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Gill, Leanne Margaret. "Building organisational capability." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16234/.
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Much has been written about the benefits to be derived from maximising organisational capability as a means of increasing competitive advantage, establishing human resource functions as a strategic partner and improving stakeholder satisfaction. However, there is very little in the research on how organisations build their organisational capability (OC). This thesis explores how developments in our understanding of strategic planning and human resource practices have contributed to a focus in organisations on building their organisational capability. The emergence of the resource-based theory of the firm, together with changes in human resource practices in job analysis, performance management and staff development has laid the foundation for organisational capability. A Model of Organisational Capability is proposed that explores how systems and processes can be aligned to maximize core organisational capability. Three research questions emerge from the literature and the Model: *How do organisations define their Strategic Intent Domain? *How can organisations define their Core OCs? *How do organisations embed their OCs into their Job Context, Organisational Systems and Knowledge Networks Enablers? These questions are explored by examining an Australian University utilising a participatory action research methodology. The study focused on how the organisation engaged senior managers to develop an organisational capability framework and agreed on a strategy to embed the capabilities in HR practice. As a result, this thesis presents a step-by-step process for organisations seeking to build their Core Organisational Capability. Practitioners wishing to maximize their organisational capability can draw on the Model of Organisational Capability, step-by-step process and contextual principles, to assist them to engage with the organisation to explore an organisational capability agenda.
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Wu, Lucia T. (Lucia Teresa) 1977. "Building customization capability." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34743.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and, (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 77).
Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Sloan School of Management on May 7, 2004 in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degrees of Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Master of Business Administration ABSTRACT Many computer companies are seeking to grow their customization capability. As the market becomes increasingly commoditized, computer companies view customization as a way to differentiate their products and offer customer value. However, the implementation of customization programs has been difficult for many organizations. Sun Microsystems launched a customization program called Customer Ready Systems (CRS) through a grass-roots effort in manufacturing. CRS offered assemble-to-order, factory-integrated systems. Although CRS revenues had been growing, scalability was difficult and costs were increasing. CRS needed to evaluate its process and supply-chain from a strategic perspective to ensure alignment with the rest of the organization. To grow profitably, it also needed to reduce costs and increase scalability. This thesis focuses first on the question of whether or not Sun should reconfigure its supply chain to perform more, if not all, of its customization work at external manufacturers. It then turns to the question of whether or not the current internal customization process can be improved, and identifies two opportunities: pricing and process improvement in component removal for reconfiguration, and lead-time variability reduction.
(cont.) This thesis recommends organizational and tactical policies to improve the customization based on these analyses and implementation efforts. The research for this thesis was conducted during a seven month internship with Sun Microsystems' Worldwide Operations group and was affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Leaders for Manufacturing program.
by Lucia T. Wu.
M.B.A.
S.M.
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Smoyer, Catherine Byrnes. "Building Workforce Capability in Nonprofit Organizations." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6677.
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Leaders of nonprofit organizations in the United States must build workforce capabilities to meet increasing demands for services. This single-case study explored strategies nonprofit leaders used to build workforce capability to address increasing service demands. The conceptual lens for this study was the full-range leadership theory. Data were collected through semistructured interviews from a purposeful sample of 3 senior executives of a single nonprofit organization located in the midwestern region of the United States. Information from internal and external documents and publicly available documents also provided data. Information and data sources included internal organizational and workforce performance data, strategy plans and analysis, internal and external financial documents, organizational website, and nonprofit data and information websites. Data and information from internal and external documents, interviews, and publicly available information were manually coded. Findings were validated through data triangulation and member checking. Using thematic analysis, 4 themes emerged related to building workforce capability: an emphasis on employee development, the expansion of technology systems, a concentration on developing a culture of autonomy and trust, and the introduction of processes and measurements. The findings from this study might contribute to positive social change by providing nonprofit leaders with strategies and data to support a deeper understanding of how to effectively build workforce capability to address increasing service demands.
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Tsekouras, George. "Integration, organisation and management : investigating capability building." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263212.
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Lebow, Ellen. "Justice and Obligation: Building on the Capability Approach." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/368.
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Sen and Nussbaum generate very different degrees of obligation for the affluent under their theories of justice, despite each of them deriving their theory of justice from capability as a metric for quality of life. On one hand, Sen’s account of obligation seems very weak, while Nussbaum’s seems overwhelmingly robust. I argue that the sufficient/decisivereasons framework as put forth by philosopher Derek Parfit captures the nuances of their extremely different accounts of obligation. Further, I argue that this framework convincingly demonstrates that the accounts of obligation that Sen and Nussbaum offer in each of their versions of the capability approach are unsatisfying, as each approach occupies such extremes that they are unreasonable. In spite of this, supplementing the capability approach with a different and perhaps more centrist account of obligation can make the capability approach a more consistent and appealing theory of justice. To this end, I appropriate Thomas Pogge’s account of obligation.
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Rosensweig, Ryan R. "Elevating Design: Building Design as a Dynamic Capability." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306498990.
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Svahn, Fredrik. "Digital Product Innovation : Building Generative Capability through Architectural Frames." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-58009.
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Over the last decades we have witnessed a profound digitalization of tangible products. While this shift offers great opportunities, it also exposes product developing industries to significant challenges. In these industries organizations, markets, and technologies are tuned for mass production, providing competitive advantage through scale economics. Typically, firms exercise modular strategies to deliver such scale benefits. Rooted in Herbert Simon’s notion of near decomposability, modular product architectures allow for production assets, such as tools, processes, and plants, to be effectively reused across product variants and over generations of designs. However, they come at a price; modularity requires overall design specifications to be frozen well before production. In practice, this tends to inscribe functional purpose in the structures of the system, effectively preventing firms from taking advantage of the speed by which digitized products can be developed and modified. The main objective of this thesis is to investigate and explain how product developing organizations adapt architectural thinking to balance the proven benefits of modularity and the emerging opportunities provided by digital technology. In doing so, it introduces a complementary architectural frame, grounded in Christopher Alexander’s seminal work on patterns. This frame associates the concept of architecture with generativity and reuse of ideas, rather than scale economics and reuse of physical assets. Sensitizing the theoretical framework through a longitudinal case study of digital product innovation this thesis derives several implications for theory and practice. Across four embedded cases in the automotive industry it demonstrates that generative capability follows from a shared organizational view on products as enablers and catalyzers of new, yet unknown functionality. Such an emergence-centric view requires product developing firms to rethink existing governance models. Rather than exercising control through specific functionality, inscribed in modular product structures, it offers the benefit of influencing innovation through general functional patterns, serving as raw material in distributed and largely uncoordinated innovation processes. This shift in focus, from specific functionality to general functional patterns, enables a new strategic asset for product developing firms. It opens up for proactive rather than reactive strategies, where the architecture makes an instrument to cultivate new ideas and business opportunities, rather than a tool for cost savings.
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Johnson, Alastair Scott. "Building performance measurement systems to improve co-development capability." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341035.
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Wood, Danielle Renee. "Building technological capability within satellite programs in developing countries." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79502.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2012.Vita. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Global participation in space activity is growing as satellite technology matures and spreads. Countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are creating or reinvigorating national satellite programs. These countries are building local capability in space through technological learning. They sometimes pursue this via collaborative satellite development projects with foreign firms that provide training. This phenomenon of collaborative satellite development projects is poorly understood by researchers of technological learning and technology transfer. The approach has potential to facilitate learning, but there are also challenges due to misaligned incentives and the tacit nature of the technology. Perspectives from literature on Technological Learning, Technology Transfer, Complex Product Systems and Product Delivery provide useful but incomplete insight for decision makers in such projects. This work seeks a deeper understanding of capability building through collaborative technology projects by conceiving of the projects as complex, socio-technical systems with architectures. The architecture of a system is the assignment of form to execute a function along a series of dimensions. The research questions explore the architecture of collaborative satellite projects, the nature of capability building during such projects, and the relationship between architecture and capability building. The research design uses inductive, exploratory case studies to investigate six collaborative satellite development projects. Data collection harnesses international field work driven by interviews, observation, and documents. The data analysis develops structured narratives, architectural comparison and capability building assessment. The architectural comparison reveals substantial variation in project implementation, especially in the areas of project initiation, technical specifications of the satellite, training approaches and the supplier selection process. The individual capability building assessment shows that most trainee engineers gradually progressed from no experience with satellites through theoretical training to supervised experience; a minority achieved independent experience. At the organizational level, the emerging space organizations achieved high levels of autonomy in project definition and satellite operation, but they were dependent on foreign firms for satellite design, manufacture, test and launch. The case studies can be summarized by three archetypal projects defined as "Politically Pushed," "Structured," and "Risk Taking." Countries in the case studies tended to start in a Politically Pushed mode, and then moved into either Structured or Risk Taking mode. Decision makers in emerging satellite programs can use the results of this dissertation to consider the broad set of architectural options for capability building. Future work will continue to probe how specific architectural decisions impact capability building outcomes in satellite projects and other technologies.
by Danielle Renee Wood.
