scholarly journals Waste Identification in the Operation of Structural Engineering Companies (SEC) According to Lean Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4249
Author(s):  
Felipe Muñoz-La Rivera ◽  
Juan Carlos Vielma ◽  
Rodrigo F. Herrera ◽  
Elisa Gallardo
Keyword(s):  
Structural Engineering ◽  
National Development ◽  
Computer Programs ◽  
Lean Management ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Refined Model ◽  
Error Process ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Aec Industry

Although the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry is highly relevant to national development, it suffers from significant productivity challenges. Beneath the design and documentation of structures, a dynamic, complex process is taking place, with constant modifications and feedback involving numerous professionals from different fields and their respective approaches and work developed using various computer programs. This diversity of factors converges within an iterative trial-and-error process and does not stop until a refined model is achieved. To understand traditional structural engineering companies (SECs) in Chile involved in building private procurement projects, 25 non-value-adding SEC activities were identified and classified according to typical lean management waste categories. These were initially validated by a panel of experts and then confirmed through a survey of 37 companies. The identified activities reduce the productivity of SEC organizations, contributing to low AEC industry indicators.

Saliency: Can You See Me Now?

Tap ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anindya Ghose
Keyword(s):  
Position Effect ◽  
Purchase Decisions ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Mobile Advertising ◽  
Ideal World ◽  
Error Process

This chapter examines one of nine critical forces behind purchase decisions that make mobile advertising so powerful: saliency. Today's consumers may find advertising annoying, but they fear missing out and would prefer not to waste time in the trial-and-error process of searching for what they need. They want choice and freedom, but they also get easily overwhelmed. Imagine an ideal world where we don't need to scroll down and squint to find what we want. We don't need to refine and repeat our search or make a tough call. We always get the “best right answer” with the least possible effort. This is referred as saliency or the position effect. Consumers want to see the best right answer stand out on their screens. Advertisers, retailers, and other marketers want their message to be that “best right answer.”

Part I Introduction, 1 Status of the Global Islamic Finance Industry

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warde Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Global Finance ◽  
Finance Industry ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Islamic Financial Institutions ◽  
Political Economic

This introductory chapter provides an overview of Islamic finance. Modern Islamic finance did not come out of nowhere. It appeared as the result of specific historical circumstances in the 1970s, and later evolved through a complex process of trial-and-error. It was also shaped by broader competitive and political–economic factors. Although religion was by definition central to Islamic finance, other variables—political, economic, social, cultural, and demographic—also played a significant role. No longer confined to the outer fringes of global finance, Islamic finance has also gone mainstream. Most major financial institutions are now involved in one way or another in Islamic finance, as are global consulting, accounting, and information companies. Within the Islamic world, Islamic financial institutions have become major economic players.

Rethinking Boudon’s Cognitive Rationality in the Light of Mises’ Apriorism and Gadamer’s Hermeneutics

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Di Iorio ◽  
Enzo Di Nuoscio
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Methodological Perspective ◽  
Error Process ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Cognitive Rationality ◽  
Controversial Concept

AbstractThe purpose of this article is to show that Boudon’s explanation of action in terms of “good reasons” can be philosophically enriched by merging his methodological perspective with Mises’ praxeology and Gadamer’s hermeneutics. In order to develop our goal of merging Boudon’s approach with Mises’ and Gadamer’s, we will focus on two points. The first is the identification of the invariable structure of human action. Unlike Boudon, we suggest that the best way to establish this invariable structure, which makes the explanation of action possible, is not to refer to the controversial concept of “human nature,” but rather to use Mises’ praxeological analysis of the invariable logic which all actions have in common. The second point analyzed in this article is the temporal and cultural dimension of the interpretative process which individuals elaborate to develop their reasons. This point, which is related to hermeneutical philosophy and is not investigated in detail by Boudon, is largely discussed by Gadamer. In our opinion, merging Gadamer’s description of the interpretative process – a process that Gadamer calls “hermeneutical circle” – and Boudon’s sociology of “good reasons” is useful because, unlike Boudon, Gadamer clarifies the epistemological nature of the interpretative process as well as the reasons why this process – which is a trial and error process – allows us to understand the actions of people who belong to different cultures.

scholarly journals Les mécanismes du Naturalisme à l’épreuve*: la télégonie dans Madeleine Férat

Çédille ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 113-141
Author(s):  
María Rodríguez Álvarez ◽  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Science And Literature ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Deep Knowledge ◽  
Error Process ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Natural Way

One of the keys of Zola’s literary success relies on the integration of scientific developments from the 19th century into the narrative texts in such a natural way that only someone with a deep knowledge of both criticism and literature would be able to. This stylistic perfection is the result of a trial and error process that culminates in Les Rougon Macquart but in which Madeleine Férat and its approach to telegony play an outstanding but unknown role. This reproductive theory is at the same time an excuse to undergo a deep analysis of the bourgeoisie but also the beginning of the productive rela-tionship between science and literature, a major feature in Naturalism.

scholarly journals Improving the efficiency of structural engineering design in the Eastern Cape through the implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
David Jason Hiscock
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Structural Engineering ◽  
Eastern Cape Province ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Engineering Design Process ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Secondary Hypothesis ◽  
Aec Industry

This dissertations focuses on the implementation of BIM in the structural engineering field, particularly in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Currently, structural engineering practitioners in the Easter Cape face the threat of being "left behind" in terms of BIM technology, and therefore are losing out on reaping the benefits associated with BIM implementation. Furthermore, BIM is no longer a 'nice beneficial technology to have' but is fast becoming a global requirement within the AEC industry. The main aim of this study is to investigate the necessity for BIM implementation into structural engineering organisations within the Eastern Cape. The hypothesis behind the research is that the implementation of BIM technology will improve the efficiency of the structural engineering design process currently being used within the province. A secondary hypothesis is that BIM will soon become standard practice for the AEC industry.

Industrial Hubs in ‘Sphinx’ China

2020 ◽  
pp. 573-591
Author(s):  
Zonglai Kou ◽  
Jun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Washington Consensus ◽  
Economic Base ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Nomenclature System ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Error Process ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Agglomeration Effects ◽  
Private Entrepreneurs

Contrary to both classical socialist dogma and the Washington Consensus, China’s unique ‘sphinx’ system combines a highly decentralized economic base with a highly centralized political superstructure. The chapter considers how China’s industrial hubs worked, or did not work, under this system. Thanks to the centralized nomenclature system, cadres whose jurisdictions show better relative GDP performance are more likely to be promoted. The most attractive way for ambitious entrepreneurial politicians, able to mobilize public resources, to improve their local GDP performance is to attract outside investment, especially FDI, by setting up industrial hubs. However, since capital can usually move freely, only industrial hubs with the most favourable business environments for private entrepreneurs enjoy the competitive edge of agglomeration effects. In this decentralized trial-and-error process of discovery, the failure and success of all kinds of industrial hubs are just the head and tail of the same coin—the inter-regional GDP tournament.

Capturing the “Stem Mind”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Moro
Keyword(s):  
Trial And Error ◽  
Average Amount ◽  
Language Structure ◽  
Error Process

Every child is open to acquire any language in the same average amount of time at the same average age and disregard the language her or his parents acquired. Moreover children all make similar errors in all languages and these are only a subset of all potential errors they could make if this were a trial and error process. This process must then be assisted by a genetic guide: linguistics can be regarded as a theory of the limits of experience on language structure.

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