Unpacking Knowing Integration: A Practice-based Study in Haute Cuisine

Nous proposons d'analyser l'intégration des connaissances à la source d'un avantage concurrentiel avec une approche pratique des organisations. Alors que la littérature s'est focalisée sur le transfert de connaissances et les relations entre communautés par le biais des objets frontière, nous considérons les relations intra-communauté et la façon dont les acteurs mobilisent, restructurent et créent des connaissances pour l'action. Dans une perspective pratique, la dynamique des connaissances est un phénomène situé dans un contexte social donné. Nous nous appuyons sur une phase empirique qualitative, par l'analyse de l'intégration des connaissances lors de la création de nouveaux plats au sein des équipes de cuisiniers de restaurants tri-étoilés.Apprentissage ; Avantage concurrentiel ; Connaissance ; Créativité ; Gastronomie ; Integration ; Transfert

Unpacking Knowing Integration: A Practice-based Study in Haute Cuisine

Within a practice-based approach of organizations, we explore the knowing integration phenomena at the roots of competitive advantage. While former knowing integration studies have pointed to the importance of boundary objects across occupational communities, knowing integration inside a community to ground competitive advantage remains to be explored. How do individuals integrate their knowing in practice, in complex and important situations in order to contribute to competitive advantage for the firm? We ground our analysis on the ethnographic study of performed tasks in new dishes creation in two gourmet restaurants. We trace individual knowing in this creation to highlight how a new dish emerges from knowing integration, based on our understanding of knowing as processual, social, and situated. We propose a model of knowing integration as a combination of three phenomena: comprehending, interpreting and explicitating. We show that integration leads to the development of new dishes while knowing remains largely individual. We therefore suggest that there exists a clear distinction between knowing integration and knowledge sharing or transfer. We also contribute to a clearer delineation between integration and explicitation, the latter being only one and secondary means to achieve the former. Our study advances practice-based studies of organizations by highlighting the central role of integration in knowing dynamics and by bridging micro and macro perspectives on practice.Combination; Competitive Advantage; Integration; Knowledge; Learning; Restaurants; Transfer

A food recipe recommendation system based on nutritional factors in the Finnish food communit

Abstract. This thesis presents a comprehensive study on the relationships between user feedback, recipe content, and additional factors in the context of a recipe recommendation system. The aim was to investigate the influence of various factors on user ratings and comments related to nutritional variables, while also exploring the potential for personalized recipe suggestions. Statistical analysis, clustering techniques, and sentiment analysis were employed to analyze a dataset of food recipes and user feedback. We determined that user feedback is a complex phenomenon influenced by subjective factors beyond recipe content alone. Cluster analysis identified four distinct clusters within the dataset, highlighting variations in nutritional values and sentiment among recipes. However, due to an imbalanced distribution within the clusters, these relationships were not considered in the recommendation system. To address the absence of user-related data, a content-based filtering approach was implemented, utilizing nutritional factors and a health factor calculation. The system provides personalized recipe recommendations based on nutritional similarity and health considerations. A maximum limit of 20 recommended recipes was set, allowing users to specify the desired number of recommendations. The accompanying API also provides a mean squared error metric to assess recommendation quality. This research contributes to a better understanding of user preferences, recipe content, and the challenges in developing effective recommendation systems for food recipes

Referent tracking for corporate memories

For corporate memory and enterprise ontology systems to be maximally useful, they must be freed from certain barriers placed around them by traditional knowledge management paradigms. This means, above all, that they must mirror more faithfully those portions of reality which are salient to the workings of the enterprise, including the changes that occur with the passage of time. The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate how theories based on philosophical realism can contribute to this objective. We discuss how realism-based ontologies (capturing what is generic) combined with referent tracking (capturing what is specific) can play a key role in building the robust and useful corporate memories of the future

