Knowledge and event leadership (Jane Tattersall)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Tattersall
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Music Festivals ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Business Setting ◽  
Technology Competition

The aim of this chapter is to explain the value and management of different types of knowledge in an events or music festival business setting, where its potential to maximise profit and help an organisation to outperform its rivals has received less attention in academic literature than other sectors such as manufacturing or information technology. Competition in the events and festivals sectors has increased considerably as more companies join the market, and the nature and scope of events has widened to satisfy consumer appetites for more diverse and engaging experiences. Leaders that nurture, recognise, manage and employ knowledge effectively are more likely to be innovative and successful in their sector. Throughout the chapter, knowledge is explored mostly through the lens of music festivals, although the points made are easily applicable to the wider events, tourism and leisure sectors.

scholarly journals Mortality at Music Festivals

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (s1) ◽  
pp. s151-s151
Author(s):  
Tracie Jones
Keyword(s):  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Music Festivals ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Mass Gatherings ◽  
Mortality Burden ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Media Reports

Introduction:Fatalities at music festivals are seldom reported in the academic literature, making it difficult to understand the full scope of the issue. This gap in our knowledge makes it challenging to develop strategies that might reduce the mortality burden. It is hypothesized that the number of fatalities is rising. Building on earlier research, two further years of data on mortality at music festivals was analyzed.Methods:Synthesis of grey/academic literature.Results:The grey literature for 2016-2017 documented a total of 201 deaths, including both traumatic (105; 52%) and non-traumatic (96; 48%) causes. Deaths resulted from acts of terror (n = 60), trampling (n = 13), motor-vehicle-related (n = 10), thermal injury (n = 6), shootings (n = 5), falls (n = 4), structural collapses (n = 3), miscellaneous trauma (n = 2), and assaults (n = 2). Non-traumatic deaths included overdoses/poisonings (n = 41), miscellaneous causes (n = 36), unknown/not reported (n = 18), and natural causes (n = 1). The majority of non-trauma-related deaths were related to overdose (44%). No academic literature documented fatalities that occurred while attending a music festival during 2016 or 2017.Discussion:Reports of fatalities at music festivals are increasingly common. However, the data for this manuscript were drawn primarily from media reports, a data source that is problematic. Currently no rigorous reporting system for fatalities exists. In the context of safety planning for mass gatherings, a standardized method of reporting fatalities would inform future planning and safety measures for festival attendees. The hypothesis that mortality rate reporting increased was substantiated. However, the proliferation of music festivals, the increase in attendance at these events, and the overall increase in internet usage may have influenced this outcome.

Managing the Information Technology

2009 ◽  
pp. 192-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huei-Chen Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Viable Alternative ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

The main points of this chapter are probing for the combination of information technology and virtual work, and how to change the distribution of different types of knowledge across individuals, teams, and even the organization. The discussion in the chapter will assess the dynamics between the individual, the organization, and information technology in the context of teams that vary in their virtualness. Information technology can make convenient spread of knowledge across the organization; even the point of making virtual teams a viable alternative to face-to-face work. However, unless managed, information technology may destabilize the relationship between organizations and their employees when it comes to the transform of knowledge. Therefore, this chapter advances theory and informs practice by illustrating the dynamics of knowledge development and transfer in more and less virtual teams.

Managing the Information Technology

2010 ◽  
pp. 1643-1662
Author(s):  
Huei-Chen Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Viable Alternative ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

The main points of this chapter are probing for the combination of information technology and virtual work, and how to change the distribution of different types of knowledge across individuals, teams, and even the organization. The discussion in the chapter will assess the dynamics between the individual, the organization, and information technology in the context of teams that vary in their virtualness. Information technology can make convenient spread of knowledge across the organization; even the point of making virtual teams a viable alternative to face-to-face work. However, unless managed, information technology may destabilize the relationship between organizations and their employees when it comes to the transform of knowledge. Therefore, this chapter advances theory and informs practice by illustrating the dynamics of knowledge development and transfer in more and less virtual teams.

scholarly journals The development of Database and Searching Strategy for Knitting Technology

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 79-84
Author(s):  
Huong Thi Minh Ho ◽  
Nguyen Dai Tran
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Specific Topic ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Searching Strategy ◽  
New Information ◽  
Different Types

Since Information Technology and Internet have been growing at an unprecedented rate; they become powerful tools that assist academic works more efficiently. Researching, teaching and learning information can be done easily with a vast library of knowledge provided by Internet. Nevertheless, information is a broad and implicit term, which can be referred to different types of knowledge that relate to each other. In order to access a specific topic effectively, the particular strategy of searching and managing information is required. Therefore, this research focuses on the construction of database for Knitting Technology and introduces new information software to facilitate the searching process.

scholarly journals Knowledge Mobilization in the Beaver Hills Biosphere, Alberta, Canada

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 424
Author(s):  
Clara-Jane Blye ◽  
Elizabeth A. Halpenny ◽  
Glen T. Hvenegaard ◽  
Dee Patriquin
Keyword(s):  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Loss Of Autonomy ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

