Don’t you just like it when you know that when you want B to happen, you know you have to do A?
Lets make the example concrete: I want the room temperature to be 20 degrees. I need to turn the heater on and set it up to 20 degrees to reach my goal. And now I just wait :).
Unfortunately, management literature does not always have concrete situations where you can easily deduct a design principle from. In other words, sometimes the situation of a problem can be vague. For example, imagine you find the following in the literature: In a situation where there is a lot of business risk, increasing incentive pay will lead to lower firm performance, because agents will take actions to reduce their risk exposure.
As you can see, the sentence “in a situation where there is a lot of business risk”, raises some question marks. What is a business risk? Is the business risk that you are experiencing the same as the one that is investigated in the research?
Conclusion
This implies that following a design principle will not always deliver the result your after because of the ambiguity behind it. So you might want to use management literature for finding solution concepts, but you may have problems with the justification.
So you might want to use management literature for finding solution concepts, but may have problems with the justification
Question: What is your experience with developing design principles?
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Strange thing about design principles
Don’t you just like it when you know that when you want B to happen, you know you have to do A?
Lets make the example concrete: I want the room temperature to be 20 degrees. I need to turn the heater on and set it up to 20 degrees to reach my goal. And now I just wait :).
Unfortunately, management literature does not always have concrete situations where you can easily deduct a design principle from. In other words, sometimes the situation of a problem can be vague. For example, imagine you find the following in the literature: In a situation where there is a lot of business risk, increasing incentive pay will lead to lower firm performance, because agents will take actions to reduce their risk exposure.
As you can see, the sentence “in a situation where there is a lot of business risk”, raises some question marks. What is a business risk? Is the business risk that you are experiencing the same as the one that is investigated in the research?
Conclusion
This implies that following a design principle will not always deliver the result your after because of the ambiguity behind it. So you might want to use management literature for finding solution concepts, but you may have problems with the justification.
So you might want to use management literature for finding solution concepts, but may have problems with the justification
Question: What is your experience with developing design principles?
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