Informing Value: Complex Process Facility Digital Twins
Digital twins of complex facilities are on-ramps to the fourth industrial revolution, informing decisions with valuable insights throughout the asset lifecycle.
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Corporate Brand Impact on Sales / Revenue Per Share
The research question explores the importance of corporate brand’s impact on sales / revenue per sharegeneration. This is important because it allows communications executives to understand the impactof their work and justify budget allocations and expenditures.
Clarifying the Relationship of Design Thinking to the Military Decision-Making Process
The complexity of today’s operational environment where military organizations are conducting campaigns has grown exponentially. To address this expanding complexity, the Defense Department introduced ‘design’ into its problem-solving doctrine.
Elevating Training Effectiveness: Exploring the Factors in the Learner’s Environment that Influence Training Transfer
In today’s work environment, factors that support the transfer or learning from the training room to the job are sometimes absent. Leaders hold the key to ensuring the commonly missed factors are present, securing the value of the training program and successful attainment of business goals.
What are the Critical Success Factors for Microbusiness Survival?
Microbusinesses demonstrated resilience through creative ways to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic closures. Seven critical success factors of internal and external influence are found from this research question review.
What Leadership Styles and Characteristics Do Industry Partners Need to Exhibit to Produce Positive Outcomes from Collaborative Projects that Include Government and University Partners?
This is a Rapid Evidence Assessment focused on the identification of leadership styles and traits that enable industry partners to optimize their support on collaborative research projects. While there is considerable research on collaboration, there is a gap related to the leadership contributions that industry partners bring to team science projects.
Rise of the Citizen Developer
A worldwide shortage of developers has made low- and no-code platforms important and necessary. This paper investigates the use of these platforms in organizations, along with the role of workforce automation tools.
A Seven-Step Framework for Encouraging Deeper Learning in Business Education
This essay examines what is necessary for business school professors to encourage deeper learning in their students. Business faculty (and academia in general) are improving student involvement by using pedagogies of engagement (e.g., problem-based learning, team-based learning, POGIL) or integrating techniques that improve engagement (e.g., flipped classes, reflective writing).
How Does Organizational Culture Influence the Adoption of Research Evidence by Management Practitioners?
Using the best available evidence from multiple sources can lead to more effective management practice. However, management practitioners often make decisions based on limited evidence, mostly from personal experience and judgment. Values, beliefs, and practices may conflict with a manager’s ability to use research evidence in practice.
The Impact of War on U.S. Army Leader Self-Development Domain in the Early 21st Century
The past 19 years of war have impacted the U.S. Army in countless ways. One is arguably on its most precious capability—its officer leaders. As the Army rose to war-related challenges, it did so at leader-development costs. Little time, focus, and a battle environment left developing others and oneself low on the list of priorities.