This study explores how knowledge was and is mobilized to advance the objectives of the Beaver Hills Biosphere Reserve, located in Alberta, Canada. Established in 2016, a 12-year collaborative effort worked to establish the biosphere reserve and achieve formal UNESCO designation. Subsequent efforts to grow the newly established biosphere reserve have accelerated in recent years. Our study documented how different types of knowledge were accessed, created, curated, and shared between partners during these two time periods. Focus group interviews were conducted with 14 participants, who are affiliated with Beaver Hills Biosphere Reserve partner organizations, and revealed the following findings: (1) not all knowledge is equally valued or understood; (2) partnerships are highly valued, and were essential to successful knowledge mobilization, but were stronger among individuals rather than organizations; (3) fear of the loss of autonomy and potential complications due to the establishment of a biosphere reserve slowed the exchange of information and engagement by some regional actors; and (4) knowledge mobilization is and was impeded by staff and agency capacity, finances, and time scarcity. This was further complicated by entrenched norms of practice, existing successful working relationships impeding the development of new partnerships, and embracing alternative forms of knowledge.

scholarly journals Modeling intentional agency: a neo-Gricean framework

Synthese ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matti Sarkia
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Theoretical Modeling ◽  
Model Construction ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Scientific Model ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Intentional Agency

AbstractThis paper analyzes three contrasting strategies for modeling intentional agency in contemporary analytic philosophy of mind and action, and draws parallels between them and similar strategies of scientific model-construction. Gricean modeling involves identifying primitive building blocks of intentional agency, and building up from such building blocks to prototypically agential behaviors. Analogical modeling is based on picking out an exemplary type of intentional agency, which is used as a model for other agential types. Theoretical modeling involves reasoning about intentional agency in terms of some domain-general framework of lawlike regularities, which involves no detailed reference to particular building blocks or exemplars of intentional agency (although it may involve coarse-grained or heuristic reference to some of them). Given the contrasting procedural approaches that they employ and the different types of knowledge that they embody, the three strategies are argued to provide mutually complementary perspectives on intentional agency.

Curating the urban music festival: Festivalisation, the ‘shuffle’ logic, and digitally-shaped music consumption

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110086
Author(s):  
Paulo Nunes ◽  
Carolyn Birdsall
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Music Festivals ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Urban Music ◽  
Cultural Intermediaries

In recent years, music festivals have grown in significance within local cultural policy, city branding and tourism agendas. Taking the Mexefest festival in Lisbon as a case in point, this article asks how, in the digital streaming era, music festivals in urban environments are framed, curated and experienced. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, our analysis examines how music festival programmers curate the urban festival experience, for both locals and tourists alike. First, we identify the emergence of urban music festivals in recent decades, and how modern festival programmes have adopted the cultural technique of the ‘shuffle mode’ as an influential principle. Second, we investigate the work of festival programmers through the lens of ‘cultural intermediaries’, and ask how their programming strategies, particularly through digital mobile media (such as music playlists), contribute to an aestheticised experience of the city during the festival. Third, we focus on how the Mexefest festival events are staged in tandem with brand activation by sponsors like mobile phone company Vodafone and their radio station Vodafone FM. In doing so, we highlight the participation of festival-goers through their embodied engagements with digital media, music listening and urban space, and evaluate the heuristic value of ‘shuffle curation’ as a tool for the understanding of music festivals as a distinctly global and networked form of leisure consumption in urban culture.

scholarly journals Application of Biomimetics to Architectural and Urban Design: A Review across Scales

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 9813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuta Uchiyama ◽  
Eduardo Blanco ◽  
Ryo Kohsaka
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
Sustainable Society ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Shed Light

Application of biomimetics has expanded progressively to other fields in recent years, including urban and architectural design, scaling up from materials to a larger scale. Besides its contribution to design and functionality through a long evolutionary process, the philosophy of biomimetics contributes to a sustainable society at the conceptual level. The aim of this review is to shed light on trends in the application of biomimetics to architectural and urban design, in order to identify potential issues and successes resulting from implementation. In the application of biomimetics to architectural design, parts of individual “organisms”, including their form and surface structure, are frequently mimicked, whereas in urban design, on a larger scale, biomimetics is applied to mimic whole ecosystems. The overall trends of the reviewed research indicate future research necessity in the field of on biomimetic application in architectural and urban design, including Biophilia and Material. As for the scale of the applications, the urban-scale research is limited and it is a promising research which can facilitate the social implementation of biomimetics. As for facilitating methods of applications, it is instrumental to utilize different types of knowledge, such as traditional knowledge, and providing scientific clarification of functions and systems based on reviews. Thus, interdisciplinary research is required additionally to reach such goals.

Integrating Different Types of Knowledge for Digital Soil Mapping

2009 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 1682-1692 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Shi ◽  
R. Long ◽  
R. Dekett ◽  
J. Philippe
Keyword(s):  
Soil Mapping ◽  
Digital Soil Mapping ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Different Types
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