Modeling the Use of Online Knowledge Community: A Perspective of Needs-Affordances-Features

With the support of network information technology, the Online Knowledge Community (OKC) has emerged. Among different OKC applications, some entered into the new era of popular knowledge production, while others experienced the process to decline. In order to solve the dilemma faced by the OKC platforms, the needs-affordances-features (NAF) perspective on OKC is proposed by taking Zhihu, one of the most popular OKC applications in China as an example. According to NAF, the psychological needs of individuals motivate the use of Zhihu to the extent to which Zhihu offers affordances that satisfy the individuals’ needs. By collecting data through questionnaires and using SPSS and AMOS for data analysis, the relationship between individuals’ psychological needs and Zhihu affordances is identified. This paper generates two aspects of implications. In terms of theoretical implications, a more comprehensive framework is developed for the affordances of OKC as a whole, and the NAF model is leveraged to identify related psychological needs which motivate the use of a specific OKC application—Zhihu. Further research can leverage NAF to identify different OKC platform features which satisfy the psychological needs of their targeting users to optimize the system of OKC platforms. As for practical implications, by building the relationship between the affordances of OKC platforms and users’ psychological needs, marketers have to realize that although the digital platform system has a certain degree of imitability, the value positioning, user community, and core capabilities behind those platforms are all different. Thus, the platform system must also be differentiated. In order to determine the appropriate business model, a clear understanding of these organizational features should be identified.

To Uncertainty and Beyond: Identifying the Capabilities Needed by Hospitals to Function in Dynamic Environments

Hospitals operate in increasingly complex and dynamically uncertain environments. To understand how hospital organizations can cope with such profound uncertainty, this article presents a multiple case study of five hospitals during the COVID-19 crisis in a heavily hit region of the Netherlands. We find that hospitals make adaptations in five key categories, namely: reorganization, decision-making, human resources, material resources, and planning. These adaptations offer insights into the core capabilities needed by hospitals to cope with dynamic uncertainty. Our findings highlight the need for hospitals to become more flexible without sacrificing efficiency. Organizations can accomplish this by building in more sensing and seizing capabilities to be better prepared for and respond to environmental change. Furthermore, transforming capabilities allow organizations to be more resilient and responsive in the face of ongoing uncertainty. We make recommendations on how hospitals can build these capabilities and address the core challenges they face in this pursuit.

The Impact of Building Core Capabilities in Development of Job Performance (An Applied Study on the Iraqi Tourism Authority)

The researchers aim through the current research through their investigations to verify the relationship and impact of the core capabilities as an independent variable in the development of functional performance as a responsive variable, in the tourism authority of the city of Baghdad, and to try to come up with a set of recommendations that contribute to the promotion of the practice and adoption of the two variables in the body under study, and based on the importance of the subject to the research community and its fundamental impact in their activities and services, has been based on the descriptive analytical approach in the completion of this research, including the research community (from the Director General and his assistants and heads of state). Departments, department heads and people's officials in the Tourism Authority) where the researchers distributed (119) the identification of the research community, and provided them with interviews and field observations as tools to strengthen them. the research adopted the program (Spss V.25, Amos V.25) with the adoption of descriptive and inference statistics methods (linear testing, natural distribution test, emphasis analysis, structural model, computational medium, percentages, The standard deviation, relative importance, the coefficient of variation, the Pearson correlation coefficient, the simple regression coefficient, the track analysis, and the Sobel test) concluded to test its hypotheses, and the study concluded to highlight its conclusions that showed the validity of the hypotheses represented by the direct impact of the intrinsic capabilities in the development of functional performance.

Creating SPACE to evolve academic assessment

Universities and research institutions have to assess individuals when making decisions about hiring, promotion and tenure, but there are concerns that such assessments are overly reliant on metrics and proxy measures of research quality that overlook important factors such as academic rigor, data sharing and mentoring. These concerns have led to calls for universities and institutions to reform the methods they use to assess research and researchers. Here we present a new tool called SPACE that has been designed to help universities and institutions implement such reforms. The tool focuses on five core capabilities and can be used by universities and institutions at all stages of reform process.

Leadership in primary care

Leadership is an important concept for GPs and has its own topic guide in the MRCGP curriculum. Simply put, leadership is about influencing others to take action for change. You may like to start this article by thinking of a few public figures you know, and what makes you think they are ‘good leaders’ – or not. This often highlights the fact that ‘good’ is defined both by how effective leaders are (…‘ he really changed the practice’…); and whether they lead people into actions that help or harm (… ‘ pay went up, but care got worse…’). As GPs, we need to recognise and develop our own leadership skills and be able to help others to do what is needed for effective patient care. This starts with having some definitions and building up through ‘knowing about’ and ‘knowing how’, towards understanding and applying our skills in practice. Leadership can also need action, beyond our own practice and that of our team, to the wider setting of the community, other parts of the workforce, and in the wider ‘macro’ sphere of changing the systems of care. This article will give you a framework for this learning. The article highlights some of the core capabilities of GPs, why you need them, and how you can develop them, linking this in with MRCGP Workplace-Based Assessment (WPBA) requirements. It also aims to show the links between ‘knowing yourself’ and ‘working in organisations’ - as GP leadership is needed at many levels.

From vertical to Horizontal Healthcare: The Next-Generation Medicine (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED Approach: This is a theorical reflection about Next-Generation Medicine, which is the first step to begin with an exponential medical healthcare and break with past models. Findings: In the past, the medical healthcare relied on an evidence-based practice to provide the best treatment options for patients, however, since 2010 a strong economic wave has shaped the perspective into a value-based medicine framework. We are facing new social dynamics and megatrends in our society. The emergence of 4.0 technologies is leading us to a pathway where a next-generation medicine will create an exponential value for the overall healthcare ecosystem. Originality: Next-Generation Medicine (NGM) integrates healthcare into digital ecosystems linked by innovative interfaces, advanced analytics, centric customer models and digital epidemiology surrounding a new concept of health and disease management. NGM is based in four core capabilities of physicians: Creativity, Collaboration, Communication and Critical thinking added to advanced digital operations that creates a systemic risk management. This integration is developed using bidirectional and integrative digital platforms operated by AI/ML connected to IoT and data collection in the cloud or in the edge computing. It is time for healthcare visionaries to set prejudice aside and start contemplating the amazing landscape that Next-Generation Medicine could offer.

A Study On The Convergence Core Competencies Influencing The Team Creativity Of Industrial Workers

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of core competencies of industrial workers on team creativity in order to establish the direction of core competency education of universities as the 4th industrial revolution era arrives. For this purpose, 104 industrial workers were studied to investigate the impact of convergence core capacity on team creativity. The effect of convergence core competency of industrial workers on team creativity was analyzed. The analysis results show that creative thinking and consideration affect team creativity as well as industrial workers' convergence core capabilities.

Revisiting Human-Agent Communication: The Importance of Joint Co-construction and Understanding Mental States

The study of human-human communication and the development of computational models for human-agent communication have diverged significantly throughout the last decade. Yet, despite frequently made claims of “super-human performance” in, e.g., speech recognition or image processing, so far, no system is able to lead a half-decent coherent conversation with a human. In this paper, we argue that we must start to re-consider the hallmarks of cooperative communication and the core capabilities that we have developed for it, and which conversational agents need to be equipped with: incremental joint co-construction and mentalizing. We base our argument on a vast body of work on human-human communication and its psychological processes that we reason to be relevant and necessary to take into account when modeling human-agent communication. We contrast those with current conceptualizations of human-agent interaction and formulate suggestions for the development of future systems.