Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Biopharma, MedTech, Digital Medicine, and Their Emerging Convergence: User & Patient Centric Applications in the “Pharma 3.0 Business Model Paradigm”

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur A Boni
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Business World ◽  
Digital Medicine ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Industry Applications ◽  
Patient Centric

In the first section of this monograph, titled “Bridging Theory and Practice for Commercialization and Innovation – a market-centered perspective for cross-industry applications”, we outlined a number of overlapping theories or models dealing with innovation. Theories, when well stated and proven, are basically statements of causality. Scientists and technologists use them all the time to predict physical or chemical phenomenon for example. However, whether or not we explicitly recognize them as such, theories also exist in the business world and can be useful as guides to behavior and decision making. These models serve as lenses through which “the world” is viewed and that enable predictions, or forecasts to be made. However, they may also act as “blinders”, limiting our ability to see that which may not fit into our existing models. As the famous statistician, George Box said in an often-repeated quote, “essentially, all models (theories) are wrong, but some are useful.”

Multimedia Instructional Materials in MIS Classrooms

2011 ◽  
pp. 717-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy V. Bradley ◽  
Victor Mbarika ◽  
Chetan S. Sankar ◽  
P. K. Raju
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information System ◽  
Real World ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Business World ◽  
Computing Machinery ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
The World ◽  
Skill Shortages

Researchers and major computing associations such as the Association of Information Systems (AIS) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) have invested much effort in the last two decades to shape the information system (IS) curriculum in a way that addresses developments and rapid changes in the IS industry (Gorgone, Gray, Feinstein, Kasper, Luftman, Stohr et al., 2000; Nunamaker, Couger & Davis, 1982). A major objective has been to help overcome the skill shortages that exist in the IS field, a trend that is expected to continue in the years ahead (Gorgone et al., 2000). While there exist a plethora of students joining IS programs around the world (usually for the remunerative promises that goes with an IS degree), students do not seem to gain the kind of knowledge and technical expertise needed to face real-world challenges when they take on positions in the business world. There is, therefore, the need to prepare IS students for real-world challenges by developing their technical and decision-making skills.

scholarly journals عروض مختصرة

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (94) ◽  
pp. 192-183
Author(s):  
إيصال صالح الحوامدة
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Global Awareness ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Thinker

سلسلة التفكير وأنماطه (1-5)، رعد زروقي ونبيل محمد وإستبرق لطيف وجميلة سهيل، بيروت: دار الكتب العلمية، 2018م، 1888 صفحة. تنمية مهارات التفكير، عدنان يوسف العتوم وآخرون، عمان: دار المسيرة، 2018م، 360 صفحة. التفكير من الألف إلى الياء، نايجل واربرتون، ترجمة: هالة عباس وأسامة عباس، بيروت: مركز نماء للبحوث والدراسات، 2018م، 200 صفحة. تدريس 21 مهارة تفكير للقرن 21 وفق نموذج MiCOSA، كارول روبنسون – زانارتو وباتريشيا دوير وجاكلين بورتمان، ترجمة: ديالا حميدي، عمان: دار الفكر ناشرون وموزعون، 2016م، 336 صفحة. أثر مقاصد القرآن في حل مشكلات الأمة، سعود بن خالد آل سعود، الرياض: الجمعية العلمية السعودية للقرآن الكريم وعلومه، 2018م، 442صفحة واجب العلماء في قيادة الأمة، عبد الحي يوسف، القاهرة: دار اليسر، 2018م، 109 صفحة. سياسة المسلمين عبر القومية: إعادة تخيل الأمة، بيتر ماندافيل، بيروت: الشبكة العربية للأبحاث والنشر، 2018م، 367 صفحة. تصورات الأمة المعاصرة: دراسة تحليلية لمفاهيم الأمة في الفكر العربي الحديث والمعاصر، ناصيف نصار، الدوحة: المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، 2017م، 528 صفحة. التجسيم الحضاري من منظور التنمية المركبة- دراسة تطبيقية لمشروع مالك ابن نبي، ناصر يوسف، بيروت: مركز نماء للبحوث والدراسات، 2018م، 432 صفحة. التسخير الكوني للإنسان من السؤال إلى النظرية، مسفر بن علي القحطاني، القاهرة: دار المشرق، 2018م، 151 صفحة. إصلاح العلوم؛ فقه المعرفة السوسيولوجية بين التفكير الحسي والتفكير العقلي الإسلامي في فهم ودراسة الموضوع الاجتماعي، السعيد بولمزاود، عمان: دار زهران، 2017م، 386 صفحة. سوسيولوجيا الإسلام: المعرفة والسلطة والمدنية، أرماندو سالفاتوري، بيروت: الشبكة العربية للأبحاث والنشر، 2017م، 367 صفحة. جدل الدين والعلم في الفكر الإسلامي المعاصر: دراسة في مشروع إسلامية المعرفة، محمد مينار، عمان: دار الأيام للنشر والتوزيع، 2017م، 346 صفحة. الحكم وسياسة الأمة في القرآن الكريم، عاطف إبراهيم رفاعي، لاتفيا: نور للطباعة، 2017م، 520 صفحة. Facets Of Faith - Malek Bennabi and Abul A'la Maududi: The Early Life and Selected Writings of two Great Thinkers of the Twentieth Century, A. Sherif, Islamic Book Trust, 2018, 408 pages. Islam and International Relations: Contributions to Theory and Practice, Deina Abdelkader, Nassef Adiong & Raffaele Mauriello, London: Palgarve Macmillan, 2016, 232 Five Worldviews: The Way We See the World, Dr. Denise R Ames, New Mexico: Center for global awareness, 2017, 115 Imagining the Future: Insights from Cognitive Psychology, Edit by Karl K. Szpunar &Gabriel A. Radvansky, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2017, 212 The Critical Thinker: The Path To Better Problem Solving, Accurate Decision Making, and Self-Disciplined Thinking , Steven Schuster , United Kingdom: Routledge, 2017, 212 pages. للحصول على كامل المقالة مجانا يرجى النّقر على ملف ال PDF  في اعلى يمين الصفحة.

