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Re-reengineering the dream: agility as competitive adaptability
Organizational adaptation and transformative change management in technology-based organizations is explored in the context of collaborative alliances. A Re-reengineering approach is outlined in which a new Competitive Adaptability Five-Influences Analysis approach under conditions of collaborative alliance, is described as an alternative to Porter’s Five-Forces Competitive Rivalry Analysis model. Whilst continuous change in technology and the associated effects of technology shock (Dedola & Neri, 2006; Christiano, Eichenbaum & Vigfusson, 2003) are not new constructs, the reality of the industrial age was and is a continuing reduction in timeline for relevance and lifetime for a specific technology and the related skills and expertise base required for its effective implementation. This, combined with increasing pressures for innovation (Tidd & Bessant, 2013) and at times severe impacts from both local and global economic environments (Hitt, Ireland & Hoskisson, 2011) raises serious challenges for contemporary management teams seeking to strategically position a company and its technology base advantageously, relative to its suppliers, competitors and customers, as well as in predictive readiness for future technological change and opportunistic adaptation. In effect, the life-cycle of a technology has become typically one of disruptive change and rapid adjustment, followed by a plateau as a particular technology or process captures and holds its position against minor challenges, eventually to be displaced by yet another alternative (Bower & Christensen, 1995)
Quantum Probability as an Application of Data Compression Principles
Realist, no-collapse interpretations of quantum mechanics, such as Everett's,
face the probability problem: how to justify the norm-squared (Born) rule from
the wavefunction alone. While any basis-independent measure can only be
norm-squared (due to the Gleason-Busch Theorem) this fact conflicts with
various popular, non-wavefunction-based phenomenological measures - such as
observer, outcome or world counting - that are frequently demanded of
Everettians. These alternatives conflict, however, with the wavefunction
realism upon which Everett's approach rests, which seems to call for an
objective, basis-independent measure based only on wavefunction amplitudes. The
ability of quantum probabilities to destructively interfere with each other,
however, makes it difficult to see how probabilities can be derived solely from
amplitudes in an intuitively appealing way. I argue that the use of algorithmic
probability can solve this problem, since the objective, single-case
probability measure that wavefunction realism demands is exactly what
algorithmic information theory was designed to provide. The result is an
intuitive account of complex-valued amplitudes, as coefficients in an optimal
lossy data compression, such that changes in algorithmic information content
(entropy deltas) are associated with phenomenal transitions.Comment: In Proceedings PC 2016, arXiv:1606.0651
Maritime Indonesia and the Archipelagic Outlook; Some Reflections From a Multidisciplinary Perspective on Old Port Cities in Java
The present paper reflects on Indonesia\u27s status as an archipelagic state and a maritime nation from a historical perspective. It explores the background of a multi-year research project into Indonesia\u27s maritime past currently being undertaken at the Humanities Faculty of Universitas Indonesia. The multidisciplinary research uses toponymy, epigraphy, philology, and linguistic lines of analysis in examining old inscriptions and manuscripts and also includes site visits to a number of old port cities across the archipelago. We present here some of the core concepts behind the research such as the importance of the ancient port cities in a network of maritime trade and diplomacy, and link them to some contemporary issues such as the Archipelagic Outlook. This is based on a concept of territorial integrity that reflects Indonesia\u27s national identity and aspirations. It is hoped that the paper can extend the discussion about efforts to make maritime affairs a strategic geopolitical goal along with restoring Indonesia\u27s identity as a maritime nation
Ubiquitous Place Names Standardization and Study in Indonesia
Place names play a vital role in human society. Names exist in all languages and place names are an indispensible part of International communication. This has been acknowledged by the establishment of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN). One of UNGEGN's tasks is to coordinate International efforts on the proper use of place names. Indonesia supports this effort and through its National Geospatial Agency (BIG). Place names are also of interest as an object of study in themselves. Academic studies into place names are found in linguistics, onomastics, philosophy and a number of other academic disciplines. This article looks at these two dimensions of place names, standardization efforts under the auspices of International and national bodies, and academic studies of names, with particular reference to the situation in Indonesia
Three and Four Region Multi-sector Linear Modelling Using UK Data : Some Preliminary Results
Scotland and Wales have relatively up-to-date, independently generated, IO tables. These can be separated out from a UK national IO table to construct an inter-regional table. We therefore undertake the detailed analysis at this three-region (Scotland, Wales and the Rest of the UK (RUK)) level, where the Rest of the UK is England and Northern Ireland. However, we also construct a more rudimentary four-region (Scotland, Wales, England and Ireland) set of IO and SAM accounts by constructing a separate Northern Ireland accounts. The inter-regional IO and SAM models are produced for the year 1999. This was determined by the availability of consistent data. In Section II we describe the construction of a three-region Input-Output model for the United Kingdom, which includes the regions of Scotland, Wales and the Rest of the UK (RUK). In Section III we extend the three-region model to construct an inter-regional Social Accounting Matrix. Section IV reports some results using the three-region IO and SAM models. In Section V, we generate a four-region IO and SAM model for the UK, which disaggregates Northern Ireland from the Rest of the UK, and provide some results using the four-region IO and SAM models. Section VI offers our conclusions
Why is solar cycle 24 an inefficient producer of high-energy particle events?
The aim of the study is to investigate the reason for the low productivity of
high-energy SEPs in the present solar cycle. We employ scaling laws derived
from diffusive shock acceleration theory and simulation studies including
proton-generated upstream Alfv\'en waves to find out how the changes observed
in the long-term average properties of the erupting and ambient coronal and/or
solar wind plasma would affect the ability of shocks to accelerate particles to
the highest energies. Provided that self-generated turbulence dominates
particle transport around coronal shocks, it is found that the most crucial
factors controlling the diffusive shock acceleration process are the number
density of seed particles and the plasma density of the ambient medium.
Assuming that suprathermal populations provide a fraction of the particles
injected to shock acceleration in the corona, we show that the lack of most
energetic particle events as well as the lack of low charge-to-mass ratio ion
species in the present cycle can be understood as a result of the reduction of
average coronal plasma and suprathermal densities in the present cycle over the
previous one
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