Co-creating a visual thesaurus for the role of design thinking in management decision making

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angele BEAUSOLEIL ◽  
Moura QUAYLE
Keyword(s):  
Concept Maps ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Visual Thinking ◽  
Management Domain ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Visual Thesaurus

The workshop will engage participants to co-create concept maps and a visual thesaurus associated with ‘design thinking’. For design researchers, scholars and practitioners this workshop aims to expose the epistemological challenges and opportunities associated with ‘design thinking’ in management and leadership contexts. Concept mapping is a tool and technique that aims to enable visual thinking and knowledge organization skills. It offers a way to externalize understanding of complex topics (i.e. design thinking) in terms of both intra- and inter-personal relationships (i.e. within the management domain). A visual thesaurus displays semantic connections using pictures or images, not words. It aids in recognizing visually similar events or visual synonyms. Workshop participants will be guided through a series of visual thinking and design techniques to develop concept maps and a visual thesaurus for ‘design thinking’ and design-related terminologies within the management discourse. The outputs generated from the workshop will reflect a multidisciplinary understanding of the subject for knowledge translation and identify future research goals

scholarly journals Leveraging User Experience to Improve Video Consultations in a Cardiology Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Initial Insights (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter Vandekerckhove ◽  
Yves Vandekerckhove ◽  
Rene Tavernier ◽  
Kelly De Jaegher ◽  
Marleen de Mul
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Video Communication ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Continuing Care ◽  
Cardiology Department ◽  
Video Consultation ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Communication Software ◽  
Implanted Devices

UNSTRUCTURED During the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, cardiologists have attempted to minimize risks to their patients by using telehealth to provide continuing care. Rapid implementation of video consultations in outpatient clinics for patients with heart disease can be challenging. We employed a design thinking tool called a customer journey to explore challenges and opportunities when using video communication software in the cardiology department of a regional hospital. Interviews were conducted with 5 patients with implanted devices, a nurse, an information technology manager and two cardiologists. Three lessons were identified based on these challenges and opportunities. Attention should be given to the ease of use of the technology, the meeting features, and the establishment of the connection between the cardiologist and the patient. Further, facilitating the role of an assistant (or virtual assistant) with the video consultation software who can manage the telehealth process may improve the success of video consultations. Employing design thinking to implement video consultations in cardiology and to further implement telehealth is crucial to build a resilient health care system that can address urgent needs beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

Linking school-based management and school effectiveness: The influence of self-based management, motivation and effectiveness in the Arab education system in Israel

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-204
Author(s):  
Khalid Arar ◽  
Muhammed Abu Nasra
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
School Effectiveness ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Future Research ◽  
School Based ◽  
Management Personnel ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
School Based Management ◽  
Arab Education

Using a sample of 300 Arab teachers in Israel, we developed a model to analyze how school-based management directly and indirectly (through motivation) affects school effectiveness. The results show that there is a positive relationship between all dimensions of self-management (decision-making, resource and personnel management, availability of resources, and organizational structure) and school effectiveness. In addition, the results show full mediation between resource management, personnel and organizational structure, and school effectiveness through motivation. Theoretical contributions and managerial implications as well as directions for future research are presented.

Economics of Farm Management

2018 ◽  
pp. 56-72
Keyword(s):  
Production Management ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Investment Opportunities ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Factors Of Production ◽  
Profit Maximisation

The concept of farm management can be defined as the organization of land, labour, capital, and management (decision-making and risk-taking) in operating a farm enterprise to meet the stated objectives including profit maximisation. Of the four fundamental factors of production, management stands out in its onerous role in organizing all the others in meeting the defined objectives of the enterprise. Onerous as the role of management as a factor of production is, it cannot work in isolation of the others. There is therefore a need to discuss farm management as a concept with due focus on the notion of entrepreneurial spirit and at the same time bring out the peculiar features of the factors of production in working together to maintain a going concern. It is against this background that this chapter discusses the concept of farm management. The specific objectives of the chapter include defining the meaning and scope of farm management, highlighting the resources available to the farm enterprise, highlighting the relevance of entrepreneurship behaviour and entrepreneurship spirit in growing an enterprise, and highlighting the importance of farm management. The methodology adopted is descriptive. It is argued in this chapter that present and prospective farm managers should essentially have entrepreneurial spirit with which to start, grow, and expand their enterprise in line with the objective of the enterprise in question. Searching out investment opportunities and effectively ploughing back profits on existing or new investments for expansion enterprise is one of the decisions of management.

scholarly journals Economics of Digital Ecosystems

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Yevgenievich Barykin ◽  
Irina Vasilievna Kapustina ◽  
Tatiana Viktorovna Kirillova ◽  
Vladimir Konstantinovich Yadykin ◽  
Yevgenii Aleksandrovich Konnikov
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Role ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Digital Ecosystems ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Digital Ecosystem ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Hierarchical Communication ◽  
Definition Of

This paper examines a new approach to defining digital ecosystems. Within the digital economy of ecosystems, competition is eliminated, and organizations form unions and alliances in order to work together and cooperate to reach a set goal. This means a digital ecosystem can be viewed as a complex environment in which organizations without any hard ties operate. Digital ecosystems differ from traditional ecosystems in many ways. The business organization of the latter is based on management decision making by people. This paper presents theoretical foundations for developing digital ecosystems based on a literary review. Based on the logic of scientific search using the keywords “ecosystem” and “biological ecosystem”, the commonality of the properties of the digital ecosystem and the biological ecosystem is shown. The aim of the study is to identify common characteristics in biological, economic and digital ecosystems in order to substantiate the possibility of using the same approaches for research and modeling of such systems. A definition of a digital ecosystem is proposed by the authors which points out the main features of this kind of system and highlights the dominant role of modern digital technologies in the formation of the digital ecosystem. The paper looks at the distinctive features of digital ecosystems and characteristics similar to the characteristics of biological ecosystems, such as ecosystem participants, presence of limiting impacts, lack of vertical hierarchical communication. The developed model can be used to model digital ecosystems. The authors believe that the emergence of a trend in the transformation of ecosystems in the direction of expanding the collaboration of economic agents is reasonable. At the same time, digitalization helps to replace competition with collaboration. The paper finishes with a discussion of the obtained results and a plan for further research.

