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- Aramo-Immonen, Heli, 1964-, et al.
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Storytelling as a Factor in Increasing Intellectual Capital of Project-Based Companies
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Intellectual Capital. - Reading, England : Academic Publishing International. - 9781908272317 - 9781908272799 ; , s. 53-59
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of the paper is to explore storytelling as a potential lever to gain intellectual capital (IC) in project-based companies. The aim is to open up new ways to understand stories and the role of storytelling in increasing IC in project-based companies. Stories are a manifestation of collective knowledge. Often not documented but embedded in individual minds and forming the valuable human capital. We present essential theoretical information, reviewing the concepts of the project-based company and the project work context, and describing the notion of IC (human, structural and relational) in relation to storytelling. The temporary nature of projects is challenge in IC management of project-based companies. Since each project is unique and may have temporary organization the transfer of knowledge is more challenging for project-based companies than for those operating in stable environments. The existing relational capital may not apply to new project and thus new relational capital must be created and accumulated to company. Considering structural capital, the processes and systems and the documented knowledge may be unique to each project and as such difficult to leverage. Storytelling can provide some ways to overcome these challenges. Storytelling is currently little understood and researched in the context of project-based companies, especially from the perspective of IC. Conceptual part of the article is followed by descriptions of stories and storytelling as a vehicle in increasing IC in project-based companies. We suggest that stories and storytelling are effective modes of human knowledge transfer and learning. Storytelling plays a role in advancing informal learning in project-based companies. Projects are unique and project teams are temporary. Therefore the IC management of project-based companies deserves extended research in academia. Originality and value of the paper is on finding a viable perspective and approach with which project-based companies can understand how they can increase IC through storytelling.
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- Aramo-Immonen, Heli, 1964-, et al.
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The paradigm shift from product innovation to service innovation
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the XXIII ISPIM Conference. Action for Innovation: Innovating from Experience, Barcelona, Spain, 17-20 June 2012. - : The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM). - 9789522652423 ; , s. 1-14
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- Aramo-Immonen, Heli, 1964-, et al.
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The significance of formal training in project-based companies
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business/Emerald. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1753-8378 .- 1753-8386. ; 4:2, s. 257-273
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the significance of formal training in project‐based companies.Design/methodology/approach: First the discussion deals with the concepts of learning, the learning environment, and the motivation to learn in a way in which special focus is on the project team members' motivation to learn. The hypothesis, “People working for project‐based companies are not interested in formal training” is tested by an empirical study, which was conducted on ten Finnish marine and offshore industry companies. Altogether, 54 project team members and project managers attended the multiple‐case study.Findings: According to the results of the study, formal training is not seen as a necessity among the people working for project‐based companies. This seems to mean that nowadays formal training does not play a significant role in the development of project‐based companies. Further, the people do not necessarily have time to reflect because they are being bombarded by urgent problems and pressing deadlines. A lack of time and a feeling of heavy work load seem to be a normal practise.Originality/value: Based upon the paper's findings, further research is suggested that would be focussed first on designing integrated learning environments in project‐based companies' processes, and/or second on the training methods utilized, interaction between trainers and project people, and relevancy and efficiency of formal training offered by training organizations to the project‐based companies.
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- Aramo-Immonen, Heli, 1964-, et al.
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Theory and practice meets in industrial process design : educational perspective
- 2010
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Ingår i: Organizational, Business and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg. - 9783642163234 ; , s. 123-135
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Software engineer should see himself as a business process designer in enterprise resource planning system (ERP) re-engineering project. Software engineers and managers should have design dialogue. The objective of this paper is to discuss the motives to study the design research in connection of management education in order to envision and understand the soft human issues in the management context. Second goal is to develop means of practicing social skills between designers and managers. This article explores the affective components of design thinking in industrial management domain. In the conceptual part of this paper are discussed concepts of network and project economy, creativity, communication, use of metaphors, and design thinking. Finally is introduced empirical research plan and first empirical results from design method experiments among the multi-disciplined groups of the master-level students of industrial engineering and management and software engineering.
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- Aramo-Immonen, Heli, 1964-, et al.
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Trust building in globalized software engineering : a cultural perspective
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Global Information Technology Management. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1097-198X. ; 14:4, s. 28-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Commitment is the manifestation of trust. Therefore the building of trust in global software engineering (SE) companies is a relevant question to study. The objective of this research is to explore the trust-building processes in global SE from a cultural perspective. In this research, staff from five large multinational SE companies were interviewed. In the conceptual part of the article, firstly the domain of SE is introduced, secondly there is a discussion on the concept of trust and trust-building processes and thirdly, cultural dimensions affecting trust-building processes are examined. Finally, findings from the case companies are discussed.
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- Aramo-Immonen, Heli, 1964-, et al.
