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Principles and criteria for succeeding with Canonical Action Research (CAR) have made it easier to study problems like how to implement Total Quality Management (TQM) in real organisations, where the first requirement of CAR is to get into a position of organisational power. How does one attain power? How should a powerless action researcher manage his interpersonal information flow intelligently? The Management System for Survival (MSS) is ba...

Gamification is a type of mechanism design that has become increasingly popular in recent years. It is a design theory that aims at making the social environment more explicitly game-like, in order to motivate people in the same way as they are motivated by recreational games. The theory in this book builds on ideas on how games like Monopoly, Pac-Man and Minecraft can be useful for understanding behaviour at the strategical, tactical and oper...

The Bootstrap Algorithm (BA) has proved useful as an action research strategy for implementing Total Quality Management (TQM) in public administration, but it requires the action researcher to make use of managerial power. The project-by-project approach to TQM is based on the idea of how to gradually develop the necessary and sufficient power for bootstrapping TQM when the action researcher is a powerless quality consultant. The book is based...

This book is based on a four-year study in a public sector organisation that starts by observing the nature of a "fake quality" culture, and then investigates the organisational methods of misrepresenting Lean ISO 9001 as a possibility for bootstrapping proper Lean ISO 9001. Contrary to common beliefs about how an anti-quality culture can never function as a basis for real Lean and real ISO 9001, the assumption in this book is that even the mo...

This book addresses the problem of designing sustainable canonical action research (CAR) for studying aspects of the information systems development cycle when well-established principles and success criteria are difficult to meet. It covers the methodological issues that arise when action research methods are conducted, provides examples of action research in practice, and summarises philosophical foundations of action research and its applic...

With the first online discussions of SPACE 1999 starting in January 1993, this book celebrates the 25th anniversary of Online Alpha. It is edited and told from the perspective of trying to present different types of discussions over the years by focusing on humour, insight, surprise and shared community. There is also a focus on how the discussions have changed and how they continue to change.The book is written on an idealistic basis. It is s...

It has been argued that the reason seventy percent of all IT projects fail is due to lack of a formal system for guiding and monitoring IT decisions. Organisations having explicit IT governance systems are generally twice as successful as those with poor governance, given the same strategic objectives, but implementing IT governance can be difficult. In this book, Dr. Ogland looks at the public sector and argues that the implementation of IT g...

This PhD thesis contributes to the theory of information infrastructures by explaining how to use game theory and genetic algorithms for turning the pseudo-code of the bootstrap algorithm into proper code. The study is the first known study to analyse the bootstrap algorithm from an action research perspective, and it has become an important reference for further research on how to bootstrap information infrastructures.

Using the Bootstrap Algorithm for Changing the Control Game' is clearly written and points are supported by real life case studies. Dr. Ogland demonstrates how a Total Quality Management strategy articulated through the use of bootstrap algorithms can be used to achieve world-class performance in challenging environments such as complex organisations saturated with power struggles and internal politics. The book features insights on critical s...

Mechanism Design for Total Quality Management' is clearly written in a logical manner and points are supported by real life case studies. Dr. Ogland demonstrates how a Total Quality Management strategy articulated through the use of bootstrap algorithms can be used to achieve world-class performance in challenging environments such as complex organisations saturated with power struggles and internal politics. The book features insights on crit...

This is an abstract yet practical guide to radar tracking and Kalman filtering. The text is invaluable for engineers, scientists, and mathematicians involved in tracking filter design. Its straightforward approach makes it an excellent supplementary textbook for senior-undergraduate and first-year graduate courses.

This volume represents an introduction to periodical B splines with emphasis on the Oslo algorithm and reflection on applications within the domain of Fourier analysis. Assuming only the elements of linear algebra and analysis, Ogland presents just the necessary Hilbert space theory and abstract functional analytic concepts before developing the use of periodical splines as a fine approximating tool. The work will be of benefit to engineers as...

Living theory is a way of making use of personal accounts of experienced practice. As the Pac-Man perspective on organisational change helps the change agent articulate the personal values he is committed to and how these values may be resisted in practice, living theory is useful for developing knowledge that has a practical impact on self-improvement and social change, but it is also a type of theory that is difficult to publish in academic ...

This PhD thesis contributes to the theory of information infrastructures by explaining how to use game theory and genetic algorithms for turning the pseudo-code of the bootstrap algorithm into proper code. The study is the first known study to analyse the bootstrap algorithm from an action research perspective, and it has become an important reference for further research on how to bootstrap information infrastructures.

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