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Addiction to cell phones CIS 14, games and social networks is rampant in Generations Y and Z. The workers from Generation Y use three screens.

or workers'gardens, where small surfaces are offered for rent. Feng shui, the ancestral method to achieve physical,

However, many clothes and bags are produced in Italy by Chinese workers in aim to label them Made in Italy.

and to encourage cooperation among workers with differing backgrounds. Related norms (ISO 26000) are complex

cheaper workers finder Practitioner of the e-co-innovation culture Financial Estimation of ROI (return on investment) Measuring the capacity to innovate and the of tangible and intangible benefits and values Computer user Planning,

and employment The appearance of the first industrial automats and robots in factories and production units has begun the polemical replacement of workers by machines.

as businesses generated more value from their workers, the country as a whole became richer, which fueled more economic activity

the mechanization of agriculture vaporized millions of jobs and led workers to eventually move from farms to 90 The Innovation Biosphere factories.

Workers repeatedly adapted by acquiring new skills and migrating to jobs in new industries. Are workers able to adapt?

According to Ford, computers and machines are increasingly taking on intellectual tasks and, in the long run, all high-end,

How adaptive case management will revolutionize the way that knowledge workers get things done. Tampa, FL:

greater transparency and insights into processes for both internal workers and external customers or business partners;

but is also making inroads with remote and mobile enterprise workers. A healthcare worker working with patients in their homes can gather patient information on a mobile device

removing the need to re-enter data when they return to their office, and receive immediate feedback on potential drug interactions and suggested next steps.

These knowledge workers apply their skills not just to perform individual tasks assigned to them,

today's workers expect to be able to configure their own environment to suit their working style,

so that ideas from workers at all levels are captured to provide a more accurate picture. This led to the development of social business applications that allow for emergent structure and processes rather than imposing predetermined taxonomies and procedures

For example, a wiki used to document internal operational procedures can be updated directly by any worker with information on specific areas of the procedures.

Increasingly, these functions are integrated directly into the line of business applications that workers use every day and BPM systems are proving to be an ideal platform for this integration:

and workers from different areas will more easily lend their expertise to projects that bear some similarity to their own.

making it a measurable contributor to work improvement rather than a hidden factor. 3. 2 Dynamic Processes Dynamic processes allow the worker to modify a process,

dynamic processes can also be created by a worker purely for their own use. In routine work, process models are predefined

and the worker dynamically decides the tasks required to complete the goals in response to current conditions.

(and unmonitored) methods if overlystrict management control does not allow knowledge worker flexibility within the line of business systems.

Providing flexibility allows knowledge workers to improve the quality of the work completed, based on their skills and experience.

More flexible work styles can also be challenging to less confident workers, who may not collaborate

encouraging workers to offer their own ideas. In many cases, organizations can benefit from collaborate, dynamic business processes,

and change extrinsic incentives and reward systems in order to guide worker behavior. 4 Smarter Processes Improved intelligence in business processes is achieved through the combination of many different technologies,

or to alert a worker to take manual actions. Finally, predictive process analytics can be used to dynamically optimize the process model relative to the process goals.

so that process workers can readily deviate from preestablished paths. At the same time, consistent management of these processes requires workers

and process owners to understand the implications of their actions and decisions on the performance of the process.

where process workers and analysts continuously receive guidance to achieve more consistent and compliant process outcomes and a higher performance.

as process workers are expected in essence to follow a scripted process that tells them what to do,

so that process workers have the freedom to perform tasks in various ways, at almost any point in time,

However, while these approaches provide flexibility to process workers and allow managers to scope this flexibility,

they do not per se support managers and workers in deciding what to do and when. In this paper, we outline two emerging techniques that complement flexible process management approaches by identifying patterns of activities associated with positive

Predictive monitoring on the other hand produces recommendations for process workers during the execution of a case. These recommendations refer to a specific (uncompleted) case of the process

Business Process Suport System Predictive Monitoring Deviance Miningbusiness Process Execution Log Business Goals Uncompleted Case Process Worker Process Analyst Recommendations

or workers that are associated with positive deviance in a business process. The method assumes that the analyst is interested in understanding positive deviance with respect to a given set of process performance measures.

and Predictive Monitoring 149 process workers to determine which process workers perform better for different types of activities.