scholarly journals The Role of Traditional Knowledge in Coastal Adaptation Priorities: The Pamunkey Indian Reservation

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 3548
Author(s):  
Nicole S. Hutton ◽  
Thomas R. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Management Decision ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Screening Process ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Federal Assistance ◽  
Tribal Council

Coastal reservations are increasingly vulnerable to hazards exacerbated by climate change. Resources for restoration projects are limited. Storm surge, storms, tidal flooding, and erosion endanger artifacts and limit livelihoods of tribes in coastal Virginia. GIS offers a platform to increase communication between scientists, planners, and indigenous groups. The Pamunkey Indian Tribe engaged in a participatory mapping exercise to assess the role of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in coastal management decision-making and its capacity to address flooding. Priorities and strategies were spatially referenced using maps of potential sea level rise for 2040, 2060, and 2080, input into a resilience matrix to identify benchmarks for each phase of disaster resilience building, and contextualized with oral histories. Results highlight increased immediacy to protect housing and heritage sites along the shoreline as well as maintain access to the Reservation. Preferences toward structural solutions guided by and facilitating TEK options were expressed. Additional community capacities, tribal council support, federal assistance, impact assessments, and coordination would facilitate risk reduction project implementation. The screening process integrates TEK with planning and is transferable to neighboring tribes.

scholarly journals Upframing Service Design and Innovation for Research Impact

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Patrício ◽  
Anders Gustafsson ◽  
Raymond Fisk
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Research Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Societal Actors

Service design and innovation are receiving greater attention from the service research community because they play crucial roles in creating new forms of value cocreation with customers, organizations, and societal actors in general. Service innovation involves a new process or service offering that creates value for one or more actors in a service network. Service design brings new service ideas to life through a human-centered and holistic design thinking approach. However, service design and innovation build on dispersed multidisciplinary contributions that are still poorly understood. The special issue that follows offers important contributions through the examination of service design and innovation literature, the links between service design and innovation, the role of customers in service design and innovation, and service design and innovation for well-being. Building on these contributions, this article develops a future research agenda in three areas: (1) reinforcing and expanding the foundations of service design and innovation by integrating multiple perspectives and methods; (2) advancing service design and innovation by improving the connection between the two areas, deepening actor involvement, and leveraging the role of technology; and (3) upframing service design and innovation to strengthen research impact by innovating complex value networks and service ecosystems and by building a cornerstone for transformative service research.

scholarly journals Maéva Clément and Eric Sangar (Eds): Researching Emotions in International Relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
Martin Petlach
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Social Scientific

This edited volume is the first to discuss the methodological implications of the ‘emotional turn’ in International Relations. While emotions have become of increasing interest to IR theory, methodological challenges have yet to receive proper attention. Acknowledging the pluralityof ontological positions, concepts and theories about the role of emotions in world politics, this volume presents and discusses various ways to research emotions empirically. Based on concrete research projects, the chapters demonstrate how social-scientific and humanitiesoriented methodological approaches can be successfully adapted to the study of emotions in IR. The volume covers a diverse set of both well-established and innovative methods, including discourse analysis, ethnography, narrative, and visual analysis. Through a hands-on approach, each chapter sheds light on practical challenges and opportunities, as well as lessons learnt for future research. The volume is an invaluable resource for advanced graduate and postgraduate students as well as scholars interested in developing their own empirical research on the role of emotions.

scholarly journals Audit Internal dan Efektivitas Pengendalian Intern Penjualan

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Radhi Abdul Halim Rachmat ◽  
Ivan Gumilar Sambas Putra ◽  
Ii Halilah
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Internal Auditors ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Operational Activities

Sales activity plays an important role and needs to be controlled because it affects to the revenue. Sales control requires sales analysis that reveal undesirable developments need to be corrected. Internal Auditors who are not directly involved in operational activities can, therefore, assess all activities. Internal Auditors also provides objective information regarding sales data that will be the basis for management decision making. The purpose of this study is to: determine whether the internal audit on sales activities conducted by the company has been done adequately; determine whether the internal control over sales has been implemented effectively; and determine the role of internal audit in supporting the effectiveness of internal control sales. The authors perform hypothesis testing by doing descriptive analysis and statistical analysis. Based on the results, the effectiveness of internal control can be explained by the Internal Audit role of 63.2%.

scholarly journals Optimization of the Process of Selection of Software in the Organization

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
A. Yu. Lukyanenko
Keyword(s):  
Digital Economy ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
External Agents ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Selection Of

The scientific article explores the role of software as a tool used by organizations to carry out economic activities in a digital economy without which it is impossible to have adequate competitiveness in a digital economy. The concept of “digital economy” has been clarified. A methodology has been developed to evaluate the effectiveness of the software used or selected on the basis of its qualitative and quantitative characteristics and the requirements of the workplace for the software functionality. Based on the theoretical and methodological base and the developed methodology, a scalable model of an effective management decision-making process for selecting and updating software in an organization is built, a comparison with existing practice is carried out. The significance of the research results is due to the lack of widely available methods in open access for the optimal selection of software as a tool, not related to involving external agents in the process and having the necessary scalability to use them, including collective, in organizations. This creates negative effects for organizations and the economy of the Republic of Belarus as a whole.

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