Ph.D.
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Egger, Philipp G. "Building technical process innovation capability : an intra-organisational perspective." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/263029.
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This dissertation is concerned with the strategic management of process innovations. It explores and describes in what way the technical process innovation capability is built and maintained by R&D and production departments at a world leading motor vehicle manufacturer. It is widely accepted that new or significantly improved production methods are a main driver of competitive advantage for innovative manufacturers and enable both effectiveness and efficiency gains. However, the strategic management of process innovations has been subjected to little research and remains not well understood. This research set out to develop a descriptive model—outlining the used activities, mechanisms and controls to undertake technical process innovation projects as well as the applied strategies, practices or tactics to institutionalise the knowledge and skills—which illustrates the strategic management of process innovations. An IDEF0 (Integration DEFinition language 0) function model was ’constructed’ from 15 examples of current or recent technical process innovations within the Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (BMW AG). This single-company multiple-case design utilised data sources such as semi-structured interviews, written documents and direct observations and made use of an inductive thematic (coding) analysis. Emerging from the evidence, this research reveals that cumulative learning through a closed-loop control and an appropriate interplay of co-ordination and learning mechanisms is essential for building and maintaining a technical process innovation capability. Furthermore, there is evidence to indicate that a formal system of reflection and contextspecific co-ordination mechanisms facilitate the incorporation of lessons learned and project related experiences into organisational process assets. The main outcome of this research has been the synthesis of elements contributing to the formation of a firm’s technical process innovation capability by means of a graphical concept map. However, due to the breadth of the investigated innovation stage-gate model which starts with a stimulus for innovation and proceeds through various stages of design and industrialisation to an innovation introduced into practice, some areas would benefit from further work. A possible direction to strengthen the empirical evidence is not only to replicate this research within and outside the automotive industry but also to focus on elements of the graphical concept map and to explain and understand their interaction in greater detail.
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Tiep, Nguyen Duc. "Honda development in Vietnam : local environment and capability building." Kyoto University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/136043.
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Lee, Ahreum. "DIVERSIFYING SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION CAPABILITY BUILDING, AND CATCH UP." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/462858.
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This dissertation consists of three essays examining the role of connectivity in the catch-up process of a nation primarily focusing on East Asian countries. Specifically, I investigate the sourcing of knowledge, especially tacit knowledge, on local innovation capability building and thus catch-up process of a nation. I argue that for any country, sourcing from the diverse pools of tacit knowledge available in different parts of the world is a crucial requirement in maintaining a robust innovation eco-system. This becomes much more important in the catch-up process of a less-developed or emerging economy that is attempting to build local innovation capability. In the first chapter, I lay the theoretical groundwork for the dissertation by reviewing how existing studies have contributed to our understanding of the catch-up process of an economy. Then, in the second chapter, I explore how the openness of an economy underpins contrasting economic outcomes by comparing the economies of South Korea and Brazil. The third chapter emphasizes that the connectivity to the global innovation system is equally important for a more advanced economy such as Japan. Lack of such connectivity could lead to systemic “lock-in” in the long term. This is done by investigating the national systems of innovation of Japan in four knowledge-intensive industries: automotive, electronics, robotics and pharmaceuticals. Using patent data, I demonstrate that compared to other advanced countries such as Germany and Denmark, the Japanese innovation system is quite closed. I speculate that closedness to global innovation systems could be one of the reasons for Japan’s prolonged economic recession and the underperformance of its once world leading firms. The fourth chapter proposes an alternative catch-up strategy by investigating the innovation catch-up processes in Korea and Taiwan. These two Asian economies achieved developed status in a remarkably short period of time. Surprisingly, I found that these two countries are not well-connected to the rest of the world when it comes to innovation networks. These two countries achieved innovation catch-up rapidly by focusing on specific technologies that inherently require less reliance on learning through co-inventor networks. These technologies are the so-called “short cycle” technologies, i.e., technologies where the time period between innovation and maturation is very short. Therefore, relatively advanced technologies can be obtained in an “off-the-shelf” manner through outright purchase, licensing, and other means that do not require in-house wholly-owned innovation systems.
Temple University--Theses
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Phan, Mai Thi Huong, and mai phan@rmit edu au. "Building green capability in small-to-medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs)." RMIT University. Management, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090821.162056.
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Despite the widely acknowledged contention that pollution control measures would be less beneficial than pollution prevention technologies in the long run, pollution control approaches remain a popular solution for organizations seeking, or coerced, to engage in corporate environmentalism. Drawing on the conceptual underpinnings of the Theory of Planned Behaviour as an integrative framework, this study combines the tenets of five major management theories - institutional, stakeholder, planned behaviour, resource-based view, and life-cycle management - to examine how and why small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs) embrace dissimilar approaches to implementing green initiatives under different circumstances. This research adopted a nested, multiple-case design to explore why some organizations have been able to obtain beneficial effects from their green initiative implementation while others have not. The findings, based on the experiences of s even SMMEs, which implemented a total of 27 green initiatives in their production operations, reveal that legislative requirements, stakeholders' expectations, organizations' natural environmental orientation, as well as their environmental resource base and capabilities, jointly drive corporate environmental strategies. The case study found that the higher the external pressures, a combination of legislative requirements and stakeholder expectations, the more likely it was for SMMEs to adopt quick-fix, off-the-shelve solutions, which typically carried limited short-term benefits with associated high long-term costs. By contrast, less intense external pressures offer firms the opportunities to explore plausible options and exploit internal resource capabilities to advantage, giving rise to the adoption of more sustainable approaches. The study further discovers that experiential learning, i.e., a firm's ability to learn from its green initiative implementation experience, separates SMMEs capable of capital izing on the values of their implemented green initiatives to gain competitive advantages and redefine competition from those that are immersed in a cognitive lock-in, unable to free themselves from an unproductive green wall. The findings suggest that nurturing organizational learning among environmentally resistive firms could transform them into environmentally responsible enterprises. The study concludes by interpreting its findings into a number of theoretical propositions for theory building in corporate environmental management.
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Hashemian, MohammadMahdi. "Endogenous capability building and start-up advantage In creating new markets." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107529.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-30).
Startups play a major role in establishing many new markets. This is theoretically puzzling because existing firms have more resources and relevant core and peripheral capabilities that should advantage them in diversifying into new markets. Here, we explore one mechanism that differentiates startups from existing firms: the stronger link between past performance and resources available for future capability building for startups than for existing firms. Using a simulation model, we show that this reinforcing loop leads entrepreneurial financial markets to quickly focus on more promising startups and, despite initial disadvantage, enable the most promising startups to overtake projects in well-endowed diversifying entrants. We analyze how different markets and technological opportunities can affect these dynamics.
by MohammadMahdi Hashemian.
S.M. in Management Research
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Almarzooqi, Ahmed. "Digital forensics practices : a road map for building digital forensics capability." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/14178.
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Identifying the needs for building and managing Digital Forensics Capability (DFC) are important because these can help organisations to stay abreast of criminal’s activities and challenging pace of technological advancement. The field of Digital Forensics (DF) is witnessing rapid development in investigation procedures, tools used, and the types of digital evidence. However, several research publications confirm that a unified standard for building and managing DF capability does not exit. Therefore, this thesis identifies, documents, and analyses existing DF frameworks and the attitudes of organisations for establishing the DF team, staffing and training, acquiring and employing effective tools in practice and establishing effective procedures. First, this thesis looks into the existing practices in the DF community for carrying out digital investigations and more importantly the precise steps taken for setting up the laboratories. Second, the thesis focuses on research data collected from organisations in the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates and based on this collection a framework has been developed to understand better the building and managing the capabilities of the DFOs (DFOs). This framework has been developed by applying Grounded Theory as a systematic and comprehensive qualitative methodology in the emerging field of DF research. This thesis, furthermore, provides a systematic guideline to describe the procedures and techniques of using grounded theory in DF research by applying three Grounded Theory coding methods (open, axial, and selective coding) which have been used in this thesis. Also the techniques presented in this thesis provide a thorough critique, making it a valuable contribution to the discussion of methods of analysis in the field of DF. Finally, the thesis proposes a framework in the form of an equation for analysing the capability of DFOs. The proposed framework, called the Digital Forensics Organisation Core Capability Framework, offers an explanation of the factors involved in establishing the capability for a digital forensics organisation. Also software was developed for applying the framework in real life.
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Warner, Karl S. R. "Networking capability development in new venture internationalisation : a theory building approach." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5418/.
