Culturally Sensitive Data Visualizations

2019 ◽  
pp. 142-163
Author(s):  
Michael Gendron
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Cultural Bias ◽  
Business Analytics ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Data Visualizations

Organizations are undergoing significant changes in their business environment. Competing on a global scale means that organizations must better understand cultural issues of their customers, employees, and key stakeholders. As business analytics grows in importance, managers are sharing data visualizations to a variety of different cultures and beliefs. When creating culturally sensitive data visualizations, a set of best practices is required to assist managers to make timely and accurate decisions with the least possible cultural bias. This chapter aims to develop these best practices by analyzing cultural traits, communication habits, and other differences between the western and eastern global regions.

Best Practices for Culturally Sensitive Data Visualizations

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Michael Gendron ◽  
Christopher Hutwelker ◽  
Krzysztof Kisz
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Cultural Bias ◽  
Business Analytics ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Data Visualizations

Organizations are undergoing significant changes in their business environment. Competing on a global scale means that organizations must better understand cultural issues of their customers, employees, and key stakeholders. As business analytics grows in importance, managers are sharing data visualizations to a variety of different cultures and beliefs. When creating culturally sensitive data visualizations, a set of best practices is required to assist managers to make timely and accurate decisions with the least possible cultural bias. This article aims to develop these best practices by analyzing cultural traits, communication habits, and other differences between the western and eastern global regions.

Best Practices for Culturally Sensitive Data Visualizations

2017 ◽  
pp. 1777-1798
Author(s):  
Michael Gendron ◽  
Christopher Hutwelker ◽  
Krzysztof Kisz
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Cultural Bias ◽  
Business Analytics ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Data Visualizations

Organizations are undergoing significant changes in their business environment. Competing on a global scale means that organizations must better understand cultural issues of their customers, employees, and key stakeholders. As business analytics grows in importance, managers are sharing data visualizations to a variety of different cultures and beliefs. When creating culturally sensitive data visualizations, a set of best practices is required to assist managers to make timely and accurate decisions with the least possible cultural bias. This article aims to develop these best practices by analyzing cultural traits, communication habits, and other differences between the western and eastern global regions.

Network Visualization

2020 ◽  
pp. 351-367
Author(s):  
James Moody ◽  
Ryan Light
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Visual Display ◽  
Network Visualization ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
Underlying Network ◽  
History Of ◽  
Effective Network ◽  
Data Visualizations

This chapter provides an overview of social network visualization. Network analysis encourages the visual display of complex information, but effective network diagrams, like other data visualizations, result from several best practices. After a brief history of network visualization, the chapter outlines several of those practices. It highlights the role that network visualizations play as heuristics for making sense of networked data and translating complicated social relationships, such as those that are dynamic, into more comprehensible structures. The goal in this chapter is to help identify the methods underlying network visualization with an eye toward helping users produce more effective figures.

Similar but Different: A Top-Down Benchmarking Approach to Investigate Nuclear Decommissioning Projects

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diletta Colette Invernizzi ◽  
Giorgio Locatelli ◽  
Naomi J. Brookes ◽  
Martin Grey
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Rocky Flats ◽  
Nuclear Decommissioning ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Nuclear Site ◽  
Recent Emergence ◽  
Management Literature

Project management literature has, until now, mainly focused on new build and only in the last decades the issues of decommissioning (mega) projects has arisen. To respond to this changing environment, project management will need to understand the challenges of decommissioning projects. Decommissioning projects within Oil & Gas, Chemical and Nuclear sectors are characterized by high costs, long schedules and uncertainty-based risks. The budget for Nuclear Decommissioning Projects and Programmes (NDPs) are subject to well publicized increases and, due to their relatively recent emergence, complexity and variety, key stakeholders lack a full understanding of the key factors influencing these increases. Benchmarking involves “comparing actual or planned practices [...] to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement” [1] and offers significant potential to improve the performance of project selection, planning and delivery. However, even if benchmarking is the envisaged methodology to investigate the NDPs characteristics that impact on the NDPs performance, until now, it has only been partially used and there is a huge gap in the literature concerning benchmarking NDPs. This paper adapts a top-down benchmarking approach to highlight the NDPs characteristics that mostly impact on the NDPs performance. This is exemplified by a systematic quantitative and qualitative cross-comparison of two major “similar-but-different” NDPs: Rocky Flats (US) and Sellafield (UK). Main results concern the understanding of the alternatives of the owner and/or the contractors in relation to (1) the physical characteristics and the end state of the nuclear site, (2) the governance, funding & contracting schemes, and (3) the stakeholders’ engagement.

