CONTINGENT ORGANISING FOR GAMES OF INNOVATION: DIVERSE CONFIGURATIONS OF CORE PRINCIPLES FOR INNOVATIVE ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 115-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEBORAH DOUGHERTY
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Organisational Design ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Innovative Work ◽  
Over Time

This paper leverages current thinking on organising for innovation to create new ideas on contingent organising for innovation. I argue that all successfully innovative organisations need to be built on the same higher-level principles of innovative organising, but the relative emphasis on which principles and how they are implemented will vary by game of innovation. I focus on four organising activities: defining the work that will be done, differentiating that work into coherent units, integrating those differentiated units, and controlling the whole system over time. I synthesise the literature into four principles of innovative organising: defining innovative work as professional practice; differentiating innovative work into domains of practice; integrating these domains via strategic sensemaking, and controlling the work with social rules. Finally, particular configurations of these principles are developed for various MINE games of innovation, based on the dynamics of each game.

Facilitating the Self-Directed Learning Efforts of Professional Meteorologists

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (12) ◽  
pp. 2519-2527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne S. LaDue ◽  
Ariel E. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
The Self ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Climate Forecasting ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Over Time

AbstractProfessional meteorologists gain a great deal of knowledge through formal education, but two factors require ongoing learning throughout a career: professionals must apply their learning to the specific subdiscipline they practice, and the knowledge and technology they rely on becomes outdated over time. It is thus inherent in professional practice that much of the learning is more or less self-directed. While these principles apply to any aspect of meteorology, this paper applies concepts to weather and climate forecasting, for which a range of resources, from many to few, for learning exist. No matter what the subdiscipline, the responsibility for identifying and pursuing opportunities for professional, lifelong learning falls to the members of the subdiscipline. Thus, it is critical that meteorologists periodically assess their ongoing learning needs and develop the ability to reflectively practice. The construct of self-directed learning and how it has been implemented in similar professions provide visions for how individual meteorologists can pursue—and how the profession can facilitate—the ongoing, self-directed learning efforts of meteorologists.

Reporting Australian Television News: Professional Practice in the Analogue-to-Digital Transition

2006 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Alysen
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Television News ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Digital Transition ◽  
The One ◽  
Analogue To Digital ◽  
Journalistic Practice ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

In the 50 years of Australian television, the one constant in the nightly schedule has been the news. The story of television news is usually told from the perspective of the news consumer. Even when the set of professional practices that produce news is analysed, the frame used is usually that from in front of the box rather than behind the camera and microphone. The result is that the process of reporting and the way it has changed over time has been given less attention than it deserves. Now, as the medium continues the transition from analogue to digital, Australian television news reporting is undergoing a series of shifts — in its methods of delivery and the tasks that reporters perform. These changes affect the nature of journalistic practice, which in turn bears on the product audiences receive.

Public Sector Organizations

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dick Grote
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
City Governments ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Organizations ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Innovative Work ◽  
Parole Boards

Who's coming up with the best new ideas for managing people's performance on the job? Surprisingly, some of the most innovative work in developing new approaches to performance management is being done these days by organizations in the public sector. When executives look for breakthrough thinking and best practices, their best sources frequently turn out to be state agencies and city governments, federal bureaucracies, and your local pardons and parole boards.

scholarly journals Progression of mild cognitive impairment to dementia: a challenge to current thinking

2006 ◽  
Vol 189 (5) ◽  
pp. 399-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Busse ◽  
Matthias C. Angermeyer ◽  
Steffi G. Riedel-Heller
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Neuropsychological Testing ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Conversion Rates ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Long Term Studies

BackgroundStudies of conversion from mild cognitive impairment to dementia suggest a linear progression over time. Conversion rates during lifetime may extend to 80–90%.AimsThis study examines the time-dependent evolution from mild cognitive impairment to dementia. Current assumptions regarding yearly and lifetime conversion rates are challenged.MethodA community sample of 1045 dementia-free individuals aged 75 years and over was examined by neuropsychological testing based on 6 years of observation.ResultsApproximately 60–65% of people with mild cognitive impairment develop clinical dementia during their life. Progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia appears to be time dependent, occurring primarily within the initial 18 months.ConclusionsFurther long-term studies are needed to examine the time-dependent evolution from mild cognitive impairment to dementia and to establish age-specific conversion rates during lifetime.

Identified Employee Surveys: Potential Promise, Perils, and Professional Practice Guidelines

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lise M. Saari ◽  
Charles A. Scherbaum
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
Employee Attitudes ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Survey Respondent ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Linkage Analyses ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time

Over the years, employee opinion surveys have evolved in their use and how they are conducted. A major advancement has been the use of linkage analyses, whereby employee attitudes at a unit level are statistically related to other important organizational outcomes. A more recent development has been linkage analyses at the individual level and over time. In order to carry out these types of analyses, “identified surveys” must be used—surveys that retain identifying information on each survey respondent in order to link with other individual-level variables over time. The purpose of this article is to open up a discussion on identified surveys, describe under what circumstances they may be uniquely beneficial, and highlight potential concerns with them. We close with proposed guidelines for professional practice and recommend that our profession have a point of view on identified surveys for ourselves and to advise others.

