The Theory and Application of Process Research to the Study of IT Strategy-Making

2015 ◽  
pp. 392-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eamonn Caffrey ◽  
Joe McDonagh
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
It Strategy ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Analytical Strategy ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
High Level ◽  
Process Method ◽  
Strategy Making

This chapter presents an overview of process research and places a particular emphasis on reviewing the process method. Some insights into the nature of process are presented. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the process method in detail. Some of the methodological challenges involved in conducting process-oriented inquiry are highlighted. Appropriateness of the method to study strategy-related issues is presented which interlocks well with its suitability to investigate issues of interest in relation to IT strategy-making. Application of the process method cycle of research steps is recommended to distil rigorous and relevant theory. Alternative process research sense-making strategies are revealed at a very high-level only. Narrative analysis is presented as a viable sense-making approach to theorize process data and key features of this analytical strategy are revealed. Emerging issues and opportunities that intersect with the IT strategy-making construct are discussed.

Boring-Rolling Process Research and Tooling Design of Hydraulic Cylinder

2013 ◽  
Vol 842 ◽  
pp. 634-638
Author(s):  
Yan Jing ◽  
Feng Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Process Parameters ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Hydraulic Cylinder ◽  
Rolling Process ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Cylinder Block ◽  
Process Route ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Tooling Design

By comparison, this paper determines inner bore processing technic program of the engineering machinery hydraulic cylinder block and makes some analysis of the rolling processing technic and relevant emerging issues to propose reasonable and feasible process route and process parameters and ensure the quality of the cylinder processing. It also shows the design of boring-rolling compound tools with high efficiency and high precision for given cylinders.

scholarly journals Experience as cognition: musical sense-making and the ‘in-time/ outside-of-time’ dichotomy

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Reybrouck
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Levels Of Processing ◽  
Symbolic Processing ◽  
Sensory Reactivity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment ◽  
High Level ◽  
Comprehensive Framework

Musical sense-making relies on two distinctive strategies: tracking the moment-to-moment history of the actual unfolding and recollecting actual and previous sounding events in a kind of synoptic overview. Both positions are not opposed but complement each other. The aim of this contribution, therefore, is to provide a comprehensive framework that provides both conceptual and operational tools for coping with the sounds. Five major possibilities are proposed in this regard: (i) the concepts of perspective and resolution, which refer to the distance the listener takes with respect to the sounding music and the fine-grainedness of his/her discriminative abilities; (ii) the continuous/discrete dichotomy which conceives of the music as one continuous flow as against a division in separate and distinct elements; (iii) the in time/outside-of-time distinction, with the former proceeding in real time and the latter proceeding outside of the time of unfolding; (iv) the deictic approach to musical sense-making, which conceives of an act of mental pointing to the music, and (v) the levels of processing, which span a continuum between primitive sensory reactivity to actual sounding stimuli and high-level symbolic processing.

Narratives and Lives

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Joint Production ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
Depth Interviews

This paper considers how social structure and available cultural discourses are connected to and reflected in narratives by two DES cancer daughters—women who have had vaginal cancer as a result of their prenatal exposure to DES, a drug prescribed to their mothers to prevent miscarriage. In a narrative analysis of in-depth interviews, it shows how the construction of scientific knowledge about DES, and social/political knowledge produced by women's health activists, shaped relationships between DES daughters and their doctors when they were diagnosed with cancer. It locates terrains of power and resistance in their lives, placing them in historically and culturally specific medical and feminist contexts, in order to highlight the presence and play of power in their relationships with and responses to the news of cancer given to them by their doctors. It also explores the joint production of narratives by interviewer and subject, as well as the influence of dominant and emerging discourses on the researcher's and subject's sense making strategies and knowledge production.

scholarly journals Bifrost: A Python/C++ Framework for High-Throughput Stream Processing in Astronomy

2017 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 1750007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miles D. Cranmer ◽  
Benjamin R. Barsdell ◽  
Danny C. Price ◽  
Jayce Dowell ◽  
Hugh Garsden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
Radio Astronomy ◽  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Data Transport ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Real Time Processing ◽  
Real Time Data Processing ◽  
High Level

