The Social Engagement as a Source of Innovation

Innovation, innovation economy, innovation management are all crucial issues in both theory and practice of management. The purpose of this paper is to provide mechanisms for the use of corporate community involvement in public affairs as a source of innovation for both business organizations and in relation to ways of solving social problems and pursuing public purposes. The use of business engagement in social affairs as a source and inspiration for innovation and the mechanisms of responsible use of that business engagement by community and public organizations were analyzed. Companies have discovered that social problems have their economic side and the involvement in solving the problems of the public sector can strongly stimulate their own business processes. The new paradigm for innovation grows in the field of cooperation between private business and public interest, generating positive and permanent changes for both sides. There is a strong need for the cause social responsiveness and increased social sensitivity, not only on the side of the business but also in public organizations

The Principles of Implementing Early Recognition Systems in an Organization

In the context of the turbulent environment, contemporary organizations have to work out and implement tools enabling them to handle the turbulence, and primarily, to avoid negative consequences of these processes. The tools are related, among others, to obtaining and providing managers, sufficiently in advance, with adequate management information on the environment. Early Recognition Systems (ERS) are a response to such conditions of the organization functioning and the challenge in respect of information support for decision-making processes. Unfortunately, they are mainly of informalized character, dispersed on various levels and in various functional areas of organizations, and very often based on unconscious, habitual actions, and, in consequence, their advancement and effectiveness are low. Based on the main characteristics of early recognition systems, the article presents the framework procedure of systemic solutions in the area of early recognition, which is supposed to enable formally organized activities within this scope

Tell el-Murra (Northeastern Nile Delta Survey) : season 2011

The Project in Tell el-Murra in the northeastern part of the Nile Delta continued excavation of trench S3, uncovering two graves from the Early Dynastic period as well as mud-brick walls belonging to earlier structures. A new trench, S4, was dug to check the site stratigraphy and chronology in the eastern part of the site. Old Kingdom and Naqada III pottery was discovered and Lower Egyptian Culture layers were confirmed at the bottom of the latter trench. Architectural remains consisted of a round silos(?) and walls to the west and south of it. The present research confirmed the existence of settlement on the site from the times of the Predynastic Lower Egyptian Culture until the end of the Old Kingdom (Sixth Dynasty), but it is still unclear whether people of the Naqada culture appeared there already in the second half of the Naqada II period or only in Naqada III. It was also confirmed that a settlement and a cemetery existed on the site

Tell el-Murra (Northeastern Nile Delta survey) : seasons 2012-2013

Excavations of the site of Tell el-Murra in the northeastern part of the Nile Delta in 2012 and 2013, following up on surveys in 2008 and in 2010-2011, uncovered settlement structures from the Old Kingdom in the northeastern part of the site (trench T5). Excavations in the adjacent cemetery (trench S3) cleared more graves, which were dated to the Early Dynastic period based on pottery and stone vessel evidence

New business models in the context of co-creating value with customer

The paper concerns the issues of customer involvement in the co-creating value in accessing resources area. Its purpose is to identify interesting and still poorly recognized research problem, which is the impact of the co-creating value on customer relationships and changes in business models applied on the market, and to present the preliminary research proposal for wider scientific discussion. The paper presents: the outline of the research problem and its rationale, the discussion of the theory of co-creating value as the theoretical basis for the research, and business model concept as the way of value creating and acquisition from the market

Design thinking as the environment for disruptive innovation

The subject of this paper is design thinking as an approach to creative thinking and action adapted from the work of the best designers. Design thinking is a method of solving open, complex and ambiguous user problems. As a method based on the the human-centered, exploratory and iterative potential of attitudes towards design practice and reality itself, it holds a number of attractive qualities for disruptive innovation. The purpose of the study is to identify these design thinking qualities that can support organizations in creating disruptive innovations

Tell el-Murra (Northeastern Nile Delta Survey) : season 2010

Much of the work of the Northwestern Nile Delta Survey Project involved research at Tell el-Murra, a site in the northeastern part of the Nile Delta chosen for excavation on the basis of results from the 2008 survey season. Archaeological testing was coupled with magnetic prospection and geological core drillings in an effort to establish site stratigraphy and chronology. An analysis of the assemblage of finds (mainly pottery), confirmed occupation of the northeastern part of the site in the Old Kingdom period, after the southwestern part had already been abandoned. Core drilling results suggested the presence of Predynastic layers below the Protodynastic strata explored in 2010. A continued survey around Tell el-Murra comprised prospection at the sites of Tell Abu el-Halyat, Tell el-Akhdar, Minshat Radwan, Tell Gezira el-Faras, Gezira Sangaha, Mantiqat el-Qalaa and Kafr el-Hadidi. Naqada III pottery was confirmed at the first four of these sites

Empathizing in design thinking as a source of weak signals for entrepreneurial activity

The aim of this paper is identi cation of the relationship that can arise between design thinking and market opportunities recognition. It occurs mostly at the empathizing phase in which an attempt is made to enter the perspective of the end user. Searching for solutions to identify weak signals seems to be one of the key tasks in today's turbulent environment. Design thinking seems to o er the right solutions to support these actions

Benchmark of algorithms for multiple DNA sequence alignment across livestock species

Background: Due to the growing amount of biological data, it is often necessary to select the most optimal estimation method for DNA sequence alignment across livestock species. One of the most important benches of genomics is to modelling homology between considered DNA sequences. A multiple sequence alignment is a potent tool for molecular and evolutionary biology, and there are several programs and algorithms applicable for this purpose. The purpose of this paper was to study the most commonly used DNA alignment algorithms to select the optimal tool dedicated for short sequences.Methods: Four steps of bioinformatics pipelines were considered to benchmark the algorithms for multiple DNA sequence alignment across livestock species: 1) selection of reference genome sequences of ARS1.2 for cattle, EquCab3.0 for horse and vicPac2 for alpaca with a low E-value using TBLASTn 2) removing gaps for these sequences 3) alignment of obtained sequences using examined algorithms 4) matching the quality of aligned sequences with sequences of reference genomes by more software. The time of computation was archived for the whole analysis. The seven programs were utilized, each based on different alignment algorithms, namely: ClustalO, ClustalW, Kalign, MAFFT, MUSCLE, Probcons and T-Coffee.Results: The result obtained in this study showed that the fastest is progressive algorithms such as Kalign or MUSCLE-FAST. Moreover, the iterative algorithms like MAFFT and MUSCLE revealed a higher quality of the alignment. The T-Coffee and Probcons programs were computational cost-effective; simultaneously, they were generating a medium-quality calculation in a relatively long time. The best quality of alignment was shown by iterative variants of the MAFFT program; however, the speed of the calculations was relatively low. The fastest algorithm was Kalign, making alignment much faster than the competitors, but achieving average results in the quality of the alignment. The average speed ratio concerning the quality of the analyzed algorithms was obtained by the progressive version of MAFFT, NS1.Conclusions: We conclude that the results of this study can be used to re-alignment of variant primers in new livestock genome releases