We propose an Integrated Systemic Theory of Catastrophes (ISTC) using System Dynamics to model and to understand common systemic structures and behaviours of catastrophes. Current catastrophe research concentrates on a specific field and does not capture complex multi-field catastrophe scenarios that cannot be reduced to a single scientific field. For example, when looking at famines the elemen...

Persona focused user experiences Archetypes not stereotypes

Bimodal IT decomposes the IT function into two modes—Traditional and Agile—the former focused on stability, the latter on the speed and experimentation necessary to support innovative uses of IT in a digital business context. The full article describes four bimodal IT archetypes and the factors that drive an organization to adopt bimodal IT. Our research found that companies switch between diff...

The application of archetypal analysis to high-dimensional data arising from video-taped images is presented. A hybrid principal components/archetypes technique has been developed to overcome the difficulties of applying archetypes to data sets with points living in a space of dimension higher than about 500. The advantages of the method lie in the creation of patterns typical of the set as a w...

This paper is a status report from a large-scale openEHR-based EPR project from the North Norway Regional Health Authority encouraged by the unfolding of a national repository for openEHR archetypes. Clinicians need to engage in, and be responsible for the production of archetypes. The consensus processes have so far been challenged by a low number of active clinicians, a lack of critical speci...

Communicating genetic testing reports of a patient in a semantically interoperable way remains difficult. Most of the information is stored as non-communicable documents which cannot automatically be processed. The objective of the project was to obtain semantically interoperable genetic testing reports which could be used not only for communication purposes but also for secondary uses, for exa...