Harnessing Novel Forms of Work Organization: Design Knowledge on Crowdworking Platform Systems

Harnessing Novel Forms of Work Organization: Design Knowledge on Crowdworking Platform Systems

Author: Volkmar Mrass

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 3737609063

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The digitalization is currently fundamentally changing our world of work. One important trend in this context is the “platform economy”, with crowdworking platforms as an increasingly relevant platform type. Many of these crowdworking platforms and their surrounding work systems including participants, nformation, technologies, as well as processes and activities, are comparatively new and often designed incrementally. What is currently still lacking is systematic knowledge about the efficient design of such crowdworking platform systems (CWPS). This dissertation provides such design knowledge in the form of a nascent design theory. One important focus lies on the question how such CWPS should be designed to also use this novel form of work organization for more complex work. This dissertation furthermore shows how a close interlinking of external crowds and internal employees of an organization helps to harness the advantages of crowdworking while at the same time mitigates its disadvantages.


Journal

Journal

Author: Military Service Institution of the United States

Publisher:

Published: 1905

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13:

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Distributed Game Development

Distributed Game Development

Author: Tim Fields

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1136135413

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Take control of your global game development team and make successful AAA game titles using the 'Distributed Development' model. Game industry veteran Tim Fields teaches you how to evaluate game deals, how to staff teams for highly distributed game development, and how to maintain challenging relationships in order to get great games to market. This book is filled with interviews with a broad spectrum of industry experts from top game publishers and business owners in the US and UK. A supplementary web site provides interviews from the book, a forum where developers and publishers can connect, and additional tips and tricks. Topics include:


Licensed to Profit

Licensed to Profit

Author: Chris Shea

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-09-26

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0731406834

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Chris Shea (aka the Market Coach) is an educator, counsellor and psychotherapist, who specialises in coaching clients to develop the psychological skills and drive to become independent, disciplined and successful traders and to sustain peak performance. This book is about preparing the reader to obtain a licence to trade, a vital step in the transformation to becoming profitable. The book also deals with some potential hurdles, especially with respect to the trader\'s mindset and ideas, which need to be overcome to allow efficient practice.


Making Men from "The Boys"

Making Men from

Author: Nick Olynyk

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 163047522X

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A collection of stories from the author’s career, each containing a significant lesson about masculinity. "Making Men From The Boys” will motivate young men to ask more of life and take more personal action to achieve it, even as young men get more mixed signals about what it is to be a man than ever before.


Harnessing Complexity

Harnessing Complexity

Author: Robert Axelrod

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2008-08-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0786723440

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Harnessing Complexity will be indispensable to anyone who wants to better comprehend how people and organizations can adapt effectively in the information age. This book is a step-by-step guide to understanding the processes of variation, interaction, and selection that are at work in all organizations. The authors show how to use their own paradigm of "bottom up" management, the Complex Adaptive System-whether in science, public policy, or private commerce. This simple model of how people work together will change forever how we think about getting things done in a group. "Harnessing Complexity distills the managerial essence of current research on complexity. "A very valuable contribution to the emerging theory of competition and competitive advantage."-C.K. Prahalad, University of Michigan, coauthor of Competing for the Future "A brilliant exposition that demystifies both the theory and use of Complex Adaptive Systems."-John Seely Brown, Xerox Corporation and Palo Alto Research Center


Harnessing Digital Disruption

Harnessing Digital Disruption

Author: Pascal Dennis

Publisher: Productivity Press

Published: 2020-10-28

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780367201555

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Our world has changed, probably for good. Until now, the shift from brick-and-mortar to the smartphone has been about service, cost and convenience. Now, it's also a matter of public health. In some industries, this trend has been evident for some time. But now it's going to accelerate across the gamut of industry. How do we remain relevant in this risky new world? How do we win this uncertain new game? What if ours is a brick-and-mortar organization that depends on face-to-face interaction? Can we learn to harness digital methods, tools and technologies? Fortunately, there is a pathway to prosperity. The story in this book is set in the heady world of international banking, but the prescription, methods and lessons apply equally to manufacturers, utilities, hospitals, insurers and government agencies. Harnessing digital disruption entails learning new tools, systems and thinking. Doing so effectively requires a sound overall approach based on timeless principles.