The outcome is a characterization of the best cases of the process with respect to process workers

business process support systems are required increasingly to provide process workers with sufficient autonomy to enable continuous adaptation and innovation.

and process workers, helping them to recognize actions and decisions that typically drive a process towards desired outcomes and higher performance.

How adaptive case management will revolutionize the way that knowledge workers get things done. Tampa, FL:

The four digital transformation goals that a digital enterprise must pursue are (1) customer centricity,(2) effective knowledge worker,(3) operational excellence,

and there is a particular SME skills gap among older and routine workers. These problems need to be addressed.

Innovation in SMES is hampered by lack of financial resources, scant opportunities to recruit specialized workers

Innovation in SMES is hampered by lack of financial resources, scant opportunities to recruit specialized workers, poor understanding of advanced technology, and so on.

knowledge workers become more mobile and innovation becomes riskier and more costly, more businesses have turned to open innovation as a way of increasing the speed and effectiveness of their innovation approaches.

growth in workers, growth in productivity across-the-board and growth in the share of activity in high-productivity industries.

The first, growth in the number of workers, is a non-sustainable strategy and more importantly does nothing to increase productivity or per capita-income income growth.

America would clearly enjoy a larger GDP if the number of workers increased ten percent, but the average income of workers would not necessarily increase.

THE THREE SOURCES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH 2. PRODUCTIVITY IN ALL INDUSTRIES 3. GROWTH OF HIGH PRODUCTIVITY INDUSTRIES 1. GROWTH IN WORKERS The second the across-the-board growth effect occurs

when a region's productivity increases not by higher productivity industry sectors becoming a larger share of the economy,

or if the factory is able to employ more workers. In general, even though most nations, especially developing nations like Brazil, China and India, have focused their industrial policies on boosting productivity by changing their industrial mix,

Adjustments such as implementing a flat tax would have an immediate positive impact on nearly every productive worker in the nation,

Currently, unemployed workers in Ireland are a vast, underused resource, and we must collectively find ways to engage our unemployed

Currently unemployed workers in Ireland are a vast resource that is significantly underused, and we must collectively find ways to engage our people

and large numbers of these workers are then graduating to full-time employment within the companies where they gain their skills,

The growth of companies in Ireland becomes more possible by reducing the constraint on specific technical workers.

Opening our doors to talented workers is an essential part of a dynamic startup ecosystem. In April 2013, the Department of Jobs, Enter p r i se and Innova t i o n,

or industry or volunteer association to promote Ireland as a destination country for entrepreneurs, high-tech worker s and acceler a tor-rela ted act ivi ty.

Basic measurements of the number of companies who employ-48-7. Public Policy recommendations workers is not just useful for startups.

they do not enjoy the same level of tax credits as other PAYE workers. Improving social insurance supports for the self-employed is an important way for Government to demonstrate that entrepreneurship is a priority.

Many workers are discouraged from starting companies because of the knowledge that the self-employed don't receive Jobseeker's benefit.

high-tech worker s and acceler a tor-rela ted act ivi ty. Corresponding website development, campaigns and media outreach should be undertaken. 50.

d. Increasing federal funding for worker training by at least $10 billion per year; e. Increasing the gas tax by 35 cents per gallon

including making it harder for workers to receive disability benefits, while also providing incentives for workers to retire at a later age.

This includes: PAGE 3 THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION FOUNDATION JANUARY 2014 a. Increasing the Social security

(and Medicare) full retirement age to 67 for workers born in 1954 and continuing to increase it by two months every year until it reaches 70;

a. Instituting progressive indexing that indexes SSI benefits to wages for low-income workers and to inflation for high-income workers;

or policy increase the amount of work hours per-capita by encouraging those workers who are able to work to enter into

federal support for worker training should be increased by at least $10 billion per year. There are several areas that should be targeted for investment,

Congress should dramatically reform federal personnel regulations to make it much easier to fire federal workers, especially underperforming ones. 28 Moreover,

increased immigration) or increase the number of hours workers work in their life. The former can increase GDP

having workers remain in the labor market, even for just a year or two more, would have a positive effect on both the deficit (by increasing taxable income and reducing entitlements) and GDP.