Radio astronomy observatories with high throughput back end instruments require real-time data processing. While computing hardware continues to advance rapidly, development of real-time processing pipelines remains difficult and time-consuming, which can limit scientific productivity. Motivated by this, we have developed Bifrost: an open-source software framework for rapid pipeline development. (a) Bifrost combines a high-level Python interface with highly efficient reconfigurable data transport and a library of computing blocks for CPU and GPU processing. The framework is generalizable, but initially it emphasizes the needs of high-throughput radio astronomy pipelines, such as the ability to process data buffers as if they were continuous streams, the capacity to partition processing into distinct data sequences (e.g. separate observations), and the ability to extract specific intervals from buffered data. Computing blocks in the library are designed for applications such as interferometry, pulsar dedispersion and timing, and transient search pipelines. We describe the design and implementation of the Bifrost framework and demonstrate its use as the backbone in the correlation and beamforming back end of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA) station in the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, NM.

DynTriPy: A Python Package for Detecting Dynamic Earthquake Triggering Signals

2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 543-554
Author(s):  
Naidan Yun ◽  
Hongfeng Yang ◽  
Shiyong Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Seismic Analysis ◽  
Parallel Architecture ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Earthquake Triggering ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Dynamic Triggering ◽  
Earthquake Interaction ◽  
High Level ◽  
Python Package

Abstract Long-term and large-scale observations of dynamic earthquake triggering are urgently needed to understand the mechanism of earthquake interaction and assess seismic hazards. We developed a robust Python package termed DynTriPy to automatically detect dynamic triggering signals by distinguishing anomalous seismicity after the arrival of remote earthquakes. This package is an efficient implementation of the high-frequency power integral ratio algorithm, which is suitable for processing big data independent of earthquake catalogs or subjective judgments and can suppress the influence of noise and variations in the background seismicity. Finally, a confidence level of dynamic triggering (0–1) is statistically yielded. DynTriPy is designed to process data from multiple stations in parallel, taking advantage of rapidly expanding seismic arrays to monitor triggering on a global scale. Various data formats are supported, such as Seismic Analysis Code, mini Standard for Exchange of Earthquake Data (miniSEED), and SEED. To tune parameters more conveniently, we build a function to generate a database that stores power integrals in different time and frequency segments. All calculation functions possess a high-level parallel architecture, thoroughly capitalizing on available computational resources. We output and store the results of each function for continuous operation in the event of an unexpected interruption. The deployment of DynTriPy to data centers for real-time monitoring and investigating the sudden activation of any signal within a certain frequency scope has broad application prospects.

Reactions to HRM: An Employee Perspective from South Africa and New Zealand

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicky Browning ◽  
Fiona Edgar
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Line Managers ◽  
Employee Perspective ◽  
Hrm Practices ◽  
Management Commitment ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
High Level ◽  
Line Management

ABSTRACTThe aim of this paper is to provide a representation of the employee viewpoint on emerging issues related to HRM practices associated with the ‘new employment relationship’. Data obtained from employees across two studies in two very different countries – South Africa and New Zealand has been used to represent the employee perspective. Interestingly, a number of shared perceptions about these HRM practices are found to exist between employees from South Africa and New Zealand, suggesting the problems employees currently experience with the HR practices in the workplace that aim to promote this new relationship could be more widely shared.The areas of shared concern highlighted by employees were mainly related to the implementation of HRM practices. For example, insufficient line management commitment, unfairness and inconsistency in the application of HR policies were all issues that were commonly raised, as was poor communication. Employees attributed these problems to the inadequate skills of those responsible for the implementation of HRM, and tended to be of the view that they could effectively be resolved through the HR department playing a more central role in the implementation of HRM in an organisation, training of line managers to carry out their HR responsibilities more effectively and increased consultation with employees.Employees participating in these studies appeared to demonstrate a surprisingly high level of awareness and cognisance in identifying problems with HR practice and more significantly how these problems might be rectified. This would support the importance of accessing the employee perspective in both the implementation and research into HRM in practice. Based on the issues highlighted by the employees, increased co operation between line management, the HR department and employees is suggested to facilitate the effective design and implementation of HRM practice in this era of new employment relations.

scholarly journals Online company blogs as narrations of plural leadership

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-621
Author(s):  
Arja Ropo ◽  
Elina I. Mäkinen ◽  
Inka Seppä
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Analytical Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Leadership Research ◽  
Plural Leadership ◽  
Second Category