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Trust-related network collaboration : difficulties, potential and paradoxes
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Tämä tutkimus on esiselvitys suomalaisen meriteollisuuden verkostotoiminnan tilasta. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää, mitä aihealueita meriklusterin verkoston toiminnassa kannattaisi jatkotutkia.Tutkimuksen aikana suoritettiin kaksi kohdennettua kyselytutkimusta meriklusterin verkoston toimijoille. Kyselyt lähetettiin 392:en sähköpostiosoitteeseen vuoden 2009 lopulla ja kakkosvaiheessa vuoden 2010 alkupuolella. Vastausprosentti tutkimuskyselyyn oli 12 %. Tutkimuksen suunnitteli ja tutkimuskysymykset laati Tampereen teknillisen yliopiston tuotantotalouden sekä tiedonhallinnan ja logistiikan laitoksen yhteinen tutkimusryhmä. Yoso Oy avusti kyselyn laatimisessa ja kyselytutkimuksen tulosten analysoinnissa. Kysely toteutettiin Yoso Oy:n Internet-pohjaisella kyselytyökalulla.Tutkimuksessa löytyi useita tutkimuksen kannalta mielenkiintoisia osa-alueita koskien verkoston toimintaa. Tässä raportissa julkaistaan tutkimuksen tulokset ja raportin lopussa pohditaan johtopäätöksiä tuloksista. Yleisesti voidaan todeta, että meriklusterin verkoston toiminta on suomalaisen meriteollisuuden kilpailukyvyn näkökulmasta avainasemassa. Verkoston kilpailukykyyn vaikuttavia havaittuja potentiaalisia tutkimusalueita ovat mm. miten verkostossa synnytetään ja vaalitaan kilpailukykyä edistäviä innovaatioita (liiketoiminta- sekä teknologiainnovaatiot), miten arvontuotossa ilmeneviä ongelmia verkostossa kommunikoidaan sekä esim. kilpailukykyisen toiminnan vaatiman integraation aste verkostossa. Verkoston tehokkuuteen ja tuottavuuteen vaikuttavia tutkimuksen arvoisia tekijöitä havaittiin olevan mm. toimintojen kypsyys, horisontaalinen ja vertikaalinen dynamiikka verkostossa sekä arvonmuodostuksen mekanismit. Tulevaisuuteen tähtäävän globaalin verkottuneen toiminnan näkökulmasta tutkimisen arvoista olisi mm. luottamuksen synnyttäminen virtuaalisessa verkostossa (toimijat ovat maantieteellisesti ja kulttuurisesti etäällä toisistaan), verkostotoiminnan kypsyys pk-sektorilla sekä arvontuottokyvykkyys verkoston välityksellä.
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- Aramo-Immonen, Heli, 1964-, et al.
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Visualizing informal learning behavior from conference participants Twitter data
- 2014
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Ingår i: TEEM '14. - New York : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 9781450328968 ; , s. 603-610
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Knowledge Management acknowledged organizational learning as a key factor for creating competitive advantage for companies in early 1990. However, studies on informal learning in this connection are still in their infancy. This article contributes to an emerging field of 'small data' research on Twitter by presenting a case study of how community managers in Finland used this social media platform to construct an informal learning environment around an annually organized conference. In this empirical study we explore informal learning behavior in project contexts especially by analyzing and visualizing informal learning behavior from Twitter data from conference participants.
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- Aramo-Immonen, Heli, 1964-, et al.
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Visualizing informal learning behavior from conference participants' Twitter data with the Ostinato Model
- 2016
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Ingår i: Computers in human behavior. - : Elsevier. - 0747-5632 .- 1873-7692. ; 55, s. 584-595
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Network analysis is a valuable method for investigating and mapping the phenomena driving the social structure and sharing the findings with others. This article contributes to an emerging field of 'smart data' research on Twitter by presenting a case study of how community managers in Finland used this social media platform to construct an informal learning environment around an annually organized conference. In this empirical study we explore informal learning behavior in the project context, especially by analyzing and visualizing informal learning behavior from Twitter data using the Ostinato Model introduced in this paper. Ostinato is an iterative, user-centric, process-automated model for data-driven visual network analytics.
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- Bikfalvi, Andrea, et al.
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Competence assessment and development : Exploring in the field of adult education
- 2010
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Ingår i: ICERI 2010, International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Madrid, Spain, 15th-17th of November, 2010.. - Valencia, Spain : IATED. - 9788461424399 ; , s. 5558-5564
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present paper explores competence assessment and development in the field of adult education. An ICT-based tool was used on two samples of subjects in order to be able to contrast our results among young students and adults students. Our results show differences for the sample of adult students in terms of issues such as trust, commitment and trustworthiness. A series of implications are discussed in the final part of the paper.
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