Managing transitions

Managing Transitions for Sustainable Development

The challenge of sustainable development presents our society with the need for long-term structural changes or transitions in sectors such as energysupply, mobility, agriculture and health-care. Based on a multi-phase and multi-level framework for transitions, we ask whether managing transitions is possible, and then outline an operational method for transition management.

Managing transitions and ensuring good care.

An article in this issue describes principles of “transition management” developed by the American Association of Community Psychiatrists (AACP). Although the association’s efforts are commendable, I believe that the principles do not reflect some of the realities of providing community care. First, AACP offers little definition of “transition” beyond “moving from one level of care to another” ...

Managing Technological Transitions: Prospects, Places, Publics and Policy

Managing Automotive Product Development

The new product development (NPD) is the process by which a new product idea is conceived, investigated, taken through the design process, manufactured, marketed and serviced. In Automotive Engineering these related to the product realization process (PRP) which consists of five phases: "Plan and Define Program", "Product Design and Development", "Process Design and...

Adult’s Learning Strategies for Receptive Skill Self-managing or Teacher-managing

Receptive language skill refers to answering appropriately to another person's spoken language. A lot of teachers try to develop receptive language skills in their language learners. When receptive language skills are not appropriately acquired, learners may miss significant learning opportunities resulting in delays in the development and acquisition of spoken language. The goals of this paper...