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Frontline supervisors are pivotal in mining productivity, but face challenges due to the long working hours and rapid decision-making skills required. This paper proposes the application of Short Interval Control (SIC) to streamline information flow and support decision systems in mining, by developing a framework that aims to improve shovel performance during critical hours. Initial results demonstrated improvements in shift change and reduced operational disruption due to lunchtime breaks. Conclusively, although the methodology didn't translate directly to significant improvements due to data availability, it became evident that SIC can help identify deviations and facilitate quick shifts within operational mining processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amid digital transformation, property valuation innovations (PVIs) can enhance professional service firms' (PSFs) operations. Meanwhile, literature suggests that some PSFs and property professionals are sceptical about the relevance of some PVIs because of compatibility, performance, complexity, and relative advantage issues. Such concerns affect PSFs and property professionals' decisions to adopt PVIs. While property literature is replete with evidence about the development phase of the innovation life cycle, little is known about how to aid PSFs and property professionals' innovation-decision processes. To help address these concerns, we adopted a non-systematic literature review approach to critically review Rogers (2003) Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) theory. The DOI theory is widely reported to successfully predict the adoption of emerging innovations within a social network. Based on Rogers' innovation-decision process, we proposed a dynamic process model to help bridge the innovation-adoption gap in the property profession. The conceptual model advocates collaboration between PVI developers and potential users to address adoption and engagement challenges through the innovation life cycle. The framework provides insights that can aid researchers, educators, and professional bodies in evaluating suitable ways to promote digital innovations as decision support systems to facilitate data management amid the digital revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Telemedicine innovation is important for accelerating the digital transformation of the health care sector. However, telemedicine is a discontinuous digital innovation, and incumbent health care organizations are lagging in its adoption. We combine research on IT innovation adoption and discontinuous innovation to study the relative role of two drivers of discontinuous innovation adoption: digital complementary assets and the regulatory environment. Our findings from 1,753 acute care hospitals across 30 European countries suggest that digital complementary assets have a stronger effect on telemedicine innovation adoption than the regulatory framework. In addition, we observe application- and business model-specific differences. Overall, our findings add the role of organizational versus regulatory drivers of discontinuous innovation adoption to information systems research, emphasize the importance of digital complementary assets for the adoption of discontinuous innovation by incumbent organizations, and provide new insights into how the diffusion of telemedicine innovation can be accelerated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number of studies dealing with digital innovation in sport marketing has increased rapidly in recent years. These studies address the global phenomenon of digital transformation and its impact on the field of sport marketing. However, most studies have not considered digital transformation in its full complexity nor analyzed its facets through the lens of value co-creation. Therefore, this article reconciles the fragmented research on digital transformation in sport marketing with the current understanding of value co-creation to develop an agenda for sport marketing research. We conduct a systematic scoping review of the literature on digital transformation of value co-creation in sport marketing. The scoping review combines a database search and a manual search, in which we identified 270 relevant articles. Most studies on digital transformation in sport marketing relate to research about social media. Based on the scoping review, we reorder the literature from the perspective of value co-creation and identify relevant research gaps. Based on these research gaps, we develop an agenda for future research in sport marketing, including methodological approaches. This article provides scholars with a basis for innovative future research in the digital era of value co-creation in sport marketing and enhances the repertoire of sport managers for facing the challenges of digital transformation in the sport business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pricing capability provides a basis for firms' competitive advantage. However, to date, the literature has not investigated how this capability forms, develops, and matures. In this study, we define the pricing capability as a dynamic capability consisting of three operational building blocks (tools and data, human and relational resources, and processes, routines, and mechanisms) as well as two dynamic capability building blocks (alertness and responsiveness, and value-based strategic thinking). Furthermore, we propose the pricing capability lifecycle of digital innovations that incorporates insights of the dynamic capabilities view (DCV). Based on a longitudinal multi-case study of five firms, we found that the building blocks of pricing capability co-evolve together through the ad-hoc and advanced phases to the mature phase. The study contributes to the literature by integrating insights from DCV into the pricing of digital innovations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the current state of plastic value chains in Africa and the potential of digital innovations adopted by African entrepreneurs to contributing to a circular plastic economy. We provide an overview of plastic waste trade to African countries and an assessment of existing digital solutions that can support the transition to a circular plastic economy. The findings show that various digital innovations are being applied by entrepreneurs including web-based solutions, mobile apps and 3D printing. The case studies also show that multinational companies, especially consumer facing brands, are major players in the national plastic value chains in African countries, acting as seed funders for start-ups as well as buyers of recycled plastics. Current initiatives that are underway are positive signs that changes are in progress to address the environmental and social impacts of plastics value chains in Africa. However, to achieve a transition to sustainable circular value chains, changes at policy level will be required to enable scaling-up of local start-up businesses, address regulatory barriers to digital solutions, create markets for recycled plastic materials and implement extended producer responsibility regulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is based on a study conducted in Nigerian Christian and Muslim neighborhoods on the intrigues that characterized adults-adolescent girls' relations about how and when adolescent girls could use smart phones. Questionnaires, ethnographic interviews, school debates, observations, and focus group discussion methods were used to study the influence of smart phones on adolescent girls' identity construction, adults-adolescent girls' tension as regards ownership and use of smartphones, and new dynamics in adolescent girls-male friends' relationship caused by smart phone uptake. For this population, smart phones display contextual symbolism that transcends their technological meaning, shifting girls' social dependence from adults to peers and technology. Smart phone use has given adolescent girls a new way of identity construction, empowered them subtly in sexuality negotiation and assigned new roles to them. Adults' concern about adolescent girls' use of smart phones is rooted in their fears about the possible negative influences of smart phone use, which they see as entertainment driven and inimical to adolescent girls' development. Findings of this study revealed that tensions between adults and adolescent girls over smart phone uptake originated from role reversal and expectation-laden nature of smart phones acquired by male friends, which effective mutual sharing of knowledge and resources could address. Adolescent girls should justify their craving for smart phones morally, socially, and psychologically. Adults and social institutions also need to rediscover their new roles in a world where digital innovations are necessities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]