Esta pesquisa se propõe a compreender como a utilização das tecnologias móveis pode ser explorada para o ganho de agilidade na captação e repasse dos sinais fracos (SF) no ambiente organizacional. Os sinais fracos, apesar de, isoladamente, se apresentarem como incertos e imprecisos, se analisados sistematicamente, contém potencial estratégico relevante para as organizações. O crescente uso de tecnologias móveis e sem fio, que permeia a realidade das organizações, permite uma maior agilidade por parte das empresas, sob as perspectivas de acesso a informação, comunicação e tempo. Através da realização de estudos de caso múltiplos, contando com 10 respondentes exercendo funções multidisciplinares em diferentes organizações, buscamos relacionar essas perspectivas de agilidade provenientes da utilização das tecnologias móveis nas organizações – levantadas através de revisão bibliográfica – às etapas de captação e repasse de sinais fracos, adotadas no modelo de Inteligência Estratégica Antecipativa e Coletiva (IEAc). Com relação à captação dos sinais fracos, entende-se que o volume de informações trocado e a disponibilidade dessas informações (ambos decorrentes do uso das tecnologias de informação móveis e sem fio) podem aumentar a chance de identificação de um sinal fraco nas três perspectivas analisadas. Contudo, essa percepção dos sinais fracos é vinculada também às características do profissional, que deve assumir uma atitude proativa e atenta no sentido de perceber e interpretar essas informações. A respeito do repasse de informação, entende-se que o ganho de agilidade pelo uso das TIMS pode ser explorado, dado que a redução das barreiras geográficas permite ganhos no processo em relação ao tempo, à comunicação e ao acesso à informação. / This research aims to understand how the use of mobile technologies can be exploited to gain agility in the capture and transfer of weak signals in the organizational environment. When weak signals are analysed singly, they are uncertain and imprecise. However, when systematically analyzed, they contain relevant strategic potential for organizations. The increasing use of mobile technologies and wireless, that permeates the reality of organizations, allows greater flexibility for companies, on the prospects of access to information, communication and time. By performing multiple case studies, with 10 respondents which work in different functions and different organizations, we seek to relate these agility prospects arising from the adoption of mobile technologies in organizations - raised through literature review - to the stages of capture and transfer of weak signals, adopted in Strategic, Anticipative and Collective Intelligence. Regarding the capture of weak signals, is meant that the volume of information exchanged and the availability of this information (both resulting from TIMS) may increase the chance of identifying a weak signal in the three perspectives analyzed. However, this perception of weak signals is also linked to the characteristics of each professional, who should take a proactive and attentive attitude towards perceive and interpret this information. Regarding the transfer stage of weak signals information, is observed that the gain agility through the use of TIMS can be exploited, given that the reduction of geographical barriers allows gains over time, related to communication and access to information.

