Digital Strategy for a Sustainable Civilization

This chapter analyzes aspects of a digital strategy aimed at developing a sustainable civilization. The chapter begins by examining the arrangement and configuration of a green state. Specifically, core values and critical subsystems of this configuration are considered. Next, the chapter suggests a digital format for computerizing a wise civilization. The chapter then presents sustainable society indices for Norway, the US, Russia, China, and India. After this, the Geoinformatic Management System (GMS) of 8D Civilization is introduced. It is followed by a discussion of some of the existential dangers that face civilization. The chapter concludes by discussing the GMS 8D Civilization architecture for the world, continents, countries, and enterprises.

Importance-Performance Analysis of Tourism Destination Attractiveness

This chapter presents an importance-performance analysis to evaluate the ability of a destination's attributes to attract tourists through tourism stakeholder perceptions. In this case, one of Europe's larger destination cities, Lisbon, was considered. It departs from the proposition that tourists are not the most knowledgeable about a destination while the evaluation of a destination's competitiveness from the supply side perspective is scarce. This stakeholder feedback approach to identifying a destination's attributes to attract tourists showed that only 7 of the 40 attributes (five of them related to accessibility and technological infrastructures as municipality responsibility) fall in the IPA grid Concentrate Here quadrant, results that are consistent with the recently received Best City Destination and Best City Break World Travel Awards. This research shows the relevance of multiple stakeholders' feedback to evaluate a city's attributes, including the feedback about the city's need to improve its technological offer through an integrated digital strategy.

Mobilizing the Synergy Potential of Digital Platform in Managerial Education

The article studies modernization of digital platform potential in order to coordinate interaction of practice, science and education in the field of management. The key focus is made on the fact that as a result of digital organization development the role of virtual space becomes prevailing in managers’ work and nearly all traditional methods of management undergo drastic changes. Unique processes of managing digital organizations require revision of methodological approaches to the problem of sustainable development in conditions of digital transformation, which mainly has a turbulent character. It is underlined that the major problem of today’s management is the vague definition of different notions, whose understanding is crucial for managers, who otherwise cannot link digital strategy with their work. The article used materials and findings of fundamental and applied research done by authors within the frames of budget, business and initiative development of innovation, industrial and educational products. Testing of these solutions proved their need in the field of practical management, scientific research and managerial education.

Play the Pain: A Digital Strategy for Play-Oriented Research and Action

The value of understanding patients' illness experience and social contexts for advancing medicine and clinical care is widely acknowledged. However, methodologies for rigorous and inclusive data gathering and integrative analysis of biomedical, cultural, and social factors are limited. In this paper, we propose a digital strategy for large-scale qualitative health research, using play (as a state of being, a communication mode or context, and a set of imaginative, expressive, and game-like activities) as a research method for recursive learning and action planning. Our proposal builds on Gregory Bateson's cybernetic approach to knowledge production. Using chronic pain as an example, we show how pragmatic, structural and cultural constraints that define the relationship of patients to the healthcare system can give rise to conflicted messaging that impedes inclusive health research. We then review existing literature to illustrate how different types of play including games, chatbots, virtual worlds, and creative art making can contribute to research in chronic pain. Inspired by Frederick Steier's application of Bateson's theory to designing a science museum, we propose DiSPORA (Digital Strategy for Play-Oriented Research and Action), a virtual citizen science laboratory which provides a framework for delivering health information, tools for play-based experimentation, and data collection capacity, but is flexible in allowing participants to choose the mode and the extent of their interaction. Combined with other data management platforms used in epidemiological studies of neuropsychiatric illness, DiSPORA offers a tool for large-scale qualitative research, digital phenotyping, and advancing personalized medicine.

Assess Digital Maturity to Set Digital Transformation Strategy in Oil and Gas

This paper presents a structured methodology for an oil company to embark on a digital transformation. It was implemented in several JVs with a NOC that includes three producing blocks with dozens of mature fields. The methodology has several key unique strengths: One is the ability to isolate the core-money-making processes and build a digital strategy around them. This shows early gains and at the same time becomes a buy-in support for management. Another advantage is the simplicity to define the "desired" digital maturity level using direct input from the final stakeholders. This is achieved by using the process enhancement method, a SIPOC technique (Supplier, Input, Process, Output, Customer analysis). Also, an important strength is the methodology does not ignore the existing IT infrastructure, nor the field systems (i.e., SCADA) and re-uses them, as much as possible, giving enough time for a transition or an upgrade when needed. Several tools are provided in this paper that makes the methodology consistent, auditable, and strong to support the designed digital strategy to any management level with high chance of approval. The methodology is flexible enough to be run on various types of contracts, hydrocarbon phase or operational environments. As with any method, it relies on commitment from the top and base line in the organization, requiring open and honest evaluation of current inefficiencies and, equally important, resources (budget and people). In summary, a digital transformation is not a sudden leap from a company's current analog status to an instantaneous digital state of being. Rather, it is a progressive, step-by-step transition of core processes and user-centric workflows that requires careful planning and a thoughtful methodology to find the most suitable scenario for each company.

Reframe the Network: Parallel Narratives and Media Obsolescence as Post-Digital Publishing Practice

In this article, we try to outline the philosophical and technical background that informs the architecture of our web-based project 'All Sources Are Broken,' an online publishing platform that enables cross-referencing media, as well as an artistic experiment about the archive and hyperlink obsolescence. We also address the artistic practices that contribute to defining the project as a decelerated post-digital strategy, in order to frame it within the context of what we feel like is the main urgency in the scope of information systems today: media and self-education and cultural activism.

Creation of a system of management and coordination of R&D of high-tech enterprises in the context of digital transformation

The article discusses the role of R&D in the activities of science-intensive enterprises, analyzes the problems arising in the implementation of investment activities in the context of digital transformation, and concludes that it is necessary to build a management and coordination system for R&D, focused on the successful implementation of a digital strategy and the growth of the market value of enterprises. The main tasks of building a system, its components, as well as measures and ways of solving problems arising in the process of management and coordination of R&D at enterprises in the new realities of economic development are given.