Using social media as organizational memory consolidation mechanism according to attention based view theory

Increasingly, organizations are aware that the knowledge generated in organization is a primary factor to remain competitive in the market. The Organizational Memory (OM) conceptualizing how the process of creation, storage and dissemination of knowledge over time can influence the actions and decisions of the organization. For this, it is necessary that the attention of individuals to be targeted and aligned, noticing the stimuli from the environment, and directing the time and cognitive effort towards the decisions to be made in the organization. This scenario, the paper provides a discussion of 22 case studies found in literature that were analyzed using the Attention-Based View of the Firm as a guiding lens. This analysis shows some evidence and relevant implications of the use of Social Media in the organizational context as well as a first theoretical description of how the focus of attention of decision makers influence the development of OM.This work has been supported by CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil and by FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology within the Project Scope UID/CEC/00319/2013.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Information systems and organizational memory: a literature review

The advancement of technologies and Information Systems (IS) associated with the search for success in the competitive market leads organizations to seek strategies that assist in acquisition, retention, storage, and dissemination of knowledge in the organization in order to be reused in time, preserving its Organizational Memory (OM). The Organizational Memory Information Systems (OMIS) rises as an enhancer of the OM, providing effective support and resources for the organization, assisting on decision-making, in the solution of problems, as well as in quality and generation of products and services. This article is an analysis of some OMIS selected from a literature review about its features and functionality in order to understand how these information systems are seen by the organizations. With this research, we realized that it is still inexpressive this relationship between OM and IS, even with the existence of some cases of success in the use of OMIS in the literature. The literature reveals that the individuals' knowledge is not integrated on information systems management process in most organizations, getting much of the knowledge of individuals generated in the organization retained in own individual. It is easy to see that there is a need for strategies and mechanisms in the organization to stimulate and provide a better knowledge sharing between individuals which, when associated to IS, allow greater control and effective use of the Organizational Memory.This work was supported by CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil and by FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology within the Project Scope UID/CEC/00319/2015.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Lean Education as a Methodology for Supporting the Development of Training for Municipal Open Data Agents in Smart Cities

In smart cities, the aim is to ensure the proper use of resources and integrate traditional infrastructure with digital technologies, all in service of their users. In this context, one of the key professionals is municipal open data agents, who contribute to the provision and processing of data necessary for building solutions within the urban ecosystem. This article, in a preliminary manner, seeks to contribute to an ongoing European project focused on the training of these agents. The objective is to assess the feasibility of applying Lean Education concepts and principles in the course development process, using a narrative literature review. It is concluded that the Lean method is an important pillar for the training to be developed in the capacity-building project, contributing to the development of qualified open data professionals capable of handling the complexity of data and transforming it into relevant information for urban management

Modo deadline: una análisis al tiempo de las mujeres académicas

Ao relacionarmos o tempo na academia e na ciência em uma perspectiva de género como condição/pressuposto de partida, são inúmeras as questões que se levantam e que ultrapassam os indicadores atuais relativos à comparação entre a situação dos homens e das mulheres na academia e na ciência. O grau e valorização das unidades curriculares, cargos, áreas científicas, perfis e temas de investigação, as modalidades de financiamento e até mesmo a escolha de uma carreira de investigação devem ser equacionadas enquanto questões de género e correlacionadas com o uso, experiência, implicações e percepções do fator tempo pelas mulheres académicas nestas questões. Este artigo tem como objetivo explicitar alguns dos traços principais dos usos do tempo, por parte das mulheres académicas, identifi cando algumas das suas implicações para a política académica e científica a nível institucional. A partir da análise de resultados provenientes de um cruzamento de estudos realizados envolvendo entrevista e observação, percebe-se claramente como as narrativas femininas sobre o tempo tendem a relativizar as dificuldades individuais na administração e alocação do tempo, face à importância atribuída à necessidade de responder a exigências de caráter estrutural nas instituições. Nesta perspetiva, destaca-se o interesse em aprofundar a consciencialização sobre questões de genéro, incluindo o aprimoramento de indicadores para estudo e intervenção consentanêa com a promoção da igualdade de género em contexto académico.This text seeks to explain some of the main features of the modes how academic women experience and use time, idennifying some os its imlications for science policy. Analysing data provided by some studies done by the author, involving interviews and observation, it is argued that feminine narratives tend to weaken the strength of the individual difficulties for administrating and allocating time, as regards the importance they attached to the need they feel to respond to requirements imposed upon them by structural demands. Finally, the text makes some considerations about how science policy benefits from the consideration of gender in its intersectionality.Este texto tiene como objetivo explicar algunas de las principales características de los usos del tiempo, por las mujeres académicas, expicitando algunas de sus implicationes para la politica cientifica. A partir del análisis de los resultados de unos estudios realizados por la autora a partir de entrevistas y observación se conclui que las narrativas de las mujeres sobre el tiempo tienden a relativizar las dificultades individuales en la gestión y asignación de tiempo, dada la importancia que se concede a la necesidad que sienten para responder a los requisitos que consideran impuestas por el sistema de evaluación de carreras y la actividad académica y la investigación. Por último, el texto hace algunas consideraciones sobre cómo la política para la ciencia puede retirar beneficios de la explicación de la variable de género en su interseccionalidad.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Estudos de Confiabilidade na Modelagem de Sistemas