Opportunities and Challenges of Visualization and Open Data in Food Security Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 748-772
Author(s):  
Thida Chaw Hlaing ◽  
Julian Prior
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Statistical Literacy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Statistical literacy presents many aspects about food security in the world. It highlights weaknesses, it creates awareness of threats in current situations, helps overcome challenges and creates opportunities for the future. Statistical data analysis enables existing food security interventions and programs to be reviewed and revised, and this better understanding of current situations enables more authoritative and relevant decision-making processes for the future. Statistical literacy involves skills and expertise in data description and interpretation (in words as well as in numbers) to name, explore and amend beliefs, opinions and suggestions. It helps decision-making processes about food security in a sub-nation, nation and region, as well as the world. This chapter will demonstrate the importance of open data and visualization, including its challenges and opportunities, in the food security context at national and global level to make decision-makers aware of the need to enhance their capacity for and investment in statistical literacy.

Culture in the PRC

2016 ◽  
pp. 46-58
Author(s):  
Ramon J Venero ◽  
Yunshan Lian
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Entry Mode ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Bric Countries ◽  
Entry Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

As the second largest economy in the world and one of the BRIC countries, China has been a major inward FDI receiver and competing ground for MNEs. Entry mode strategy has become a critical factor to the success of MNEs in China. Common among different approaches is sensitivity to the cultural nuances of Chinese society and, in particular, to the norms of government actors at the Central, Provincial and Local government levels. The role of culture in inward FDI presents unique challenges and opportunities to MNC's in establishing a presence in one of the world's largest market. Entry strategies are discussed as well as the role that culture played in specific MNC's entries. The recent anti-corruption campaign in China has brought much attention from the outside world. Its impact on MNEs business model in China was discussed in this study. Implications for HR practitioners and managers are reviewed as well.

Netflix speaks Arabic, Arabs speak Netflix: How SVOD is transforming Arabic series screenwriting

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadi G. Haddad ◽  
Alexander Dhoest
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
System Framework ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The World

While subscription of video-on-demand (SVOD) services has become increasingly popular across the world in recent years, the arrival of Netflix to the Arab world was transformational. As it stepped up to produce original Arabic series, Netflix-modelled services from the region proliferated, promising to challenge the existing Arabic series’ (musalsalat) routines in content and form. Since the Arab World is scarcely mentioned in the growing scholarly literature on SVODs, this article attempts to understand how the Arabic TV drama industry is recalibrating to this new transnational co-production context, particularly when it comes to developing series ideas and screenplays. Our aim is to analyse the creative interplay in which these ideas and screenplays are evaluated and developed. To this effect, we draw on original interviews with screenwriters, development producers and creative executives who have worked with Netflix on original Arabic series, as well as those who have worked with Shahid VIP, a Saudi-owned pan-Arab SVOD platform. Informed by the ‘Screen Idea System’ framework that suggests an understanding of the dynamics between the shaping elements of any new idea made for the screen, we explore whether the current business model results in certain cultural narratives and how this affects the perceptions of quality and success of the produced series. Our findings show that transnationalism is instigated by the writers’ perception of a transnational target audience, and is reflected strongly on the levels of production and creative decision-making. Moreover, the systems in which the series of both platforms are developed are in constant negotiations with the musalsalat conventions, while aiming to prompt novelty based on a Western perception of the idea of quality.