scholarly journals Social Media as a Means to Disseminate and Advocate Cardiovascular Research: Why, How, and Best Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuliana Lee ◽  
Andrew D. Choi ◽  
Erin D. Michos
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Cardiovascular Research ◽  
Academic Promotion ◽  
Research Dissemination ◽  
Dissemination Of Research ◽  
Research Networking ◽  
The Impact

Aims: To review the use of Social Media as a Means to Disseminate and Advocate Cardiovascular Research: Why, How, and Best Practices. Background: The use of Twitter or other social media platforms for research can transcend current limitations in dissemination of research and present new opportunities for research networking by connecting researchers, clinicians, policymakers, the public, and other stakeholders on a global scale. Objective: As social media influence continues to expand, it becomes increasingly important for cardiovascular researchers to employ social media strategies to increase the impact of their research work, for the ultimate goal of improved outcomes for patients living with or at risk for cardiovascular diseases. Method: Altmetrics are novel metrics that track the attention that scholarly outputs are receiving in non-traditional sources such as in news, blogs, and social media posts. These alternative metrics record research dissemination beyond traditional journal citation indices but also can predict and even promote future citations. Result: This review outlines various methods of how social media can be used to disseminate research, guidance on how to develop a social media portfolio for consideration of academic promotion, and some best practices for promoting one’s research work. Conclusion: Social media offers the advantages of rapid dissemination of research work, potential increases in novel and traditional impact metrics for publications, and may also facilitate academic promotion.

Conceptualizing trust with cultural perspective in international business operations

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 1099-1118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mian Ajmal ◽  
Petri Helo ◽  
Rassel Kassem
Keyword(s):  
International Business ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Building Process

Purpose The growing international landscape of business has underlined the significance of multiculturalism and the novel challenges it brings to business implementation. The purpose of this paper is to draw attention of the readers toward how trust can be conceptualized and how trust-building process is affected in global business environments where more and more projects and businesses come into operation. Design/methodology/approach This research employs intensive literature review to conceptualize trust and develop a model of culture effects for trust building in global business environment. However, this study is presently explanatory in nature because no empirical evidence is provided. Findings Culture is a significant factor in building trust among global project stakeholders for the reason that trust is vital for developing a well-functioning long-term business relationship. The study highlighted that cultural differences among project teams can cause conflict, misunderstanding, and poor project performance. Research limitations/implications Future empirical research should investigate various scenarios, types of projects, cultures, and countries. Cultural issues are pretty sensitive, which have immediate association with trust-building process among international project stakeholders. Diminutive systematic research has been done on the cultural effects for trust building in international business context. The probe of how culture affects trust building efforts in global business environments remains unrequited. Originality/value This study adds value by creating awareness in the research community for undertaking a detailed and comprehensive research on this topic, and because of its originality, it serves as a foundation for future studies.