One way to increase total work hours per worker is to increase the number of hours worked each year.

Americans already work more hours per year than workers in most developed nations. 30 Do we really want Americans to take even less than their paltry two weeks of vacation

so that workers work more years. This means, as described below, raising the retirement ages for Social security, Medicare,

and federal government retirement programs, limiting disability payments for prime-age workers, and reducing America's prison population.

Americans will be spending more years in retirement consuming a share of the output of current workers,

but only for workers born in 1960 or later. Yet, on average, life expectancy during retirement is projected to increase by 11 percent (2. 2 years) between 2015 and 2050.

Americans will be spending more years in retirement consuming a share of the output of current workers,

Congress should increase the Social security full retirement age to 67 for workers born in 1954

and generate more federal tax revenues as workers work longer. 33 The government should also increase the eligibility age for Medicare at the same rate as for Social security. 34 In addition,

but it will encourage workers to not retire early, leading to higher GDP and tax revenues.

Based on CBO's estimate for similar proposals, these changes will save approximately $77 billion over the next 10 years. 35 Assuming these changes cause the average worker to remain employed for two additional years at the median

salary and average tax rate for workers approaching retirement, these changes could also generate an additional $40 billion in taxes each year.

particularly for workers who are not able for physical reasons to work longer. However, these workers would still qualify for Medicaid and Social security Disability insurance (SSDI.

Moreover, with the move to an economy with many more jobs in the services sector, the availability of jobs that require limited physical exertion has grown.

Federal government worker pension liabilities have increased also substantially, with unfunded pension liabilities reaching $761. 5 billion in 2011.37 The current federal pension,

Increase Prime-Age Residents'Work Rates It is not enough to increase incentives for workers to retire later;

we need to increase them for prime-age workers as well. The labor force participation rate for prime-age Americans aged 25 to 54 has dropped by 2. 9 percentage points

from 84.8 percent in 1990 to 78.8 percent in 2011.40 Every worker who leaves the labor force can generate a double-drag on the economy,

& INNOVATION FOUNDATION JANUARY 2014 would increase labor force participation rates as rejected workers would be required to find jobs.

If the share of workers receiving disability was reduced to the rates of the year 2000,

and taxes. 47 Although increased ease of obtaining SSDI benefits has been one cause of the decline in prime age workers in the labor force,

In addition, these workers would pay federal taxes. 54 Will These New Workers Take Jobs from Other Workers?

since there will not be enough jobs for the additional workers. But this view reflects what economists call the lump of labor fallacy,

which refers to the notion that the amount of work available to workers is fixed. In fact, the number of available jobs is fixed not.

PAGE 12 THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION FOUNDATION JANUARY 2014 workers in the sectors that satisfied their consumption.

Congress should institute progressive indexing that indexes SSI benefits to wages for low-income workers and to inflation for high-income workers.

For future low-wage workers, this means they would still receive more in real dollars than today's low-wage workers,

but future high-wage workers would receive close to the same amount. However, any progressive indexing should indeed be progressive,

with perhaps the bend point being set at the thirtieth percentile of earners while maintaining current-law benefits for the rest.

which workers choose to receive their income. Neither subsidy stimulates productivity or growth, and both distort consumer

and fewer low-income workers have provided employer health insurance those who can most afford health care receive the highest income tax exclusion.

Under the CBO proposal the FRA would rise by two months every year for workers born after 1952.

It would therefore reach 67 for workers born in 1958 and then go up to 70 for workers born in 1976 and later.

CBO estimates this would save $58. 2 billion over the next decade. Congressional Budget Office, Options for Reducing the Deficit:

Social security administration, Annual Statistical Supplement to the Social security Bulletin 2012,(Average primary insurance amount for retired workers and average monthly benefit for retired and disabled workers,

and clerical workers (CPI-W). The CPI-W measures price changes but does not assume that people change their buying habits in response to those changes.

S. researchers is the shortage of skilled R&d workers. Finally, there is some commonality in the challenge of translating research into products,

and in partnership with industry and workers, we could reverse the catastrophic collapse that previous policy choices had created.

