Companies are organised to fulfil two distinctive functions: efficient and resilient exploitation of current business and parallel exploration of new possibilities. For the latter, companies require strong organisational infrastructure such as team compositions and functional structures to ensure exploration remains effective. This paper explores the potential for designing organisational infrastructure to be part of fourth order subject matter. In particular, it explores how organisational infrastructure could be designed in the context of an exploratory unit, operating in a large heritage airline. This paper leverages insights from a long-term action research project and finds that building trust and shared frames are crucial to designing infrastructure that affords the greater explorative agenda of an organisation. https://doi.org/10.33114/adim.2019.07.227 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-de-lille-8039372/
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In social settings, people often need to reason about unobservablemental content of other people, such as their beliefs, goals, orintentions. This ability helps them to understand, to predict, and evento influence the behavior of others. People can take this ability furtherby applying it recursively. For example, they use second-order theory ofmind to reason about the way others use theory of mind, as in ‘Alicebelieves that Bob does not know about the surprise party’. However,empirical evidence so far suggests that people do not spontaneously usehigher-order theory of mind in strategic games. Previous agent-basedmodeling simulations also suggest that the ability to recursively applytheory of mind may be especially effective in competitive settings. Inthis paper, we use a combination of computational agents and Bayesianmodel selection to determine to what extent people make use of higherordertheory of mind reasoning in a particular competitive game, theMod game, which can be seen as a much larger variant of the well-knownrock-paper-scissors game.We let participants play the competitive Mod game against computationaltheory of mind agents. We find that people adapt their level oftheory of mind to that of their software opponent. Surprisingly, knowinglyplaying against second- and third-order theory of mind agents enticeshuman participants to apply up to fourth-order theory of mindthemselves, thereby improving their results in the Mod game. This phenomenoncontrasts with earlier experiments about other strategic oneshotand sequential games, in which human players only displayed lowerorders of theory of mind.
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The world is on the verge of the fourth industrial revolution that will considerably influence society and human life. Today human being is surrounded by technological advancement and every day we face new sophisticated technological systems that affect our daily lives. The business environment is being influenced by Industry 4.0 significantly and a massive transformation in labour market can be observed. The digital economy has become a disruptive factor in several sectors and it has shown a major impact on the logistic industry in terms of workforce transformation. The question that arises is that to what extent the logistic sector is ready for the digital transformation in Industry 4.0 and what factors should be considered by industry players, governments and multi-stakeholders in order to simplify workforce transformation. This study followed a qualitative approach using Grounded Theory to explain the phenomenon of workforce transformation within the logistic sector in Industry 4.0. Furthermore, a literature review was used to explain the role of human resource management in simplification of this process .The findings show that there is a lack of adequate awareness about the impact of the digital transformation on labour. Furthermore, it discusses the role of human resource management as an agent of change in Industry 4.0. The current research presents recommendations for different stakeholders on how to prepare the current and future workforce for the upcoming changes.This study is significant in the sense that it will add to the existing literature and provide practitioners with vital information that can be used to simplify the digital transformation of logistic industry by preparing labor market.
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Currently, many novel innovative materials and manufacturing methods are developed in order to help businesses for improving their performance, developing new products, and also implement more sustainability into their current processes. For this purpose, additive manufacturing (AM) technology has been very successful in the fabrication of complex shape products, that cannot be manufactured by conventional approaches, and also using novel high-performance materials with more sustainable aspects. The application of bioplastics and biopolymers is growing fast in the 3D printing industry. Since they are good alternatives to petrochemical products that have negative impacts on environments, therefore, many research studies have been exploring and developing new biopolymers and 3D printing techniques for the fabrication of fully biobased products. In particular, 3D printing of smart biopolymers has attracted much attention due to the specific functionalities of the fabricated products. They have a unique ability to recover their original shape from a significant plastic deformation when a particular stimulus, like temperature, is applied. Therefore, the application of smart biopolymers in the 3D printing process gives an additional dimension (time) to this technology, called four-dimensional (4D) printing, and it highlights the promise for further development of 4D printing in the design and fabrication of smart structures and products. This performance in combination with specific complex designs, such as sandwich structures, allows the production of for example impact-resistant, stress-absorber panels, lightweight products for sporting goods, automotive, or many other applications. In this study, an experimental approach will be applied to fabricate a suitable biopolymer with a shape memory behavior and also investigate the impact of design and operational parameters on the functionality of 4D printed sandwich structures, especially, stress absorption rate and shape recovery behavior.
Sociale isolatie wordt gerelateerd aan sterfterisico’s van roken, overgewicht en te hoge bloeddruk en zorgt voor een verhoogde kans op institutionalisering. Door de dubbele vergrijzing en maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen groeit de groep zelfstandig wonende senioren én de druk op de ouderenzorg in Nederland snel. Deze groep senioren heeft, naast een grote kans op één of meerdere chronische aandoeningen, grotere kans op eenzaamheid en sociale isolatie. De huidige coronapandemie vergroot deze sociale kwetsbaarheid. Echter, juist voor deze groep is een informeel netwerk en nabijheid van contacten cruciaal om langer zelfstandig thuis te kunnen wonen. Een lichte vorm van ‘gemeenschap’ en sociale interactie in de buurt is een voorwaarde voor het ontstaan van informele netwerken. Een semipublieke ruimte in de vorm van een dynamische ‘fourth place’, kan deze sociale interactie tussen buurtbewoners, waaronder kwetsbare ouderen, stimuleren en faciliteren. In ‘The Art of Connection’ fungeert de buitenruimte rond CPO Cohousing, gericht op meergeneratiewonen in de vergrijzende wijk Coehoorn te Arnhem, als ‘living lab’. Aansluitend bij de waarden van deze slimme, creatieve wijk, staat de volgende onderzoeksvraag staat centraal: Op welke manier kan een interactieve buitenruimte bijdragen aan het bevorderen van sociale interactie tussen bewoners, waaronder kwetsbare ouderen, in de wijk Coehoorn? In co-creatie met gebruikers en stakeholders wordt, in een iteratief proces, een prototype van een interactieve buitenruimte ontwikkeld. Deze wordt in een pilot geëvalueerd met behulp van big data, gecombineerd met observaties, interviews en expertmeetings. De beoogde resultaten leveren een bijdrage aan extramuralisering van kwetsbare ouderen door het bevorderen van sociale interactie tussen bewoners, en daarmee het versterken van een informele (zorg)netwerken. Door actieve betrokkenheid van buurtbewoners en andere (lokale) stakeholders, gedurende het hele proces, wordt een learning community gevormd, hetgeen de kans op een geslaagde interventie vergroot.