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This thesis aims to explore how technology start-ups build dynamic capabilities in networking to enable their new venture internationalisation (NVI). Positioned within the theoretical context of international entrepreneurship research, this thesis draws on the strategic management, entrepreneurship, and international business literature. Specifically, this thesis draws on three theoretical perspectives: (1) dynamic capabilities, (2) networking and social capital, and (3) NVI theory. Together this study combines Helfat et al. (2007) asset orchestration framework along with Nahapiet and Ghoshal’s (1998) three dimensions of social capital as a theoretical lens to explore how various networking activities enable or inhibit NVI. Specifically, this thesis explores three overarching network processes, with respect to how international new ventures (INVs) (1) create, (2) extend, and (3) modify their social capital in high-technology markets. The empirical context is Scottish and Australian medical technology start-ups that compete in the global medical technology sector, a distinct sector of the wider life sciences industry. Methodologically, this an interpretivist study, which takes an abductive approach to building theory from longitudinal multiple case study research. The focal actor (i.e. level of analysis) is the INV, while the unit of analysis is the focal actor’s network relationships. Data collection and analysis took place over three iterative phases drawing on multiple primary and secondary data sources and processual analytical techniques. To collect these data, this thesis used semi-structured interviews drawing on the critical incident and narrative sequence techniques along with documents, and observation. This study began with a purposeful sample of eight medical technology start-ups, and as findings emerged, a theoretical sample of four cases, along with visual maps, conceptually ordered displays and case-ordered effects matrices helped focus and refine the cross-case analysis. From the emergent cross-case data analysis, three overarching aggregate categories were found to aggregate eleven second-order themes, which aggregate several first-order concepts. The overarching finding of this thesis is that networking capability development is an affect-based emergent process that enables NVI. Specifically, this thesis makes three contributions to knowledge. The primary contribution of this thesis takes a step towards a process theory of networking capability development. Therefore, this study identifies networking capability as one particular type of dynamic capability that enables NVI. Secondly, this thesis begins to unlock the black box of networking by identifying several networking activities that underpin the network-enhancing, network-delaying, and network-modifying process, which triggers, enables, and accelerates a virtuous cycle of networking capability development. Finally, this thesis argues that learning from delays and nurturing core ties helps shift technology start-ups’ reliance from impersonal relations towards future aspirations to internalise operations. A discussion of these findings then outlines the implications for theory, policy, and practice. This study closes with a discussion on research limitations and recommends new avenues for future research.
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Malmberg, Lisa. "Building Design Capability in the Public Sector : Expanding the Horizons of Development." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Interaktiva och kognitiva system, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-134167.
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Public sector organizations are in need of new approaches to development and innovation. There is a need to develop a capability to better understand priorities, needs and wishes of public sector service users and become more proactive, in order to meet the demands on keeping costs down and quality high. Design is increasingly put forward as a potential answer to this need and there are many initiatives taken across the world to encourage the use of a design approach to development and innovation within public sector. In relation to this trend there is a need to improve the understanding of how public sector organizations develop ability to exploit design; how they develop design capability. This is the focus of this thesis, which through an exploratory study has observed the two initiatives aiming to introduce design and develop design capability within healthcare and social service organizations. One main contribution of this work is an understanding of the design capability concept based on a structured review of the use of the design capability concept in the literature. The concept has previously been used in relation to different aspects of designs in organizations. Another important contribution is the development of an understanding for how design capability is developed based on interpretations founded in the organizational learning perspective of absorptive capacity. The study has identified how different antecedents to development of design capability have influenced this development in the two cases. The findings have identified aspects that both support and impede the development of design capability which are important to acknowledge and address when aiming to develop design capability within a public sector organization. In both cases, the set up of the knowledge transferring efforts focus mainly on developing awareness of design. Similar patterns are seen in other prior and parallel initiatives. The findings however suggest that it is also important to ensure that the organization have access to design competence and that structures like routines, processes and culture support and enable the use of design practice, in order to make design a natural part of the continuous development work.
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Bruce, Anna Gabrielle Photovoltaics & Renewable Energy Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Capability building for the manufacture of photovoltaic system components in developing countries." Awarded By:University of New South Wales. Photovoltaics & Renewable Energy Engineering, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41861.
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The manufacture of photovoltaic (PV) system components has a role to play in the industrialisation and poverty reduction strategies of developing countries. It has also been suggested that small scale local manufacture of balance of systems components has the potential to improve the maintenance, installation and use of the technology. However, PV is a complex technology and most developing countries have not been able to build the capabilities required to manufacture PV system components of an appropriate quality and price, either in the modern or small scale sectors. The factors that determine the success of PV manufacturers in developing countries are therefore of interest. Previous studies on learning in the PV industry have been focused on industry-wide concerns and have not explicitly addressed enterprise-level capability building or challenges specific to developing countries. In particular, there has been very little published about small scale PV manufacture. This thesis therefore aims to improve understanding of the factors that influence capability building, with a view to assisting decision making in relation to PV manufacture in developing countries. The aims of the study have been fulfilled by the development and assessment of a software simulation training tool for PV cell production line engineers, the development of an analysis framework, and application of it to several case study PV enterprises. Through the application of the framework to the case studies, it has been possible to assess the role of software simulations, the suitability of countries with different types of infrastructure for hosting PV manufacturing and the institutional arrangements or interventions that could be used to promote capability building for PV manufacturers in developing countries. While further case studies are required to make more than tentative conclusions, the framework developed and tested in this thesis may now be used as a tool to systematically and rapidly analyse the appropriateness of different types of PV manufacture in particular countries, to identify the weaknesses in their PV technological systems and therefore to suggest where resources should be invested and where appropriate institutional changes could be made. The simulation software has been demonstrated to be an effective capability building tool, thus providing one of the key elements required for successful manufacturing.
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Gust, Linda. "Building capability : impact of low and high-fidelity manikins on neonatal resuscitation simulation." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Health Sciences, 2010, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/1288.
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Purpose: Does manikin fidelity affect learning outcomes in neonatal resuscitation simulation? Description: This experimental design accessed and randomly assigned health care professionals (HCP) (N=60), who completed Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) recertification in a simulation lab. The experimental group used a high-fidelity manikin. The control group recertified using a low-fidelity manikin. Dependant variables included learning outcomes of confidence, skill performance, and knowledge. These were measured using the newly developed Neonatal Resuscitation Confidence Tool (NRCT), Megacode Assessment, and NRP written exam. Both groups underwent the same simulated resuscitation scenario. Outcome: A significant increase in confidence with simulation was found (p<.001). HCPs using the high-fidelity simulator did not have a significant increased level of confidence, knowledge or skill performance compared to using the low-fidelity simulator. However, there was a significant increase in confidence with repeated NRP courses (p=.003). Implications: The use of simulation for NRP is important to increase capability with increased practice intervals.ix, 109 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. --
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McGovern, Philip J. A. "Capability-building in small and medium enterprises through participation in a learning network." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443560.
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Wu, Yuanyuan. "Capability development in the early stages of firms: internal building, external leveraging, and flexibility." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96736.