Atualmente, as empresas buscam maior confiabilidade e qualidade em seus produtos por causa da grande concorrência de mercado. Além disso, a diminuição dos gastos com garantia e a possibilidade de extensão da mesma é um grande diferencial de mercado, e pode ser obtido com a realização de estudos de confiabilidade dos sistemas e equipamentos. A confiabilidade é uma grandeza mensurável a partir da análise estatística da ocorrência de falha. Falha é o fenômeno que compromete o desempenho ou impossibilita a operação de um item. Assim, um conceito de confiabilidade é a “probabilidade de um sistema ou item desempenhar satisfatoriamente a função requerida, sob condições de operações estabelecidas, por um período de tempo pré-determinadoâ€, Lewis (1996)

ANÁLISE DA RELAÇÃO ENTRE A PRODUÇÃO E O CONSUMO DE ÁGUA NA GRANDE GOIÂNIA UTILIZANDO O MÉTODO ESTATÍSTICO DE PREVISÃO DE HOLT-WINTERS

http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/223611705021All in planet Earth, the volume of salt water found in oceans and seas is about 97%; the other 3% isfresh, but they are found in glaciers or underneath the earth surface, in aquifers, and it is difficultto access them. Only 0.007% of freshwater is found in rivers, lakes and in the atmosphere - theeasy access water to human being. Brazil has 13.7% of surface freshwater in the World and 70% ofthis amount is at Amazon. The other 30% are distributed throughout the country. The growing ofwater needed by the population concentration and the water disponibility in certain areasdemands to plan how to use this water. Based on these points some statistical methods were usedas models of regression and timing series, taking Holt-Winters Methodology as a basic tool tomodel the water consumption withing coming decades.http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/223611705021Sabe-se que 97,5% da água disponível na terra é salgada e se encontram em oceanos e mares. Já a água doce, 2,493% se encontra em geleiras ou regiões subterrâneas (aquíferos), de difícil acesso restando apenas 0,007% de fácil acesso para o consumo humano, encontradas em rios, lagos e na atmosfera. Desta pequena parcela, o Brasil detém 13,7%, sendo 70% localizados na Região Amazônica e os 30% restantes distribuídos desigualmente pelo país. A região do centro oeste detém de 15,7% destes recursos. Com base nos dados, há uma necessidade de planejamento do uso da água decorrentes da crescente demanda devido ao crescimento populacional, infraestrutura e sua disponibilidade na natureza. Baseados nessas premissas propõem-se uma modelagem da produção de água na Grande Goiânia para as próximas décadas com uma das principais fontes de abastecimento de água da região – a Barragem do João Leite – utilizando métodos estatísticos como séries temporais dando uma atenção especial ao método de HoltWinter