Esta pesquisa se propõe a compreender como a utilização das tecnologias móveis pode ser explorada para o ganho de agilidade na captação e repasse dos sinais fracos (SF) no ambiente organizacional. Os sinais fracos, apesar de, isoladamente, se apresentarem como incertos e imprecisos, se analisados sistematicamente, contém potencial estratégico relevante para as organizações. O crescente uso de tecnologias móveis e sem fio, que permeia a realidade das organizações, permite uma maior agilidade por parte das empresas, sob as perspectivas de acesso a informação, comunicação e tempo. Através da realização de estudos de caso múltiplos, contando com 10 respondentes exercendo funções multidisciplinares em diferentes organizações, buscamos relacionar essas perspectivas de agilidade provenientes da utilização das tecnologias móveis nas organizações – levantadas através de revisão bibliográfica – às etapas de captação e repasse de sinais fracos, adotadas no modelo de Inteligência Estratégica Antecipativa e Coletiva (IEAc). Com relação à captação dos sinais fracos, entende-se que o volume de informações trocado e a disponibilidade dessas informações (ambos decorrentes do uso das tecnologias de informação móveis e sem fio) podem aumentar a chance de identificação de um sinal fraco nas três perspectivas analisadas. Contudo, essa percepção dos sinais fracos é vinculada também às características do profissional, que deve assumir uma atitude proativa e atenta no sentido de perceber e interpretar essas informações. A respeito do repasse de informação, entende-se que o ganho de agilidade pelo uso das TIMS pode ser explorado, dado que a redução das barreiras geográficas permite ganhos no processo em relação ao tempo, à comunicação e ao acesso à informação. / This research aims to understand how the use of mobile technologies can be exploited to gain agility in the capture and transfer of weak signals in the organizational environment. When weak signals are analysed singly, they are uncertain and imprecise. However, when systematically analyzed, they contain relevant strategic potential for organizations. The increasing use of mobile technologies and wireless, that permeates the reality of organizations, allows greater flexibility for companies, on the prospects of access to information, communication and time. By performing multiple case studies, with 10 respondents which work in different functions and different organizations, we seek to relate these agility prospects arising from the adoption of mobile technologies in organizations - raised through literature review - to the stages of capture and transfer of weak signals, adopted in Strategic, Anticipative and Collective Intelligence. Regarding the capture of weak signals, is meant that the volume of information exchanged and the availability of this information (both resulting from TIMS) may increase the chance of identifying a weak signal in the three perspectives analyzed. However, this perception of weak signals is also linked to the characteristics of each professional, who should take a proactive and attentive attitude towards perceive and interpret this information. Regarding the transfer stage of weak signals information, is observed that the gain agility through the use of TIMS can be exploited, given that the reduction of geographical barriers allows gains over time, related to communication and access to information.

As humanity transitions towards a global society, opportunities and challenges have grown in equal magnitude. Severe, global depletion of ecosystems and social turmoil have initiated a widespread public response. If the many small actions were to connect and collaborate strategically, then a greater impact could be made on the system to move towards sustainability. Along with continuous technological and scientific development, society is discovering new ways of organizing itself for a more just, sustainable and harmonious world. This is giving birth to a large social body that is becoming aware of its own existence and is learning to take its first baby footsteps. This study aims to describe the conditions of successful collaboration of a social body, a collaborative process with phases as well as guidelines and tools for each phase. A navigation tool has been outlined to aid practitioners in complex systems to move towards success in any collaborative context. This thesis is a contribution to the creation of a thriving humanity.

This qualitative study is about project managers’ perceptions of self-leadership and its benefits and challenges for the project managers, the team, and the project result. The study has been implemented by conducting semi-structured interviews with ten project managers from diverse cultural backgrounds, ages, and work sectors with experience of self-leadership. The data obtained has been transcribed, coded, and analysed by using thematic analysis. The main themes that were found were the following: The management of emotions, the power of collective intelligence, alignment between work and life and the final theme of the resilient project manager. The first theme deals with the importance of being self-aware and authentic as a project manager and to focus on emotional intelligence rather than IQ and hard skills. The second theme’s focal point is on the importance of having feedback and support from the team, mentors, or co-workers in learning more about oneself as a project manager. The third theme deals with project managers’ having a balance between their work and their spare time by planning and being organized, with the purpose of not becoming overworked or lose out on valuable time with friends and family. The final theme handles the project manager’s focus on strengths and being persistent until the end of a project. The benefits of self-leadership, according to the respondents in this study, are easier to experience for the project manager him/herself in terms of self-development but benefits can also be seen for the whole team and indirectly for the project goal as with a well-functioning project manager and self-governing team, the project results will improve. One challenge of self-leadership can be to lead oneself with a long-term perspective as priorities and teams change in projects. Also, if a project manager does not have support, it can be difficult for him/her to keep the motivation to self-lead.The results in this study are in alignment with earlier studies such as for instance Neck, Manz & Houghton’s study from 2019.