Go Natural case study : internationalization of the Healthy Food Concept

Go Natural is a Portuguese Healthy Food Concept founded in 2004 by two entrepreneur siblings, Diogo and Joana Martorell. With a selective and distinctive offer of high-quality food, Go Natural managed to create a new niche segment: Healthy Food in Shopping Centres, in a time characterized by a market offer based on international fast-food chains and traditional Portuguese cuisine. This dissertation aims to evaluate a real challenge that Go Natural experienced in 2013. Being in the market for a decade, the company is facing a strategic decision that may influence its future grow: to internationalize or not to Brazil, a growing and potential market. After suffering with the effects of the economical crisis affecting Portugal and changing consumers’ eating-out habits, Go Natural performed a category extension project named Kitchen, in order to reach the new emerging Fast Casual segment that was attracting more and more consumers, downgrading from full-service restaurants. Go Natural’s goal is not only to re-conquer consumers by offering them an added-value, but at the same time stabilize the company’s growth and strengthen its position in the national market. The internationalization process requires an extensive analysis of the Brazilian partner, market and consumer, in order to evaluate if this is the right timing for Go Natural to go abroad. To address the key success factors and differentiation basis that sustained Go Natural through its tenyear existence is also another objective of this study. The Literature Review section of this dissertation approaches pertinent topics such as brand revitalizing strategies through product and brand extensions and the analytical aspects of the decision making for the successful internationalization process. The Go Natural case study intends to give an extensive perspective of the Portuguese and Brazilian fast-food market and related future challenges. The main conclusion from this study is that Go Natural is ready to go to Brazil, as it has gathered the required experience in Portugal, as well as a stable basis to continue on growing and is now ready to expand into a new market with an experienced partner.Go Natural é um conceito português de comida saudável, fundado em 2004 por dois irmãos empreendedores, Diogo e Joana Martorell. Com uma oferta selectiva e distinta de comida de elevada qualidade, o Go Natural criou um novo segmento de nicho: Comida Saudável em Centros Comerciais, numa altura caracterizada por uma oferta de Mercado baseada em cadeias de fastfood internacionais e cozinha tradicional Portuguesa. Esta dissertação tem como objectivo analisar o desafio real que o Go Natural enfrentou em 2013. No Mercado há uma década, enfrenta agora uma decisão estratégica que poderá influenciar o seu crescimento futuro: internacionalização para o Brasil, um mercado crescente com potencial. Após ter sofrido com os efeitos da crise económica que afecta Portugal e que alterou os hábitos de consumo fora de casa, o Go Natural realizou um projecto de extensão de categoria, de forma a aproximar-se do novo segmento Fast Casual que atrai cada vez mais consumidores. O objectivo do Go Natural é reconquistar os consumidores ao oferecer-lhes um valor acrescentado e estabilizar o crescimento da empresa ao reforçar a sua posição no mercado nacional. O processo de internacionalização requere uma análise extensiva do sócio Brasileiro, do Mercado e do consumidor, de modo a avaliar se esta é a altura certa para o Go Natural se expandir. Avaliar os factores críticos de sucesso e as bases de diferenciação que sustentaram o Go Natural durante os seus dez anos de existência é outro dos objetivos deste estudo. Na secção Literature Review desta dissertação são abordados tópicos pertinentes tais como estratégias de revitalização de marca através de extensões de produto e marca, e também aspectos analíticos da tomada de decisão para um processo de internacionalização bem sucedido. O case study Go Natural pretende oferecer uma perspectiva extensiva dos mercados Português e Brasileiro de fast-food e os seus futuros desafios. A conclusão principal deste estudo é de que o Go Natural está preparado para ir para o Brasil, uma vez que reuniu a experiência necessária em Portugal, bem como uma base estável para continuar a crescer e está agora pronto para se expandir para um novo Mercado com um sócio experiente

The kite project to improve junior high school students’ numeracy

This research occurred to improve students' numeracy skills. To help students acquire these skills, develop learning projects through a STEAM approach using kite-making and collaborative learning projects. Design collaborative learning projects using a STEAM approach to assist students in acquiring these skills. This study's primary purpose is to create kites to aid junior high school students in addressing problems concerning PLSV and the kite area. This study applies a design research type of validation study. The data collection technique used is using images, products, and review documents for data collecting. The research participants were 30 seventh-grade (Phase D) junior high school students in Palembang. This study developed a learning trajectory that includes three exercises and post-test questions. Students can investigate and address issues associated with kite construction using PLSV materials. In the second activity, students can create kites and estimate their area based on their kite-making skills. After the kite is built, students fly a kite and study it. Students can improve their numeracy abilities through project-based learning employing STEAM in the context of kite creation, as demonstrated by the findings of this study. This knowledge aids them in overcoming obstacles associated with PLSV content and expands kite-making

