Leaders Who Inspire Change

Who are the leaders?

Agents of Change: Educating Software Engineering Leaders

I n today's world of rapidly changing software technology, engineers must deal with new methods , tools, platforms, user expectations, and software markets. This changing environment underscores the need for software engineering education that not only teaches current technologies, but also trains engineers to adapt quickly to new technologies and trends, allowing them to anticipate and exploit...

COINs change leaders - Lessons Learned from a Distributed Course

In this paper we analyze the communication network of 50 students from five universities in three countries participating in a joint course on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs). Students formed ten teams. Interaction variables calculated from the e-mail archive of individual team members predict the level of creativity of the team. Oscillating leadership, where members switch between ce...

Nurse Leaders as Stewards: The Beginning of Change

In understanding fully persons' moral predicaments, a core component of forming perceptual judgments, nurses may need to shift the epistemology of their practice from instrumental reasoning, or means-ends thinking, integrating a virtue-based practical reasoning. A bearing witness that achieves understanding of clients' moral qualities is attained through the articulation of nurses' self-identit...

Schema Transformation for INSPIRE

Many Legally Mandated Organisations (LMOs) and other data suppliers who are providing data within the INSPIRE themes will retain their own schemas for the data that they collect, manage and publish. For INSPIRE compliance however, they must also ensure that there is a Transformation Service available to transform the data to the appropriate INSPIRE schema. This service may be provided by the su...