scholarly journals Contextual polarity and influence mining in online social networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Alzahrani ◽  
Subrata Acharya ◽  
Philippe Duverger ◽  
Nam P. Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Innovation Strategy ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

AbstractCrowdsourcing is an emerging tool for collaboration and innovation platforms. Recently, crowdsourcing platforms have become a vital tool for firms to generate new ideas, especially large firms such as Dell, Microsoft, and Starbucks, Crowdsourcing provides firms with multiple advantages, notably, rapid solutions, cost savings, and a variety of novel ideas that represent the diversity inherent within a crowd. The literature on crowdsourcing is limited to empirical evidence of the advantage of crowdsourcing for businesses as an innovation strategy. In this study, Starbucks’ crowdsourcing platform, Ideas Starbucks, is examined, with three objectives: first, to determine crowdsourcing participants’ perception of the company by crowdsourcing participants when generating ideas on the platform. The second objective is to map users into a community structure to identify those more likely to produce ideas; the most promising users are grouped into the communities more likely to generate the best ideas. The third is to study the relationship between the users’ ideas’ sentiment scores and the frequency of discussions among crowdsourcing users. The results indicate that sentiment and emotion scores can be used to visualize the social interaction narrative over time. They also suggest that the fast greedy algorithm is the one best suited for community structure with a modularity on agreeable ideas of 0.53 and 8 significant communities using sentiment scores as edge weights. For disagreeable ideas, the modularity is 0.47 with 8 significant communities without edge weights. There is also a statistically significant quadratic relationship between the sentiments scores and the number of conversations between users.

scholarly journals Tanatology: Historical-philosophical approach to death in the context of legal medicine and law

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-55
Author(s):  
Antonio Macena de Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Legal Medicine ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
Academic Training ◽  
The West ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Family ◽  
Review Study ◽  
Over Time

Forensic Tanatology integrates one of the branches of Legal Medicine related to scientific aspects with death, its signs and its nature. Although death being a natural phenomenon has implications in the legal and social sphere, but it has always been an enigma in Western culture. The objective is to discuss the theme tanatology under three points of reflection: cut out from the perspective of the philosophers of antiquity who worked most on this theme, the vision of death in the West narrated by the French historian Philippe Ariés and how Legal Medicine and Law has worked this theme in professional practice. This is a review study of the specialized literature. Being demonstrated as Medical-Legal and Law Tanatology contribute to these reflections, as well as in the definition and concept of death, however, it was the philosophers from Plato (428-347 a. C.) and historians that this theme has been addressed in several respects. It is concluded that the way in which to deal with this theme has been transformed over time. Today, the phenomenon of death is medicalized, hospitalized, distanced from the family, society and even academic training. Although Legal Medicine and Law are intrinsically associated disciplines, the theme is still far from both teaching and professional practice. Evidence demonstrating the need to rediscuss the theme in the training of medical and law professionals.

scholarly journals INNOVATION OF NATURAL MOSQUITO REPELLENT PRODUCTS (AMUK CANDLE) AS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS

ICCD ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Harefan Arief ◽  
Eko Tama Putra Saratian ◽  
Dudi Permana ◽  
Mochamad Soelton ◽  
Fatchur Rohman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Main Stage ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Mosquito Repellent ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Over Time

Often the word innovation is associated with the word invention. According to Drucker (1985), Innovation is a special tool in exploiting changes in various businesses and services. He added, this innovation can be presented as a discipline that can be learned and practiced. In other words, innovation is also said to be "an idea, practice, or object that is considered new by other individuals or adoption units" (Daugherty et al., 2011; Grawe, 2009; Rogers, 1995). Meanwhile, Tidd, Bessant, Pavitt, and Wiley (1998) define innovation as the process of turning opportunities into fresh ideas and being widely used in practice. Global Entrepreneurion Monitor (GEM), reports that entrepreneurship is now the main stage in the arena of public policy in most countries. As social, environmental and economic challenges face humanity, many people believe that business has an important role to play in transforming society in the future . Entrepreneurs are considered to have a special role in innovation and bringing social change, traditionally from a macroeconomic perspective (Bosma et al, 2012). The field of innovation is very broad. The ability to develop new ideas and innovations has become a priority for many organizations. Intense global competition and technological developments have made innovation a reality a source of competitive advantage. The ability of an entrepreneur to put forward the idea of a higher value can be a source of competitive advantage. Entrepreneur that can create competitive advantage are able to increase their activities with the experience gained, by the knowledge gained, over time, it may be a source of distinctive competence in the market.

scholarly journals Use of mental health legislation in a regional adolescent unit

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 711-713
Author(s):  
Judith E. Nicholls ◽  
Carol A. Fernandez ◽  
Andrew F. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Conversion Rates ◽  
Health Legislation ◽  
Over Time

The use of mental health legislation in a Regional Adolescent Unit over a 10 year period was reviewed. There was a trend of increasing use over time. This was thought to reflect changes in attitude and professional practice subsequent to the introduction of the Children Act 1989. Conversion rates of Section 5(2) were high and practitioners with appropriate training were involved in the majority of sections, indicating good practice.

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