Tracking patterns in self-regulated learning using students’ self-reports and online trace data

For decades, self-report instruments – which rely heavily on students’ perceptions and beliefs – have been the dominant way of measuring motivation and strategy use. An event-based measure based on online trace data arguably has the potential to remove analytical restrictions of self-report measures. The purpose of this study is therefore to triangulate constructs suggested in theory and measured using self-reported data with revealed online traces of learning behaviour. The results show that online trace data of learning behaviour are complementary to self-reports, as they explained a unique proportion of variance in student academic performance and reveal that self-reports explain more variance in online learning behaviour of prior weeks than variance in learning behaviour in succeeding weeks. Student motivation is, however, to a lesser extent captured with online trace data, likely because of its covert nature. In that respect, it is of importance to recognize the crucial role of self-reports in capturing student learning holistically. This manuscript is ‘frontline’ in the sense that event-based measurement methodologies using online trace data are relatively unexplored. The comparison with self-report data made in this manuscript sheds new light on the added value of innovative and traditional methods of measuring motivation and strategy use

Automated Testing for Provisioning Systems of Complex Cloud Products

Context: The proliferation of cloud computing enabled companies to shift their approach regarding infrastructure provisioning. The uprising of cloud provisioning enabled by virtualisation technologies sprouted the rise of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model. OutSystems takes advantage of the IaaS model to spin-up infrastructure on-demand while abstracting the infrastructure management from the end-users. Problem: OutSystems’ orchestrator system handles the automated orchestration of the clients’ infrastructure, and it must be thoroughly tested. Problems arise because infrastructure provisioning takes considerable amounts of time, which dramatically increases the feedback loop for the developers. Currently, the duration of the orchestrator tests hinder the ability to develop and deliver new features at a desirable pace. Objectives: The goals of this work include designing an efficient testing strategy that considers a microservices architecture with infrastructure provisioning capabilities while integrating it in a Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline. Methods: The solution applies multiple testing techniques that target different portions of the system and follow a pre-determined test distribution to guarantee a balanced test suite. The strategy was tested against a set of prototypes to evaluate its adequacy and efficiency. The strategy definition focuses on mapping the type of errors that each test level should tackle and is, therefore, independent of the employed technologies. Results: The devised strategy is integrated in a CI/CD pipeline and is capable of comprehensively test the created prototypes while maintaining a short feedback loop. It also provides support for testing against commonly found errors in distributed systems in a deterministic way. Conclusions: The work developed in this dissertation met the outlined objectives, as the developed strategy proved its adequacy against the developed prototypes. Moreover, this work provides a solid starting point for the migration of the orchestrator system to a microservices architecture

Challenges to Teaching Credibility Assessment in Contemporary Schooling

Part of the Volume on Digital Media, Youth, and CredibilityThis chapter explores several challenges that exist to teaching credibility assessment in the school environment. Challenges range from institutional barriers such as government regulation and school policies and procedures to dynamic challenges related to young people's cognitive development and the consequent difficulties of navigating a complex web environment. The chapter includes a critique of current practices for teaching kids credibility assessment and highlights some best practices for credibility education

Modelling sustainable human development in a capability perspective

In this paper we model sustainable human development as intended in Sen's capability approach in a system dynamic framework. Our purpose is to verify the variations over time of some achieved functionings, due to structural dynamics and to variations of the institutional setting and instrumental freedoms (IF Vortex). The model is composed of two sections. The 'Left Side' one points out the 'demand' for functionings in an ideal world situation. The real world one, on the 'Right Side' indicates the 'supply' of functionings that the socio-economic system is able to provide individuals with. The general model, specifically tailored for Italy, can be simulated over desired time horizons: for each time period, we carry out a comparison between ideal world and real world functionings. On the basis of their distances, the model simulates some responses of decision makers. These responses, in turn influenced by institutions and instrumental freedoms, ultimately affect the dynamics of real world functionings, i.e. of sustainable human development.Functionings, Capabilities, Institutions, Instrumental Freedoms, Sustainable Human Development