Multidisciplinary Teams: A Personal View

Multidisciplinary Project Teams

IntroductIon Knowledge in designing a product or rendering a service does not form a complete and coherent body of knowledge that can be precisely documented or even articulated by a single individual. Rather, it is a form of knowing that exists only through the interaction among various collec-has highlighted a need for the development of a diverse workforce if knowledge creation is to be prom...

Exploring Diversity in Multidisciplinary Teams

The uniqueness of multidisciplinary teamwork is in its potential to integrate different bodies of knowledge into a new synergy. However, previous empirical studies have shown that member heterogeneity and geographic separation hinder effective sharing and use of team knowledge. The paper explores how such teams interact to overcome the barriers and take advantage of their “built in” knowledge d...

Scrapie--a personal view.

Copulas: A personal view

Copula modeling has taken the world of finance and insurance, and well beyond, by storm. Why is this? In this paper I review the early start of this development, discuss some important current research, mainly from an applications point of view, and comment on potential future developments. An alternative title of the paper would be “Demystifying the copula craze”. The paper also contains what ...

A personal view

In the 20 years from its ®rst issue, BIT has been active in an area of technology with fast and thorough changes. After scanning through 20 volumes, I am surprised to detect that the published scope of BIT has remained almost unchanged, and many statements in the ®rst editorial could be published today without replacing a single word. BIT did not give up its basic principles published in the ®r...