The end of the 1990s and early 2000s were the golden age of yet another TLA (three-letter-abbreviation): BPM that stands for Business Process Management. People with titles of Process Owners or Business Process Specialists started to appear in organizational charts. Also, academic journals and textbooks started to be published on the phenomenon. In short, BPM […]
Ammattikorkeakoulujen perustaminen Suomessa 1990-luvulla perustui pitkälti eurooppalaiseen koulutusmalliin, mutta tältä osin Suomessa tultiin muuhun Eurooppaan nähden jälkijunassa noin 20 vuotta (Rask 2002, 32). Suomessa ammattikorkeakoulujen perustamiselle asetettiin lähinnä kolme tavoitetta; parantaa ammatillisen koulutuksen tasoa ja laatua, lisätä nuorison koulutushalukkuutta sekä purkaa oppilassumia joka kohdistui pääsääntöisesti yliopistoihin. (Puoskari, 2004, 11.) Lukioverkon laajentumisesta 1950–1960 -luvuilla ja siitä […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most hyped technologies currently, at it is widely believed to replace humans in some occupations and transform the way work is done in the remaining jobs. According to Wang (2018), an intelligent system is able to work in real-time, open to unexpected tasks, and able to adapt by […]
How do technologies get accepted and adapted to? The prevalent models propose that perceptions of emerging technologies’ properties such as job relevance, experience with the technology area, demonstrability of results, and voluntariness to use a technology decide whether an actual implementation of the new system will take place in an organization or in an individual´s […]