The intention of the dissertation is the applied research of the collective ( group ) ( swarm ) intelligence . To demonstrate the applicability of the collective intelligence, the Particle Swarm Optimization ( PSO ) algorithm has been studied in which the problem of the collective intelligence is transferred to mathematical optimization in which the particle swarm searches for a global optimum within the defined problem space, and the searching is controlled according to the pre-defined objective function which represents the solved problem. A new search strategy has been designed and experimentally tested in which the particles continuously adjust their behaviour according to the characteristics of the problem space, and it has been experimentally discovered how the impact of the objective function representing a solved problem manifests itself in the behaviour of the particles. The results of the experiments with the proposed search strategy have been compared to the results of the experiments with the reference version of the PSO algorithm. Experiments have shown that the classical reference solution, where the only condition is a stable trajectory along which the particle moves in the problem space, and where the influence of a control objective function is ultimately eliminated, may fail, and that the dynamic stability of the trajectory of the particle itself is not an indicator of the searching ability nor the convergence of the algorithm to the true global solution of the solved problem. A search strategy solution has been proposed in which the PSO algorithm regulates its stability by continuous adjustment of the particles behaviour to the characteristics of the problem space. The proposed algorithm influenced the evolution of the searching of the problem space, so that the probability of the successful problem solution increased.

This thesis investigates the rhetorical features of blogs that lend them dialogic strength as an online genre through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of speech genres, utterances, and dialogism. As a relatively new online genre, blogs stem from previous genres (in print and online as well as verbal), but their emergence as a popular form of expression in our current culture demands attention to how blogs also offer us different rhetorical opportunities to meet our changing social exigencies as online subjects in the 21st century. This thesis was inspired by questions about how blogs redefine the rhetorical situation to alter our textual roles as readers, writers, and respondents in the new generic circumstances we encounter--and reproduce--online. Applying the framework of Henry Jenkins' Convergence Culture and Pierre Levy's Collective Intelligence, this thesis analyzes how blogs enable us as online subjects to add our utterances to our textual collective intelligence, which benefits from our personal experience and the epistemic conversations of blogs as online texts. In addition, it is also an inquiry into how the rhetorical circumstances of blogs as textual sites of collective intelligence can create a reciprocal learning environment in the writing classroom. I ultimately examine blogs through the lenses of alternative pedagogy--informed by David Wallace and Helen Rothschild Ewald's Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom and Xin Liu Gale's Teachers, Discourses, and Authority in the Postmodern Composition Classroom--to suggest the potential consequences of a writing education that includes how we are currently writing--and being written by--our culture's online generic practice of blogs.

There has been much hype in vocational and academic circles surrounding the emergence of web 2.0 or social media; however, relatively little work was dedicated to substantiating the actual concept of web 2.0. Many have dismissed it as not deserving of this new title, since the term web 2.0 assumes a certain interpretation of web history, including enough progress in certain direction to trigger a succession [i.e. web 1.0 → web 2.0]. Others provided arguments in support of this development, and there has been a considerable amount of enthusiasm in the literature. Much research has been busy evaluating current use of web 2.0, and analysis of the user generated content, but an objective and thorough assessment of what web 2.0 really stands for has been to a large extent overlooked. More recently the idea of collective intelligence facilitated via web 2.0, and its potential applications have raised interest with researchers, yet a more unified approach and work in the area of collective intelligence is needed. This thesis identifies and critically evaluates a wider context for the web 2.0 environment, and what caused it to emerge; providing a rich literature review on the topic, a review of existing taxonomies, a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the concept itself, an investigation of the collective intelligence potential that emerges from application usage. Finally, a framework for harnessing collective intelligence in a more systematic manner is proposed. In addition to the presented results, novel methodologies are also introduced throughout this work. In order to provide interesting insight but also to illustrate analysis, a case study of the recent financial crisis is considered. Some interesting results relating to the crisis are revealed within user generated content data, and relevant issues are discussed where appropriate.