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This dissertation aims to understand the capability development processes in the early stages of a firm. Empirically, most research has focused on established firms, or on explaining the variance in capabilities across firms at a given time. Theoretically, despite the shift to a more dynamic view and the increasing attention to leveraging external capabilities, our understanding of how firms achieve dynamic change or the interaction between the external and internal sourcing of capabilities is still limited. I address these gaps through three interrelated studies. Paper One adopts a multiple-case study design to develop a theory on the initiation and development of innovative capabilities in new firms. The existing literature separately focuses on internal resources or network leveraging. By contrast, this study shows how young firms combine internal building and external leveraging strategies to facilitate faster capability development in the early stages. Based on data from Montreal-based biotech firms, the results uncover different implications on the path and pace of capability development, and the role of collaboration in firms with different internal building paths. Paper Two focuses on how collaboration contributes to the internal capability building in new ventures. The capability effects of engaging in collaboration have remained unclear in the literature. Using data on collaborative scenarios from Montreal-based biotech firms, the study uncovers four knowledge building mechanisms in the focal firms. Each mechanism involves different knowledge added to the firm, and requires different interaction processes with its partners. This study increases understanding of network effects regarding capability development. Paper Three elaborates a framework of organizational capability development that integrates entrepreneurship and organizational routines. It addresses an ongoing discussion on the challenge of balancing efficiency and flexibility in organizations. Using the case of a Chinese telecoms-equipment firm, it highlights the knowledge dynamics between entrepreneurial activities and routines, the role of entrepreneurship on both the external and internal organizational interfaces and the exogenous and endogenous changes in routines. This framework advances the dynamic perspective of capability research. Overall, this dissertation contributes to process theories on dynamic capability development. It generates novel insights on capability initiation, extension, and change in organizations.Cette thèse vise à comprendre les processus de développement des capacités dans les premiers stades d'une entreprise. Empiriquement, la plupart des recherches ont porté sur des entreprises établies, ou bien ont cherché à expliquer la variance des capacités des entreprises à un moment donné. Théoriquement, malgré le passage à une vision plus dynamique et l'attention croissante à tirer parti des capacités externes, notre compréhension de la façon dont les entreprises parviennent à un changement dynamique ou l'interaction entre l'approvisionnement externe et interne des capacités est encore limitée. J'aborde ces écarts à l'aide de trois études interdépendantes. Le premier article adopte une étude de cas multiples conçue afin de développer une théorie sur l'introduction et le développement des capacités d'innovation dans les nouvelles entreprises. La documentation existante se concentre séparément sur des ressources internes ou l'utilisation de réseaux. En revanche, cette étude montre comment les jeunes entreprises combinent la mise en place interne et l'usage de stratégies externes afin de faciliter le développement rapide des capacités dans les premiers stades. À partir de données sur des entreprises de biotechnologie de la région de Montréal, les résultats révèlent des implications différentes sur le parcours suivi et le rythme de développement des capacités, et le rôle de la collaboration dans les entreprises avec différents parcours internes de mise en place. Le deuxième article se concentre sur la façon dont la collaboration contribue à l'édification des capacités internes dans de nouvelles entreprises. Les effets des capacités de s'engager dans la collaboration demeurent confus lorsqu'on examine la documentation sur le sujet. En utilisant des données sur des scénarios de collaboration à partir d'entreprises de biotechnologie montréalaises, l'étude révèle quatre mécanismes de mise en place des connaissances dans les entreprises visées par cette étude. Chaque mécanisme implique des connaissances différentes ajoutées à l'entreprise, et exige différents processus d'interaction avec ses partenaires. Cette étude améliore la compréhension des effets de réseau en ce qui concerne le développement des capacités. Le troisième article élabore un cadre de développement des capacités organisationnelles qui intègre l'esprit d'entreprise et des habitudes organisationnelles. Elle traite d'un débat toujours en cours sur le défi que représente l'équilibre entre l'efficacité et la flexibilité dans les organisations. En étudiant le cas d'une entreprise chinoise d'équipements de télécommunication, il met en lumière la dynamique des connaissances entre les activités entrepreneuriales et les habitudes, le rôle de l'entrepreneuriat à la fois sur les interfaces externes et internes de l'organisation et les changements exogènes et endogènes dans les pratiques habituelles. Ce cadre fait progresser la perspective dynamique de la recherche des capacités. Dans l'ensemble, cette thèse contribue au processus de théories sur le développement des capacités dynamique. Il génère des informations nouvelles sur la capacité d'initiation, de prolongement et de changement dans les organisations.
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Kraemer-Mbula, Erika. "Building technological capability in developing countries : A study of ICT firms in South Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522739.
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Nxumalo, Simphiwe. "Building sense-making dynamic capability through data science: A framework for strategic decision making." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79632.
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Leaders have a duty to make decisions that advance the course of their organisations. Cognitive limitations emanating from human bounded rationality, as well as complex external environments, place a limit on a leader’s ability to make quality decisions. This problem becomes pronounced when leaders have to make strategic decisions; which are often irreversible and commit scarce organisational resources.
There is, therefore creates a pressing need for organisations to develop capabilities that can aid leaders and their organisation discern their complex environment and improve decision making. This research was an inquiry into the development of dynamic capabilities that would aid sense-making, and decision making. The focal point for this inquiry was the role of Data science in enabling the creation of sense-making capabilities.
The study deployed an inductive qualitative methodology suitable for exploring the link between data science-enabled dynamic capabilities, and strategic decision making, as an emerging area of work. Part of this exploration involved reviewing existing literature from both business and academic sources. Data collection from participants ensured the infusion of domain knowledge into this study as augmented by academic literature in order to improve the reliability of the findings.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Garniati, Leuserina. "Indigenous capability building as an intervention strategy for sustainable energy implementation in vulnerable societies." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1120.
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Geospatial regions have different requirements for energy development due to variations in environmental, economic, social, and political constraints which influence their energy demand profiles and generation capacities. These constraints determine the policy, strategy, and implementation priorities for sustainable energy consumption, generation, and distribution. This PhD research project focuses on the role of interfaces between sustainable energy policy and appropriate technology; and its iterative feedback loop mechanism to encourage the implementation of sustainable energy systems in a vulnerable society. As a novel contribution to knowledge and practice, this PhD work concludes that: 1. Establishing a local business case for indigenous, appropriate technology, utilising a solid network which receives committed, political support, is an effective intervention strategy to fast track the deployment of sustainable energy systems, which breaks the cycle of vulnerability through social transformation and community empowerment. 2. Being aware of their own Western-Educated-Industrialised-Rich-Democratic (WEIRD) mindsets is a first step for knowledge exchange practitioners to overcome cultural differences and to introduce the intervention strategy. This was synthesised from the following new understandings which were obtained as the outputs of this PhD research: 1. Re-interpretation of the theory of vulnerable societies in relation to sustainable energy; 2. Re-interpretation of the theory of sustainable energy in relation to the proposed fourth dimension of sustainability; 3. Re-interpretation on the theory of appropriate technology in relation to technological independence and indigenous wisdom; 4. Novel conceptual model of a vulnerable society’s problem system; 5. Novel conceptual model of the interfaces between sustainable energy policy and appropriate technology in vulnerable societies. It is expected that the outcome of this PhD research can bridge the gaps identified in theoretical sustainable energy policies whilst in practice provide sound advice and confidence for policy makers and initiative implementers in grounding equal access to energy as a fundamental agent of change towards sustainable societal development.
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Rodrigo, Vitharanage. "Development of an e-business capability maturity model for construction organisations." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2016. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/32277/.
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E-business is defined as the use of ICT and internet related technologies to create new ways of conducting business activities. It has been identified as an innovative approach for construction organisations to gain substantial benefits and to improve productivity and efficiency of processes. However, the uptake of ebusiness in the construction industry has been comparatively limited and ineffective. There is a need of a tool to evaluate and review construction ebusiness process execution and performance for further improvements. This research aims to develop a capability maturity model to systematically identify current status of e-business processes as a method of enhancing process efficiency in construction organisations. In order to achieve this aim, a multi-method qualitative research design was adopted. Initially an analysis of existing construction process maps were carried out to establish a conceptual construction process categorisation. Then two rounds of Delphi based expert forum interviews were conducted to verify the conceptual process categorisation. In the second stage of research design, an analysis of existing process maturity models were carried out to identify construction e-business process maturity characteristics. These characteristics were verified through an expert forum and further ratified using three case studies. In the third stage, Construction E-Business Capability Maturity (CeB-CMM) and its user interface were developed using verified construction process categorisation and ratified construction e-business process maturity characteristics. Finally, CeB-CMM was validated by applying it to four construction organisation using CeB-CMM user interface. This research contributed to the existing body of knowledge by developing CeB-CMM and its user interface. Furthermore, this research established a construction process categorisation and determined the construction e-business process maturity characteristics. It is anticipated that the developed tool can be used by construction organisations as a tool to systematically evaluate their current ebusiness process maturity and provide them a pathway to further improve those processes.
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Uusitalo, Petri. "Understanding development of dynamic capabilities in industrialized house building : A case study." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Industriellt och hållbart byggande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-71478.
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Industrialized house building of multi-storey residential buildings is not only gaining practical importance in Sweden but is also emphasized as a way for companies to address the demands for lower and more predictable production costs, shorter delivery times and higher product quality. However, to be competitive on the market, IHB companies need to protect and capitalize their specific investments into platforms and organizations. The engagement inplatforms and industrialized way of working, it is not just about the complexity of integration but it is also about having a capability over time to handle this market variation (i.e. dynamic capabilities). Industrialized house building has mainly been investigated from an operational view, leaving a gap in the characterization from a strategical (dynamic) view. Purpose of this research is to increase understanding about industrialized house building, from a dynamic capability view, described the characteristics of industrialized house building through exploring and describing the evolution and development of and industrialized house building company. An in-depth, longitudinal case study approach was adopted to get and deeper understanding of the development of dynamic capabilities in an industrialized house building company. The unit of analysis was the long-term interaction between house-market development, the case company’s business development, and external collaboration activities between the years 1993 and 2018. The findings from the case study were then analyzed against a theoretical framework based on dynamic capabilities. Industrialized house building can be characterized by a set of dynamic capabilities constructs that are evolved and developed in order to cope with the changing conditions derived from both internal and external factors, entailed in entrepreneurship and long-term thinking. The findings indicate that the organization's focus may vary between different kinds of dynamic capabilities over-time. In addition, findings indicate that development of dynamic capabilities supporting collaboration and building trust to the market was of importance at the beginning of their journey. These dynamic capabilities evolved in close relations with external partners, due to external market pressure. This study also indicates that path dependency affects the development of dynamic capability, through collaboration, trust, and learning – which influence how the company behaves and through their investments in a platform constraining future actions.
