Managing Knowledge-Based Complexities Through Combined Uses of Internet Technologies

2008 ◽  
pp. 241-259
Author(s):  
Cécile Godé-Sanchez ◽  
Pierre Barbaroux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Complex Decision ◽  
Additional Value ◽  
Decision Environments ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Tactical Internet

This chapter introduces a theoretical framework to study how Internet technologies provide organizations with additional capabilities to handle various forms of communication and decision-making complexities. In particular, we investigate how specific use-based combinations of Internet technologies emerge within operational contexts. Principal illustrations are drawn from the U.S. military uses of Tactical Internet during recent operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Military contexts offer relevant illustrations of organizations using Internet within complex decision environments for which short-term responsiveness and tactical adaptability are critical. Within this framework, we discuss the conditions for which combined uses generate additional value for organizations, and we underline the active role played by final users in exploiting the benefits of tactical Internet. Finally, we examine their additional value in the formulation of an effective technological strategy.

scholarly journals Supporting surgeons in patient-centred complex decision-making: a qualitative analysis of the impact of a perioperative physician clinic

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. e033277
Author(s):  
Clarabelle T Pham ◽  
Catherine L Gibb ◽  
Robert A Fitridge ◽  
Jon Karnon ◽  
Elizabeth Hoon
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Elective Surgery ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Complex Patients ◽  
Complex Decision Making ◽  
Complex Decision ◽  
Additional Value ◽  
The Impact ◽  
High Risk Clinic

ObjectivePatients with comorbidities can be referred to a physician-led high-risk clinic for medical optimisation prior to elective surgery at the discretion of the surgical consultant, but the factors that influence this referral are not well understood. The aims of this study were to understand the factors that influence a surgeon’s decision to refer a patient to the clinic, and how the clinic impacts on the management of complex patients.DesignQualitative study using theoretical thematic analysis to analyse transcribed semi-structured interviews.SettingInterviews were held in either the surgical consultant’s private office or a quiet office/room in the hospital ward.ParticipantsSeven surgical consultants who were eligible to refer patients to the clinic.ResultsWhen discussing the factors that influence a referral to the clinic, all participants initially described the optimisation of comorbidities and would then discuss with examples the challenges with managing complex patients and communicating the risks involved with having surgery. When discussing the role of the clinic, two related subthemes were dominant and focused on the management of risk in complex patients. The participants valued the involvement of the clinic in the decision-making and communication of risks to the patient.ConclusionsThe integration of the high-risk clinic in this study appears to offer additional value in supporting the decision-making process for the surgical team and patient beyond the clinical outcomes. The factors that influence a surgeon’s decision to refer a patient to the clinic appear to be driven by the aim to manage the uncertainty and risk to the patient regarding surgery and it was seen as a strategy for managing difficult and complex cases.

scholarly journals Camouflage Combat Uniform

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (94) ◽  
pp. 354-397
Author(s):  
Robert Mortlock
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Business Managers ◽  
Complex Environment ◽  
Defense Acquisition ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Camouflage Patterns ◽  
Acquisition Professionals ◽  
The U.S

The development, testing, and fielding of combat uniforms for soldiers offer acquisition professionals an opportunity to analyze how programs progress through the U.S. defense acquisition system. This case centers on the U.S. Army’s decision to change the camouflage patterns on combat uniforms and equipment for soldiers. The case is broadly applicable to project managers, business managers, engineers, testers, and logisticians involved in project management, while specifically targeting defense acquisition professionals. Emphasis is placed on the development of critical thinking and analysis skills in the areas of stakeholder management, resource management, and decision making in a complex environment. The case is developed in two distinct parts. Part I provides an analysis of the Army’s development of a plan with an increased chance of success in meeting desired objectives. Part II analyzes how the Army decided to change the camouflage pattern on combat uniforms through an informed, knowledge-based process.

