A City for Smart Technology Transformation

The main purpose of this chapter is to present how a smart city is governed, managed, and operated. It describes smart city governance and identifies the special relation the government of the city would have with the citizens as well as communities. In addition, governance considerations related to operations are described, including critical city government challenges. The second important topic in this chapter is the City-Citizens Relations highlighting urban growth, needed investments, and role of smart technologies in the city development. In addition, other issues include strategic goals of smart cities, strategic framework for city governments, and financing smart city projects.

Rxn Rover: Automation of Chemical Reactions with User-Friendly, Modular Software

The automation of chemical reactions in research and development can be an enabling technology to reduce cost and waste generation in light of technology transformation towards renewable feedstocks and energy...

A study of the labor process from a technology transformation perspective: the case of internet virtual teams

This article presents an empirical study of the labor process of internet virtual teams. It argues that organizations with a “horizontally virtual and vertically real” structure face a dilemma in the virtual team labor process. While a culture of engineers, which embodies equality, liberty, and cooperation, is the cultural basis of the virtual team, management is bureaucratic, emphasizing individual interests and hierarchical features. The coexistence of the two leads to cooperation and division of labor in virtual teams. Essentially, this is a compromising institutional arrangement adopted by corporations to triangulate technology culture and managerial control to obtain surplus value. Based on the preceding discussion, this paper ends by proposing a new theoretical framework for studying the labor process under the technological conditions of the internet.

The quest for business model innovation across multiple markets

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings This research paper concentrates on how business model innovation on multiple levels can be underpinned by digital technology transformation. As the phases of business model transformation progressed, the Indonesian manufacturing firm moved to a multi-layered business model across numerous markets, with widely scalable progress later being intensified through new partnerships with payment service providers and rapid delivery services. Managers are encouraged to proactively organize their external and internal resources to be readily deployable, so as to harness competitive advantages by shifting business models with optimal market timing. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers’ hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Technology Transformation: Promoting Sustainable Indonesia MSMEs and Cooperative by Digitalization

This research was conducted to find out what steps the government has taken in striving for society to be 'digital literate', what obstacles are faced and what digital forms have been implemented by MSME players and cooperatives that have gone digital. The method used is an integrative review. The results of this study found that the government has tried various ways to make SMEs and cooperatives more “digitally literate”, from infrastructure, training to collaborating with related institutions and companies that have gone online first in terms of systems of operational (transaction), marketing and also payment. Obstacles to infrastructure and available facilities as well as the lack of information and human resource skills in utilizing digital are challenges faced by the government, SMEs and cooperatives. Therefore, better coordination from up to bottom is needed so that understanding and utilization of digital can be distributed evenly. For MSMEs and cooperatives that have “go digital”, found that they are still at the basic and intermediate levels, while the platforms used are still in the sharing economy, e-commerce, social media, cloud computing and other digital platforms related to applications to simplify transactions and operations.

Online Learning-Based ANN Controller for a Grid-Interactive Solar PV System

The technology transformation of industry 4.0 comprises computers, power converters such as variable speed devices, and microprocessors, which distract from the quality of power. The integration of distribution-generation technologies, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind systems with source grids, frequently uses power converters, which increases the issues with power quality. DSTATCOM is the FACTS device most proficient in recompensing current-related power quality concerns. A model of DSTATCOM with an ANN controller was developed and implemented using a backpropagation online learning-based algorithm for balanced non-linear loads. This algorithm minimized the mathematical burden and the complications of control. It demonstrated a dynamic role in improving the quality of the power at the grid. The algorithm was implemented in MATLAB using an ANN model controller and the results were validated with an experimental set-up using an FPGA controller.

Artistic strategy and political communication

The main research narratives of the article are: the influence of artistic strategy on the political communication in the condition of post truth; political imagination and regime of post truth; art and regime of truth; rationality of illusions in the political communication; the techniques of artistic suggestion in public dialogue. It deals with the principle of reliability, the legitimacy rituals in the hunting for the voters. It is analyzed the mythological transformation, imitative mythology of the modern medias. It is discerned the technological integration of art in religion and politics, communication actions that make its “generic” feature and the “generic” burden at the same time. Such notions as poetry, art and technology are connected with the unfolding of the technological refinement in all spheres of human activity. The author explains the need of the mythological distortion as the basis for the building of reality. It deals with the PR- technology transformation as the particular case of the cultural-political project into undeniable social value. It is defined the role of the artistic and political projects as the communicative prosthesis. Simultaneously the author traces the ouster of illusion in public communication. He analyzes the modalities of the communicative practice and communicative experience reduction in the socialization process as well as the technological perfection in the mythological representation. The special features of the mythological absorption as the negation of law and social subject are determined here. It is also defined the sense of the law rationality regarding the rationality of myth.