Academic Guide Research Articles

The Implementation Playbook: study protocol for the development and feasibility evaluation of a digital tool for effective implementation of evidence-based innovations

BackgroundEvidence-based innovations can improve health outcomes, but only if successfully implemented. Implementation can be complex, highly susceptible to failure, costly and resource intensive. Internationally, there is an urgent need to improve the implementation of effective innovations. Successful implementation is best guided by implementation science, but organizations lack implementation know-how and have difficulty applying it. Implementation support is typically shared in static, non-interactive, overly academic guides and is rarely evaluated. In-person implementation facilitation is often soft-funded, costly, and scarce. This study seeks to improve effective implementation by (1) developing a first-in-kind digital tool to guide pragmatic, empirically based and self-directed implementation planning in real-time; and (2) exploring the tool’s feasibility in six health organizations implementing different innovations.MethodsIdeation emerged from a paper-based resource, The Implementation Game©, and a revision called The Implementation Roadmap©; both integrate core implementation components from evidence, models and frameworks to guide structured, explicit, and pragmatic planning. Prior funding also generated user personas and high-level product requirements. This study will design, develop, and evaluate the feasibility of a digital tool called The Implementation Playbook©. In Phase 1, user-centred design and usability testing will inform tool content, visual interface, and functions to produce a minimum viable product. Phase 2 will explore the Playbook’s feasibility in six purposefully selected health organizations sampled for maximum variation. Organizations will use the Playbook for up to 24 months to implement an innovation of their choosing. Mixed methods will gather: (i) field notes from implementation team check-in meetings; (ii) interviews with implementation teams about their experience using the tool; (iii) user free-form content entered into the tool as teams work through implementation planning; (iv) Organizational Readiness for Implementing Change questionnaire; (v) System Usability Scale; and (vi) tool metrics on how users progressed through activities and the time required to do so.DiscussionEffective implementation of evidence-based innovations is essential for optimal health. We seek to develop a prototype digital tool and demonstrate its feasibility and usefulness across organizations implementing different innovations. This technology could fill a significant need globally, be highly scalable, and potentially valid for diverse organizations implementing various innovations.

Programa Enactus CUValles

El Centro Universitario de los Valles (CUValles) de la Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG) ofrece, en su programa de Formación Integral, un taller de emprendimiento social de alto impacto desarrollado por la iniciativa Enactus CUValles, conformada por estudiantes y profesores que trabajan voluntariamente en la puesta en marcha de emprendimientos sociales. Alumnos de todas las carreras participan en el taller y en las iniciativas de emprendimiento social, donde adquieren en la práctica conocimientos sobre la iniciativa de negocios, una visión social y habilidades profesionales relacionadas con el trabajo colaborativo y el desarrollo de proyectos. Entre los resultados destaca el desarrollo de 71 proyectos, la capacitación de más de 5000 personas en modelo de negocios y técnicas especializadas, el triunfo de los estudiantes en competencias nacionales, la rápida inserción laboral de los egresados participantes y los testimonios de ellos mismos y de los docentes que fungen como guías académicos acerca de los aprendizajes obtenidos y su utilidad en la vida profesional.

A critical approach to BSC studies: State of art, critical issues and future trends

The aim of this paper is to identify criticisms of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and create a new model that is more adequate for business performance, thus providing researchers and practitioners with a way to manage critical issues con-nected to the BSC. To this end, we devote our attention to two main research ques-tions: (1) What are the main critical dimensions in the existing studies on BSC? (2) How could the structure of the BSC be modified in order to take into account its critical dimensions? Accordingly, we review articles published in 429 journals, in 22 different subject areas of the Chartered Association of Business Schools' Academ-ic Guide (ABS). We examine a total of 342 papers and obtain 102 relevant papers that focus on criticism of the BSC. Thanks to the information obtained from a survey and interviews conducted with managers of Italian companies, we create an adjusted BSC (ABSC) that allow us to consider the critical aspects from a new perspective, named the critical perspective. The conceptual model is developed in three dimensions (conceptual, structural and environmental). Research findings suggest that considering the critical perspective makes it possible to build the ABSC, making this management tool more accessible and useful for businesses.

스마트폰 고중독 대학생과 비중독 대학생의 중독증후군 차이

Purpose: This survey was to investigate the differences in smartphone addiction symptoms by the level of addiction among college students in S. Korea. Methods: Two hundred and thirteen university students survey data was collected from December 5th to 9th of 2011 using Smartphone Addiction Scale. 25.3% (n=54) of total respondents were categorized as highly addicted and 28.17% (n=60) were as non-addicted group. Results: There were significant differences in total addiction symptom scores, daily life disorders, loss of self control, pathological concentration, and compulsive symptoms between two groups. There were significantly differences in total addiction symptoms, daily life disorders, loss of self control, pathological concentration, and compulsive symptoms between two groups. Highly addicted group were significantly higher in total addiction symptom scores (3.26 times), daily life disorders (4.96 times), loss of self control (3.07 times), pathological concentration (3.07 times), and compulsive symptoms (2.86 times) compared to non-addicted one. Highly addicted group had significantly higher daily usages of smartphone and were more satisfied with smartphone than non-addicted group. The purpose to use was related to academic works rather than games or entertainment. However satisfaction on academic achievement was very low. Conclusion: The smartphone addicted symptoms related to academic works were significantly high in highly addicted college students so that it disturbed their daily life and psycho-social health in general. It is clear that the highly addicted college students need urgent distinctive interventions such as creative academic guides.

El diagrama causa - efecto como aporte al trabajo colaborativo en la generación de competencias investigativas en ambientes virtuales de aprendizaje

<p>El presente artículo refleja los avances logrados en desarrollo del proyecto “Formación de competencias investigativas mediante el trabajo colaborativo en ambientes virtuales de aprendizaje”, basado en el avance tecnológico investigativo diagrama causa-efecto como herramienta de uso tecnológico para fomentar las Tecnologías de la Información y la comunicación. Dicho proyecto se adelanta al interior de la Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia – unad y en este primer avance pretende conocer en detalle la aceptabilidad del software desde la parte funcional, amigabilidad y facilidad de uso, tomando como referente el curso académico Metodología de la investigación.</p><p>De igual manera, se incluyen algunas experiencias que se han evidenciado por parte de los estudiantes objeto de investigación y un análisis de los avances obtenidos en el proyecto que se inicia con la revisión documental y software existente en cada uno de los cursos de formación investigativa, evidenciada a través de las guías académicas y los módulos que acompañan cada uno de los cursos objeto de estudio, así como también algunas publicaciones investigativas existentes en torno a las competencias investigativas especialmente en ambientes académicos con el uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación.</p><p>Al finalizar la investigación se pretende medir las competencias investigativas generadas haciendo uso del diagrama causa-efecto como herramienta de trabajo colaborativo en ambientes virtuales de aprendizaje</p>

Book Reviews

Book Reviews Academic's Guide to Microcomputer Systems ( University of Toronto Computing Services, Toronto, 1985, iv + 217 pp.) J. P. G. Roper J. P. G. Roper University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1986, Pages 120-a–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/1.2.120-a Published: 01 January 1986