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The process of solving information management's problems is a hardheaded thinking in decision-making. Although many scholars proposed related theories and suggestions, these are so conceptual and one-sided that cannot be a systematic application. As the result, enterprises are always disorganized when solving problems. The reason is that enterprises can't clearly utilize systematic processes in an...
The government of the United States engages in diverse and widespread activities at the South Pole. The US activity was assessed during the 1990s, particularly due to the fact that operational costs were extremely high. This chapter presents an interview with Norman Augustine, Head of the Committee, which focused on two primary subjects: the working and behavioral patterns implemented by the committee,...
Systems engineering can potentially help anyone, not just engineers. One of the loudest voices siding with this approach is that of Prof. Joseph Kasser. This chapter focuses on his perception of perception of systems engineering. Kasser's words suggest that his perception the field of systems engineering is comprised of three concentric circles: holistic thinking, systematic thinking, and systems...
Dialogic or dialogical education is an umbrella term that encompasses a myriad of different and at times conflicting approaches. As there is no agreed‐upon definition of ‘dialogue’ (not that there is or should be one unified definition), and even fewer clear and systematic guidelines for application, researchers and practitioners in the DE field are faced with countless questions and dilemmas. My...
Talent management is a new stage of human resources management. It breaks the defects of the modular and being divided in the previous HRM, but highlights the systematic, integrity and sustainability. Systematic thinking, which is the basic thinking mode of complex scientific management, is in line with the systematic feature of talent management. In this paper, we'll consider talent management from...
The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ), one of the most important innovation theories, was inadequate to identifying contradiction. Some researches had been successfully conducted to address the issue. However, these research results focused on conceptual design which was a type of single factor problem, rather than casting process optimization which was a type of multiple factors problem...
With the development of informationization in Chinese enterprises, they have to face some challenges derived from complex technology and management. How to manage information resources, use IT effectively, realize IT value, and align IT with business is the big objective and issue of every organization. information resources planning is the foundation of informationlization. After introducing the...
To identify effective ways of organizational learning, this paper makes a case study of the material delivery center in a Chinese large-scale steel enterprise. And three key ways of organizational learning for enhancing logistics capability for manufacturing enterprise are summarized on the basis of resource-based view and organizational learning theory. The result of case study shows that successfully...
The paper discusses selected postformal concepts of intelligence. They constitute a specific extension of Piaget's theory to include the stage of operations built upon formal operations structures. Researchers have proposed various characteristics of operations formed 'beyond formal operations'. Depending on the recognized features of reasoning revealed within the process of solving the everyday pragmatic...
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