Rhetorical Tools for Communicating Strategic Change: Dana's Definitional Statement

Strategic Intent as a Rhetorical Device

Strategic intent is a useful concept in accounting for purpose and continuity of goals in an organization adapting to internal and external developmental pressures. Yet, extant literature on strategic intent does not account for heterogeneity of goals within an organization. Indeed, there is confusion over who possesses strategic intent. In this paper, we seek to revitalize the concept of strat...

Strategic and Tactic Reasoning for Communicating Agents

The purpose of this paper is to address the strategic and tactic issues in agent communication. Strategic reasoning enables agents to decide about the global communication plan in terms of the macroactions to perform in order to achieve the main conversational goal. Tactic reasoning, on the other hand, allows agents to locally select, at each moment, the most appropriate argument according to t...

Strategic directions for communicating nursing research.

Types, Orthogonality and Genericity: Some Tools for Communicating Process Architectures

We shall develop a simple and natural formalization of the idea of clientserver architectures, and, based on this, define a notion of orthogonality between clients and servers, which embodies strong correctness properties, and exposes the rich logical structure inherent in such systems. Then we generalize from pure clients and servers to components, which provide some services to the environmen...

Strategic Decisions and Intelligent Tools

The success of the strategy formulation process is strictly contingent on the reliability and exhaustiveness of the information a strategist relies on. This paper investigates the Internet as a potential resource of the strategically important information and software intelligent agents as a tool for information retrieval. Though the potential usefulness of the Internet is recognized by the bus...