scholarly journals Historical Evolution of Audit Theory and Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 2252-2259
Author(s):  
A. O Olagunju ◽  
S. A. Owolabi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Business World ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Technology Age ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
The Way

The separation of ownership and control due to industrial revolution and expansionary system of businesses has brought the need for checks and balances by the owners of the businesses. Decision making requires information that is exhaustive, consistent, reliable, and credible and such there is need for cross-examination of records for effective decision making. Starting from fraud detection to attesting to credibility of financial statements are auditing practices. As every field of study has its root, thus this paper examined the historical evolution of audit theory and practice from ancient civilization till present age and focusing on the way forward as regards the future of audit. A desk research was conducted and from the review, it was discovered that lots of transitions have occurred in audit theories and practices over time as business world turns digitalized, thus leading to past audit practices becoming outdated and auditing evolution has reached a critical juncture whereby auditors may not have choice than to adjust to the new technology age system. It is imperative that accountants and auditors ultimately lead the way in adoption and implementation of technology-enhanced auditing.

scholarly journals Thinking, Deciding, Acting: Gaps and Relations

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aistė Diržytė
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Media ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Perceptual Distortion ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Moderating Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
Effort Reduction

In the first part of this essay the author points to possible gaps and relations between cognitive (thinking, reasoning, decision making) and behavioural (acting) processes. Mainstream cognitive sciences assume that thinking might result in decision making which might result in acting: i.e. cognitive processes are related to behavioural processes. Perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality might lead to destructive behaviours on personal or societal levels. It is noted that some researchers focus on mediating/moderating factors and correlations between thinking, decision making and acting, while others focus on gaps. In the second part the author reviews the articles presented in this issue and questions as they have been discussed by others: heuristics as a method that uses principles of effort-reduction and simplification, hermeneutics of values based on Max Weber concepts, Bakhtin’s ideas on philosophy of the act and diachronic, dialogistic linguistic activities, phenomenology of solidarity implying that the acts determine experience of the world in modi ‘we’, Heidegger’s thinking, assuming the vital link between practical and ontological aspects of Heideggerian phenomenology, the evidence on theory and practice of new media and the development of concepts of creativity.

Opportunities and Challenges of Visualization and Open Data in Food Security Analysis

2017 ◽  
pp. 69-101
Author(s):  
Thida Chaw Hlaing ◽  
Julian Prior
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Statistical Literacy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Statistical literacy presents many aspects about food security in the world. It highlights weaknesses, it creates awareness of threats in current situations, helps overcome challenges and creates opportunities for the future. Statistical data analysis enables existing food security interventions and programs to be reviewed and revised, and this better understanding of current situations enables more authoritative and relevant decision-making processes for the future. Statistical literacy involves skills and expertise in data description and interpretation (in words as well as in numbers) to name, explore and amend beliefs, opinions and suggestions. It helps decision-making processes about food security in a sub-nation, nation and region, as well as the world. This chapter will demonstrate the importance of open data and visualization, including its challenges and opportunities, in the food security context at national and global level to make decision-makers aware of the need to enhance their capacity for and investment in statistical literacy.

Being a Christian in the Business World: The Challenge and the Promise

Horizons ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver F. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Business World ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
The World

What does it mean to be a Christian in today's business world? It is this question which provides the focus for a course I teach called “Modern Decision Making in the Christian Tradition.” The course is designed for college juniors and seniors who are interested in exploring the implications of Christian faith for a professional life. Students are exposed to the flaws in Adam Smith's famous apology for the capitalist economy and offered an approach to working in the system and reforming it from a Christian standpoint.It has been my experience that most students in the course are serious about their Christian faith, that is, they go to church on Sunday and they strive to live the sort of life that they understand to be Christian. They are largely from good homes and have learned the value of friendship and love from dedicated parents. Most of them, however, have not been challenged to think through the implications of their Christian faith for their life in the business world or in the wider social order.While they may be models of compassion and generosity to those in their immediate circles, many students today have a blindspot for responsibilities in the socio-political order. In the traditional vocabulary, they are strong on charity but weak in justice. Justice in our time is often equated with “law and order,” the quid pro quo's that insure that we each get what we deserve. One of the objectives of the course is to widen the horizons of the students so that they come to see more adequately what is entailed in calling oneself “Christian.” To begin, I have them reflect on sections of “Justice in the World,” the document issued by the Roman Synod of Bishops in 1971.

Medical Diagnosis from a Clinician’s Point of View

1978 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
F. T. De Dombal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Medical Diagnosis ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
The World

This paper discusses medical diagnosis from the clinicians point of view. The aim of the paper is to identify areas where computer science and information science may be of help to the practising clinician. Collection of data, analysis, and decision-making are discussed in turn. Finally, some specific recommendations are made for further joint research on the basis of experience around the world to date.

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