The response of Irish entrepreneurs, managers and workers to the challenge of rebuilding our economy has been so strong,

provide the payroll to the workers they employ which in turn circulates in shops and businesses in every community,

For companies seeking to attract skilled and knowledgeable workers CSR is no longer an optional add-on,

including the many construction workers who lost their jobs with the sector's collapse. Restoring construction to normal levels of activity can also help ensure that economic recovery reaches

and third sector workers with other innovators from across Europe, with the goal of becoming a hub for innovative thinkers from all member states can join and meet.

At the second level are professionals and technical workers, who act as R&d personnel, product designers,

engineers and knowledge workers of the same kind. The common aspect for the second level is that these are normally middle management employees.

The bottom level represents the operational knowledge workers and supervisors. These people are responsible for the direct operations of company and the processes through

The renowned, Bonn-based Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (Ifm) defines SMES as firms that employ less than 500 workers

Contrasted against some large corporate houses that generate billions of euros in annual sales and employ hundreds of thousands of workers,

rural rice workers. When a problem has been turned invisible by a mechanism such as an adaptive preference,

This is the case of a trade unionist of the Uruguayan rice rural workers, interviewed during the evaluation process of a project presented to the program.

and that we, rice-workers, die before retiring. We die faster, without any doubt...If you apply glyphosate to pastures,

Workers, family, and social environment had naturalized the high prevalence of deaths at relatively young ages compared with life expectancy of men in the country.

Such diseases began to be seen as problematic by the Rice Worker's Union, and the demand was gathered by researchers Building Bridges 783 at the Universidad de la República

In the previous example, such disruption was provided by the workers'organization, which was able to recognize a problem and express a demand.

The trade union capacity to give voice to this problem is linked perhaps to the concrete historical process going on in Uruguay where neglected workers such as rural workers

and domestic workers gained recently parliamentary recognition for their organizations. It is interesting to reflect on what would have been the situation

if under another correlation of forces rural workers'trade unions continued to be unrecognized. From Demand to Research Stage At a cognitive level, the demand unraveled in the previous stage must be recognized by researchers with the capacity to generate appropriate knowledge in relation to an associated problem.

Only as a way of example, actors of the first type included representatives of cooperatives of hand garbage collectors and of rice rural workers trade unions.

from massive firings and salary reductions to negotiated rises in salaries between workers and entrepreneurs mediated by the state, plus very low levels of unemployment.

and supply 4. Increase in jobs and work (number and duration) 5. Improved jobs and work (quality and remuneration) 6. Scaled employment impact (more sectors, workers, localities) 7

planning, budgeting, etc. 6. Scaled place development impact (more sectors, workers, localities) 7. Other Sharing economy (and sharing society) 1. Improved matching and exchanging of time

sectors, workers, localities, people, etc. 8. Other Health 1. Increase in health and wellbeing (numbers of people and duration) 2. Increase in health personalisation 3. Increase in health skills (personal & collective:

and fire workers as well as security for workers through active support to maximise their employability rather than keep them in a particular job.

The changing roles of different interest groups and the reduction of the postwar political consensus concerning labour markets and their embedded social contracts (both formal and informal), resulting inter alia in trades unions and worker representatives generally losing power

Labour market reforms towards less regulation and trends towards a‘race to the bottom'in terms of pay levels, working conditions and workers'rights, especially in the context of economic globalisation.

which workers are guaranteed not any work and thus income at all. On the one hand, this may benefit freelancers who have the skills,

some see worker exploitation and surveillance reduced to a state of servicing the machine (Sennett, 1998 and 2006).

ICT thus makes it easier for workers to find jobs and for employers to find skilled workers as labour markets become more transparent.

Because ICT has the potential to connect workers to work irrespective of their location, and crowdsourced work providers are able to judge workers on their merit,

it is possible that ICT could help overcome the social, cultural, educational and physical barriers that might otherwise have excluded women, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities or other disadvantages from participating in the labor market.

