Progettare l'inserimento di General Purpose Technologies nelle Organizzazioni con il Design Thinking: evidenze dal campo e metodologia proposta

Vista la crescente necessità di svolgere progetti d'innovazione guidati dalle nuove tecnologie, la presente ricerca risponde all'esigenza di trovare una metodologia efficace per poterli affrontare proficuamente. In un primo momento, l'elaborato propone una metodologia che permette di elaborare una classificazione dei progetti d'innovazione technology-driven in classi ed un pacchetto di tools funzionali al riconoscimento dell'appartenenza alle stesse. In un secondo momento, giunti a comprensione del fatto che ad ognuna delle classi corrisponde uno specifico fine raggiungibile con una specifica metodologia, lo studio descrive la metodologia seguita per raggiungere una efficace e ripetibile elaborazione di principi progettuali, buone pratiche e strumenti che permettano ad una Organizzazione di appropriarsi del valore di una tecnologia General Purpose (GPT) attraverso l'ideazione di soluzioni innovativa. La progettazione è figlia di un approccio di Design Thinking (DT), sia poichè esso è stato usato nello svolgimento stesso della ricerca, sia perchè la metodologia DT è alla base della modellazione del processo proposto per la classe.

Integrare gli approcci all'innovazione Data Science e Design Thinking: analisi teorica e applicazione al caso della sanità parmense

Nel panorama aziendale odierno, risulta essere di fondamentale importanza la capacità, da parte di un’azienda o di una società di servizi, di orientare in modo programmatico la propria innovazione in modo tale da poter essere competitivi sul mercato. In molti casi, questo e significa investire una cospicua somma di denaro in progetti che andranno a migliorare aspetti essenziali del prodotto o del servizio e che avranno un importante impatto sulla trasformazione digitale dell’azienda. Lo studio che viene proposto riguarda in particolar modo due approcci che sono tipicamente in antitesi tra loro proprio per il fatto che si basano su due tipologie di dati differenti, i Big Data e i Thick Data. I due approcci sono rispettivamente il Data Science e il Design Thinking. Nel corso dei seguenti capitoli, dopo aver definito gli approcci di Design Thinking e Data Science, verrà definito il concetto di blending e la problematica che ruota attorno all’intersezione dei due metodi di innovazione. Per mettere in evidenza i diversi aspetti che riguardano la tematica, verranno riportati anche casi di aziende che hanno integrato i due approcci nei loro processi di innovazione, ottenendo importanti risultati. In particolar modo verrà riportato il lavoro di ricerca svolto dall’autore riguardo l'esame, la classificazione e l'analisi della letteratura esistente all'intersezione dell'innovazione guidata dai dati e dal pensiero progettuale. Infine viene riportato un caso aziendale che è stato condotto presso la realtà ospedaliero-sanitaria di Parma in cui, a fronte di una problematica relativa al rapporto tra clinici dell’ospedale e clinici del territorio, si è progettato un sistema innovativo attraverso l’utilizzo del Design Thinking. Inoltre, si cercherà di sviluppare un’analisi critica di tipo “what-if” al fine di elaborare un possibile scenario di integrazione di metodi o tecniche provenienti anche dal mondo del Data Science e applicarlo al caso studio in oggetto.

The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: An opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the 193 Member States of the United Nations at the General Assembly in September 2015, outlines a transformative vision for economic, social and environmental development and will guide the work of the Organization towards this vision for the next 15 years. This new road map presents a historic opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean, since it addresses some of the region’s most urgent priorities, such as reducing inequality in all its dimensions, promoting inclusive economic growth with decent work for all, creating sustainable cities and addressing climate change. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) associated with the Agenda help the region’s countries to gauge the starting point from which they set out towards this new, collective vision of sustainable development set forth in the 2030 Agenda and to analyse and craft the means of its implementation. The SDGs also represent a planning tool for the countries at the national and local levels. With their long-term approach, they offer support for each country on its path towards sustained, inclusive and environmentally friendly development, through the formulation of public policies and budget, monitoring and evaluation instruments. The 2030 Agenda is a civilizing agenda that places dignity and equality at the centre. At once far-sighted and ambitious, its implementation will require the engagement of all sectors of society and of the State. Accordingly, the representatives of governments, civil society, academic institutions and the private sector are invited to take ownership of this ambitious agenda, to discuss and embrace it as a tool for the creation of inclusive, fair societies that serve the citizens of today as well as future generations.

Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2016: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the challenges of financing for development

This, the sixty-eighth edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, which corresponds to the year 2016, consists of three parts. Part I outlines the region’s economic performance in 2015 and analyses trends in the first half of 2016, as well as the outlook for the rest of the year. It examines the external and internal factors influencing the region’s economic performance and highlights some of the macroeconomic policy challenges that have arisen in an external context of weak growth and high levels of uncertainty. Part II analyses the challenges that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean face at the domestic and international levels in mobilizing financing for development. On the domestic front, slower growth and tighter fiscal restrictions pose significant challenges for the mobilization of resources. Externally, the classification of many of the region’s countries in the middle-income category limits their access to concessional external financing or international support. Part III of this publication may be accessed on the web page of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (www.eclac.org). It contains the notes relating to the economic performance of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in 2015 and the first half of 2016, together with their respective statistical annexes. The cut-off date for updating the statistical information in this publication was 30 June 2016.