Mediante o estudo das atividades relacionadas à comunidade NEGROS presente no Orkut desde 2004 e que, atualmente, reúne 36.000 membros -, este trabalho busca contribuir para identificar o papel das redes sociais no que diz respeito à construção de conhecimentos e ao desenvolvimento de iniciativas destinadas a combater o racismo no Brasil. As novas tecnologias ampliaram significativamente os veículos de comunicação e de informação existentes e permitiram que as redes sociais ganhassem grande expressão nos últimos anos, de maneira que não é possível ignorar o potencial formativo desses meios. Por essa razão, optouse pelo estudo de uma das primeiras comunidades criadas na rede social Orkut com vistas a congregar pessoas com interesse pela situação do negro no Brasil. Tal estudo privilegiou a análise dos discursos produzidos a respeito da identidade negra em dois tópicos do fórum da comunidade voltados especificamente para a autodeclaração racial. Para compreender o processo de constituição da identidade negra, recorreu-se aos aportes teóricos de, entre outros, MUNANGA (2009) e FERREIRA (2000); já o entendimento do ciberespaço e, especificamente, da comunidade estudada como espaço de saber e dos coletivos inteligentes teve como referência o trabalho de LEVY (1999). Pretendeu-se, também, investigar de que maneira os membros veem a referida comunidade e seus conteúdos, buscando ainda reunir elementos sobre o grau de participação dos mesmos. Para isto, foram realizadas entrevistas com três integrantes com perfis bastante distintos, mas com grande expressão no grupo. A análise dos dados coletados mostrou que os discursos de identidade negra são construídos de modos diferenciados, mesmo que a comunidade invoque certa homogeneidade. Foi possível captar nas falas dos membros da NEGROS desde a consciência da opressão histórica-política até o orgulho do pertencimento, passando pelo sofrimento causado pelo preconceito. Além disso, foi possível constatar que as possibilidades de socialização da comunidade potencializam a construção coletiva de conhecimentos relativos à identidade do grupo. Por fim, deve-se assinalar que o presente trabalho deteve-se nas discussões sobre o potencial ativista das redes sociais que, recentes como são, ainda suscitam várias polêmicas sem, entretanto, oferecer respostas definitivas a esse respeito. / By means of the study of the activities related to the community NEGROS (Black people) at Orkut since 2004 which has had36.000 members up to now , this work aims to identify the role of the social networks concerning the construction of knowledge and the development of initiatives to fight racism in Brazil. The new technologies have significantly increased the existent means of communication and information and allowed the social networks to obtain great expression in the last years; therefore it is impossible to ignore the formative potential of those means. For that very reason, we have chosen to study one of the first communities created at Orkut with the purpose of inviting people interested in the situation of the black people in Brazil. Such study emphasized the analysis of the discourses produced concerning the black identity in two forum topics of the community which specifically comprehended the self-declaration of race. In order to understand the process of the constitution of the black identity, we investigated MUNANGAs (2009) and FERREIRAs (2000) theories, among others; to understand the cyber space and, specifically, the community studied as a space of knowledge and intelligent collectives, we referred to LEVYs work (1999). We also aimed to investigate how the members see the community and its contents, trying to group elements about their degree of participation. We accomplished interviews with three members with very distinct profiles but with a great contribution in the group. The data analysis showed that the discourses of the black identity are built in different ways, even though the community evoked certain homogeneity. It was possible to apprehend in the members discourses from the consciousness of political-historical oppression to the pride of being part of the group, through the suffering caused by prejudice. Besides, it was possible to verify that the possibilities of socialization of the community developed the collective construction of knowledge related to the group identity. Finally, we should stress that the present work was limited to the discussions about the activist potential of the recent social networks that have still given rise to many polemic issues without, however, offering definitive answers to this subject.