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Jonsson, Mattias. "Moss-sedumtakets bullerdämpande egenskaper : The noise reduction capability of greenroofs." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Technology and Design, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-5340.
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Syftet med arbetet är att få en förståelse för moss-sedumtakets bullerdämpande egenskaper. Jag kommer även att försöka förutsäga med hjälp av akustikteori vilken utav de två olika uppbyggnadssystemen av moss-sedumtak som ger den bästa bullerdämpande effekten.
Mätningarna kommer att bestå i att registrera ljudtrycksnivån i rummet, vid varje oktavband i frekvensområdet 125-4000 Hz. Först utan moss-sedummattan och sedan med moss-sedum mattan. Storleken på differensen i ljudnivån ger en bild av i vilket frekvensområde som ljudabsorptionen är effektivast. För att ytterliggare öka förståelsen för hur moss-sedum absorberar ljud så kommer även absorptionsfaktorn att beräknas. Utifrån resultaten kan man se en tydlig bild på hur xeroflor moss-sedum mattan absorberar i frekvenserna 125-4000 Hz. Den har sin bästa absorption i området 500-4000 Hz och i detta område så är det runt 1000 Hz som den absorberar effektivast.
Om vi tittar på de två olika systemen som Veg Tech använder för att bygga upp ett sedumtak på så sker dämpningen i XMS 0-4 med hjälp av luftspalten och i system XMS 2-27 i VT-filten. Men i detta fall så är luftspalten endast 25 mm så en märkbar ökad dämpning är svårt att föreställa sig. VT-filten som används i XMS 2-27 har öppna celler och kan liknas vid mineralull, som är en bra absorbent. Min slutsats är att 10 mm VT-filt ger bättre dämpning än en luftspalt på 25 mm.
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Newell, Ashley Michelle. "Does capability measurement enable aspiration during emergent adulthood? Examining 'Poverty Stoplight' as a poverty measurement and capability building instrument for youth in South Africa." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32315.
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In South Africa, the majority of youth entering emerging adulthood find themselves in a protracted struggle to access further education, training or to secure their first decent job. The purpose of this multi-case study is to deepen the understanding of how capability measurement approaches and tools can empower marginalized youth to better understand their aspirations and map their way through emerging adulthood and out of poverty. This research aims to deepen the understanding of youth's experience utilizing 'Poverty Stoplight'; a poverty measurement and capability building instrument that utilizes a self-assessment survey and mentorship methodology. The researcher utilized a youth-focused participatory approach in conducting focus groups and in-depth one-on-one interviews across five marginalized communities in the Western Cape to gain insight into their experience using the tool, their ability to envision their future selves and develop their aspirations. What emerged from the data were insights into the youth's aspirations, the perceived enabling factors and impediments towards their aspirations and their experiences utilizing Poverty Stoplight. This process enabled youth to genuinely reflect and assess their situation, and have the opportunity to define their aspirations. Overall the Poverty Stoplight programme was experienced as empowering by participants, with several implications for the programme pertaining to data accessibility, communication, mentorship and solution sharing, as well as the importance of youth-specific participatory approaches. Aligned to this, the findings yielded several recommendations pertaining to providing support and enabling opportunities for emerging adults to realise their aspirations. Despite the limitations of this research, this study is relevant for stakeholders in South Africa and globally as it examines the critical issue of youth development, with a focus on the ability of young people to attain their aspirations. Further, it analyses the capability measurement approach as a means to ensuring young people can better understand and plot their way out of poverty, making the most of their individual capabilities and attributes within the broader structural and systemic challenges they face. This exploration of practical tools and methodologies being developed and utilized by pioneering organisations in the South African context provides empirical evidence of the merit of such approaches, with recommendations on how tools and approaches can even better serve the needs of youth. Further, longitudinal research is merited into the use of such capability measurement approaches to empower youth and the further use of participatory methodologies.
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Lim, Lewis Kui Suen. "Technology- versus relations-intensiveness in pricing capability-building a conceptualization and study of performance effects /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3274927.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, 2007.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 3042. Advisers: Rockney G. Walters; Rebecca J. Slotegraaf. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 14, 2008).
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Shakya, Indira. "Technological capability building : a case study of the mini-micro-hydro turbine manufacturers in Nepal." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1999. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21241.
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The principal objectives of this thesis are to assess the value to Nepal of developing the use of mini-micro-hydro as a modern energy source in the rural areas and, at the same time, of promoting the domestic manufacture of mini-micro-hydro turbines and associated equipment as a means of creating a modern engineering sector within the country. Development of the mini-micro-hydro sector is viewed as a possible solution to two of the country's urgent economic problems. A sustainable and efficient means must be found of supplying the energy needs of areas remote from the national grid and, at the same time, it is important for the country to develop a nucleus of modern engineering capability in capital goods manufacture: the existence of a capital goods sector is widely understood to be a necessary condition of technological progress and a key to the achievement of on-going economic growth. This study investigates the potential of mini-micro-hydro development as a means of providing complementary solutions to these two problems. Mini-micro-hydro plants installed in the rural areas generate energy in an environmentally-friendly manner, but what, it may be asked, are the returns in commercial and in social terms on such installations? The manufacture of mini-micro-hydro equipment is already being undertaken in Nepal: does this activity offer the prospect of technology transfer and the development of enhanced technological capability? A third, subordinate, objective of the study is to determine whether, if a case is made for promoting the installation and manufacture of mini-micro-hydro units, the stance of the government, and of other institutions, is as helpful as it could be to achieving these ends. The conclusions of the study - from investigation of mini-micro-hydro operations in rural areas, and from examination of the technological capabilities developed by the turbine manufacturing firms - are that a positive case can indeed be made for encouraging in Nepal both the use of mini-micro-hydro units and their manufacture. It would however appear that certain changes in government policy and more active involvement by research institutions would be of assistance for the advancement of the mini-micro-hydro sector.
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Magrabi, Ammar Mohammed. "Building responsive capability for disaster management : an empirical study of the Saudi Civil Defence Authority." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5446.
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Disasters are always local in their impact, and therefore approaches towards their alleviation need to be designed and implemented based on this certainty. Since the 1960s there has been a constant evolution in the common understanding of international disaster management. Various measures and structures were created to plan for emergency relief and the management of a disastrous event. Despite international efforts which aimed to reduce the impact of natural and anthropogenic hazards on humankind, very little progress was made. Loss of life, property, infrastructure and economic livelihoods are on the increase without any indication of improvement. Developmental activities can in most instances be blamed for the high level of disaster risk present in communities. On the other hand, very little has been done in the international arena (through a multi-disciplinary approach) to ensure a developmental focus on disaster risk. This study investigates the current state of disaster management practices in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) by benchmarking its activities against established frameworks applied in the developed world for disaster management. The aim of this thesis was primarily to provide a comprehensive framework for disaster risk management in KSA. Such a framework will serve as a guideline for all spheres of government on a strategic level in order to implement disaster risk management. Conclusions to the research demonstrate the importance of linking government policy and practice on disaster risk management across different stakeholders involved in managing disaster risk. This study proposed an integrated model for disaster management by introducing the dual paradigm of disaster management (proactive mindset and reactive mindset). In a nutshell, this thesis aimed to develop a comprehensive multi-disciplinary disaster risk management framework that would be tailor-made for the strategic management arena in Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Interior (Directorate of Civil Defence). The research provides the reader with a background study on the international development of the concept of disaster risk management and its components. It focuses on disaster risk management within the Saudi Arabian context. Four international disaster risk management frameworks are analytically compared and aligned with international best practices. Subsequently, the proposed Framework for Disaster in Saudi Arabia is analysed.
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Marcelle, Gillian Michelle. "Technological capability building and learning in the developing world : the experience of African telecommunication companies." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270725.
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Magrabi, Ammar Mohammed. "Building responsive capability for disaster managemen. An empirical study of the Saudi Civil Defence Authority." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5446.
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Disasters are always local in their impact, and therefore approaches towards their
alleviation need to be designed and implemented based on this certainty. Since the
1960s there has been a constant evolution in the common understanding of
international disaster management. Various measures and structures were created to
plan for emergency relief and the management of a disastrous event. Despite
international efforts which aimed to reduce the impact of natural and anthropogenic
hazards on humankind, very little progress was made. Loss of life, property,
infrastructure and economic livelihoods are on the increase without any indication of
improvement. Developmental activities can in most instances be blamed for the high
level of disaster risk present in communities. On the other hand, very little has been
done in the international arena (through a multi-disciplinary approach) to ensure a
developmental focus on disaster risk. This study investigates the current state of
disaster management practices in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) by
benchmarking its activities against established frameworks applied in the developed
world for disaster management.
The aim of this thesis was primarily to provide a comprehensive framework for
disaster risk management in KSA. Such a framework will serve as a guideline for all
spheres of government on a strategic level in order to implement disaster risk
management.
