Leadership and innovation within a complex adaptive system: Public libraries

Innovation as a complex adaptive system

Identifying and Prioritizing the Factors Affecting Creativity and Innovation in Public Libraries

Purpose: To identify and prioritize the factors affecting innovation and creativity in public libraries from the perspective of public librarians in Khuzestan province. Method: The present research is an exploratory and mixed study in terms of purpose. The statistical population in the qualitative section included 22 university professors who were selected by purposive sampling. The research p...

Leading Innovation within Public Organisations

Public Health Care As A Complex Adaptive System of Systems

Formulating policy for public health action can be characterized as designing solutions within a complex adaptive system-of-systems (CASoS). Public health systems are complex due to the large number of interdependencies and non-linear interactions among autonomous agents, such as individuals, health care organizations, and governmental agencies. They are adaptive in that the behaviors of indivi...

ADAPTIKs: Adaptive Information Keyholes for Public Libraries

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). ITS’13, October 6–9, 2013, St. Andrews, UK. Abstract When considered through the lens of ubiquitous computing, interactive wall displays represent a promising infrastructure to provide information services. In the context of public libraries the design has to take particular account on two domain-specific aspects. First, libraries are valued for their c...