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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"double loop learning"”.
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A critical realist examination of the inhibitors of double loop learning in an agile adoption
… lens. The lens used in this research is that of double loop learning theory. The behaviours required in an Agile team are the same behaviours required in double loop learning; therefore, a transition to double loop learning is required for a successful Agile adoption. The theory of triple loop …
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Early conversations about computer requirements: alternative approaches to understanding conversations between computer systems analysts and potential computer users, with a view to discovering what should be taught to computer experts about how to discover user's requirements
… model to help users explain what they want. Double-loop learning should help analysts hear what users say, but this is difficult to use (Salaway 1987). This research found a majority of analysts had primitive models of users. First meetings are specially difficult: a. Users rapidly pour out …
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Planning support systems for spatial planning through social learning
… particular, PSS are viewed as supporting social learning in spatial planning processes. The study includes cases in Boston, Kansas City, and Austin. The findings indicate high levels of social learning, broadly confirming the collaborative planning theory literature. Participants at planning …
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Mindfulness in Conflict Coaching
… for developing one’s ability to engage in double-loop learning and reflection-in-action. In addition, this thesis will discuss how conflict coaches may introduce mindfulness into their coaching process and to their clients. Finally, methods for measuring mindfulness throughout the coaching …
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Toward Empowered Participatory Planning: The Role of Planners in the Local Planning Paradigm Change in Indonesia
… that the change was a result of collective learning process diffused by the agent of change under supporting (external and internal) environment. Furthermore, this study demonstrated that the change of planning system and practice in the district government occurred gradually through the …
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Developing an understanding of the relationships between organisational learning and performance measurement systems: the case of Frankfurt airport.
… of the relationships between organisational learning (OL) and performance measurement systems (PMS), theoretically and practically, within the context of Frankfurt airport. A case study approach was adopted and applied at Frankfurt airport, encompassing the hierarchical levels of the top-, …
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Evaluating the impact of PerformanceStat: a case study of the City of Baltimore's CitiStat Program
… while promoting the opportunity to increase double-loop learning.
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Performance evaluation in the National Health Service - a systems approach
… use of annual reviews, performance indicators; double-loop learning and cybernetic control model. 3. Improving the quality of NHS care; Stafford Beer's Viable System Model. 4. Assessing performance through the outcomes of care; Peter Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology. The areas studied in …
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A method for assessing and developing features of a learning organization
… for assessing and developing features of a learning organization . To fulfill this, I approached the thesis by examining several research questions and using multiple research methodologies. The research questions were not all established at the outset. Rather, they evolved as features of a …
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Effective information systems planning
… whether and how an organization engages in double-loop learning to reconcile discrepancies between its espoused objective and its objective in use. We show that the impact of these dimensions on plan effectiveness varies by organizational strategy type.
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Understanding Organizational Learning in Technology Development and Implementation A case study of how organizational learning could be strength- ened in one of Sweden’s largest manufacturing companies
Organizational learning has in past research shown to play a critical factor for com- panies seeking to maintain competitiveness. While research has developed different models and frameworks to support learning processes, organizations still face chal- lenges in capturing, sharing and utilizing …
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Exploring Social Learning in Yorkton Following the 2010, 2014 and 2016 Floods
… of this study is to explore whether social learning has occurred in Yorkton following the flood events that the City experienced in 2010, 2014 and 2016. The study also aims to understand the factors that impacted social learning’s occurrence, its interrelation with the window of opportunity, …
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An evaluation of the school based action research project : 'making science more challenging for gifted primary children'
… practice, it needs to involve teachers in double-loop learning (in which teachers can utilise external knowledge to create their own knowledge). In this way both theory-in-use and espoused theory can be changed which in turn could have a long term impact on teachers' knowing-in-action.
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Decentering and Dismantling white Prominence in Music Education: Portraits of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
… leadership, cultivating relationships, single-loop, and double-loop learning; and controlling Whiteness. Key themes that emerged from AugU were defining equity-mindedness as the institution’s DEI lens, including subthemes collaborative leadership, establishing pipelines for historically …
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An investigation of the organizational effects of internal participatory evaluation.
… as an intervention to enhance organizational learning capacity. In particular, this study examined the nature and causes of observed effects. A national, not-for-profit training organization where the present study's author was employed, served as the site of the research. The research process …
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Investigating the influence of participation in environmental impact assessment on organizational learning for regulators : a focus on renewable energy projects
… is also recognised as a mechanism that promotes learning. These learning outcomes may result in transformation of personal values, standards, policy, and practise. Given this potential, the investigation of learning through regulator participation in the South African EIA process was adopted as a …
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How Organizational Experiments Influence Organizational Learning
Organizational learning through experience has been found to be associated with enhanced firm performance. Organizational experiments are a method of experiential learning that enable organizations to learn from experience and gain context-specific knowledge of how and why to implement new …
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Developing quality assurance processes in a private higher education institution in Australia
… iterations through an Action Research Action Learning (ARAL) process. The second Public Work is an account of how the quality assurance of AIB’s transnational education (TNE) offering through third-party delivery changed through the use of the ARAL method; and the third Public Work …
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Embedding risk management within new product and service development of an innovation and risk management framework and supporting risk processes, for effective risk mitigation : an action research study within the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Sector
… organisation, leading to changed behaviours and double-loop learning. Two main knowledge contributions are offered by the study. Firstly, a generic and empirically validated integrated Innovation and Risk Management Framework (IRMF) is developed and guides new product and service development by …
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