Throwing Their Hat into the Ring

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-116
Author(s):  
Dov H. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Exact Methods ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
The U.S

Chapter 3 includes the first set of three detailed case studies of the decision-making process that led the U.S. government to decide to intervene in three foreign elections and the choice of the exact methods of intervention utilized: the American electoral interventions in the 1953 West German elections for Konrad Adenauer and the CDU, in the 1958 Guatemalan elections for Jose Luis Cruz Salazar and the MDN, and in the 1946 Argentinean elections for Jose Pascual Tamborini and the Democratic Union. In addition to providing strong support for the theoretical framework, these three electoral intervention cases also supply some real-life examples of the various methods used for this purpose by interveners: covert funding of the assisted side, dissemination of “scandalous” information on the “undesired” side, pre-election public threats and promises, provision of various benefits to the target, and so forth.

Knowledge-Based Software Prototyping and Reuse

1997 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 127-147
Author(s):  
Stuart H. Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Model Simulations ◽  
Space Model ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Software Prototyping ◽  
Complex Decision Making ◽  
Complex Decision ◽  
Analysis Models ◽  
Minimal Effort

Models are executable prototypes. Modeling is closely tied to simulation, which refers to the exercise of a model over a variable parametric space. Model simulations not only provide the engineer with feedback pertaining to the validity of a proposed design, but additionally allow competing designs to be compared on one or more parameters (i.e., sensitivity analysis). Models are defined from a base of several hundred primitive constructs. These constructs can define additional constructs hierarchically. An expertn–system was constructed, which retrieves software for reuse. This expert system is itself reusable and consists of many sub-systems – any one of which can invoke any other. A key feature is that any expertn–system need never be modified, for purposes of reuse, once saved in a repository. Rather, it communicates all information back to the caller and lets the caller decide how and when to use it. Thus, blocks in an expertn–system have very low coupling (i.e., no off-model connections). In addition, expertn–systems are, as their name suggests, organized in a hierarchy. This means that very complex decision-making systems can be called into play with minimal effort. Growing the repository is equivalent to learning.

IMPLEMENTASI METODE VIKOR DALAM PENERIMAAN JURNALIS PADA KORAN WASPADA MEDAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soraya Rahma Hayati ◽  
Mesran Mesran ◽  
Taronisokhi Zebua ◽  
Heri Nurdiyanto ◽  
Khasanah Khasanah
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Support System ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Support Decision Making ◽  
Made In

The reception of journalists at the Waspada Daily Medan always went through several rigorous selections before being determined to be accepted as journalists at the Waspada Medan Daily. There are several criteria that must be possessed by each participant as a condition for becoming a journalist in the Daily Alert Medan. To get the best participants, the Waspada Medan Daily needed a decision support system. Decision Support Systems (SPK) are part of computer-based information systems (including knowledge-based systems (knowledge management)) that are used to support decision making within an organization or company. Decision support systems provide a semitructured decision, where no one knows exactly how the decision should be made. In this study the authors applied the VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) as the method to be applied in the decision support system application. The VIKOR method is part of the Multi-Attibut Decision Making (MADM) Concept, which requires normalization in its calculations. The expected results in this study can obtain maximum decisions.Keywords: Journalist Acceptance, Decision Support System, VIKOR

USING REAL OPTIONS IN AN INVESTMENT VALUATION AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 43-46
Author(s):  
T. T. ADAMIYA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Options ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Investment Project ◽  
Market Uncertainty ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Traditional Assessment ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Additional Value

The current stage of global development is characterized by opportunities for investment activity, along with an instability of the economic situation and high uncertainty, dictates the need for investors and managers to make effective decisions, taking into account constantly changing conditions. An investor, while making a decision which project to accept, for the most part, uses the standard methods of financial management as a basis for forecasting and analysis. Considering fast-moving processes of technology change, as well as the conditions of market uncertainty, significant risk and agency problems, the article proposes the use of real options as an insurance (hedging) tool for investors against risks at different stages of the investment project. Risk management can be carried out through real options - the tool of flexibility in decision making. Traditional assessment methods ignore the ability to adapt internal and external changes, however management flexibility can significantly reduce risks, and therefore create additional value.

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