In this paper we investigate some key challenges in designing organizati ons. We focus on requirements for the effective design of the processes that an organization carries out, with an emphasis on defining and managing interdependencies among organizational subunits engaged in processes within complex organizations. We draw on the concept of process architectures, a fundamental way of describ...

In this paper, we give a tutorial overview of how the convergence of business decision making (BDM), information technology and computer aided process decision making can make organizations adaptive. One framework for advancing the conflux of these ideas is provided by distributed network theory and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. In this theory, the integrated system of decision makers, softwa...

Computer technology is usually spoken of as a problemsolving tool,33.3t; a helpful device used to ease the burdens and expand the flexibility of information processing. In this narrow sense, computer technologies have in fact increased the capabilities of people and organizations to carry out complex calculations, manipulate large sets of data and access data from geographically remote location...

UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to describe the information management used by hospital and home care nurses for patients in need of continuing care after an episode of hospitalization. METHOD A prospective descriptive design was used. In total 287 hospital nurses and 220 home care nurses were asked to complete a questionnaire before and after the hospital implemented nursing documen...

In this age of modern era, the use of internet must be maximized. Yeah, internet will help us very much not only for important thing but also for daily activities. Many people now, from any level can use internet. The sources of internet connection can also be enjoyed in many places. As one of the benefits is to get the on-line shaping knowledge complex socio spatial modelling for adaptive orga...

These last years, main IT companies have build software solutions and change management plans promoting data quality management within organizations concerned by the enhancement of their business intelligence system. These offers are closely similar data governance schemes based on a common paradigm called Master Data Management. These schemes appear generally inappropriate to the context of co...

Organizations are composed of individuals and groups of individuals who interact with their local neighbors. These individuals and groups inherently have limited horizons both with whom they interact and in what information they can access. Because of this limited visibility no one individual can "see" the edges of the universe in which they live and in this sense the system can be considered u...

ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes regulate nucleosome organizations. In Drosophila, gene Brm encodes the core Brahma complex, the ATPase subunit of SWI/SNF class of chromatin remodelers. Its role in modulating the nucleosome landscape in vivo is unclear. In this study, we knocked down Brm in Drosophila third instar larvae to explore the changes in nucleosome profiles and global gene ...

This paper contributes to safety management by bringing in ideas from organizational complexity theories. Much of the studies and the literature on organizations as complex adaptive systems have focused on how to produce new innovations or how to increase financial effectiveness. We take the view that safety–critical organizations can be perceived as complex adaptive systems, and we discuss wha...

In our increasingly complex, interdependent world, it is important to recognize how policy changes in one part of the world can have important effects in another. Complex systems science has the ability to describe dependencies and infer their policy implications. One of the central methodologies of complex systems is multiscale analysis, which can be used to identify aspects of systems that ha...