Errors in health care settings are common and potentially dangerous to patients. Errors will arise as novice nursing students practice skills in complex health care settings. This article describes one baccalaureate nursing program's approach toward student errors that integrates core competencies described in the Institute of Medicine's Health Professions Education report, the Quality and Safe...

In this article we analyze the current state of case-based plan adaptation research. We include the traditional distinction between transformational and derivational analogy but add further dimensions to classify the field. We present six dimensions for categorizing various aspects of existing case-based plan adaptation algorithms. These dimensions are: the type of transformation, the role of t...

It is widely acknowledged that suppliers contribute positively to innovation in new product development. However, it remains rather unclear what suppliers actually contribute to innovation. Based on a literature review focusing on 80 articles, and a focus group meeting with strategic purchasing managers, a conceptual framework is developed categorizing different supplier inputs to innovation. T...

Customersourcing is a newly coined term representing the on-line version of an older practice, and a defining a sub-category of the now popular Crowdsourcing practice. This article starts with a brief overview of Crowdsourcing and its various subcategories such as Crowdfunding, and Crowdvoting. Further, the conceptual development of the Customersourcing Model is discussed in which a ‘community ...

P rogressive corporations have invested in increasingly ambitious sustainability initiatives. While environmental investments are welcome by society, managers need to identify the circumstances favoring the generation of both public benefits and corporate profits. For some firms, better utilization of resources may pay-off as environmentrelated investments. For others, obtaining ISO 14001 certi...

In this paper a framework is created for categorizing adaptable architecture. The term adaptable architecture describes an architecture from which specific components can be changed in response to external stimuli, for example the users or environment. This change could be executed by the building system itself, transformed manually or could be any other ability to transform by an external forc...

The recent dramatic and interesting advances in computer technology have significantly altered the roles of both users and developers. Role theory might be applied to more fully understand and more effectively investigate organizational, behavioral, and social issues related to these changes. A framework for categorizing information systems roles is built from a matrix of information system and...