Monday 19 February 2018

An assessment of interest on learning "systems thinking in management"

I am now evaluating whether any of my Facebook friends are interested in attending a three-hour workshop on "systems thinking in management: an introduction" to be conducted in the function room of my apartment clubhouse in Sheung Shui. The reading to use is: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.476.2858&rep=rep1&type=pdf.
[a ebook that can be downloaded, free-of-charge].

My proposed date is April 29 (Sunday), 2018; time is around 3pm to 6pm. An attendance fee of HK$60 is charged to cover room-booking charge and other minor workshop expense. If there is enough FB friends to attend and the workshop can break even, I will organize and conduct it [in Cantonese]. [The room rate is $120 per hour; thus the total fixed cost is $360; the breakeven point is 6 participants. Booking is done 15 days before the event. The function room can spaciously house 20 participants].

Kindly inform me via my Facebook message by the end of Feb. so that I can assess the feasibility of the intellectual venture, notably on the number of friends interested in it. If this kind of learning gathering works, more will be arranged subsequently on similar and other topics.

Using "google search images" for literature review

When conducting an agile literature review using the agile literature review approach (ALRA), it has been suggested by this writer to produce study notes and ideas systemic diagrams in the process. Nevertheless, some students could still experience difficulties to (i) digest the ideas on study notes and (ii) pick up vital and relevant intellectual ideas for their literature review endeavor. In this regard, this writer recommends students to make use of "google search images" to examine certain chosen key ideas as identified via the "google search images" function. The resultant key ideas from these searched images can form the main hints to relate to the students' study notes in the process of constructing their ideas systemic diagrams. Using this search function offers a way to cope with the "information overload" from examining the study notes compiled by students. 

The following exhibit shows the findings from the key word search on "innovation capability" with the "google search images" function: