scholarly journals Transitioning toward Sustainable Cities—Challenges of Collaboration and Integration

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4509
Author(s):  
Susan van de Meene ◽  
Yvette Bettini ◽  
Brian W. Head
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Initiation Phase

The transition towards sustainable cities cannot be solved by individual stakeholders and organisations acting alone. Better governance for tackling such complex problems, including policy change and innovation adoption, will require purposeful collaboration. This is particularly evident in projects that involve integration across scales. Our case-study research compared six water-related innovations in large cities in Australia, the Netherlands, and the US. We found that government agencies, water utilities, professional organisations, and industry innovators were all vital actors, along with supportive community education. In the initiation phase of innovation, informal networks were used by sustainable innovation champions to galvanise support. As pilot projects emerged, more formal supportive processes and financial incentives were crucial. For large projects and for the mainstreaming of pilot projects, the role of formal coordination and integration mechanisms became vital for coherent and successful implementation. Various forms of network-based collaborative work were utilised, but the designation of a key coordinating organisation was found to be helpful in maintaining focus and momentum. Coordination activities across organisations, scales, and time were enhanced by the strength of core values and culture, such as valuing stakeholder engagement, innovation, flexibility, and having a focus on outcomes. Overall, this research demonstrated the need to continually evaluate the innovation process to ensure that key ingredients (suitable for each context) are implemented in a timely manner to strengthen the process and enable effective and purposeful collaboration.

scholarly journals A novel model for data-driven smart sustainable cities of the future: the institutional transformations required for balancing and advancing the three goals of sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Elias Bibri
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Sustainable Urbanism ◽  
The Future ◽  
Novel Model ◽  
Smart Urbanism

AbstractIn recent years, it has become increasingly feasible to achieve important improvements of sustainability by integrating sustainable urbanism with smart urbanism thanks to the proven role and synergic potential of data-driven technologies. Indeed, the processes and practices of both of these approaches to urban planning and development are becoming highly responsive to a form of data-driven urbanism, giving rise to a new phenomenon known as “data-driven smart sustainable urbanism.” Underlying this emerging approach is the idea of combining and integrating the strengths of sustainable cities and smart cities and harnessing the synergies of their strategies and solutions in ways that enable sustainable cities to optimize, enhance, and maintain their performance on the basis of the innovative data-driven technologies offered by smart cities. These strengths and synergies can be clearly demonstrated by combining the advantages of sustainable urbanism and smart urbanism. To enable such combination, major institutional transformations are required in terms of enhanced and new practices and competences. Based on case study research, this paper identifies, distills, and enumerates the key benefits, potentials, and opportunities of sustainable cities and smart cities with respect to the three dimensions of sustainability, as well as the key institutional transformations needed to support the balancing of these dimensions and to enable the introduction of data-driven technology and the adoption of applied data-driven solutions in city operational management and development planning. This paper is an integral part of a futures study that aims to analyze, investigate, and develop a novel model for data-driven smart sustainable cities of the future. I argue that the emerging data-driven technologies for sustainability as innovative niches are reconfiguring the socio-technical landscape of institutions, as well as providing insights to policymakers into pathways for strengthening existing institutionalized practices and competences and developing and establishing new ones. This is necessary for balancing and advancing the goals of sustainability and thus achieving a desirable future.

Informatics and Socio-Technical Challenges when Designing Solutions for Integrated eCare

2017 ◽  
pp. 261-289
Author(s):  
Sabine Koch ◽  
Maria Hägglund ◽  
Isabella Scandurra
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Care ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
System Development ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Technical Challenges ◽  
Definition Of

The central role of eHealth to enable the successful implementation of integrated care is commonly acknowledged today. This is easier said than done. To provide correct, understandable, and timely information at the point of need and to facilitate communication and decision support for a network of actors with different prerequisites and needs are some of the big challenges of integrated care. This book chapter focuses on the specific challenges related to informatics and socio-technical issues when designing solutions for integrated eCare. Methods for requirements elicitation, evaluation, and system development using user-centred design in collaborative environments involving a variety of stakeholders are presented. Case studies in homecare of older patients, in the care of stroke patients, and regarding citizen eHealth services in general illustrate the application of these methods. Possible solutions and pitfalls are discussed based on the experiences drawn from the case studies. To address the main informatics and socio-technical challenges in integrated eCare, namely informatics-supported collaborative work and to provide coordinated continuity for the patient, top-down activities such as health informatics standardisation, and bottom-up activities resulting in the definition of concrete patient journey descriptions, interaction points, information needs (that can be transformed into standardised data sets), as well as visualisation and interaction patterns need to go hand in hand.

