Sökning: "systems thinking"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 274 avhandlingar innehållade orden systems thinking.
16. IT-adaptation as sensemaking : inventing new meaning for technology in organizations
Sammanfattning : Noting how organizations today are increasingly dependent on IT for a broad range of organizational activities, the thesis starts from the observation that many IT-related endeavors nevertheless fail. In tracing part of the problem to the inability of many organizations to cope with changes in the surrounding material and social context, the emphasis is put on the processes by which IT-artifacts are adapted and re-adapted, after they have been put into daily use. LÄS MER
17. A Socio-technical Analysis of Information Systems Security Assurance : A Case Study for Effective Assurance
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the concepts of Information System (IS) security assurance using a socio-technical framework. IS security assurance deals with the problem of estimating how well a particular security system will function efficiently and effectively in a specific operational environment. LÄS MER
18. Capturing and Analysing Emotions to Support Organisational Learning : The Affect Based Learning Matrix
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the importance of managing employees’ thoughts and feelings in relation to organisational learning. To visualise and to identify affections within organisations is of major importance since most of our actions and the decisions we make are steered by our emotions rather than rational thinking. LÄS MER
19. Förstå verkligheten som system : - att utveckla gymnasieelevers systemgeografiska kunnande genom geografiundervisning
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis is concerned with how upper secondary students in Sweden develop system geographical knowing through Geography teaching, where complex issues such as climate change are dealt with. In many countries, these issues are particularly relevant for the school subject of Geography since the subject is responsible for issues that involve system changes. LÄS MER
20. Emerging networks of power: Exploring sociotechnical pathways towards future electricity systems based on renewable energy technologies
Sammanfattning : In the effort to fight climate change, electricity systems around the world are undergoing a transition from fossil-fuelled to renewable energy-based production of electricity. The transition can, however, be attained in several radically different ways, ranging from global or continental super-grids, via local smart-grids, to self-sufficient off-grid communities and households of electricity prosumers. LÄS MER