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:44:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Izabel Patricia Meister.pdf: 7970526 bytes, checksum: c63b3097eabd59a28f6c926797079137 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This thesis is inserted in the context of social networks, which is embedded in cyberspace. For the complex nature of the phenomenon investigated, this research takes a multidisciplinary approach as fundamental and works with three guiding principles: knowledge, collective intelligence and complexity. This multidisciplinary look also leads the need for a qualitative approach because is treating a process. The method is virtual ethnographic research that allowed us to observe and track records of social networks chosen: The Colearn Community in Tool Library, the Colearn group and the Filtros Educação & Aprendizagem XXI group, both on Facebook. The investigation in these social networks revealed this predominant social space can be configured as a space of creation and acquisition of knowledge. It indicates that this knowledge is particular in the network. It is constructed from the overlap between the knowledge and collective intelligences that become part of a connection-based process. It calls this phenomenon as weaving because it involves the relationship between convergence and expansion determined by the State of Relevance in addition to interacting agents and contexts. This condition is the main finding of this thesis. The weaving of knowledge in social networks: habitat of collective intelligences reveals a self-perspective from the importance of social networks facing the contemporary knowledge. / Esta tese está inserida no contexto das redes sociais, que ganham novos contornos no ciberespaço. Pelo caráter complexo do fenômeno investigado, esta pesquisa toma a perspectiva multidisciplinar como fundamental e trabalha com três eixos norteadores: o conhecimento, a inteligência coletiva e a complexidade. Este olhar multidisciplinar nos leva também à necessidade de uma abordagem qualitativa por tratarmos de um processo. O método é o da pesquisa etnográfica virtual, que nos permitiu observar e acompanhar os registros das redes sociais escolhidas: a Comunidade Colearn na Tool Library, o grupo Colearn e o grupo Filtros Educação & Aprendizagem XXI, ambos no Facebook. A investigação nessas redes sociais revelou que este espaço predominante social pode se configurar como um espaço de criação e aquisição de conhecimento. Indica que neste âmbito o conhecimento é próprio da rede, constituído a partir da imbricação entre o conhecimento e as inteligências coletivas que se tornam parte de um processo baseado em conexão. Chama a este fenômeno de tecitura por envolver, além dos interagentes e os contextos, a relação entre convergência e expansão determinada pelo Estado de Relevância. Esta condição é a principal descoberta desta tese. A tecitura do conhecimento nas redes sociais: habitat das inteligências coletivas revela uma perspectiva própria da importância das redes sociais frente ao conhecimento contemporâneo.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:22:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Erigleidson da Silva.pdf: 7440944 bytes, checksum: 965a2c68141dd2fff1e2697d0944ebe8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The growth of online distance education and virtual learning environments (VLE), among others, indicate an accelerated teaching and learning flow towards cyberspace. Despite the potential for the production of networked knowledge, pedagogical strategies targeted in mobilizing the collective intelligence in the VLE are not yet totally understood. This research is situated in this context, aiming to investigate which ones would be the pedagogical elements that operate the collective intelligence in virtual learning environments. For this, we seek theoretical support in cyberculture studies, as well as in Pierre Lévy philosophy, in social constructivism, in distributed cognition and in connectionism. We conducted a qualitative research, based on descriptions from an online collaborative course. The investigation identified four operators, which effectively acted as mobilizers of collective intelligence at VLE: instructional design, interactive digital media and virtual learning community / O crescimento da educação a distância online e dos ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem (AVA), entre outros, indicam um acelerado movimento dos processos de ensino-aprendizagem em direção a ciberespaço. Apesar do potencial deste para a produção de conhecimento em rede, as estratégias pedagógicas que visam mobilizar a inteligência coletiva nos AVA não são, ainda, totalmente compreendidas. É neste contexto que se insere esta pesquisa, que teve por objetivo investigar quais seriam os elementos pedagógicos que fazem operar a inteligência coletiva nos ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem. Para isso, buscamos aporte teórico nos estudos sobre cibercultura, na filosofia de Pierre Lévy, no socioconstrutivismo, na cognição distribuída e no conectivismo. Realizamos uma investigação de caráter qualitativo, apoiada em descrições provenientes de um curso online colaborativo. A investigação identificou quatros operadores que atuaram efetivamente como mobilizadores da inteligência coletiva em AVA: o design instrucional, as mídias de função pós-massiva, a interatividade e a comunidade virtual de aprendizagem