Leading and Managing Teams in Entrepreneurial Organizations: an Experiential Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Boni
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ventures ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Entrepreneurial Organizations ◽  
Market Factors ◽  
Technology Industries ◽  
Model Market ◽  
Agile Teams

This article focuses on summarizing best practices for leading and managing diverse teams in entrepreneurial companies. Our approach is to build on sound academic principles, but we focus on bringing in a strong experiential perspective based on extensive discussions with active venture capital investors in the Silicon Valley/Bay Area innovation ecosystem. A sidebar article summarizes these findings. A key observation is that the most important indicator of success in entrepreneurial ventures can be attributed to lack of leadership and team performance, with business model/market factors less important and technology failures even less of a factor. We highlight best principles for building and leading diverse, inclusive, agile teams appropriate for the biopharma and technology industries.

How Do We Take Real-World Action?

We the Gamers ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Karen Schrier
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Black Friday ◽  
The Revolution

Chapter 5 describes how games can support real-world action and change. How can knowledge be applied to the public sphere and serve communities? Why and how should games be used to enable ethics- and civics-in-action? What are the best practices and strategies for supporting connections among civics, ethics, and the real world using games? The chapter includes an overview of why it is necessary to engage in real-world action. It describes the benefits of applying learning to real-world contexts and processes, and why games may support this. It also includes the limitations of using games to apply knowledge, and how to minimize those limitations. Finally, it reviews strategies that teachers can take to use games to take action and make change. It opens with the example EteRNA, and also shares five examples-in-action: Reliving the Revolution, 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, Community PlanIt, Bay Area Regional Planner, and Thunderbird Strike.

scholarly journals Innovation And Knowledge Flows In Healthcare Ecosystems: The Portuguese Case

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-391
Author(s):  
Daniel Ferreira Polónia ◽  
Adriana Coutinho Gradim
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Innovation Ecosystems ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Healthcare Innovation

 Innovation has come a long way since the times it was defined just as a new idea. Nowadays, innovation activities comprise a lot more, from new products and/or services to improvements in organisational business models. The healthcare sector is no exception. This leads public authorities to increase their investment in innovation, research and development in the healthcare sector. The rising of internal and external collaborations between hospitals and other parties calls for a specific analysis on how the healthcare innovation environments behave and how knowledge flows within them are managed. This study, through the lens of the ecosystem theory, aims to study how a healthcare innovation ecosystem can be activated and knowledge flows are managed to ensure that all the parties are benefited. For that purpose, it presents a case study based on a set of three meetings of Portuguese stakeholders inserted in innovation healthcare ecosystems. With this work it was possible to observe that the healthcare innovation ecosystem can be analysed from different perspectives. The interaction with the different stakeholders allowed to identify possible partners to be involved in innovation activities (e.g.: hospitals, universities, research centres, start-ups). This paper suggests possible roles for the different parties along the innovation funnel as well as what they can do in each phase. Using a case study approach, it is possible to compare different contexts and identify best practices on the management of healthcare innovation ecosystems. Also, it becomes evident the need for more effective knowledge management to ensure that hospitals and the other parties meet their goals and play a relevant role in the ecosystem. Although this paper provides guidelines for action, it lacks implementation of the suggestions in a specific context. As such, this paper aims to serve as a basis for future research on the study of hospitals’ innovation ecosystems and underlying knowledge flows, in different contexts to achieve best practices for its effective management.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Digitalization Era

2019 ◽  
pp. 179-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wassim Aloulou
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ventures ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Digital Entrepreneurship

Digital transformation is not a new phenomenon. Neither is digital entrepreneurship. But during the last decade, these phenomena are taking another dimension with the emergence of new digital-to-disruptive technologies that need to be mastered by individuals, groups, firms, organizations, and governments. Based on key concepts such as digitalization, entrepreneurship, and innovation, this chapter contributes to the literature on digital entrepreneurship and innovation by adopting an ecosystem approach. Then, this chapter provides an overview of the digital entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem and its main components. Within this new philosophy of digital entrepreneuring, the chapter presents new trendy phenomena as precursors and enablers to boost digital entrepreneurial ventures and certain uncharted territories that need to be explored. At the end, the chapter advances new directions for future research in digital entrepreneurship and innovation. It concludes with the idea of democratization gained for entrepreneurship, innovation, and digitalization in this era.