City Profile: Manila, Philippines

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-358
Author(s):  
Mark Anthony M. Gamboa ◽  
Ryan Randle B. Rivera ◽  
Mario R. Delos Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Significant Implication ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
The City

Manila is a primate city with national and international significance. Unlike any other city in the Philippines, Manila has the mandate of serving not just its local constituents, but also a clientele of national and even global scale. Recognizing that the localization of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at sub-national levels is a key element in meeting the targets by 2030, it is important to look at how cities have been confronting local challenges relating to the development goals. Focusing on SDGs 3, 4 and 11, this city profile shows that Manila has performed reasonably well against key national and regional benchmarks on health, education and urban sustainability. However, as the city continues to lag behind many of its regional counterparts, key reforms must be undertaken in the areas of local policymaking, targeting of resources, scale of public participation and engagement of national government agencies. Heading into the first four years of the SDGs, the aim of this profile is to recognize and contextualize Manila’s existing urban conditions, best practices and pressing challenges—which would all have a significant implication on how Manila stands to attain SDGs 3, 4 and 11.

University curricula and employability: The stakeholders’ views for a future agenda

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 321-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth T. Pereira ◽  
Madalena Vilas-Boas ◽  
Cátia F.C. Rebelo
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Working Life ◽  
European Countries ◽  
European Project ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
University Curricula

This article explores which measures are perceived by European key stakeholders (students, employers and academics) as crucial for the development of curricula that provide graduates with working-life competences and key skills that may increase their employability. It also seeks to identify measures that may strengthen cooperation between companies and universities. This was achieved through the application of 1734 questionnaires to key stakeholders in five European countries which are part of the European project #Europehome. The most popular measure identified by all stakeholders was the internship. More specifically, internships are considered of great importance to increase graduates’ employability as well as being the best means of cooperation between universities and companies. In addition, the study identified a range of best practices and measures that may help lay the foundations and sustain the development of well-planned curricula.

Enhancing Understanding of Cross-Cultural ERP Implementation Impact with a FVM Perspective Enriched by ANT

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Imran Muhammad ◽  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Erp Implementation

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems, and more especially their successful adoption and implementation, have been the subject of extensive research as can be evidenced by the large body of literature on this and related topics in the extant literature to date. However, the effect of cross-cultural issues has been less widely studied, perhaps because of the difficulty and complexity of such cross-cultural studies. In today's global business environment this remains a key issue and critical success factor. Hence, this paper explains how challenging the cross-cultural ERP implementation implementation success is for organizations and how important it is to assess a fit and viability of cross-cultural ERP implementations in diverse cultures (which is especially important in economies heavily reliant on off-shoring services). By drawing upon multiple streams of theory building, a framework, from the Fit-Viability Model (FVM) perspective, is developed. The framework provides important and valuable guiding principles for organizations for their decisions on adoption and deployment of Enterprise Systems (ES). Further, the paper proffers the use of ANT (Actor-Network Theory) to enrich the analysis and provides a systematic approach for moving forward with a multi-case study to test the proposed framework.

Credit Card Applications Pending – Who are Our Best Prospect Cardholders? Improved Decisions through Business Analytics and Business Intelligence

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Jongsawas Chongwatpol
Keyword(s):  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Business Analytics ◽  
Long Run ◽  
To Come

This case is designed to illustrate how to utilize the business intelligence framework and business analytics to make proper decisions in the turbulent and competitive business environment. The case started when Jong, the junior vice president in the modeling and analyst department of ABC Bank of Thailand, and his team were drafting a proposal presentation on the new credit card approval processes. Jong believed that it was time to overhaul credit card application processes by employing more sophisticated analytical techniques to analyze customer and credit card data. ABC- Premier Card, the bank's most popular card offering, would be a serendipitous test case in which to further develop the idea about improvements in approving credit card applications. Currently, there were 5 ABC- Premier card applications pending for decision in the house file. Tightening the credit approval process was one of the important strategies for the bank to potentially avoid an increase of risky customers. However, overly strict declinations of credit card applications might alienate potential customers and causing the bank to forego profitable lending opportunities. Taking the ABC- Premier card applications as a testing scenario, Jong and his team had to come up with a new method to evaluate each credit card applicant. They could approve all of them instantly, approve some of them, or even decline all of them. Consequently, Jong hoped that this proposed credit card approval method would improve the bank's policy decision to optimally balance both risky and profitable customers in the long run.

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