A development process for extending buildings vertically – based on a case study of four extended buildings

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-385
Author(s):  
Rikard Sundling
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Vertical Extension ◽  
Development Evaluation ◽  
Key Aspects

Purpose The purpose of the study, upon which this paper is based, was to contribute an improved understanding of the vertical extension of buildings, by presenting a development process for its implementation in which the key aspects to consider when planning such extensions are highlighted. Design/methodology/approach The approach is based on linking the diffusion of innovation together with case study research to stimulate further development in vertically extending buildings. Four cases of vertically extended buildings in Sweden were selected for the study. Findings The development process highlights seven key areas for decisions when planning a vertical extension. These areas are: opportunities for vertical extension; strategies for implementation; detailed planning process; concept development; evaluation; building permit; and procurement. The development processes and lessons learnt from each case are presented, covering both success and failure. Research limitations/implications The research is based on four cases of vertically extended buildings. The findings offer valuable insights into the development process which should provide the research community with an improved understanding of the challenges faced. Practical implications The findings will help planners, housing owners, housing developers and facility managers better understand the conditions that favour successful implementation of vertical extensions. Originality/value The paper provides the reader with an understanding of the challenges faced in the vertical extension of a building and the means of overcoming them to create a simplified development process.

Public Health Social Marketing: The Immunise Australia Program

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom E. Carroll ◽  
Laurie Van Veen
Keyword(s):  
Social Marketing ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Childhood Immunization ◽  
Immunization Practice ◽  
Age Appropriate ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics

The case study presented here represents the application of social marketing theory and practice to increase the levels of full age-appropriate childhood immunization as part of the Immunise Australia Program. In 1995, an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey found that only 33% of Australian children up to 6 years of age were fully immunized according to the schedule being recommended at the time, and 52% were assessed as being fully immunized according to the previous schedule (ABS, 1996). In response to this situation, the Australian Government formulated the Immunise Australia Program. This program comprised a number of initiatives, including: ▪ improvements to immunization practice and service delivery; ▪ establishment of a National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance; ▪ negotiation with State and Territory Governments to introduce requirements for immunization prior to commencing school; ▪ financial incentives for doctors and parents/guardians; ▪ a national childhood immunization education campaign; and ▪ a specific Measles Control Campaign. While recognizing the key role played by structural and policy reform within the formulation and implementation of a social marketing strategy, this article focuses primarily on the community education components of this program.

scholarly journals “The Road Not Taken” – Israeli Teachers’ Reactions to Top-Down Educational Reform

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roxana Reichman ◽  
Shlomit Artzi
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Internet Forum ◽  
The Road ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Master Of Education

The authors have investigated teachers’ reactions towards an imposed reform initiated by the Israeli Ministry of Education in collaboration with one of two teachers’ unions based on the messages and letters sent by high school teachers to an internet forum during a teachers’ strike which took place between October and December of 2007. This study is the result of collaborative work between a teacher educator and a veteran teacher studying towards her Master of Education degree in Learning and Instruction. The research question was: What were the teachers’ attitudes regarding the “New Horizon” reform as conveyed on an internet forum during the strike? The article focuses on the teachers’ opposition to the proposed reform. The authors explore the use of the internet for sustaining this strike while also discussing the methodological issues related to this type of analysis and relation to collaborative research. Recommendations are suggested for successful implementation of educational reforms.

scholarly journals Exploring Project Complexity Relations to Scope Changes in Construction Projects: A Case Study of NEC Projects in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Themba Lukhele ◽  
Brink Botha ◽  
Sijekula Mbanga
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Initiation Phase ◽  
Execution Phase ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Project Complexity ◽  
Multiple Case

Construction projects are of very complex nature, and subject to circumstances of high uncertainties and risks due to the interdependences of activities and processes in the project performance.  As a result of the dynamic complexities inherited in construction projects, changes in the scope of work are inevitable. Of particular concern is that, when scope changes are introduced in a project, contractors follow a systematic procedure in managing the changes, but with poor planning and implementation thereof because the project complexities that underpin the scope changes are not fully understood. Therefore, despite that complexity is an inherent and defining feature of construction projects, studies in the literature have failed to grasp and present the dynamics of project complexity which underlie the scope changes in the delivery of construction project. The TOE (Technical Organizational Environmental) framework was adopted and applied on a multiple-case study research design in order to explore and denote project complexity relations to scope changes in construction projects. Through a content analysis procedure, six key elements of project complexities that relate to scope changes in the construction projects has emerged. Understanding these complexity elements could enable the project management team to apply a front-end planning approach in the initiation phase of the projects in order to better manage scope changes in the execution phase of the project, and eventually to improve the project performance.

scholarly journals Complex improvement of industrial areas – a requirement for sustainable development of regions nowadays

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Maria Vlasova ◽  
Leyla Leonova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Modern Economy ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Present Part ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Industrial Zones

