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The Entertainment, Media and Technology Industry Team at Sheppard Mullin is a full-service multi-disciplinary group representing the major motion picture studios, television networks and other domestic and international entertainment, media and communications companies in all areas, including: motion picture and television development finance, production and distribution advertising/sweepstakes branded entertainment games intellectual property licensing and merchandising mergers, corporate finance, acquisitions and other strategic corporate transactions music First Amendment convergence, online/technology publishing sports

The visible dimension of an organisation consists of its structure, stories, spaces and its core values. These are the building blocks of the cultural aspect of any organisation. The authors quote an example of how stories can form and affect the culture and way people think about their work within the company. At Lotus there was a well circulated story of how an employee logged into her notes to work from the hospital bed. This highlighted her motivation to work and set an amazing example for the rest of the organisation to follow. Stories can effectively communicate what actions are in bounds or out of bounds and sets the tempo for the organisations working culture. The authors club all the above mentioned “artefacts” into a single object and look at these artefacts as the visible part of an organisation’s culture.

This ethnographic study investigates how a project group deals with the contradiction between distributed knowledge in boundary-spanning collaborative processes and the expectation that software systems will provide unified, codified knowledge. Group and individual activities were observed over a period of 18 months, to examine the ways knowledge was presented, recognized, shared, or otherwise managed during joint design of business process and IT systems change. The study explores how knowledge and expertise were translated across organizational boundaries, and identifies four stages in the development of group understanding of how to manage sensemaking and expertise across knowledge boundaries: focus on defining shared goals; acknowledging and sharing tacit knowledge about organizational practice; identifying external influences; and explicit knowledge generation.

For Nonaka (1991) tacit and explicit knowledge are not separate but mutually complementary entities.  They interact with each other in the creative activities of human beings.  Nonaka calls the interaction of these two forms of knowledge the knowledge conversion process. This conversion process consists of four stages: socialization, externalization, combination and internalisation. 

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Today we’re making a version of that framework, the Verizon Incident Sharing Framework (VerIS), available for you to use. In the document that  you can download here, you’ll find the first release of the VerIS framework.  You can also find a shorter executive summary here.  Our goal for our customers, friends, and anyone responsible for incident response, is to be able to create data sets that can be used and compared because of their commonality.  Together, we can work to eliminate both equivocality and uncertainty, and help defend the organizations we serve.

6 Sigma.us offers online, onsite and open enrollment six sigma training and six sigma certification in Green Belt, Black Belt, Master Black Belt, Champion and Lean Agent Certification.

This course advances the concept that humans and their organizations are an integral part of the engineering paradigm and that it is up to engineering to learn how to better integrate considerations of people into engineering systems of all types. This course focuses this concept on the assessment and management of the risks associated with engineered systems during their life-cycle (concept development through decommissioning). Risks (likelihoods and consequences) are addressed in the contexts of the desired quality from an engineered system including serviceability (fitness for purpose), safety (freedom from undue exposure to harm), compatibility (on time, on budget, with happy customers including the environment), and durability (freedom from unexpected degradations in the other quality characteristics). Reliability is introduced to enable assessment of the wide variety of hazards, uncertainties, and variabilities that are present during the life-cycle of an engineered system. Proactive (get ahead of the challenges), Reactive (learn the lessons from successes and failures), and Interactive (realtime assessment and management of unknown knowables and unknown unknowables) strategies are advanced and illustrated to assist engineers in the assessment and management of risks.

Bea categorizes disasters into four groups. One such group is when an organization simply ignores warning signs through overconfidence and incompetence. He thinks the BP spill falls into that category. Bea pointed to congressional testimony that BP ignored problems with a dead battery, leaky cement job and loose hydraulic fittings.

A methodical approach exists based on the Shaw patented method - Customer-Inspired Process Deployment®. The methodology starts with how an external customer experiences your organization and creates the structure of your organization as an assemblage of processes. This approach will most likely look quite different than your traditional organization chart. In fact, the organization chart really has little to do with how work gets done, in most cases. 

The conceptual framework and value chain analysis methodology developed for this study are being refined in light of the lessons learned by the research team, and applied to further studies in other sectors, not all of which are as buoyant as bagged salad! Co-innovation is a concept in which we firmly believe and in which Houston's Farm is now firmly engaged. However, there remains much to learn about how to do it and how to research it. The value chain innovation research initiative at the University of Tasmania will, we hope, provide more valuable insights for academics and practitioners in the future.

Welcome to MedHomeInfo, the resource for physicians and practices that want to participate in the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (MMHD)

STAN (short for subSTance flow ANalysis) is a freeware that helps to perform material flow analysis according to the Austrian standard ÖNorm S 2096 (Material flow analysis - Application in waste management).

Sankey Helper v2.4 helps you design Sankey diagrams from Excel data ... in Excel !

Intro What is a Sankey-Diagram? References Demo version Full version   Know-How Games Software Recommendations Pinchleni Software   What is a Sankey-Diagram? A Sankey diagram is a graphic illustration of flows, like energy, material or money flows. Usually the flows are illustrated as arrows. The width of the arrows is proportional to the size of the represented flow. Sankey diagrams are a better way to illustrate which flows represent advantages and what flows are responsible for waste and emission

Sankey diagrams are a specific type of flow chart, in which the width of the arrows is shown proportionally to the flow quantity. They are typically used to visualize energy or material transfers between processes. The flow arrows can be color-coded to indicate the type of the flow (energy, mass, costs, etc).

CHAPTER 4 FRAMEWORK FOR SCADA UTILITY SURVIVABILITY MODELING * 4.1 Risk Modeling * 4.2 Internet Survey * 4.3 Survivability * 4.4 Taxonomy for Assessing Computer Security * 4.5 Definitions and Terms for a Taxonomy * 4.6 Understanding the Taxonomy * 4.7 Hierarchical Holographic Modeling (HHM) * 4.8 Recent Uses of the HHM in Identifying Risks * 4.9 Risk Modeling Using HHM * 4.10 Goal Development and Indices of Performance * 4.11 Event Tree and Fault Tree Analysis * 4.12 Distributions from Event Tree Analysis * 4.13 Partitioned Multiobjective Risk Method * 4.14 Multiobjective Tradeoff Analysis * 4.15 Evaluation *

Creately is a visual collaboration platform used by project teams to communicate more effectively. With Creately's easy to use interface and Shared Projects, everyone on your design, development and business teams can collaborate on software designs, wireframes, business & strategy diagrams easily.

Do you wonder why people don’t understand the idea you’re trying to get across in a meeting? Are you mentoring another developer and struggling to understand why the still don’t get it? Do you run training courses and wonder why the attendees only learn 10% of the material? We are all teachers whether as informal mentors, coaches, trainers or parents. Yet only professional educators receive training in this area. Nearly two years ago I started reading neuroscience (Norman Doidge’s “The Brain that Changes Itself”), for fun. Along the way I acquired an interest in neuroscience and wondered how its lessons could be applied to Agile Software Development and beyond.