Problem Solving and Risk Management Methodology

2021 ◽  
pp. 378-395
Author(s):  
Esmeralda Andrade Hernández ◽  
Gregorio Fernández-Lambert ◽  
David Lara Alabazares ◽  
Yesica Mayett Moreno ◽  
Laurent Geneste
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Management Problem ◽  
Current Event ◽  
The Past ◽  
Risk Management Methodology ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
A Current

Intending to lead organizations to continuous improvement, this chapter proposes a methodology that involves three axes: risk management, problem- solving, and feedback experience. This methodology allows organizations to characterize the experiences they have already confronted, as well as new experiences (which can be risks or problems) with the use of taxonomies established by the organization. It also enables them to capitalize and exploit their knowledge base. This work proposes a best-use approach of the past experiences that are similar to a current event and facilitate their treatment and provide solutions. The authors take the feedback as a point of articulation between the two methodologies because it is a mechanism that offers knowledge where it can be found that the organizations must avoid and take advantage of.

Knowledge-acquisition tools with explicit problem-solving models

1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Birmingham ◽  
Georg Klinker
Keyword(s):  
Expert System ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Expert Systems ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Code Generation ◽  
System Development ◽  
Generalization Error ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
The Past

AbstractIn the past decade, expert systems have been applied to a wide variety of application tasks. A central problem of expert system development and maintenance is the demand placed on knowledge engineers and domain experts. A commonly proposed solution is knowledge-acquisition tools. This paper reviews a class of knowledge-acquisition tools that presuppose the problem-solving method, as well as the structure of the knowledge base. These explicit problem-solving models are exploited by the tools during knowledge-acquisition, knowledge generalization, error checking and code generation.

Encouraging Mathematical Thinking

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
Julianne C. Turner ◽  
Karen Rossman Styers ◽  
Debra G. Daggs
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Middle Grades ◽  
Mathematical Thinking ◽  
Challenging Problem ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Constructing Meaning

With these words, the NCTM (1989, 65) portrays a dilemma familiar to many middle-grades teachers. Although many teachers strive to involve their students in active and challenging problem-solving activities, students' past experiences may have instilled preconceptions that mathematics is mechanical, uninteresting, or unattainable. In addition, many teachers lack models and examples of how to design mathematics instruction so that it fosters students' engagement. Because the middle grades are crucial years for developing students' future interest in mathematics, middle-grades teachers must take seriously the challenge of presenting mathematics as an exciting discipline that is relevant and accessible to all students. For the past two year, we have been experimenting with approaches that will inte rest students in challenging mathematics while supporting them in constructing meaning.

Relating management problem-solving styles of leaders to TQM focus: an empirical study

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vimal Kumar ◽  
R.R.K. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Management Problem ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Smooth Functions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Intuitive Thinking ◽  
Study Support ◽  
Psychological Functions

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a relationship between the leader’s management problem-solving styles (MPSS) and total quality management (TQM) focus. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on C.G. Jung’s (1923) four psychological functions or cognitive styles, which are involved in information gathering and evaluation by sensing, intuitive, thinking, and feeling. The combination of these psychological functions makes possible ways of results: sensing-thinking (ST), sensing-feeling (SF), intuitive-thinking (NT), and intuitive-feeling (NF) for management problem solving. The empirical data for this study were drawn from a survey of 111 firms in India. A one-way analysis of variance approach has been applied for analysis in this study. Findings The authors review the extant literature and present a conceptual framework to establish the relationship between different management problem-solving styles and TQM focus. The literature on TQM shows two distinct achievable results: continuous improvement and innovation. The findings of the study support all the hypotheses and the results show that leaders with ST and SF profile are comfortable with the continuous improvement while leaders with NT and NF profile focus on innovation in the organization. Practical implications The results of this study emphasize the importance of knowing the appropriate MPSS to TQM focus. The results will help leaders in continuous improvement and innovation to make proper decisions and smooth functions to achieve maximum performance. Originality/value This paper can be useful for the organizations to achieve more effective leadership in decision making and improve perception-information model as a leader’s cognitive style. Moreover, this paper also attempts to inspire researchers to include the cognitive styles in studying the effect of the leaders on TQM focus while implementing it effectively in the organizations.

scholarly journals Sources, Fate, and Impact of Microplastics in Aquatic Environment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukanya Mehra ◽  
Khushboo Sharma ◽  
Geetika Sharma ◽  
Mandeep Singh ◽  
Pooja Chadha
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Aquatic Environment ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Trophic Transfer ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Marine Biota ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
The Past ◽  
Risk Management Strategies