Aportes de la cooperación internacional al desarrollo sostenible en Colombia: incidencia del Programa 21 en la agenda ambiental (Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2010-2014)

Este estudio de caso presenta el rol de la cooperación internacional para avanzar hacia un modelo de desarrollo sostenible en Colombia, analizando los ámbitos en que el Programa 21 permeó la agenda ambiental del país durante el periodo de diseño e implementación del Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2010-2014 (PND). Se analizan los logros y retos del PND a la luz del Programa 21 desde dos de los pilares que representan un mayor desafío para la construcción del desarrollo sostenible en el país: (1)crecimiento sostenible y competitivo y (2) la sostenibilidad ambiental

Life Cycle Thinking for sustainability assessment and decision-making in selected food supply chains in Costa Rica

The Agenda 2030 contains 17 integrated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 12 for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) promotes the efficient use of resources through a systemic change that decouples economic growth from environmental degradation. The Food Systems (FS) pillar in SDG 12 entails paramount relevance due to its interconnection to many other SDGs, and even when being a crucial world food supplier, the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Region struggles with environmental and social externalities, low investment in agriculture, inequity, food insecurity, poverty, and migration. Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) was regarded as a pertinent approach to identify hotspots and trade-offs, and support decision-making process to aid LAC Region countries as Costa Rica to diagnose sustainability and overcome certain challenges. This thesis aimed to ‘evaluate the sustainability of selected products from food supply chains in Costa Rica, to provide inputs for further sustainable decision-making, through the application of Life Cycle Thinking’. To do this, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), and Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) evaluated the sustainability of food-waste-to-energy alternatives, and the production of green coffee, raw milk and leafy vegetables, and identified environmental, social and cost hotspots. This approach also proved to be a useful component of decision-making and policy-making processes together with other methods. LCT scientific literature led by LAC or Costa Rican researchers is still scarce; therefore, this research contributed to improve capacities in the use of LCT in this context, while offering potential replicability of the developed frameworks in similar cases. Main limitations related to the representativeness and availability of primary data; however, future research and extension activities are foreseen to increase local data availability, capacity building, and the discussion of potential integration through Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA).

Thinking over b‐learning strategy: the MIPO model approach

This article describes the main research results in a new methodology, in which the stages and strategies of the technology integration process are identified and described. A set of principles and recommendations are therefore presented. The MIPO model described in this paper is a result of the effort made regarding the understanding of the main success features of good practices, in the web environment, integrated in the information systems/information technology context. The initial model has been created, based on experiences and literature review. After that, it was tested in the information and technology system units at higher school and also adapted as a result of four cycles of an actionresearch work combined with a case study research. The information, concepts and procedures presented here give support to teachers and instructors, instructional designers and planning teams – anyone who wants to develop effective b‐learning instructions.

Perspectivar o pensamento do design

presente estudo visa contribuir para uma perspectivação do design thinking, que assume cada vez mais importância no mundo do design e em áreas externas ao design. Pretendemos acentuar a relevância da adopção do design thinking como forma de beneficiar e melhorar os processos criativos no seio das organizações. O artigo divide-se em quatro partes: a complexidade da experiência humana, o peso do valor acrescentado no pensamento do design, os cinco modos propostos pela Universidade de Stanford para o pensamento do design e, finalmente, a apologia do movimento colaborativo. Neste contexto, terá especial destaque, em vários níveis, a relevância da interdisciplinaridade na resolução de problemas.

How to design and develop There App: A mobile app focused on live video streaming, promoting new social interactions

This work project aims to demonstrate how to design and develop an innovative concept of video streaming app. The project combines technology push and market pull theories into developing a product that is more suitable for the customer needs, with the particularity that there is no other way of seeing any place in the world, live and ondemand. An analysis on the bigger influencers in terms of design-thinking and new product development, as Tim Brown or Paul Trott, lead to a better understanding on how There App should evolve, keeping in mind the customer desires and technical features.

User Experience Patterns for/of Innovation by Design: A Survey on Design Practices in the Software Development and Innovation Lifecycle

The User Experience (UX) designers are undoubtedly aware of how many UX design methods currently exist and that sometimes it becomes a problem to choose an appropriate one. What are all of methods that designers have in their “arsenal”? When can they use them? This thesis presents the research on the design methods in the contemporary context of User Experience (UX) and Innovations by using a survey approach. The study is limited to cover the domain of consumer mobile services development and provider companies around the world. The study follows 2 clear objectives: (1) to understand what design methods are currently used in that context and to what extent they are used (2) to identify at what stage according to the UX design thinking process for creating innovations they are placed. The study contributes to the research in the field of UX design and Innovations and extends the knowledge in that field together with communities’ (UXPA, SIGCHI, SIGSOFT) members’ cooperation. The research is vital due to lack of information on design practices and their application in the chosen context.

Le projet organisant et la dynamique des acteurs dans le projet d'aménagement pour une pensée du projet "par" le design

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Facilitating Mechanical Design with Augmented Reality

By enhancing a real scene with computer generated objects, Augmented Reality (AR), has proven itself as a valuable Human-Computer Interface (HCI) in numerous application areas such as medical, military, entertainment and manufacturing. It enables higher performance of on-site tasks with seamless presentation of up-to-date, task-related information to the users during the operation. AR has potentials in design because the current interface provided by Computer-aided Design (CAD) packages is less intuitive and reports show that the presence of physical objects help design thinking and communication. This research explores the use of AR to improve the efficiency of a design process, specifically in mechanical design.