Changing Hybrid Organizations by Design

Universities as Hybrid Organizations

Today’s public universities are increasingly becoming like enterprising nonprofits. Partly because of financial reasons, they are turning to the private sector to boost or replace their traditional—predominantly public—sources of funding. University-industry alliances in research and development (R&D) are the result of deliberate strategies implemented by national and international (e.g., EU) g...

Hybrid File Organizations

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Process Innovation : Changing Boxes or Revolutionizing Organizations ?

Hybrid Index Organizations for Text Databases

Due to the skewed nature of the frequency distribution of term occurrence (e.g., Zipf’s law) it is unlikely that any single technique for indexing text can do well in all situations. In this paper we propose a hybrid approach to indexing text? and show how it can outperform the traditional inverted B-tree index both in storage overhead, in time to perform a retrieval, and, for dynamic databases...

Design Infrastructure for Large Organizations

How may design address the conditions of change and creativity in today's workplace environment? Increasingly there is the recognition that in order to develop effective workplaces, the design not only needs to respond to functional requirements but also increase the role of the individual users and suppliers in the ongoing evolution of the office space. Expanding the level of participation in ...