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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Creative management"”.
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Creative management of creative management : a critical systems approach
… human needs.While it is appreciated that some creative problem solving approaches, (Ackoff's 'idealized design' and Morgan's Imaginization', for instance) implicitly rely on critical creativity, this is not sufficient for the practising manager. Only the explicit incorporation of critical …
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Managing disruptive technology : a comparison of academic research and industry practice.
… between technology, diffusion, communication and management. Two theories provide a basis for the analysis in this study, diffusion of innovation theory and creative and innovative management theory. The combination of the two theories provides a lucrative framework to examine the impact of …
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Nurses' Experiences of Empowerment and Autonomy Following Hospital Restructuring
… of this study was to increase knowledge of creative management for nurses working in acute care settings. The literature review, the questionnaires, and the interviews all pointed to the need for greater communication between management and staff. This study indicated a positive outlook for …
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The Safer Sexual Communication Practices of Transgender Adults: Implications for HIV Prevention
… three patterns of action: communication privacy management, risk adjudication, and social support. Each of these three patterns of action was driven by one goal: the pursuit of sexual safety. Multiple, competing meanings of sexual safety resulted in communicative dilemmas. Creative management …
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The virtual participant : story telling in a computer supported collaborative learning environment
… Open University Business School MBA course on Creative Management. The Virtual Participant first presented itself to the users as Uncle Bulgaria. a metaphor for collecting and recycling important information. The Virtual Participant approach is to store the discussions students have had in …
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Project management and the film industry value chain: the impact of cognitive biases on value creation and learning
… of cognitive biases impact negatively on project management decision-making in the film industry? Are there ways that biases can best be avoided or at least reduced? This thesis cites evidence that managers are consistently unable to devise ways of effectively escaping the impact of cognitive …
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Supporting Virtualisation Management through an Object Mapping Declarative Language Framework
… scale of virtualised cloud computing systems, management of the numerous physical and virtual components that make up their underlying infrastructure may become unwieldy. Many software packages that have historically been installed on desktops / workstations for years are slowly but surely …
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The technical designer: a new craft approach for creating seamless knitwear
… knitting machine are the craft tools. The creative experimental practice explores the possibilities of taking control of the programming and knitting of seamless garments, in terms of the creative design development of new seamless sleeve head styles. The practice is carried out within an …
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Shorebirds in a changing landscape: Assessing the top-down and bottom-up drivers of American oystercatcher (<i>Haematopus palliatus</i>) reproductive success in the Virginia barrier islands
… productivity in Virginia, and to inform adaptive management, we investigated the drivers of American oystercatcher reproductive success on the Virginia barrier islands. We considered three components of American oystercatcher conservation and management: (1) interactions between American …
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Creative leadership and management in the KwaZulu-Natal film industry
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2022.