Conclusions to the research demonstrate the importance of linking government
policy and practice on disaster risk management across different stakeholders
involved in managing disaster risk. This study proposed an integrated model for
disaster management by introducing the dual paradigm of disaster management
(proactive mindset and reactive mindset).
In a nutshell, this thesis aimed to develop a comprehensive multi-disciplinary
disaster risk management framework that would be tailor-made for the strategic
management arena in Saudi Arabia¿s Ministry of Interior (Directorate of Civil
Defence). The research provides the reader with a background study on the
international development of the concept of disaster risk management and its
components. It focuses on disaster risk management within the Saudi Arabian
context. Four international disaster risk management frameworks are analytically
compared and aligned with international best practices. Subsequently, the proposed
Framework for Disaster in Saudi Arabia is analysed.
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Ramukumba, Ndivhuwo. "Building an organisational self-disruption capability for a competitive advantage: an investigation of the organisational antecedents." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64916.
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Organisations need to be able to self-disrupt in order to sustain their competitive advantage in todayÕs rapidly changing environment characterised as being highly Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) and resulting in discontinuous change. Organisational innovation practices determine their ability to respond to an environment in a state of flux. Many organisations fail to respond to disruptive discontinuous change and are unable to sustain a competitive advantage because they are unable to make the necessary adjustments in their strategies, structures, business models and culture. They are often unwilling to cannibalise their current investments.
Dynamic capabilities enable organisations to reconfigure, renew, integrate and refresh their resources, competencies and capabilities in response to a rapidly changing world. This research proposed a conceptual model for enabling Organisational Self-Disruption as a dynamic capability that will empower a willingness to cannibalise in order to sustain competitive advantage. The model proposed that a strategic innovation management system and the dynamic capabilities of organisational ambidexterity, strategic flexibility and strategic renewal can be used in an organisation to enable them to successfully self-disrupt if necessary.
A qualitative exploratory study evaluated organisational self-disruption and the elements of the proposed conceptual model. Findings suggest that managers recognise the importance of organisational self-disruption and that elements of the model may be useful in developing the dynamic capability of self-disruption.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Gernert, Julia, and Lorin Schenk. "What is Hiding in the Dark? : Learning Barriers to Building a Firm-Level Alliance Management Capability." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166334.
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Background Strategic alliances grant access to rare know-how, inimitable resources and valuable capabilities otherwise out of reach for a single firm. Existing alliance management literature focuses on the transfer of technical know-how between alliance partners. The intra-organizational learning process with the aim to build a firm-level alliance management capability to become better at managing strategic alliances has received little attention. Especially striking is the lack of extensive research on the barriers to this process. Aim This paper aims to shed light on the existence of learning barriers to the building of a firm-level alliance management capability. Methodology A qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews. Ten individuals with varying degrees of experience in managing strategic alliances were interviewed. The ten respective sample firms were spread across seven different countries and six different industries. Findings The analysis revealed 38 learning barriers existent to the building of a firmlevel alliance management capability both confirming common organizational learning barriers and revealing context-specific learning barriers. They originate either in the firm member’s thinking and behavior, the firm’s processes and structures or in the specific learning environment. Categorized in thematical clusters, they show problem areas such as a lack of top management support. Some of the found learning barriers like the tendency of alliance managers to prioritize the relationship to the alliance partner are findings that have not received attention in theory yet. Those contributions can support a deeper understanding of what individual firms and the field of alliance management is missing in building a firm-level alliance management capability.
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Elgrari, Omran. "The role of technology transfer in improving manpower capability in private house building companies in Libya." Thesis, University of Salford, 2011. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26658/.
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During the last few decades, major transfers of enterprises ownership from public to private sector have taken place around the world, as there is strong evidence supporting the positive effects of privatisation. This change in the structure of economies in many developing countries, coupled with the rapid pace of population growth, have improved economic efficiency, peoples preferences, and have increased new housing demand. However, the problem of lack of adequate housing has been common in Libya for many years, due to the shortage of skilled professionals and the low level of knowledge in advanced techniques of construction among house builders. Therefore, the construction of houses has received much government attention, and has been identified as a priority within the government policy. The Libyan Government has a target of 450,000 houses; in a short time span, this level of construction will be very difficult to undertake with the existing skills. Therefore, the government has invited foreign companies to work with Libyan companies on completing large housing projects and improving manpower capability. In this context, technology transfer from foreign to local companies is seen as one of the most important features that improves the capability of privatised companies. However, in Libya, the integration with foreign companies has not been exploited in any systematic fashion. This study aims to recommend strategies to improve manpower capability through technology transfer within the context of the Government's privatisation and foreign investor attraction programmes. Whilst the Government aimed at an overall improvement in many areas of their economy through its liberalisation policies, this research, in particular, investigates the factors that are of critical importance in improving manpower capability with specific reference to its ability to address the prevailing housing shortage in Libya. Therefore, a conceptual model for a potential tripartite approach between the Government, Libyan Private House Building (LPHB) companies and foreign companies was articulated within this research. A multiple case study approach was adopted to conduct exploratory case studies into joint venture housing projects in Libya. Guided by this overarching method, qualitative data was collected utilising the semi-structured interview technique and review of company documentation. The primary data was analysed utilising the content analysis technique. The research findings suggest that there should be an interlinked tripartite strategy between the Government, foreign companies and local private house building companies to improve manpower capability so that the Government's housing targets are achieved and sustained. The proposed integrated framework offers a targeted approach to achieve a stepped change in achieving both a quantitative and qualitative growth in the housing sector in Libya. The research makes an original contribution to knowledge by: 1. Providing an insight into, and understanding of, the current status of Libyan manpower within LPHB companies, which will be a useful resource for both researchers (through the thesis, papers and journal publications), and practitioners (through the provision specification of a guidebook on improving manpower capability in the house building sector). 2. Relocating ideas and insights from privatisation literature within the research undertaken on technology transfer and private housing developments with the specific focus on the developing country context. 3. Providing a new example of the tripartite model for improving manpower capability in the Libyan Housing Sector conceptualised and validated within exploratory multiple case studies. 4. The research benefits both policy makers and practitioners in two distinct ways. It benefits policy makers by providing recommendations in respect of the introduction of technology appropriate to the Libyan market and technology transfer mechanisms. Practitioners in housing will benefit from this study by understanding both the technology acquisition as well as assimilation process.
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Alexander, Dijo T. "Building Big Data Analytics as a Strategic Capability in Industrial Firms:Firm Level Capabilities and Project Level Practices." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1544006213410606.
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Mtya, Amanda. "Evaluation of building information modelling (BIM) adoption, capability and maturity within South African consulting and construction firms." Master's thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30916.
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The Construction Industry Indicators (CIIs) continue to reflect a steady growth in the level of client dissatisfaction with the performance of contractors and consultants on construction projects whilst firms in the industry battle for survival. In order to survive in the highly competitive construction market, firms within the industry, need a paradigm shift. To move from traditional project delivery methodologies which continue to yield unsatisfactory results to innovative project delivery methods and practices. With the advancements in computational technologies and processes, the industry needs to move towards integrated, collaborative and computable processes, to increase productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, reduce lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is the innovative project delivery method that helps reduce fragmentation and provides opportunities for enhanced collaboration and distributed project development. BIM is slowly gaining momentum in the South African construction industry. Even though there is an abundance of industry discussions and academic literature professing the ability of BIM methodologies to increase productivity, scholars have found that it has not yet been coupled with the availability of useful metrics, knowledge and tools to reliably measure BIM benefits. Few organisations and individuals have been exposed to some BIM tools whilst many still lack thorough understanding of BIM as a project delivery method. To capture the full benefit of BIM methodologies, firms in project networks must coordinate and develop interoperable business practices and procedures. This study assessed the level of BIM adoption, capability and maturity in consulting and construction firms and evaluated if there were differences in the level of adoption, capability and maturity of BIM between consulting and construction firms. The study also evaluated the relationship between level of BIM maturity and project performance of consulting and construction firms. The study found that there is a statistically significant relationship between the level of BIM capability and project performance. Lastly, the study reports on the current perceived benefits of BIM in the South African construction industry.
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Zeniou, Maria. "Building a relational capability in business service relationships : the exploration of learning needs in stages of relationship development." Thesis, University of Derby, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/314038.