All this means it will become easier for workers to become very highly specialised at particular tasks.

for example by matching those looking for work with those seeking one or more workers with the relevant skills, competences and aptitudes.

by facilitating or improving the matching of paid work with workers looking for such work by facilitating

or would-be workers who are disadvantaged otherwise (such as immigrants with poor language or other skills). Overall, ICT can assist in creating

Scaled employment impact (more sectors, workers, localities) using ICT. 16 https://www. taskrabbit. com and https://www. taskrabbit. co. uk. 22 Case analysis Social needs addressed and summary Seven cases are analysed in the employment theme as summarised in Table 3. 1. Table

and capacities of workers with a mental illness, market basis (e g. Aumühle laundry)- Public, private and civil funding (€1. 5m turnover aim for 2014), civil operation-700 sheltered workplaces in all Germany, 280,000 jobs CSE:

Slivers of Time's portal can be tailored to specific needs linking employers wanting short-term staff with workers offering flexible work,

but the application of ICT has supported physical workplace communities of workers. Mission Leben uses an ICT Internet of things e g.

as an example, Hertfordshire County Council's Breakaway for Carers scheme enabled workers and volunteers seeking flexible work to link with people needing care

as below. 7. Scaled employment impact (more sectors, workers, localities) All cases are scaling, disseminating or growing,

Improving mentally vulnerable workers'motivation, autonomy, life satisfaction and participation in the community. 9. Reduced carbon release Mission Leben:

reciprocity and cooperation between employers and workers/volunteers on top of the technology platforms provided. This seems to be

especially to avoid the potential danger of workers/volunteers being exploited by pushing them into a‘war for low prices'(‘race to the bottom').

Another important barrier is the potential problems of exploitation of workers/volunteers especially given that it is often the private sector

so that supply and demand can better align to each other, for example by enabling workers or volunteers to fit their activities around other demands on their time.

ICT as an enabler creates a new marketplace and business model on a modularised platform giving end-to-end access to a flexible supply of workers/volunteers,

and the worker/volunteer on the other. This enabling and indispensable role of ICT is comparable to the role of ICT in the sharing economy theme and in the smart places cases in the place making theme.

or process to match the variable needs of potential workers, regardless of their particular characteristics.

and adapting workplaces to workers'special needs. Mainly standard ICT is used, although some bespoke is deployed also where relevant,

although all strongly focus on the inclusion of people as workers who are disadvantaged or vulnerable in some way.

Scaled place development impact (more sectors, workers, localities) using ICT. 43 Case analysis Social needs addressed and summary Six cases are analysed in the place making theme as summarised

as below. 6. Scaled place development impact (more sectors, workers, localities) All cases, with the exception of Hackney CAB Crowdmap (which is designed not to scale at this stage) are scaling,

Scaled sharing economy impact (more sectors, workers, localities, people, etc. 56 www. techshop. ws 57 http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Fab lab 66 Case analysis Social needs addressed and summary Five cases are analysed in the sharing

as below. 7. Scaled sharing economy impact (more sectors, workers, localities, people, etc.)All cases are scaling,

an open-source tool for mobile data collection and loaded it onto an Android Smartphone that the Community Health Workers (CHWS) carry when visiting patients.

however, the effective and efficient implementation of these policies depends on the action of other stakeholders (other public authorities, employers'organisations, companies, trade unions, workers'associations, etc..

but in many cases they can only be put into effect in cooperation with other stakeholders (other public authorities, employers'organisations, companies, trade unions, workers'associations, etc.).

however, that workers in these sectors require specific training and skills, which the education system should provide.

and to train workers for the emerging sectors with potentially high future demand, such as personal care services,

it is important to ensure that sufficient opportunities exist for highly-qualified workers. In this respect, the Catalonia 2020 Strategy 26 Catalan Government aims to promote the presence of Phd holders at companies

and companies requiring workers. To this end, it is vital to improve public employment services, to strengthen company mediation services

A quality working environment and secure conditions of employment are key factors in persuading workers to commit to company projects

and undue reception of benefits Undeclared work leaves workers unprotected, reduces public revenues and causes unfair competition with firms that do comply with the law.

particularly SMES and self-employed workers, are aware of all financing options open to them. The Catalan Government also promotes other measures to provide access to finance, particularly in the case of SMES and self-employed workers.

These include refundable contributions and advisory services. 6. 3. 2. Promoting new instruments of finance The highly specific nature of certain businesses often means that the usual provisions do not cover their specific needs with regard to financing.

Government indirect R&d funding includes tax incentives such as R&d tax credits, R&d allowances, reductions in R&d workers'wage taxes and social security contributions,

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