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"Author seeks to heal America's political divisions and threats to democratic values; he advocates piecing together fragments of our history-including the influence on our founding fathers of Native American beliefs in natural rights, egalitarian justice, and mankind's deep connection to nature, thus revealing a sacred purpose: to bring all peoples and the living natural world together"--

AbstractRecent scholarship re‐casts the value of data from financial to value in use, where value is a multi‐faceted, dynamic, emergent construct, co‐created by stakeholders. To date, the dynamics of the co‐creation of value from the use of personal data have been investigated from the starting point of use. However, personal data do not have inherent value, rather their value emerges during design against projected future use. We conducted a case study of the development of a personalized e‐book and captured the different perceptions of the value of personal data from firm, intermediary, and customer perspectives, namely means to an end, medium of exchange, and net benefit, respectively. The diversity of perspectives highlights ontological differences in the perception of what data are, which in turn creates epistemological tensions and different expectations of the characteristics of data embedded in value co‐creation. By detailing how the value of personal data is co‐created in practice, we argue that co‐creation during design creates conditions for sustainable data value necessary for the continuing operation of products and services based on personalization.

A value framework can be used to describe the servitization transformation from traditional manufacturing business model to the current endpoint of a complex deployed responsive service delivered within the customer's dynamic environment, where the ability to capture worth is determined by the success of the customer.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by James O'Dea -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Origin: Is It Possible to Come Up with an Original Thought? -- Chapter 1. Original Thought, Time, and the Unfolding of Consciousness -- Chapter 2. Looking Backward to Go Forward -- Chapter 3. Wheels within Wheels -- Chapter 4. It's About Time -- PART TWO. Departure: What Does It Mean to Be Human? -- Chapter 5. Purpose, Potential, and Responsibility of Being Human in the World -- Chapter 6. Rational Thought and Human Identity -- Chapter 7. Rethinking Language -- Chapter 8. Beyond Rationality -- Chapter 9. A Tale of Two Directions -- PART THREE. Return: How Has Our Thinking Created the World Today, and What Is Now Emerging? -- Chapter 10. The Essence of Thought -- Chapter 11. To Make Thought Whole Again -- Chapter 12. To Think without Separation -- Chapter 13. Rethinking the "Dismal Science" -- Chapter 14. Toward an Original Economics -- PART FOUR. Renewal: Can Education Promote the Renewal of Original Thinking? -- Chapter 15. Education as Renewal -- Chapter 16. Childhood and Education -- Chapter 17. Higher Education -- Chapter 18. A New (and Ancient) Vision -- Chapter 19. A Vision for Original Thinking -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- Circle for Original Thinking -- About the Author.

AbstractBlockchain technology is considered, in some quarters, to have outgrown its primary association with the Bitcoin payments ecosystem. This belief has fostered numerous predictions of blockchain futures, in which the Bitcoin ecosystem is largely absent. It is nevertheless wholly possible to imagine a future for blockchain in which Bitcoin plays a presiding role. In drawing attention to subtexts of this kind, expectations of the future can prove highly persuasive within the context of technology selection and adoption processes of the present, lending an invisible hand to the design of business models, while also guiding strategic choices and the purchasing decisions made by managers.

Politics, power, and influence impact upon strategy, where the intention to produce a foreign policy‐based strategic defence review was forgone during last‐minute adjustments and compromises over money.

AbstractThe European automotive industry has developed a demand‐driven production method called build to order (BTO) to build cars to customer demand, but its strategic vision has yet to be widely diffused.

There is a market for successful distribution of television content using a Windowing strategy. This article investigates if a strategy where content is made available to consumers through different channels over time, a "Windowing" business models, is appropriate for releasing television programs. By initially exposing consumers to a controlled quantity of free content greater value can be captured at later stages as 55% of these consumers are 13–20% more likely to become paying subscribers.

Purpose
– This paper aims to investigate empirically how broadband has been implemented at the business level and what are the potential adoption benchmarks. Several recent studies have called for the development of frameworks of broadband adoption, particularly at the business level, to help policy makers, communities and businesses with their strategic decision-making process.


Design/methodology/approach
– This paper opens the discussion by presenting concerns and challenges of Internet adoption. Internet adoption is viewed as the current challenge facing businesses, communities and governments. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) techniques are used to create, analyze and develop Internet adoption models.


Findings
– Based on the Internet usage data from a number of states across the USA, measurement models are developed using EFA and CFA. The findings indicate that for our sample, a three-factor model is the most appropriate for the representation of Internet adoption in the tourism sector, while a five-factor model can best describe Internet adoption in the sample of manufacturing organizations.


Research limitations/implications
– The availability of data on Internet usage at the business/organizational level is one of the main constraints. Industry/community-specific data can also provide valuable insights about the Internet adoption and support the development of industry/community-specific adoption models.


Practical implications
– The findings and the employed research method can be used by businesses, communities and government managers and policy makers as benchmarks to examine broadband adoption based on gap-opportunity criteria.


Originality/value
– This is the first study that provides Internet adoption models based on an empirical study at the business level. The benefits of broadband Internet have been investigated by many researchers in the past decade. There seems to be a consensus among practitioners and scholars about the role of broadband Internet in gaining competitive advantage. However, there have not been any previous studies that investigate how broadband has been implemented and what the potential adoption benchmarks at the business level are.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a visualization method developed as a result of an observed need to capture the organizational arrangements of a complex engineering service enterprise. The focal case study is between a public sector client and private sector provider where multiple organizations contribute resource to create value. This visualization can assist client and provider stakeholders to take a holistic perspective of the purpose and management of their enterprise, highlighting the complexity of value co‐creation in service enterprises and the interdependencies between organizational units.Design/methodology/approachDevelopment of the Enterprise Image has drawn on research within the service, organizational and individual cognition literatures. Data were obtained from an in‐depth Defence sector case study representing diverse interactions within client and provider communities. The case focused on a fast‐jet aircraft availability contract, where the public sector client outsourced through‐life support activities to a set of private sector providers. Preliminary testing of the validity and utility of the image was conducted by presentations to single and mixed communities of clients and providers involved in value co‐creation.FindingsThe paper proposes a method of pictorially representing a complex alliance, called an "Enterprise Image". The work provides empirically based insight into the management processes of a complex, multi‐organizational service enterprise, where little or no enterprise level management had been in evidence. The Enterprise Image appeared to have the effect of raising questions and conversations about how the overall enterprise might be managed and how ongoing service improvement might be achieved.Practical implicationsIn this research the Enterprise Image was drawn by researchers – ongoing research aims to design a method that helps clients and providers co‐create their own Enterprise Image. From current findings the implication of this research will be to encourage enterprise management of ongoing improvement in multi‐organisational service enterprises.Originality/valueModels and representations for understanding the delivery of value are mostly provider and product focused, despite the recognition in a servitised environment of the complex interactions with client organizations. This paper presents a methodology for visually representing value co‐creation in complex service enterprises where the service includes significant client resource involvement.

Digitally enabled organizations are supported by new information and communication technologies, referred to as digital technologies, which increasingly promise enormous opportunities for growth. The study reviews 10 case studies from the literature and analysis the approaches these organizations have taken to successfully implement digital technologies. The findings reveal a conceptual framework that seeks to support management in understanding the actions required to implement digital transformation.