Participatory futures research. Research or practice consulting?

Consulting , Research , and Consulting Research Steven

C and scholarly research often have very different objectives with respect to advancements in practice, theory, and observation (e.g., data collections). For example, consulting often emphasizes immediate benefits, specialized applications, and a focus on only the key variables. Scholarly research often emphasizes replicability, generalizability, and introducing previously uninvestigated variab...

Editorial : Consulting , Research and Consulting Research Steven

Consulting and scholarly research often have very different objectives with respect to advancements in practice, theory and observation (e.g., data collections). For example, consulting often emphasizes immediate benefits, specialized applications and a focus on only the key variables. Scholarly research often emphasizes replicability, generalizability and introducing previously uninvestigated ...

Colonic motility: practice or research?

CBSE Research at Andersen Consulting

Component-Based Software Engineering or CBSE represents a new development paradigm: assembling software systems from components. This paper discusses the technology infrastructure necessary to support CBSE. In particular, we present the new techniques produced by the CBSE research project conducted at Andersen Consulting.

The value and challenges of participatory research: strengthening its practice.

The increasing use of participatory research (PR) approaches to address pressing public health issues reflects PR's potential for bridging gaps between research and practice, addressing social and environmental justice and enabling people to gain control over determinants of their health. Our critical review of the PR literature culminates in the development of an integrative practice framework...