THE LOGICS OF DOUBLE PROOF IN PROOF OF CONCEPT: A DESIGN THEORY-BASED MODEL OF EXPERIMENTATION IN THE UNKNOWN

The literature on design distinguishes between exploration-based experimentation and validation-based experimentation. This typology relies on an assumption that exploration and validation cannot and should not be performed simultaneously in the same experimentation. By contrast, some practitioners, such as les Sismo, propose that proof of concept might combine these two logics. This raises the question of what design logic might enable this type of combination of exploration and validation. We first use design theory to build an experimentation design framework. This framework highlights a typology of proof logics in experimentation related to proof of the known and proof of the unknown. Second, we show that these proof models are supported by les Sismo's cases and describe a diversity of arrangements of exploration and validation mechanisms: sequential, parallel, and combinational. Through the formalisation of proof of concept as a double proof (proof of the known and proof of the unknown), we show that proof of concept can be more than a tool for the go/no-go decision by gradually validating propositions, questioning the relevance of propositions, and discovering new propositions to be investigated and tested.

Designing a Future-Ready Enterprise: The Digital Transformation of DBS Bank

Many organizations are embarking on digital transformation to be future-ready. However, there is a lack of conceptual clarity on the underlying design logic of a future-ready enterprise. A digitally transformed enterprise must be ready to respond to unpredictable dynamism and pervasive digitalization. Such an enterprise must incorporate the duality of exploitation and exploration as well as the fusion between business and technology into its organizational design. This article presents a framework based on the digital transformation journey of DBS Bank and draws new managerial insights for driving digital transformation strategically.

Why are designs for urban governance so often incomplete? A conceptual framework for explaining and harnessing institutional incompleteness

This article asks why institutional designs for urban governance are so often incomplete and what a critical perspective on incompleteness may offer. We develop a novel conceptual framework distinguishing between incompleteness as description (a deficit to be ‘designed-out’), action (‘good enough’ design to be worked with and around), and prescription (an asset to be ‘designed-in’). An extended worked example of city regional devolution in England illuminates the three types of incompleteness in practice, whilst also identifying hybrid forms and cross-cutting considerations of power, time and space. Perceiving institutional incompleteness as a design logic in its own right, held in tension with completeness, could help augment institutional design repertoires and even enhance democratic values.

Using the future to transform the design logic of schooling: Consensus statements from an expert panel

We propose a framework of 29 Future School Elements that can be used to consider future models of schooling which we have organised across three pillars of pedagogy, policy and structure. We seek to position the framework within a futures approach to policy making that allows for greater diversity by providing a design logic that can be contextualised, is more pluralistic and can be shaped by a greater number of voices. The findings from our modified Delphi study involved an expert panel who examined the counterfactual research question ‘What if compulsory schooling was a 21st-century invention?’ Consensus statements were formed by the expert panel by rating items based on impact and equity. We explore ways in which utilising a foresight approach can provide a means to reshape future models of schooling in a meaningful and contemporary way that takes account of some of the challenges and forces that have prevented change.

Gaming the City

This chapter discusses how Studio Desire's relocation contingently brought about the revitalization of Game City's downtown. This revitalization was possible as discourses, imaginaries, and alliances at the local level converged around neoliberal public–private partnerships that fetishized creativity, privileged middle-class values, and promoted art as the engine of economic growth. The chapter also unravels how geography, materiality, and space in the digital economy are far from being dead and are, in fact, indispensable to the reproduction of life. Even in the context of globalization, how workers exercise their labor power depends on the physical features, affordances, design logic, and limitations of a particular workplace. Space also matters as it casts social reproduction as a frame.

High Performance Energy Efficient Computation Elements of Processing Unit

in our manuscript, various circuits for arithmetic summation are compared. Cadence 90nm technology and Quartus II EP2C20F484C7 are used for implementation of design. Logic gate-based adders, PFCA, TG and HSD technique-based adders characteristics are analyzed. Y finding is PFCA with 10T transistor performs slightly efficient compare to its counterpart. Exclusive OR-NOR design is optimum for least delay Adders for high performance energy efficient processing unit.