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how companies that characterise their leadership style as plural, shared or distributed narrate their actions and practices in online blog texts. Design/methodology/approach The data consist of online blog texts published by seven Finnish IT companies. The analytical strategy draws on both thematic and structural approach to narrative analysis. The blog texts were analysed thematically to uncover different aspects of plural leadership. The analysis revealed a narrative pattern consisting of three categories that explain why and how companies implemented plural leadership. Findings The first category in the narrative pattern describes the motivation for engaging in plural leadership. The second category explains how the companies broke down existing hierarchies in order to create new flexible work roles. The third category describes how the organisations sought to create a communal culture and a strong sense of trust using symbols, material objects and spaces. Research limitations/implications The study contributes to leadership research that emphasises post-heroic leadership conceptualisations. The narrative pattern provides future empirical studies a framework for analysing plural leadership practices in different organisational settings. Whereas this study sheds light on the ways in which organisations and their leadership practices can be investigated using online data, traditional organisational ethnographies can make a further contribution to this line of research. Practical implications Implementing plural leadership in organisations can lead to informal power plays. Attention should be paid on to how plural leadership evolves in flat hierarchies and promotes community building. Originality/value Company webpages have rich information on how companies operate and perceive themselves. They provide yet another window for observing organisational activities. This study makes a novel contribution to how plural leadership is practiced and conceptualised in online blog texts.

scholarly journals Energy Efficient and Secured Data Dissemination in Wsn

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-327
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Data Dissemination ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Delivery Ratio ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Application Service ◽  
Efficient Data ◽  
Small Change ◽  
High Level ◽  
Secured Data

Data dissemination is a high level application service, provided to WSN to update the configuration parameter to make the node perform intended services. The configuration parameters of the nodes are updated by means of reprogramming and reconfiguration through over air programming. In data dissemination, the data are so sensitive that even a small change in a data will lead to data corruption and nodes will not perform intended services. In most of the existing systems, providing energy efficient secured data dissemination is a major concern. The attackers can interrupt the process data dissemination and launch various types of attacks, In-order to overcome these challenges. In this paper, a novel Secure Based Dissemination protocol is proposed which can provide energy efficient data dissemination. The proposed protocol ensures better authentication during data dissemination. The proposed protocol is implemented in NS2 simulator. Simulation results justifies that, proposed protocol output forms the existing techniques and has better Packet Delivery Ratio, throughput , network life time, energy consumption, end to end delay and routing overhead .

scholarly journals Analisis Penerapan Metode Antrian Hirarchical Token Bucket untuk Management Bandwidth Jaringan Internet

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 522-529
Author(s):  
Ira Puspita Sari ◽  
Sukri Sukri
Keyword(s):  
Process Data ◽  
Bandwidth Management ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Token Bucket ◽  
Loss Parameter ◽  
Network Manager ◽  
High Level ◽  
Bandwidth Distribution

Internet is one of the needs of the community, especially among education and academics such as universities. The high level of internet users is not comparable with the facilities owned by an agency, this makes the internet network manager in Higher Education feel difficult. The cause of the problem that is always a problem is the speed and internet connection is always disjointed, resulting in the slow loading process data while browsing, both at the time of download and at the time of upload. To make internet users in campus area balanced and stable then need bandwidth management based on traffic usage of internet path better. Bandwidth management that can stabilize traffic lanes and equal bandwidth distribution, it can use bandwidth management by Hierarchical Token Bucket (HTB) method. The calculation result in HTB method testing through file download, the average value obtained by TIPHON category standard for throughtput value index is 2 with "Medium" category, delay parameter index is 4 with "Very Good" category, jitter parameter index is 3 with the "Good" category and the packet loss parameter index is 4 with the "Very Good" category.  

Cajal, Psychologist of Science

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuria Anaya-Reig ◽  
Manuela Romo
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Young Investigator ◽  
Psychology Of Science ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level

AbstractThis paper presents abundant empirical evidence to support the view that Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a pioneer of the emerging Psychology of Science discipline. Narrative analysis of his autobiography (Recollections of my Life) and some of his unspecialized works (Advice for a Young Investigator, The World from an Eighty-Year-Old’s Point of View, and Café Chats) revealed that the Spanish histologist’s interest in the psychology of scientists was part and parcel of a high-level, intellectual self-regulation strategy he applied on his path to success. This research led him to document various psychological conclusions about scientists in writing, so as to encourage, guide, and facilitate the work of junior researchers. Current knowledge of the Psychology of Science has confirmed many of the Nobel laureate’s observations about psychosocial aspects of scientists, scientific reasoning, and creativity.

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