Design Thinking Paradigm in the Development of an Open Source Strategic Planning Framework

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janio Jadan-Guerrero ◽  
Santiago Miranda ◽  
Zandra Altamirano ◽  
Jose Manzano
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Planning Framework

Strategic planning in today's dynamic world

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
Terrance M. Brueck
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Framework

Utilities today must adapt quickly to complex changes in workforce, infrastructure, technology, and regulations, as well as outside factors of the economy, security issues, and societal trends. Linear, cause-and-effect strategic planning does not work well in today's world. Given these uncertainties, how can utilities develop meaningful and useful strategic plans? Faced with these challenges, a group of 18 leading international utilities, assisted through IWA, has developed new ways of strategic planning. This project, sponsored by AwwaRF and conducted by EMA, has created a dynamic and flexible strategic planning framework. A new framework, coupled with many of these utilities' experiences in strategic planning, is the subject of this paper.

scholarly journals Disrupting the Digital: An Architecture of Parts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mollie Claypool ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
The Way

The paper ascribes to a belief that architecture should be wholly digital – from the scale of the micron and particle to the brick, beam and building, from design to fabrication or construction. This embodies a fundamental and disruptive shift in architecture and design thinking that is unique to the project images included, enabling design to become more inclusive, participatory and open-source. Architecture that is wholly digital requires a radical rethinking of existing design and building practices. Thes projects described in this paper each develops a set of parts in relationship to a specific digital fabrication technology. These parts are defined as open-ended, universal and versatile building blocks, with a digital logic of connectivity. Each physical part has a malefemale connection which is the equivalent of the 0 and 1 in digital data. The design possibilities – or the way that parts can combine and aggregate – can be defined by the geometry and therefore, design agency, of the piece itself. This discrete method advances a theoretical argument about the nature of digital design as needing to be fundamentally discrete, and at the same time responding to ideas coming from open-source, distributed modes methods of production. Furthermore it responds to today’s housing crisis, providing for a more democratic and equitable framework for the production of housing. To think of architecture as wholly digital is to substantially disrupt the way that we think about design, authorship, ownership and process, as well as the building technologies and practices we use in contemporary architectural production.

Design-Led Strategy: How To Bring Design Thinking Into The Art of Strategic Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Knight ◽  
Jarryd Daymond ◽  
Sotirios Paroutis
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Organizational Practice ◽  
Customer Data ◽  
Corporate Managers ◽  
Practice Perspective ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Strategy As Practice ◽  
Insight Into

Design thinking has emerged as an important way for designers to draw on rich customer insights to enhance their products and services. However, design thinking is now also beginning to influence how corporate managers bring customer data into their day-to-day strategic planning. We call this integration of design thinking into the practice of strategic management “Design-Led Strategy” and show how it complements but extends current design-thinking perspectives. Adopting a strategy-as-practice perspective, this article identifies four archetypal practices that managers can use to strategize with design-thinking content. Its findings provide insight into the practices associated with situating design thinking within organizational practice.

scholarly journals Coupling SUMO with a Motion Planning Framework for Automated Vehicles

10.29007/1p2d ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moritz Klischat ◽  
Octav Dragoi ◽  
Mostafa Eissa ◽  
Matthias Althoff
Keyword(s):  
Motion Planning ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Dynamic Behavior ◽  
Real World ◽  
Software Framework ◽  
Automated Vehicles ◽  
Lane Changing ◽  
Realistic Simulation ◽  
Lateral Dynamics ◽  
Planning Framework

Testing motion planning algorithms for automated vehicles in realistic simulation environments accelerates their development compared to performing real-world test drives only. In this work, we combine the open-source microscopic traffic simulator SUMO with our software framework CommonRoad to test motion planning of automated vehicles. Since SUMO is not originally designed for simulating automated vehicles, we present an inter- face for exchanging the trajectories of vehicles controlled by a motion planner and the trajectories of other traffic participants between SUMO and CommonRoad. Furthermore, we ensure realistic dynamic behavior of other traffic participants by extending the lane changing model in SUMO to implement more realistic lateral dynamics. We demonstrate our SUMO interface with a highway scenario.

Inclusive design of an open-source privacy-preserving large-scale mobile framework for health monitoring and intervention planning with an urban African American population of young adults (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gari Clifford ◽  
Tony Nguyen ◽  
Corey Shaw ◽  
Brittney Newton ◽  
Sherilyn Francis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Cloud Infrastructure ◽  
Location Services

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are increasingly affecting younger populations, particularly in African Americans in the Southern USA. Comorbidities and environmental factors such as trauma, stress, depression, diet, pollution, racism, poverty, and structural violence all combine to exacerbate These factors manifest early in life, and as such monitoring and interventions need to be implemented long before individuals present with symptoms, and they enter the chronic phase of the disease. However, younger populations are notoriously hard to recruit and retain, often because of lack of concern for long term health. For African Americans, low levels of trust in historically discriminatory systems or institutions as well as cultural differences with health providers and/or researchers serve as additional barriers to optimal health. OBJECTIVE The study aimed to evaluate the design requirements of urban AA adolescents to develop an mHealth framework to reduce CVD risk factors by monitoring nutrition, sleep, physical and mental health. METHODS Urban African Americans, ages 18-29 years old participated in user-centered design sessions. This HealthTech sessions were guided a modified version of is the design thinking approach. The first three phases (empathize, define, and ideate) are underpinned by leveraging constructs of behavior change theories, specifically, the Health Belief Model (HBM) and the Social Cognitive Theory of Mass Communication (SCTMC). The images were analyzed using NVivo 12, a qualitative analysis software. Using a grounded theory approach, an open-coding method was applied to a subset of data, approximately 20% or 5 complete prototypes to identify themes. To ensure intercoder reliability, two research team members analyzed the same subset of data. RESULTS An analysis of the emerging design requirement were customization; incentive motivation; social engagement; awareness/education/recommendations; behavior tracking; location services; access to health professionals; data user agreements; and health assessment. CONCLUSIONS This led to the design of a cross-platform app to collect standardized health surveys, narratives, geolocated pollution, weather and food desert exposure data, physical activity, social network, and physiology through point of care devices. A HIPAA-compliant cloud infrastructure was developed to collect, process and review data, as well as generate alerts, to allow automated signal processing and machine learning on the data to produce key alerts. Integration with wearables and electronic medical records (via FHIR) was also implemented. The framework we have designed provides a comprehensive health and exposure monitoring system which allows for a broad range of compliance, from passive background monitoring to active self-report. The system is scalable through the cloud infrastructure and extensible. Through an open-source BSD license, the system can be leveraged by entrepreneurs and researchers alike to generate high quality data for predictive health. CLINICALTRIAL N/A

IT Strategic Planning through CSF Approach in Modern Organizations

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Influence Strategy ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
It Strategic Planning

Although the purpose of strategic planning is straightforward - to outline where an organization wants to go and how it's going to get there - its nature is complex and dynamic. The, critical success factor (CSF) method, can augment strategic planning efforts by illuminating an organization's present situation and potential future. This chapter explores the value of enhancing typical strategic planning techniques with the CSF method and presents an integrated framework for helping modern organizations to understand the broad range of interrelated elements that influence strategy development for Information Technology (IT). The chapter synthesizes documented theory and research in strategic planning and CSFs. It also provides insights and lessons re the pros and cons of integrated strategic planning framework in the context of IT in modern organizations. Through in-depth literature review and contextual analysis, the chapter incorporates suggestions to modern organizations for IT Strategic Planning with CSF Approach for a holistic and effective strategic planning process.

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