Organizational memory and forgetfulness generating vulnerabilities in complex environments

Organizational Memory and Forgetfulness Generating Vulnerabilities in Complex Environments

This article analyzes the relationship between organizational memory and forgetfulness in the generation of operational vulnerabilities, based on a case study carried out with a highly specialized technical team from a multinational company of the automotive sector. The article starts with the presentation of the complexity context of the Brazilian automotive sector in the last decades. It then...

Excess, forgetfulness and the persistence of organizational allergies

Optimization in Uncertain and Complex Dynamic Environments with Evolutionary Methods

In the real world, many of the optimization issues are dynamic, uncertain, and complex in which the objective function or constraints can be changed over time. Consequently, the optimum of these issues is changed nonlinearly. Therefore, the optimization algorithms not only should search the global optimum value in the space but also should follow the path of optimal change in dynamic environmen...

The intent to move; generating spatial memory in Virtual Environments

The devices used with virtual environments for data entry aim to provide the user with a means to interact with the virtual environment in a natural, multi-modal manner. One particular issue faced by these devices is allowing to user to navigate through the virtual space in a manner similar to their real-world experience. Within the last few years a number of attempts to meet the challenge of p...

Organizational Improvisation and Organizational Memory

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