article, for which experts of natural and social sciences teamed up to engage with the local communities to recover and/or enhance resilience. This article gives two main takeaways. First, one of the important commonalities of these two cases is the processes of externalizing the tacit knowledge, which refers to unrecorded experiences, feelings, and insight. Externalization is the crucial process without which the combination with the contemporary explicit knowledge would be difficult. Second, the new knowledge itself does not implement DRR. We need the know-hows to turn the new knowledge into action of DRR. A broad range of know-hows are required, such as establishing the organizational structures, funding schemes, and training programs. The future challenge, therefore, is to design a TDA that will integrate and implement these know-hows.

scholarly journals Banff 1996

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Pratley
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
The South ◽  
General Manager ◽  
Outstanding Achievement ◽  
Achievement Award ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Telecommunications Services ◽  
To Receive

THE DOMINANT PERSONALITIES at the 17th Banff TV Festival this year were, not surprisingly, British and American: Melvyn Bragg of the South Bank Show and Steven Bochco, writer and producer; the credits of these two creative celebrities hardly need repeating here. The most impressive presence, in numbers and intelligence, was the delegation from Boston's WGBH, the station chosen by the Festival to receive its Outstanding Achievement Award. With President and General Manager, Henry Becton Jr.; Vice-President for National Programming, Peter McGhee; and Vice-President for Special Telecommunications Services, Brigid Sullivan; and their associates including Rebecca Eaton, producer of Mystery and Masterpiece Theatre, here was a group of broadcasters dedicated to the principles of Public Broadcasting and fighting determinedly to maintain their place on U.S. television screens despite the reduction in funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. "When we say" remarked Henry Becton, "that if PBS doesn't show most...

The Realization of Engineered Systems With Considerations of Complexity

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren F. Smith ◽  
Jelena Milisavljevic ◽  
Maryam Sabeghi ◽  
Janet K. Allen ◽  
Farrokh Mistree
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Decision Maker ◽  
Solution Space ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Relevant Model ◽  
Thermal Plant ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Engineered Systems

This paper is the product of thoughts for exploring the model-based realization of engineered systems. The question addressed is that given a relevant model, what new knowledge, understanding of emergent properties and insights can be gained by exercising the model? From the perspective that the activity of designing is a decision making process, it follows that better decisions will be made when a decision maker is better informed about the available choices and the ramification of these choices. In the context of an example of designing a small thermal plant, a description of an approach to exploring the solution space in the process of designing complex systems and uncovering emergent properties is presented.

LOGISTICS PROJECT PLANNING UNDER CONDITIONS OF RISK AND UNCERTAINTY

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwona Pisz ◽  
Iwona Łapuńka
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Incomplete Information ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Risk And Uncertainty ◽  
New Knowledge

The paper discusses highly important issues related to the practice of logistics project planning under conditions of certainty, risk, and uncertainty. This process requires the use of a variety of planning information (complete or incomplete, express or implied) as well as the generation of new knowledge. The decision-making process takes place in a deterministic or an nondeterministic situation; the former involves complete information (i.e., certainty) and the latter incomplete information (i.e., risk and uncertainty). Becoming acquainted with the discussed issues provides valuable practical knowledge that may be helpful in making important decisions when formulating concepts and models of logistics projects planning undertaken by a single enterprise or a supply chain.

AAC Decision-Making and Mobile Technology: Points to Ponder

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Abbott ◽  
Debby McBride
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Ipod Touch ◽  
Feature Match

The purpose of this article is to outline a decision-making process and highlight which portions of the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) evaluation process deserve special attention when deciding which features are required for a communication system in order to provide optimal benefit for the user. The clinician then will be able to use a feature-match approach as part of the decision-making process to determine whether mobile technology or a dedicated device is the best choice for communication. The term mobile technology will be used to describe off-the-shelf, commercially available, tablet-style devices like an iPhone®, iPod Touch®, iPad®, and Android® or Windows® tablet.

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