The primary objective of this study is to examine the experiential learning process of Japanese IT professionals, in order to investigate the nature of knowing. In this study we examined how IT professionals acquire job-related skills or expertise through experience. The semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 high-performing senior managers in consulting divisions and 14 managers in ...

BACKGROUND Most developing countries and resource-limited settings lack robust health technology assessment (HTA) systems. Because the development of locally relevant HTA is not immediately viable, and the extrapolation of external HTA is inappropriate, a new model for evaluating health technologies is required. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to describe the development and application ...

Preparing citizens to address the complex problems inherent in cities requires our changing society to embrace a new kind of education. One way to train people to think about complex problems is to identify and study how professionals who think in those ways develop their epistemic frame. In this paper, we examine one of the ways urban planners master and appropriate relevant expertise through ...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This study draws lessons for successful consumer engagement in Medicaid nursing home (NH) reimbursement policy from New York and Minnesota. In these two states, resident advocates have influenced reimbursement policy to better encourage access, care quality, and quality of life. DESIGN AND METHODS Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted, including consumer a...

The purpose of this article is to explain and solve the early stage High-tech small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) development issue in Tianjin, specifically so-called Valley Death. Death used as a metaphor describe relative lack resources expertise area development. In article, mainly refer financing loans required by high-tech SMEs stage. Through analysis actual situation developing illustra...

Abstract Background The visual system and its inherent functions undergo experience-dependent changes through the lifespan, enabling acquisition of new skills. Previous fMRI studies using tasks reported increased specialization in a number cortical regions subserving expertise. Although ample focused on representation long-term expertise brain, i.e. terms year, monthly-based early-stage remains...

The development of user expertise is a strategic imperative for organizations in hyper-competitive markets. This study conceptualizes, operationalises and validates user expertise in contemporary Information Systems (IS) as a formative, multidimensional index. The study commenced by introducing a framework that positioned its concepts against the wealth of studies in the discipline. It then int...

We propose a conceptual framework for implementing intelligent assistant systems (IASs) that (1) work on experience base instead of knowledge base, and (2) deal with the decision-making process and not the result only. Considering experts' experience instead of the domain knowledge supposes to have a uniform representation of elements of knowledge, reasoning and contexts. We propose Contextual ...