ABSTRACT
Organizations are struggling to ensure business continuity without compromising on delivery excellence in the face of Covid19 pandemic related uncertainties. The uncertainty exists along multiple dimensions such as virus mutations, infectivity and severity of new mutants, efficacy of vaccines against new mutants, waning of vaccine induced immunity over time, and lockdown/opening-up policies effected by city authorities. Moreover, this uncertainty plays out in a non-uniform manner across nations, states, cities, and even within the cities thus leading to highly heterogeneous evolution of pandemic. While Work From Home (WFH) strategy has served well to meet ever-increasing business demands without compromising on individual health safety, there has been an undeniable reduction in social capital. With Covid19 pandemic showing definite waning trends, organizations are considering the possibility of safe transition from WFH to Work From Office (WFO) or a hybrid mode of operation. An effective strategy needs to score equally well on possibly interfering dimensions such as risk of infection, project delivery, and employee wellness. As large organizations will typically have a large number of offices spread across a geography, the problem of arriving at office-specific strategies becomes non-trivial. Moreover, the strategies need to adapt over time to changes that cannot be deduced upfront. This calls for an approach that is amenable to quick and easy adaptation. Our contribution in this regard is constructing a Digital Twin by leveraging various modelling techniques to realistically represent the above mentioned aspects of interest that can be subjected to what-if scenario analysis. We further demonstrate its efficacy using a case study from a large organization. © 2022 Society for Modeling & Simulation International (SCS)
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic spans multiple systems and dimensions - social, scientific, emotional, and axiological. This paper describes the collaborative design process of an elementary-age program addressing COVID-19, systems thinking, and photography from this multi-dimensional perspective. With the COVID-19 pandemic as both curricular content and design context, an educational design emerged that includes care as the centerpiece of both design structure and process. Using an ethnographic approach, we outline the evolution of the curricular theme - from relationships, to protection, to care - and how this theme is realized in our design. Through a perspective of care, we consider what it means to include socio-emotional elements in systems thinking, specifically axiological considerations. This paper contributes to the need for educational designs that consider COVID-19 from multiple dimensions, to understandings of how collaborative processes can shape design, and to (re)theorizations of systems thinking in the learning sciences. © ISLS.
ABSTRACT
Organizations are struggling to ensure business continuity without compromising on delivery excellence in the face of Covid19 pandemic related uncertainties. The uncertainty exists along multiple dimensions such as virus mutations, infectivity and severity of new mutants, efficacy of vaccines against new mutants, waning of vaccine induced immunity over time, and lockdown / opening-up policies effected by city authorities. Moreover, this uncertainty plays out in a non-uniform manner across nations, states, cities, and even within the cities thus leading to highly heterogeneous evolution of pandemic. While Work From Home (WFH) strategy has served well to meet ever-increasing business demands without compromising on individual health safety, there has been an undeniable reduction in social capital. With Covid19 pandemic showing definite waning trends, organizations are considering the possibility of safe transition from WFH to Work From Office (WFO) or a hybrid mode of operation. An effective strategy needs to score equally well on possibly interfering dimensions such as risk of infection, project delivery, and employee wellness. As large organizations will typically have a large number of offices spread across a geography, the problem of arriving at office-specific strategies becomes non-trivial. Moreover, the strategies need to adapt over time to changes that cannot be deduced upfront. This calls for an approach that is amenable to quick and easy adaptation. Our contribution in this regard is constructing a Digital Twin by leveraging various modelling techniques to realistically represent the above mentioned aspects of interest that can be subjected to what-if scenario analysis. We further demonstrate its efficacy using a case study from a large organization. © 2022 SCS.
ABSTRACT
Some studies show that the closure and reopening orders brought by covid-19 have had a negative impact on the residential real estate market. Generally speaking, real estate sales decreased significantly during this period, such as office buildings, shopping centers and family houses. Although the overall situation is declining, there are also some new situations. For example, people's desire for spacious family space caused by home office leads to an increase in the demand for large houses in the suburbs. This paper mainly compares the sales differences between suburban family houses and urban family houses in San Francisco and New York in the real estate market during covid-19. The data come from multiple dimensions such as house listing price on the real estate sales website, Machine learning methods could be used for analysis. This paper proposed a multi-modal joint attention seq2seq method to analyze these differences and the reasons for the differences. The experimental results show that one of the possible reasons the house price change in San Francisco is that there are more high-tech job position and their family income is higher than the average level of other regions. © 2021 IEEE.
ABSTRACT
The appearance of pandemics of various kinds that have shaken the world and transformed health paradigms has led many organizations and states to review their health strategies to ensure sustainable assistance to the population. Organizations are turning more towards a sustainable digital transformation, which considers multiple dimensions, including health. This study presents a topic-oriented mapping of a range of conceptual and practice-based efforts and strategies implemented in the virtual health paradigm. The systematic literature review conducted since the first insights in 1995 reveals the eagerness related to the digital transformation of health care and the popularization of digital health strategies. The resolutions of our study will enrich the emerging literature on virtual health in a wide range of settings. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.