Engineering impacting social, economic and working environment

Engineers create, design and build, bringing solutions to problems and transforming the environment for betterment of life. Engineers are responsible for the development of science and technology once they design tools, systems and instruments that make possible the acquisition of knowledge in a vast amount of fields. Engineering is responsible for the deep transformation of human relations in the first decade of the 21st century, changing also education paradigms as well as business. A new era in working environment has started, which characteristics are peculiar due to new communications, mobility and globalization. These aspects lead to the fact that now it is also important to train engineers with tools that enable them to act in a working environment that demands a very flexible and innovative mind in order to be inserted in and to keep up with the work market. Knowledge in Basic Sciences, Basic Sciences of Engineering and Specifics of Engineering are fundamental for the training of an engineer. However, the insertion in labor market sometimes demands some practice or experience that should also be provided by the engineering schools. Taking this into account, the Engineering Education Research Team of COPEC – Science and Education Research Council has designed and is implementing a program for an engineering school which main goal is to prepare engineers for the future work market, the engineer for the future. The idea was born due to the very competitive environment that Engineering Schools are facing recently and the fact that fewer young students are choosing engineering as a career to pursue despite work market demand for engineers

Environmental engineering program preparing engineers to tackle new challenges

The Engineering Education Research Team of COPEC – Science and Education Research Council has designed and is implementing a program for an engineering school which main goal is to offer a PhD program of high quality in order to fulfill the work market demand for a high qualified environmental engineer. It is an nterdisciplinary environmental engineering program that intends to offer students an exciting opportunity to focus their technical capabilities on evolving science that affects human quality of life in a global scale and can simultaneously help preserve and restore areas in which they work. Following the world trend educational model of theory and practice, student projects provide unique, hands-on opportunities to explore the multifaceted considerations surrounding environmental engineering problems on local and global levels, and to improve living conditions in the subject areas. It has a curriculum that addresses the time-crunch problem by integrating professional practices into the technical curriculum.(undefined

MBA in social engineering: designed program for present society

Political environment is full of challenges and crises of deep consequences to society as well as to the environment and it has a strong incidence in terms of decision making in any field. It means that taking decisions is becoming more and more complex and difficult due to the fact that the implications are felt in a faster way and in a larger community. For engineers, the decision process is even more complex once the implications have serious impact not only to the target customers but also to the society as a whole and to the environment. This is an aspect that shows the necessity for engineers to search for the acquisition of an ability to respond to social necessities having in mind the cultural aspects when developing a project. The effects of this aspect in engineering education implies a different approach providing the future engineers with notions on policy, ethics and social sciences, which are so important to prepare them to the future work market that will require the respect and promotion of society and environment as assets [1]. Most of social groups have ambiguous understanding about science and technology; some understand it as responsible for the environmental deterioration and the voracious capitalism and others as the ones responsible for the better quality of life with the improvement of health systems, agricultural production and other accomplishments. Both perceptions are not far from the reality. In any case, the impacts can be seen along the history and more recently with the sophistication of the so called “information society”. This particular “information society” shows how strong the impact of any technology introduced in society can be. Real time communication and brutal amount of information available have drastically changed how people relate, make business and study [2]. The proposal of COPEC - Science and Education Research Council for the next five years is the offering of an MBA by Distance Learning due to the new global education demand. The new programs will be delivered in Portuguese in a first moment, for all Countries of CPLP - Portuguese Language Countries Community. The idea is to cover these countries that also are seeking for opportunities, as the majority of them are developing and are very wealthy countries. The first group of programs is: MBA in Social Engineering and MBA in International Engineering Educator, both with International Recognition.FCT -Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras(FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-022674

International experiences and the implications for the success of engineering programs

The working midst has become challenging due to the multicultural environment and the need of skills such as cultural understanding, are very important in the formation of an engineer. It has been like this for many years however, now more than ever. So, for engineering schools, internationalization has become, on top of others, another demand for the accomplishment of a good program. It became necessary to provide international academic experience for the students. For this reason, internationalization is now a strategy to raise the quality of courses and as another result of these efforts, to raise the engineering students’ retention rate along the program. The goal of this paper is to present and discuss the internationalization process of a University’s engineering school, with the objective of making the program more attractive and promoting the double diploma in order to higher the quality of the programs.(undefined)info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio