Using Big Data as a Backbone for Thailand 4.0

Every country is currently preparing themselves for the fourth industrial revolution, the environment where innovation is the key concept for survival. Most of the countries have developed framework for their e-government development. Unfortunately, most of these frameworks do not contain adequate details on what are the activities required if big data will be used as a backbone of all services. This research focuses on proposing a conceptual framework for development of e-government in Thailand. The proposed framework explicitly contains all important activities to be completed if big data will serve as the core component of all services for their citizens.

Orientism Management Strategy for Entrepreneurial Mindset in the School Governance

In a digital era, characterized by shared decision-making, and where web-based management is increasingly widespread, the term school “leader” may also refer to the highest-ranking administrator, who manages a complex organization, leads teachers, as well as those who participate in school leadership activities, using and managing digital supports. The school leader is always the first and foremost person in ensuring the efficiency in running the school and the effectiveness of the educational politics application. Nowadays, this role includes new duties and needs an equipment for new skills. Education world and policy makers alike seek a frame for effective leadership that can produce sustainable school improvement and continuous teacher commitment. The research finality of this chapter is how to manage the educational change, to train principals/headmasters to be decision leaders, able to recognize and manage the change, choose right collaborators/coadjutors with the perspective of a factual team building.

Knowledge as Quantum Leap

A key role of every government is to control the scientific and social progress managing the knowledge and learning process with efficiency and efficacy towards a factual wellness of people. The purpose of this chapter is to describe a basic strategy paradigm of management in global capitalism of knowledge, with web economy, globalization, dematerialization of value. In this global worldmaking, an Indonesia-Italy research team proposes a new knowledge science paradigm to change the way we are behaving in educational didactic, scientific mindset, business management in the twenty-first century: nature knowledge theory (NKT). As new basic science, it is the outcome of advanced study beyond knowledge management.

Risk Taxonomy and Strategic Rationality in Enterprise Decision-Making Process

Over the last decade, risk management has become increasingly important both in financial and non-financial businesses. This is due to the increase in uncertainty caused by a number of internal and external factors. Genesis of business risk can be related to the divergence between external factors and components of organizational and operational structures of companies. In this chapter, a baseline risk taxonomy was proposed, and the cognitive, regulatory, and social components of risk inherent in a decision-making process were analyzed. A synthesis model was then elaborated, which exposes the relationships between decision-maker, decision-making, and environment for risk management, including through decision-making information technology.

Managerial Mindsets in the Academic World

Academic didactics has started implementing pedagogic strategies that overcome the traditional frontal lecture to reach a new aim: supporting the learning process. According to the leading connectivism principles, which are revolutionizing education, learning processes are a complex and dynamic concept. On one side, new technologies are promoted to support the learners' “cold” cognition. On the other, strategies boasting a “hot” cognition are acquiring more and more importance. The student-teacher relationship is facing change: teachers are required to consolidate their profession and tutor the learning process, regardless of the field of study. These new strategies, although carried out reluctantly, have been successfully implemented in some action research projects highlighting the learners' engagement on one side and the professors' hesitation on the other. This chapter explores this phenomenon.

The Benchmarking Practices as a Strategic Option to Improve the Performance of Economic Companies

This chapter analyses the development of benchmarking research from 1989 to 2017. Drawing upon diary and database seeks, all articles were recovered and afterward dissected in the light of the substance investigation strategy. The chapter demonstrates that benchmarking has caught expanding research consideration, as proven by the developing number of articles distributed. Conduct change hypotheses primary benchmarking ponders were not announced, prompting troubles in recognising fundamental factors in viable medications. Benchmarking research has been overwhelmed by subjective techniques, albeit both quantitative and blended strategies are picking up outstanding quality.

Extended Managerial Implications

In these challenging times, people need a positive vision of the future that human space exploration best provides. The way Apollo to the Moon was run in the 1960s, with a huge government program, simply cannot happen today. Fortunately, all the elements needed to build a twenty-first century grassroots human space program are now available. This chapter provides one possible approach developed by the Big Moon Dig, called MOVE, and discusses its critical elements such as management of a large out-of-box project, finding a lunar settlement site, critical habitat design, and applying the lessons learned to other problems on Earth.

Strategists From the Past, as Encrypted Cognitive Maps, Whose Access Code Is the Will of Learning Solutions

This chapter explores some different ways to acquire not only professional competence but also knowledge and learned solutions. The author doesn't give a “magic solution” to solve all problems, but instead suggests some ideas to keep in mind and work around to overcome great difficulties.

Impact of E-Commerce on Agricultural Business Success

In an increasingly digital and competitive environment, it is important to understand the agricultural business' success in a digital economy. E-commerce appears as a potential strategic tool. The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the impact of e-commerce on agricultural business success in Portugal. Through a quantitative approach, data were collected by survey and a sample of 372 agricultural enterprises is obtained. The empirical results suggest a negative and significant impact of e-commerce on productivity. However, there is a simultaneous relationship between the e-commerce adoption and performance, both individually and globally. This study contributes to the addition of theory on e-commerce adoption, the impact of e-commerce on performance, and other determinants of the agricultural business' success.

Key Success Factors for Developing and Implementing a Workplace Skills Plan

The aim of this chapter is to determine the key success factors for implementing a workplace skills plan (WSP). To obtain perspectives of department managers on the key success factors for implementation of a WSP in the Limpopo Department of Education, a quantitative research approach was used. A probability sample of 75 managers was selected. The sample was composed comprise 51% women and 49% men. Of the sample, 74% of the participating managers were members of the skills development committee. The study revealed various key success factors for WSP implementation that were determined by managers, which included aspects of information gathering to inform a WSP, aspects of skills auditing, aspects of compiling and submitting a WSP, aspects of implementing, monitoring, and evaluating a WSP, and aspects of reporting on an implemented WSP. The chapter provides insights for organisations in implementing a WSP according to the determined key success factors, identifies obstacles that may hinder the implementation, and recommends strategies that can be implemented.