Back to the future: Actualizing technology affordances to transform Emperor Qin’s terracotta warriors Museum

Digital transformation brings new opportunities and challenges to organizations as they make radical changes to their operation, business and value creation processes. This paper presents an in-depth case study of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum Site Museum in China to discuss the promises and challenges that arise during a digital transformation. Our findings uncover several affordances of emerging technologies that were actualized for the museum’s transformation, as well as several unintended consequences that arose during the process. Our conceptualization of the enabling and constraining mechanisms serve to inspire further investigations into the transformational changes in organizations and their paradoxical implications.     

3 种子像元分解分类的对比研究—用NOAA 影像进行鄱阳湖洪水监测为例

子像元分解分类是遥感领域比较棘手的方法, 尽管目前有不少软件和算法可以进行这方面的处理, 但对其结果的应用还处在初级探索阶段。通过回顾目前用于解决像元分解问题的基本理论和方法, 介绍了当今用于子像元分解分类的3 种技术方法(即ILW IS3. 0子像元线性分解分类、Erdas8. 5子像元分解分类、eCognition3. 0 最近邻分解分类) 的基本原理、算法、参数设定和计算过程, 以NOAA 影像的第一、第二波段数据(卫星扫描时间是1998 年8 月11) 对江西鄱阳湖的洪水监测为例, 用上述3 种软件和方法进行了实际分解分类计算, 并在文中展示了3 种方法的最后分类结果。其次对3 种分类方法的基本原理、设定参数、适合应用和各自存在缺点进行了理论、应用上的分析对比, 还就子像元分解分类结果(每个像元含有子像元的百分比) 的应用(即子像元的空间分配问题) 提出了个人意见, 以期能为今后遥感同仁在以后的类似具体问题上提供一点参考价值。     

数字媒体设计类课程的教学体会和教学方法初探

随着数字媒体产业的迅猛发展,数字媒体设计专业如雨后春笋般纷纷在高等院校和一些培训机构兴盛起来。但同时也暴露出一系列问题,笔者从自身的教学和实践工作出发,结合高职高专教育特点,总结出一些行之有效的教学方法和措施。     

案例教学法在高职院校计算机教学中的应用

本文通过对案例教学概念的阐述、案例教学法的特点及优点、职业院校学生的特点、案例教学的步骤,分析了案例教学的在高校计算机教学中的应用研究。     

Analyzing the relationships between inspections and testing to provide a software testing focus

ContextQuality assurance effort, especially testing effort, is frequently a major cost factor during software development. Consequently, one major goal is often to reduce testing effort. One promising way to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of software quality assurance is the use of data from early defect detection activities to provide a software testing focus. Studies indicate that using a combination of early defect data and other product data to focus testing activities outperforms the use of other product data only. One of the key challenges is that the use of data from early defect detection activities (such as inspections) to focus testing requires a thorough understanding of the relationships between these early defect detection activities and testing. An aggravating factor is that these relationships are highly context-specific and need to be evaluated for concrete environments.ObjectiveThe underlying goal of this paper is to help companies get a better understanding of these relationships for their own environment, and to provide them with a methodology for finding relationships in their own environments.MethodThis article compares three different strategies for evaluating assumed relationships between inspections and testing. We compare a confidence counter, different quality classes, and the F-measure including precision and recall.ResultsOne result of this case-study-based comparison is that evaluations based on the aggregated F-measures are more suitable for industry environments than evaluations based on a confidence counter. Moreover, they provide more detailed insights about the validity of the relationships.ConclusionWe have confirmed that inspection results are suitable data for controlling testing activities. Evaluated knowledge about relationships between inspections and testing can be used in the integrated inspection and testing approach In²Test to focus testing activities. Product data can be used in addition. However, the assumptions have to be evaluated in each new context.     

Research on the effects of cloud-based pedagogy for creative talents: A case study on Chinese High School

Training of creative talents during K-12 education affects the future of a nation. As a result, researchers in China and other countries give special attention to the field of pedagogy. This paper evaluated an experimental class of Beijing F High School as the case study, and performed an empirical study on cloud-based pedagogy for training the creative talents, a quantitative study based on the 6 basic aspects of Tyler’s theory, a qualitative study using ethnography for classroom observation that included interviews of teachers, students, and observers, and employed a sequential mixed research method used for data collection and analysis. Results demonstrated that cloud-based pedagogy in the creative-talent class of Beijing F High School focused on objectives in its orientation, the curriculum content, implementation and development reflecting the richness, regression, correlation, and rigor of postmodern curriculum. By using the accelerated and enriched cloud-based curriculum and focusing on the Talent Search Model, the Beijing F High School was able to gain rich experiences in the training of creative talents in Chinese K-12 education.     

Unpacking the social media–driven innovation capability: How consumer conversations turn into organizational innovations

Given the scale and scope of consumer conversations on social media, it is both possible and challenging for organizations to identify valuable ideas from those conversations that could lead to successful innovations. We examine how a large retailer developed a new capability to leverage public social media conversations for innovation through a process of filtering, assessing, converting, and deploying. By inductively developing a process model of how the retailer managed to convert consumer conversations on social media into organizational innovation, our study sheds light on the microfoundations of this important capability.     

The use of online digital resources and educational digital libraries in higher education

This paper summarizes results from a national survey of 4,678 respondents, representing 119 institutions of higher education in the United States regarding their use of digital resources for scholarly purposes. This paper presents the following results: (1) demographics commonly used in higher education to categorize populations such as institution type or level of teaching experience could not reliably predict use of online digital resources, (2) valuing online digital resources corresponds with only higher levels of use for certain types of digital resources, (3) lack of time was a significant barrier to use of materials while, paradoxically, respondents indicated that they used them because they save time, (4) respondents did not tend to intentionally look to the Internet as a trusted resource for learning about teaching.     

Architecting automotive product lines: Industrial practice

This paper presents an in-depth view of how architects work with maintaining product line architectures at two internationally well-known automotive companies.     

Managing organizational identity in the e-commerce industry: An ambidexterity perspective

In the e-commerce industry, organizations should maintain an enduring and stable organizational identity to gain long-term success while also adapting quickly to the increasingly volatile environment in order to ensure profitability and survival. These ongoing paradoxical challenges concerning the management of organizational identity have been left unaddressed in existing literature. Drawing upon the literature related to organizational ambidexterity and organizational identity, this paper proposes two theoretical frameworks for systematically examining the ways in which organizations, especially those in the e-commerce industry, should manage their organizational identities by leveraging four balancing forms of organizational ambidexterity. Based on these two models, we comprehensively analyzed the case of D.com, which is China's most successful online ticket vendor. Our study not only contributes to the field of knowledge surrounding organizational identity and ambidexterity but also provides a detailed means for practitioners to manage organizational identities at both the strategic and operational levels within the e-commerce industry.