scholarly journals Depth Contours and Coastline Generalization for Harbour and Approach Nautical Charts

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Andriani Skopeliti ◽  
Lysandros Tsoulos ◽  
Shachak Pe’eri
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Information System ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Depth Contour ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
Suitable Generalization ◽  
Gis Environment ◽  
Critical Process

Generalization of nautical charts and electronic nautical charts (ENCs) is a critical process which aims at the safety of navigation and clear cartographic presentation. This paper elaborates on the problem of depth contours and coastline generalization—natural and artificial—for medium-scale charts (harbour and approach) taking into account International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) standards, hydrographic offices’ (HOs) best practices and cartographic literature. Additional factors considered are scale, depth, and seafloor characteristics. The proposed method for depth contour generalization utilizes contours created from high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) or those already portrayed on nautical charts. Moreover, it ensures consistency with generalized soundings. Regarding natural coastline generalization, the focus was on managing the resolution, while maintaining the shape, and on the islands. For the provision of a suitable generalization solution for the artificial shoreline, it was preprocessed in order to automatically recognize the shape of each structure as perceived by humans (e.g., a pier that looks like a T). The proposed generalization methodology is implemented with custom-developed routines utilizing standard geo-processing functions available in a geographic information system (GIS) environment and thus can be adopted by hydrographic agencies to support their ENC and nautical chart production. The methodology has been tested in the New York Lower Bay area in the U.S.A. Results have successfully delineated depth contours and coastline at scales 1:10 K, 1:20 K, 1:40 K and 1:80 K.

scholarly journals Research on Innovation Promotion and Application of Guangzhou New Energy Automobile Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 292 ◽  
pp. 01011
Author(s):  
Xueyu Zhang ◽  
Wenyong Li
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Industry Analysis ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Emerging Industries ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Industrial Chain ◽  
New Energy ◽  
The Incentive Mechanism

The new energy automobile industry has now formed a complete industrial chain. The cities in the Bay Area have a clear division of labor, sufficient technical reserves, and strong policy support. They are emerging industries that are mainly supported. With the continuous upgrading and transformation of the industry, the transformation and upgrading of the Guangzhou automobile industry is on the agenda. This paper discusses the current situation and problems of Guangzhou automobile industry. Analysis of Several Important Influencing Factors of Guangzhou Automobile Industry Innovation in Transformation and Upgrading. Through multi-factor comparison and data analysis, this paper puts forward the corresponding optimization path, in order to accelerate the transformation , upgrading of Guangzhou automobile industry innovation ecosystem and improve the incentive mechanism of Guangzhou new energy automobile industry innovation.

The Value of Communication in Agile Project Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-61
Author(s):  
Brian J. Galli
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Pertinent Literature ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
Agile Project Management ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
Ultimate Outcome ◽  
Communication Methods ◽  
Agile Teams

The purpose of this research is to understand the importance and impact of communication in an Agile environment so as to suggest ways to overcome communication challenges in Agile projects. In this research, the latest use of communication methods, approaches, and challenges faced by Agile teams are thoroughly evaluated to know the best solutions to communication problems. A literature review in this study proposes that a lack of proper communication is one of the main challenges faced by Agile projects. The authors used a systematic literature review to examine pre-existing literature and to select the most pertinent literature to assess these variables in depth and to create an assessment model. The ultimate outcome of this study was the development of the best practices that improve communication in Agile project environments.

scholarly journals Diversity Management Programs: California Local Governments’ Approach to Achieving Representative Bureaucracy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Adrian Cudal ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Representative Bureaucracy ◽  
Public Organization ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Diverse Workforce ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
American Employees