This article provides Russian and foreign experience of successful implementation of projects for redevelopment of industrial zones in large cities. Some projects implemented in Moscow, St. Petersburg are considered in more details. Among foreign projects, the experience of such countries as Great Britain, the USA and China (Hong Kong) should be especially noted. The main goal of the redevelopment of industrial zones in large cities in Russia is to maintain a balance between comfort and convenience for citizens and the interest of investors to give in the implementation of such investment projects. The implementation of projects in the Russian Federation started in 2010. At present, part of the industrial zones in Moscow and St. Petersburg has been almost completely reorganized. Residential complexes, social and cultural facilities, shopping and entertainment centers, roads, parking lots and other infrastructure facilities have been built today instead of industrial zones. In order to meets the requirements of the modern economy, in some cases, industry production has been preserved. The main problems in the implementation of redevelopment projects have been identified, among them are: the absence of the necessary legislation and a clear systemic plan for the reorganization of urban spaces. The authors of the article propose to create a clear concept in Russia for the transformation and redevelopment of industrial areas based on the integrated development of entire residential neighborhoods with all infrastructure facilities, which must be adopted and evaluated with the support of government authorities.

scholarly journals Learning from the Implementation of a Quality Improvement Intervention in Australian General Practice: A Qualitative Analysis of a CVD Preventive Care Project

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Hespe ◽  
Edwina Brown ◽  
Lucie Rychetnik
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Health System ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Quality Improvement Intervention ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Australian General Practice ◽  
General Practices

Abstract BackgroundQuality-improvement collaborative (QIC) initiatives aim to reduce gaps in clinical care provided in the healthcare system. This study provides a qualitative evaluation of a QIC project (QPulse) in Australian general practice focused on improving cardiovascular disease (CVD) assessment and management. MethodsThis qualitative-methods study explored implementing a QIC project by a Primary Health Network (PHN) in 34 general practices. Qualitative analyses examined in-depth interviews with participants and stakeholders focusing on barriers and enablers to implementation in our health system. They were analysed thematically using the Complex Systems Improvement framework (CSI), focusing on strategy, culture, structure, workforce, and technology.ResultsDespite strategic engagement with QPulse objectives across the health system, implementation barriers associated with this program were considerable for both PHN and the general practices. Adoption of the QIC process was reliant on engaged leadership, practice culture, systems for clear communication, tailored education and regular clinical audit and review. Practice ownership, culture and governance, rather than practice size and location, were related to successful implementation. Financial incentives for both the PHN and general practice were identified as prerequisites for systematised quality improvement (QI) projects in the future, along with individualised support and education provided to each practice. Technology was both an enabler and a barrier, and the PHN was seen as key to assisting the successful adoption of the available tools. ConclusionsImplementation of QI programs remains a potential tool for achieving better health outcomes in General Practice. However, enablers such as individualised education and support provided via a meso-level organisation, financial incentives, and IT tools and support are crucial if the full potential of QI programs are to be realised in the Australian healthcare setting. Trial registrationACTRN12615000108516, UTN U1111-1163-7995.

scholarly journals The Impact of Interplay Between Formal and Informal Institutions on the Development of Innovation Networks: A Comparative Study of CEECs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13(49) (3) ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Godlewska
Keyword(s):  
Case Study Research ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Informal Institutions ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Economies In Transition ◽  
Formal And Informal Institutions ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this paper is to present the results of comparative case study research concerning the impact of the interplay between formal and informal institutions on the development of innovation networks of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). The primary contribution this article makes is to link the literature on the interplay between institutions related to innovation networks in a broad range of economies in transition like CEECs. This paper provides an understanding of how interplay between these institutions may influence the development of innovation networks of CEECs. Practical policy recommendations are to introduce a risk guarantee mechanism, which may promote the innovation process at different levels and influence the development of innovation networks later.

Enhancing design thinking approaches to innovation through gamification

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Patrício ◽  
Antonio Carrizo Moreira ◽  
Francesco Zurlo
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Improve Design ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Product Service

PurposeThe paper aims to explore the relationship between gamification and design thinking approach to innovation in the context of the early stage of innovation process (ESoIP). Design thinking is conceptually appropriate to support innovative, complex and uncertain business environments. Still, its practices have demonstrated some difficulties in managing the ESoIP, such as lack of structure and clarity around goals. This paper argues that gamification can enhance and complement design thinking in the management of firms' ESoIP.Design/methodology/approachGiven the need to achieve a deeper understanding of the linkages between gamification and design thinking, the paper follows an exploratory theory building approach for this complex reality of innovation. The case study research method was conducted in three firms (Trivalor, Novartis and Microsoft) that applied a gamification approach to the ESoIP.FindingsThe results demonstrate that gamification has the power to enhance and complement design thinking practices by getting tasks more organized and improving coordination and employees' engagement in the innovation process.Practical implicationsThe paper provides critical managerial contributions on how firms can use gamification to improve design thinking approaches to ESoIP. Its consequences are also crucial to innovation, R&D, and product/service development managers interested in using gamification to support the ideation and concept development of new solutions complementing traditional design thinking approaches.Originality/valueMerging the gamification and design thinking approaches is novel, particularly on firms' ESoIP. The paper provides a comprehensive discussion of design thinking shortcomings and the role that gamification can play in overcoming them.

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