This assignment is made up of multiple parts and should be completed in multiple sittings. It is recommended that you complete the following assignment elements in the prescribed order. Your paper should contain the following sections.
1. Introduction
Write a solid introduction that explains to the reader the different parts of the assignment. Your introduction should include background information and an overarching thesis sentence that states the topic and purpose of the paper. In one-half to one page, clearly yet briefly describe the concepts that are included in your paper. Provide a definition for and an explanation of ontological humility.
2. Cognition
In the Egfjord and Sund (2020) articles, discussions of business model innovation (BMI) occur along with the ideas of cognitive differentiation and cognitive integration. First, define and explain cognition, supporting your explanation with at least one source. Next, provide clear definitions for cognitive differentiation and cognitive integration, supporting each definition with course sources and at least one external source. Note that the 2020 “Do You See What I See?” article includes these two concepts in its abstract, but the concept terminology does not appear in either article. Thus, you might need to do more research on the terminology and consider how each article describes what the authors mean by cognition to help provide a solid pair of definitions. Include an analysis of the differences between and similarities of cognitive differentiation and cognitive integration. Cite your sources. One page.
3. Business Model Innovation
On page 7 of the “Do You See What I See?” article, the authors ask these questions:
” . . design changes seem to be the inevitable outcome of adding business models to the organization. If this is the case, should organizational redesign actually precede BMI?”
“Is an organization already designed to accommodate a future BMI more likely to be successful at implementing radical BMI ideas emerging from an innovation department?”
In your paper, respond to the following prompts and questions in one page:
After reflecting on the two questions above regarding organizational redesign and BMI, provide several assumptions you feel you might need to make to answer the authors’ questions. Explain why you feel these assumptions are necessary to answer the questions.
Answer and provide a detailed analysis of the question, “Should organizational redesign precede BMI?” Support your answer and analysis with your personal knowledge and experience along with course-provided and external sources.
Answer and provide a detailed analysis of the question, “Is an organization already designed to accommodate a future BMI more likely to be successful at implementing radical BMI ideas?” Support your answer and analysis with your personal knowledge and experience along with course-provided and external sources. Include real-world examples to support your analysis.
4. Ontological Humility
Review the guidelines provided in this week’s assigned readings from Academic Writer about publishing the same study in two different journals. Note that Egfjord and Sund (2020) articles represent the same study published in two different journals. Provide your one-to-two page analysis of the problems regarding double publishing, based on your interpretation of the publication guidelines, as to whether the APA would feel that these authors have appropriately followed the APA guidelines for multiple publications of the same data. Clearly describe, in your analysis and opinion, how the authors met or did not meet the double-publishing requirements of APA. How has this double publication lent credence to the authors’ ontological humility? Would you have considered double publishing in this same way? If yes, why? If no, why not? Provide examples of why a researcher would or would not consider publishing one study in two different journals.
Explicit bias is a bias that is an open and obvious prejudice. For example, a person who has allergic reactions to dogs may have a bias against going to the homes of people who own dogs. In fact, that person may allow that bias to become implicit, where they consider homes where dogs live to be dirtier than non-dog homes, or may even decide not to be friends with dog owners so that they can avoid potential allergic reactions. Less obvious biases can be more difficult to recognize in oneself. Think about some ways that you could start to recognize your own explicit or implicit biases. You do not need to list the biases here. Instead, describe techniques supported by the literature (course-provided and external sources) to identify and reflect on personal explicit and implicit biases. In what way does identifying biases lead to better decision making as a business person in the future? Provide a real-life example of how identifying personal explicit or implicit biases improve decision making.
