An Integrated Approach to Change Leadership

An integrated approach to change leadership.

Leading change has become one of the essential core competencies of health professionals today. Since 2001, the authors have been the key designers and facilitators of the Dorothy Wylie Nursing Leadership Institute (DMW-NLI). The background, key characteristics and benefits of the DMW-NLI have been described in detail elsewhere (Simpson et al. 2002). One of the Institute's key features is that ...

An Integrated Systems Approach to Explanation-Based Conceptual Change

Understanding conceptual change is an important problem in modeling human cognition and in making integrated AI systems that can learn autonomously. This paper describes a model of explanation-based conceptual change, integrating sketch understanding, analogical processing, qualitative models, truth-maintenance, and heuristic-based reasoning within the Companions cognitive architecture. Sketch ...

Integrated Organization and Technology Development – an Approach to Manage Change

Organizations face increasing complexity and dynamics of their environment. To cope with it organizational structures have to be rethought. In this context the concept of self-organization is nowadays widely discussed in management science. Contrary to a tayloristic approach where organizations were perceived as social units which could be controlled mechanically from the top, the concept of se...

Medical Leadership Development (MLD): the need of change and the way to approach it

An Integrated Approach to Courseware

Software engineering is becoming increasingly important as an engineering discipline, and its teaching in universities and other higher education institutions should be of high quality. In this paper we describe a tool (BOSS — the Boss Online Submission System) which aids the education of software engineers. BOSS allows students to submit programming assignments online, and to run black-box tes...