The manuscript incorporates contemporary knowledge of the Industrial Complexes - The Fourth Industrial Revolution, followed by discussion, extracts, quotes and citations by various authors, as well as official government publications as the academic comparative references. Seeing the lack of literature in the field of Architecture, especially in Albanian language, I was inspired by the topic, research, and writing this monograph, which elaborates The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Architectural Design Process.
This article argues that there is no such phenomenon as a Fourth Industrial Revolution. It derives a framework for the analysis of any industrial revolution from a careful historical account of the archetypal First Industrial Revolution. The suggested criteria for any socioeconomic transformation to be considered an industrial revolution are that it must encompass a technological revolution; a transformation of the labour process; a fundamental change in workplace relations; new forms of community and social relationships; and global socio-economic transformations. These transformations indeed characterise the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions. The aggregate of technical innovations in the latter is carefully examined, because this is a crucial part of determining whether we can meaningfully claim that a Fourth Industrial Revolution is underway. The article demonstrates that we cannot.
Courses and training in public decision-making have often disappeared from Public Administration curricula. This paper argues that this is unfortunate as skills therein are severely needed to steer developments towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Whereas some see this as a macro development that befalls countries, this paper argues otherwise. Decision-making by individual and corporate actors is judged to be central in the 4IR. This makes the steering thereof possible and desirable. Without being trained in the needed skills in decision-making our graduates will not be prepared to do so and will not become the responsible public officials able to direct 4IR developments.
Bangladesh has achieved significant progress on indicators related to Sustainable Development Goal 3, which calls on countries to guarantee that everyone enjoys good health and well-being. Nonetheless, Bangladesh's healthcare system remains fundamentally vulnerable due to years of neglect. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is expected to disrupt the existing healthcare system by increasing the speed of services, improving the ability to manage illnesses, and changing the role of patients as well as the relationship between patients and healthcare service providers. Leveraging the 4IR to make progress in healthcare in Bangladesh would require significant investments in technology from the government, private sector, and international development partners. This study utilises nationally representative microdata of 1,600 health facilities and 5,400 healthcare service providers from the Bangladesh Health Facility Survey 2017 to estimate the impact of the use of technology and information services on health outcomes. The results from a propensity score matching model show that the number of live discharges per month was higher in health facilities where a computer, or an internet connection, or a dedicated statistician was available, compared to where these facilities were unavailable. In light of these findings, a blockchain-based electronic health records system for Bangladesh was proposed. Such a system would boost machine learning-driven preventive healthcare, and would serve as the basis for establishing home hospitals where patients would be able to remain at home and still obtain medical services from hospitals in their vicinity through a combination of location-based mobile applications and video conferencing.
Closing the Gap is an accessible overview of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) and the impact it is set to have on various sectors in South Africa and Africa. It explores the previous industrial revolutions that have led up to this point and outlines what South Africa's position has been through each one. With a focus on artificial intelligence as a core concept in understanding the 4IR, the book uses familiar concepts to explain artificial intelligence is, how it works and how it can be used in banking, mining, medicine and many other fields. Written from an African perspective, Closing the Gap addresses the challenges and fears around the 4IR by pointing to the opportunities presented by new technologies and outlining some of the challenges and successes seen with it
The main assets and the primary drivers of the Industrial Age were machines and capital. People were necessary, but replaceable. This is because machines controlled the speed of workers' labor through the assembly line, and management controlled the speed of workers' labor through the quota system. In other words, management used the carrot-stick approach to motivate employees so they could perform the physical labor needed to produce the products and services. In the Fourth Industrial Age, however, knowledge workers produce most goods and services with their mind. Thus, the challenge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is how companies can secure talent acquisition and motivate their knowledge workers to release their human potential. This article consists of four related topics. First, there are similarities between the four industrial revolutions and the five ages of civilization. Therefore, we may infer the opportunities of the four industrial revolutions through the characteristics of these five ages of civilization. Second, product life cycle theory explains the major reason for the rise and fall of many products and/or companies. When companies face a do-or die situation, the theory explains why they must take big risks to avoid failure. Third, we will use the Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) as a case study to explain why the company became one of the World's top 3 automakers according to sales in 2022. Fourth, this article discusses how business leaders can secure talent acquisition and self-motivate employees to make their market-creating innovations successful. Keywords: fourth industrial revolution, Hyundai Motor Group (HMG), knowledge worker, talent acquisition, self-motivation, product life cycle theory, and automobile industry.
"The Vietnamese Economy and the Fourth Industrial Revolution collects scholarship in topics such as marketing, behavioral economics, management, leadership, tourism, and law, by authors who are not only professors in the education industry, but also state officers holding governmental positions and managers of successful companies. This pool of expertise will provide readers with an objective and well-rounded overview of recent economic developments, risks, challenges and opportunities in Vietnam. Each of these peer reviewed papers will give readers an understanding about specific aspects of Vietnamese business and economy such as the shopping orientation in Vietnam studied through an analysis of the case of supermarkets in Ho Chi Minh City or how the universities perform their brand by studying the affection of perceived service quality, and sectors of leadership including women's leadership styles in Vietnamese SMEs. Further topics addressed include the impact of ethical leadership to organization reputation, the role of job motivation with the organizational commitment, and how the capital intensity, capital productivity affects the labor productivity, alongside papers on firm performance addressing the role and effectiveness of independent directors and foreign ownership. The book concludes with a survey of tourist, laying out to the reader the demands of the impact of inbound tourism in the Mekong downstream countries."