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Context and Objectives: There is an increasing recognition that there is great potential in utilizing learning in client relationships as this can enable service providers to develop relational capabilities and more successfully manage relationships. Building on this premise, the present study argues that learning in relationships relates to the ability to learn from the local context to leverage relationship success. To do this, requires an understanding of what drives success in each stage of relationship development and how this can be achieved to ensure success. The aim of the research is to explore the potential for learning in business service relationships, through the exploration of learning needs relevant in stages of relationship development. Learning needs are defined as what service providers need to learn about how to leverage successful relationships at each stage of development. Research Methodology: The study employs two qualitative case studies of business service providers that provide contextually differing embedding conditions for relationships and learning. Data has been gathered through interviews with individual service providers, observation of practice and organisational documentation. The research undertaken explores service providers’ approach towards relationship development, with the aim of identifying critical factors influencing success in each relationship stage and corresponding opportunities for learning through the experiences and challenges faced by service providers in practice. Findings: Results highlights that learning from the local context is critical for managing relationship success. Critical success factors for each stage are identified from the experiences and challenges faced by service providers across the two cases. These are translated into learning needs for each stage that aim to guide service providers’ attempts to learn from the local context in order to inform and adapt their approach. The appreciation of learning needs in relation to the unique context of each organisation directs attention to corresponding guidelines for practice. The research concludes with the proposition of a theoretical model for learning in relationships as well as a practical learning needs framework that can be incorporated in service providers’ practices for managing client relationships. Importantly results suggest that becoming relationally capable requires a transition to embracing a learning orientation in terms of both philosophy and process. Research Relevance and Implications: The study extends the potential for the creation of a relational capability in business relationships through the exploration of learning needs. Findings suggest that relationship management can be viewed as a cyclical process of learning and adaptation where success at each stage rests on the ability to read and learn from the local context and engage in appropriate actions in practice. The study contributes towards practice, by providing a practical framework through which service providers can develop relational learning. Exploration and appreciation of learning needs in stages of relationship development can aid service providers in the establishment of appropriate approaches towards intervention or stimulation of relationship success.
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Toyama, Manoon. "Technology and economic development : a case study of technological capability building in selected food manufacturing sectors in Thailand." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2000. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20371.
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The study analyses the role of various internal and external factors (of firms) in technological capability building (TCB) in the food industry of Thailand, by viewing two main aspects of TCB: first, four main elements of technological capabilities (i. e. acquisitive, operative, adaptive and innovative); and secondly, the capability of developing new products. A review of the relevant literature demonstrates that various internal and external factors can influence the success or failure of technological capability building of the firm. The internal factors include size of firm, role of the entrepreneur, firm's policy and strategy, management and administration, accumulation of firm's own experience, manpower flow and internal links, firm's own effort in R&D, and human resource development. The external factors include competitive environment, role of government and related institutions, customers, competitors, foreign direct investment, and cooperation with external agencies. Dat a collected from a sample of 62 firms have been closely studied. To start with regression analyses have been undertaken. At a second stage, a perception analysis was used to identify the relative importance of the various factors, as perceived by the firms, influencing the enhancement of the four elements of technological capability. However, for viewing firm-level capability building for developing new products, we have also used a qualitative analysis in the form of a 'pair comparison' review. Although for operative and adaptive capabilities the regression analyses carried out do not show that any of the factors identified have statistically significant relationship, for acquisitive and innovative capability building statistically significant relationships are observed against ownership and promotion status (and in the case of innovative capability, firm size and market orientation as well). However, on the basis of the perception analysis carried out some overseas customers andoverseas market competitors emerge as dominant ones. In the case of firm-level capability building for developing new products, the regression analysis reveals that only firm-size has statistically significant relationship, while the 'pair comparison' analysis shows that various factors including top management values, policy and strategy, management and administration, R&D efforts, internal linkage and information system, the sufficient fund for undertaking R&D and human resource training, and the motivation and the reward system are dominant ones.
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Brennan, Kathryn E., University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Education. "Leading educational change for a preferred future : a gender inclusive approach to building school leadership effectiveness, capacity and capability through learning." THESIS_CAESS_EDU_Brennan_K.xml, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/539.
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This portfolio presents a research continuum spanning the period of the author’s Ed.D. candidature (1998–2004) addressing the questions, What capabilities contribute to effective school leadership; Why do so few women become school principals and what strategies can be employed that will redress the current gender imbalance among school leaders? Findings are drawn from four research projects : Women as educational leaders; Leading change in NSW government secondary schools; The role of middle management in secondary schools and leadership capability – principals in NSW government schools. These findings suggest that structured opportunities for professional learning within different educational contexts need to be readily available, supported and accessible. The relative lack of disparity between the leadership practice of ‘effective’ female and male principals demonstrated in this research portfolio suggests a gender inclusive framework to be a viable way forwardDoctor of Education (Ed. D.)
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Brennan, Kathryn Elizabeth. "Leading educational change for a preferred future : a gender inclusive approach to building school leadership effectiveness, capacity and capability through learning /." View thesis, 2004. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20060518.113701/index.html.
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Thesis (Ed.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2004."A portfolio submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Education from University of Western Sydney, April 2004." Includes bibliographical references and aoppendices.
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Reynolds, Benjamin F. "An augmented Reality Editor : building data-focused tools to extend the capability, connectivity, and usability of a mobile Internet of Things browser." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113172.
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This thesis describes extensions made to the Reality Editor system to improve its ability to browse augmented reality content and to customize the flow of data between Internet of Things objects. The augmented reality browsing is improved by a platform shift to web technologies, while the data customization is provided by the design of logical operators that can be added to a network of objects. The contribution lies in the implementation of a novel grid-constrained, data flow visual programming language called Logic Crafting, which provides a modularized and extensible environment for manipulating the data passed between loT objects. Associated contributions involve web service modules that allow non-developers to connect loT objects with arbitrary remote services, and an implemented mechanism for changing the permissions model for loT objects on a per-resource level. The thesis then presents a number of prototypes enabled by using web technologies for augmented reality, as well as demonstrative use cases for programming loT objects with Logic Crafting. Finally, the thesis reflects on the implication of these features and prototypes on the subject of augmented multiuser environments.
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Ongel, Begum. "Assessing Risk Management Maturity: A Framework For The Construction Companies." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611457/index.pdf.
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Due to its complex nature, risk and uncertainty are more widespread in construction industry than many other industries. Aiming to ensure that all project objectives are met, risk management is considered as a critical success factor for construction projects. The core elements of risk management are now known and used by many organizations. On the other hand, as declared by Project Management Institute (PMI), the ability to measure the effectiveness in managing risk is one of the most important areas that risk management needs to be developed in.
Designed to assess the capability of a project or an organization in a particular area, a maturity model aids in determining strengths and weaknesses, and to target improvement strategies accordingly. Several maturity models have been developed for the area of risk management and furthermore, an attempt to adapt a generic risk management maturity model to the construction industry was specified from the literature. All in all, when examined, it was seen that most of these models outline the topics to be investigated in a maturity assessment and provide guidance in terms of content. It was believed that a practical approach was needed and the diagnostic characteristics of these models should be enhanced. Therefore, the aim of this study was to propose a construction risk management maturity framework, together with an easily applicable and effective questionnaire. To achieve this aim, six outstanding risk management maturity models were examined, and the proposed model was further supported with construction-specific attributes such as construction supply chain issues. The applicability of the model was tested through case studies conducted with five large scale Turkish construction companies. The results were evaluated and interpreted for each company and the gathered data were further investigated through statistical tests for certain comparisons. Finally, the questionnaire was revised with respect to the feedback received from the case studies.