Attaining representativeness in a bureaucracy, or the ability for a public organization to mirror the diversity of its constituents, is argued to be a key element to effective and efficient governance. Studies show that implementing diversity management programs can help organizations become more representative and, at the same time, maximize the full potential of their diverse workforce. This study examined the existing and developing diversity management programs in each of the nine Bay Area county organizations and measured the representativeness of each. These programs were analyzed by benchmarking them against the International Personnel Management Association's (IPMA) diversity management best practices list. Representativeness was gauged by comparing the ethnic makeup of each county organization's workforce against the ethnicity of the population it is serving and its available labor market using the most recent census data. Although diversity management has been around for decades, implementing diversity management programs for most nine Bay Area county organizations is either at the beginning stages or is not a top priority. Moreover, data on representation show that though the Black or African American employees are well represented across the nine Bay Area county organizations, underrepresentation is still prevalent, particularly with the Hispanic and Asian employee group, especially at the leadership level. These findings suggest that most county organizations in the Bay Area still need to create a more representative workforce. Developing strategies, such as implementing robust diversity management programs that can help improve the recruitment and retention of a diverse workforce could solve this discrepancy.

scholarly journals Az innovációs ökoszisztéma-kutatások növekvő fontossága : A téma tudománymetriai elemzése

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 237-258
Author(s):  
Klaudia Gabriella Horváth
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Ecosystem Research ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Innovation Processes

Az innovációs együttműködések mozgatórugóinak megértése és az ismeretek gyakorlati hasznosítása elengedhetetlen a versenyképességgel és általános gazdasági fejlődés lehetőségeivel foglalkozó kutatók és gyakorlati döntéshozók számára. Ezzel összefüggésben jelen tanulmány rövid áttekintést ad az innovációs ökoszisztéma-fogalom koncepcionális kereteiről, illetve az innovációs együttműködések szerepéről az innovációs folyamatokban. Az elméleti megalapozás mellett a tanulmány fő célkitűzése, hogy leíró statisztikai módszerekkel, a Scopus adatbázisának segítségével azonosítsa azokat a trendeket, szerzőket és periodikákat, amelyek ismerete a témát Magyarországon vizsgáló kutatók és döntéshozók számára elengedhetetlen a világgazdaságban megfigyelhető tendenciák megértéséhez és a nemzetközi diskurzusba való bekapcsolódáshoz. Understanding the driving force of innovation cooperations is an essential element for both researchers and decision-makers in connection with competitiveness and economic development. In this context, this study provides a brief overview of the conceptual framework of innovation ecosystem and the role of innovation cooperations in innovation processes. In addition to the theoretical foundation, the main objective of the study is to identify the major trends, authors and journals of innovation ecosystem research based on Scopus database. The science metrics thus provide a solid summary of the topic for readers and „best practices” for a consistent publication strategy for researchers.

A Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists' Approaches to Assessing Social Communication Disorders in Children

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Kristen Izaryk ◽  
Robin Edge ◽  
Dawn Lechwar
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Teacher Report ◽  
Formal Assessment ◽  
Language Sampling ◽  
Specific Assessment ◽  
Social Communication Disorders

Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore and describe the approaches and specific assessment tools that speech-language pathologists are currently using to assess social communication disorders (SCDs) in children, in relation to current best practices. Method Ninety-four speech-language pathologists completed an online survey asking them to identify which of the following approaches they use to assess children with SCD: parent/teacher report, naturalistic observation, formal assessment, language sample analysis, interviews, semistructured tasks, and peer/self-report. Participants were also asked to identify specific assessment tools they use within each approach. Results Participants most commonly assess SCDs by combining interviews, naturalistic observation, language sampling, parent/teacher report, and formal assessment. Semistructured tasks and peer/self-report tools were less frequently utilized. Several established parent/teacher report and formal assessment tools were commonly identified for assessing SCDs. Most participants use an informal approach for interviews, language sampling, and naturalistic observations in their SCD assessment process. Conclusions Generally, participants follow best practices for assessing SCDs by combining several different approaches. Some considerations for future assessment are identified, including the use of established protocols in the place of informal approaches in order to make the assessment of SCDs more systematic. Future directions for research are discussed.

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