Over the past decade, enhanced scientific interest has produced an expanding knowledge base for microplastics. The highest abundance of microplastics is typically associated with coastlines and oceans but the fate of these microplastics is elusive. Microplastics sink following fragmentation which is further ingested by marine biota thus imposes threat to them. Thus, the present review focuses on properties and sources of microplastics, its impact on environment, the bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of microplastics and its impact on living biota. This study would be helpful for the development and implementation of risk management strategies for managing the disposal of microplastics.

scholarly journals Remembering the past and imagining the future: Identifying and enhancing the contribution of episodic memory

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel L Schacter ◽  
Kevin P Madore
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
The Past ◽  
Brief Training ◽  
Episodic Simulation ◽  
Neural Processes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Events ◽  
Past Experiences

Recent studies have shown that imagining or simulating future events relies on many of the same cognitive and neural processes as remembering past events. According to the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis, such overlap indicates that both remembered past and imagined future events rely heavily on episodic memory: future simulations are built on retrieved details of specific past experiences that are recombined into novel events. An alternative possibility is that commonalities between remembering and imagining reflect the influence of more general, non-episodic factors such as narrative style or communicative goals that shape the expression of both memory and imagination. We consider recent studies that distinguish the contributions of episodic and non-episodic processes in remembering the past and imagining the future by using an episodic specificity induction—brief training in recollecting the details of a past experience—and also extend this approach to the domains of problem solving and creative thinking. We conclude by suggesting that the specificity induction may target a process of event or scene construction that contributes to episodic memory as well as to imagination, problem solving, and creative thinking.

Post-Soviet economy development: From the past to the future

2017 ◽  
pp. 5-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Yasin
Keyword(s):  
Present Situation ◽  
Soviet Economy ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Democratic Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Period ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Working Out ◽  
A Current

The article is devoted to major events in the history of the post-Soviet economy, their influence on forming and development of modern Russia. The author considers stages of restructuring, market reforms, transformational crisis, and recovery growth (1999-2011), as well as a current period which started in2011 and is experiencing serious problems. The present situation is analyzed, four possible scenarios are put forward for Russia: “inertia”, “mobilization”, “decisive leap”, “gradual democratic development”. More than 30 experts were questioned in the process of working out the scenarios.

Music and Memory: The Tlatelolco Refrain

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Kun
Keyword(s):  
State Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Octavio Paz ◽  
Mexican History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rock Bands ◽  
To Come ◽  
Musical Memory ◽  
A Current

Ever since the 1968 student movements and the events surrounding the Tlatelolco massacre, Mexico City rock bands have openly engaged with the intersection of music and memory. Their songs offer audiences a medium through which to come to terms with the events of the past as a means of praising a broken world, to borrow the poet Adam Zagajewski’s phrase. Contemporary songs such as Saúl Hernández’s “Fuerte” are a twenty-first-century voicing of the ceaseless revolutionary spirit that John Gibler has called “Mexico unconquered,” a current of rebellion and social hunger for justice that runs in the veins of Mexican history. They are the latest additions to what we might think about as “the Mexico unconquered songbook”: musical critiques of impunity and state violence that are rooted in the weaponry of memory, refusing to focus solely on the present and instead making connections with the political past. What Octavio Paz described as a “swash of blood” that swept across “the international subculture of the young” during the events in Tlatelolco Plaza on October 2, 1968, now becomes a refrain of musical memory and political consciousness that extends across eras and generations. That famous phrase of Paz’s is a reminder that these most recent Mexican musical interventions, these most recent formations of a Mexican subculture of the young, maintain a historically tested relationship to blood, death, loss, and violence.

Truth Matters: Cognitive Integrity as an Intervention for Self-Deception

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia Isabel Gorlin ◽  
Michael W. Otto
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Empirical Validation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adaptive Problem

To live well in the present, we take direction from the past. Yet, individuals may engage in a variety of behaviors that distort their past and current circumstances, reducing the likelihood of adaptive problem solving and decision making. In this article, we attend to self-deception as one such class of behaviors. Drawing upon research showing both the maladaptive consequences and self-perpetuating nature of self-deception, we propose that self-deception is an understudied risk and maintaining factor for psychopathology, and we introduce a “cognitive-integrity”-based approach that may hold promise for increasing the reach and effectiveness of our existing therapeutic interventions. Pending empirical validation of this theoretically-informed approach, we posit that patients may become more informed and autonomous agents in their own therapeutic growth by becoming more honest with themselves.

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