Do desenho tradicional ao desenho Digitalum: caso de estudo “Wreck this Journal” vs “Wreck this App”

Tendo como ponto de partida um caso de estudo que compara dois livros de actividades (um livro tradicional no suporte físico, “Wreck this Journal”, adaptado para um livro digital, “Wreck this App”) da autora Keri Smith, propomo-nos analisar fundamentalmente as possibilidades do desenho de representação em ambos os suportes. Abordaremos ainda outros temas paralelos segundo parâmetros previamente definidos, que irão permitir comparar e analisar as propriedades de cada objecto, enquanto potencial espaço de representação. Este trabalho procura, assim, demonstrar de que forma estes dois suportes se complementam, livro impresso e livro digital, e de que forma podemos beneficiar com a introdução de novas técnicas e da possível transferência de conhecimentos adquiridos num objecto de estudo para o outro. Independentemente de permitirem diferentes experiências de interacção e de registo, torna-se relevante a forma com que estimulam a criatividade e a procura de novas formas de representação.

Integration of Individualized Management Systems (MSs) as an Aggregating Factor of Sustainable Value for Organizations: An Overview Through a Review of the Literature

Nowadays, there exist various standards for individual management systems (MSs), at least, one for each stakeholder. New ones will be published. An integrated management system (IMS) aims to integrate some or all components of the business into one coherent and efficient MS. Maximizing integration is more and more a strategic priority in that it constitutes an opportunity to eliminate and/or reduce potential factors of destruction of value for the organizations and also to be more competitive and consequently promote its sustainable success. A preliminary investigation was conducted on a Portuguese industrial company which, over the years, has been adopting gradually, in whole or in part, individualized management system standards (MSSs). A research, through a questionnaire, was performed with the objective to develop, in a real business environment, an adequate and efficient IMS-QES (quality, environment, and safety) model and to potentiate for the future a generic IMS model to integrate other MSSs. The strategy and research methods have taken into consideration the case study. It was obtained a set of relevant conclusions resulting from the statistical analyses of the responses to the survey. Globally, the investigation results, by themselves, justified and prioritized the conception of a model of development of the IMS-QES and consequent definition and validation of a structure of an IMS-QES model, to be implemented at the small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) where the investigation was conducted.