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Manyuchi, Raymond Freddy. "The role of civil society organisations/non-governmental organisations (CSOs/NGOs) in building human capability : the case of Africa Community Publishing Development Trust (Zimbabwe)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20086.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study represents an analysis of the role of civil society organisations/non‐governmental organisations (CSOs/NGOs) in building human capabilities through knowledge construction. It assesses the effectiveness of community publishing in building human capabilities under challenges they face in the environment they are operating in. The complex environment CSOs/NGOs are operating in is dealt with. It will be demonstrated that CSOs/NGOs give marginalised communities, especially women, children and the disabled, a platform where they can organise themselves and give them an opportunity to influence policy and development of their community. Community development has many interpretations. This study focuses on communities as central agents responsible for their own development. When communities participate in their own development, they are engaging in an educational process which is both formal and informal in nature. The education process helps them to understand their situations better. This type of education called ‘popular education’, is based on the belief that people involved in the process have important knowledge that they have acquired from their experiences in life and the education they receive mainly consists of dialogue between different knowledge sets that they possess. In the process, when people participate actively in the development of their communities, a sense of ownership is developed. For the purpose of designing the study, observation of the direct involvement of staff from local government, Africa Community Publishing Development Trust and partner organisations as well as working with communities from Shamva, Umzingwane and Buhera provided the basis. It is noted that party politics affects the development of a CSO/NGO sector that is capable of building human capabilities. It is, therefore, clear that government should create an enabling environment that is free from violence and rule of law should be respected as this helps CSOs/ NGOs to implement capability building programmes conducive for all communities to participate in the development of their areas.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie ontleed die rol van burgerlike organisasies/nie‐regeringsorganisasies (BOs/NRO's) in die bou van menslike vermoëns deur middel van kennis konstruksie. Die studie beoordeel die effektiwiteit van die gemeenskap uitgewery in die bou van die menslike vermoëns en die uitdagings wat hulle in die gesig staar in die omgewing waar hulle hul bevind. Die komplekse omgewing waarin BOs / NRO’s hul bevind word inmiddels behandel. BOs/NRO's gee gemarginaliseerde gemeenskappe veral vroue, kinders en gestremdes 'n platform waar hulle hul self kan organiseer en gee hulle ' n geleentheid om beleid te beïnvloed en hul gemeenskap te ontwikkel. Ontwikkeling van die gemeenskap het baie interpretasies. Die studie fokus op die gemeenskappe as sentrale agente wat verantwoordelik is vir hul eie ontwikkeling. Wanneer gemeenskappe betrokke is in hul eie ontwikkelings proses, neem hulled deel aan ’ n opvoedkundige proses wat van nature beide formeel en informeel is. Die opvoedkundige proses help hulle om hul situasies beter te verstaan. Hierdie tipe van Onderwys genaamd "gewilde onderwys", is gebaseer op die oortuiging dat mense wat betrokke is in ‘n proses belangrike kennis besit as gevolg van persoonlike lewenservaringe, die opvoeding wat hulle ontvang bestaan hoofsaaklik uit dialoog tussen die verskillende kennis stel dat hulle besit. Wanneer mense aktief deelneem in die ontwikkeling van hul gemeenskappe, word 'n gevoel van eienaarskap ontwikkel. In terme van die ontwikkeling van die studie het die direkte betrokkenheid van die personeel van plaaslike regering, ACPDT en vennoot organisasies asook die werk met die gemeenskappe van Shamva, Umzingwane en Buhera die basis gevorm van die studie. Politieke partye beinvloed die ontwikkeling van die BO/NRO‐sektor en dit stel hulle in staat om menslike vermoëns op te bou. Die regering moet 'n instaatstellende omgewing skep wat vry is van geweld en waar die oppergesag van die reg gerespekteer word. Dit sal BO’s/NRO's help om vermoëns bouende programme te implementeer wat gemeenskappe die geleentheid sal gee om deel te hê aan die ontwikkeling van hul gemeenskap.
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Bosi, Mirela Guedes. "Caracterização da gestão e de atividades de capacitação para o processo de desenvolvimento de produto alimentício: estudos de caso." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2003. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/3509.
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Previous issue date: 2003-12-19During the 90s, Brazilian market open to imported goods sets the beginning of food industry transformation in Brazil. Other factors led to competitiveness growth among food companies, such as: the development of new technology, and consumers knowledge and expectation level increase. Therefore, food companies were forced to seek for competitive advantage which allowed the differentiation of their products in the market. In this context, product development process (PDP) gains fundamental importance. Due to the importance of PDP in the food industry, this work seeks characterize the food product development process management. Besides, this work aims to characterize the capability to PDP. In order to reach these purposes, eight food companies and three organizations (ITAL, SENAI, and a consultant company) that backup food industry were studied. Three food companies were chosen out of the eight which were studied and were presented in this work. The chosen companies have a more structured PDP, which allows a discussion on capability building process. The findings showed that food companies follow a sequence of phases and activities during PDP. This sequence is very similar when food companies are compared with each other and with the theoretical background. Concerning capability, food companies see capability building restrict to courses, and to market fairs visiting. The organizations that backup food industry serve mainly small companies, which do not have either enough technical or managerial knowledge in order to develop a product. Therefore, we consider that food product development process management is based on technical aspects. However, a minimal of managerial structure has been started by the companies. Besides, the need to develop new products tends to make food companies put in resources to build capability.
Na década de 90, a abertura do mercado brasileiro à importação marca o início da reestruturação da indústria brasileira de alimentos. Outros acontecimentos também contribuíram para o crescimento da concorrência entre as empresas de alimentos, como o desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias e o aumento do nível de conhecimento e de expectativas dos consumidores. Portanto, as empresas foram obrigadas a buscar vantagens competitivas que possibilitassem a diferenciação de seus produtos no mercado. Nesse contexto, o processo de desenvolvimento de produto (PDP) passou a ter fundamental importância. Considerando a importância do PDP na indústria de alimentos, este trabalho tem como objetivo caracterizar a gestão do processo de desenvolvimento de produto em empresas da indústria de alimentos. Além disso, este trabalho visa caracterizar a capacitação para o PDP. Para que os objetivos fossem alcançados, foram realizados estudos de caso em oito empresas alimentícias e em três instituições (ITAL, SENAI e uma empresa de consultoria) de apoio à indústria de alimentos. Das oito empresas pesquisadas, foram selecionadas três para apresentação e análise dos resultados. As empresas selecionadas possuem o PDP mais bem estruturado, possibilitando uma discussão acerca da capacitação para esse processo. Como resultado, foi constatado, que as empresas de alimentos seguem uma seqüência de fases e atividades no PDP. Essa seqüência é bastante similar tanto na comparação entre empresas, quanto na comparação com a literatura. Quanto à capacitação, as empresas de alimentos vêem a construção da capacitação para o PDP limitada a cursos e treinamentos, e a visitas a feiras. As instituições de apoio prestam serviços principalmente a pequenas empresas, que não possuem conhecimento técnico e gerencial necessário ao desenvolvimento de produto. Conclui-se que a gestão do PDP alimentício é muito baseada no aspecto técnico. Porém, um mínimo de estruturação para gestão já foi iniciado pelas empresas. Além disso, a necessidade de desenvolver novos produtos tende a fazer com que as empresas de alimentos aloquem recursos para a construção da capacitação.
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McMenamin, T., R. Millar, M. Morton, C. Mutch, J. Nuttall, and G. Tyler-Merrick. "Curriculum Policy and Special Education Support. Final report to the Ministry of Education 8. MacArthur, J.A., Kelly, B., Higgins, N., Phillips, H., McDonald, T.A., Morton, M. & Jackman, J. (2003). Building capability in education for students with moderate and high needs: Literature Review. Wellington; Ministry of Education." University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Leadership, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10694.
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Chang, Long. "Implementation of Improved AIRS with Adaptive Online Learning Capability for Cloud-enabled Fault Detection and Diagnosis of HVAC Systems in Intelligent Buildings." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1417370136.
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Liu, Li-Ping, and 劉莉萍. "Building Dynamic Capability through Organizational Learning：A Case Study." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91238223432736602439.
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In recent years, the popularity of coffee-drinking culture has brought about new development in bakery industry. After Taiwan’s entrance into WTO, chain store owners in bakery industry start to adjust their business operation steps and slow down their speed of opening new chain stores. Therefore, only those who can sense the change of customer’s appetite can survive in this ever-competing environment. World keeps moving forward, many store owners in the bakery industry try very hard to enhance their core competitiveness and dynamic capability and try to position themselves in the right business operation status. The change in social structure and diet habit, the continuous economic slump and rise in unemployment rate have made the consumption in a dropping trend. How the store owners in the bakery industry can distinguish themselves from other competitors and enhance their product competitiveness, avoid price war and stand out in the environment of severe price war is really a very important topic for the bakery industry to think about. How to building dynamic capability through organization learning for the bakery industry is going to be a main topic in this study, meanwhile, organization learning in a case-study company is going to be used for investigation and analysis. This study is a qualitative study and case study method is going to be adopted. Data analysis contains text script and related sub-data, then, after referring to related literatures, we have developed three main architectures, namely, experience accumulation, knowledge articulation and knowledge codification. Finally, 11 questions are developed after data analysis in order to be used for the investigation of the organization learning mechanisms implemented by the enterprise and for the channels of building up dynamic capability.
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Tsai, Pei-han, and 蔡佩珊. "Product Innovation, Marketing, and Brand-building: A Capability Perspective." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98733489026493243615.
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Innovative products, successful marketing, and well established brands are important sources to a firm’s profitability. These three sources of profitability are becoming more and more critical in today’s business environment where lifecycles of products are short and competition among firms is fierce. Although the three facets of profitability have been studied individually, investigation of their relationship could better understand what capabilities are needed for these three sources of profitability and how they relate to each other. With the examples of Xerox and Polaroid, whose brands have become the representatives of their products, and the review of related literature, this research develops four theoretical propositions which inter-relate the three facets. The theoretical framework implies that a firm’s strategic capabilities, knowledge capabilities, and managerial systems collectively influence the development of its product innovation and marketing capabilities. Further, the interactively developed and synchronized product innovation and marketing capabilities contribute to brand-building capabilities. The case study research method was adopted for this research. Electronic firms, who are in the process of building brands or have succeeded or failed in building brands, were chosen for case studies. These case studies were used to empirically test the theoretical propositions. The empirical results show that the proposed framework is theoretically sound. Adequate integration of marketing capabilities with innovation capabilities is helpful to brand-building. The theoretical model should help innovative firms in building their brands.