Can Systems Thinking Competency Be Improved?

Design Thinking: Can Creativity Be Taught?

This paper contributes to the current interest in design thinking as superior to cognitive and analytical thinking for solution generation, suggesting ways that this epistemological shift can be introduced in education, specifically as the Design Charrette. This paper explores the adaptation of a traditional studio technique in architecture – the Design Charrette – to teaching. The Design Charr...

Thinking Machines: Can There Be? Are We?

Artificial intelligence researchers predict that _thinking machines_ will take over our mental work, just as their mechanical predecessors were intended to eliminate physical drudgery. Critics have argued with equal fervor that _thinking machine_ is a contradiction in terms. Computers, with their foundations of cold logic, can never be creative or insightful or possess real judgment. Although m...

Strategic Thinking: Can it be Taught?

B ASHING TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO STRATEGIC planning has become the favoured past-time of leading business authors on both sides of the Atlantic. The litany of indictments against the types of planning processes in place at most large multinational firms is long, and often difficult to disagree with. Traditional processes have choked initiative and favoured incremental over substantive change....

Can Male Fertility Be Improved Prior to Assisted Reproduction through The Control of Uncommonly Considered Factors?

O10: How Child Protection in Cars Can be Improved in Iran? Suggested Approach

The presentation will focus on the key areas that are essential to build a comprehensive policy towards reducing child injury and fatalities. The presentation will focus on the importance of the public awareness (education on the use of child restraint systems), the need to have an overall road safety programme, law enforcement (mandatory use of protection systems for children in car) and final...