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We help organizations solve wicked problems through innovation. Our work results in theoretical insights and methods for knowledge sharing and collective intelligence, managing complexity, and for testing innovative ideas through simulation. Much of our work uses Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping.
News
News
Congratulations to our newly minted Ph.D.
October'20 - Dr. Ahmed Alibage: Achieving High Reliability Organizations Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps - The Case of Offshore Oil and Gas
July'20 - Dr. Amani Kadoor: Determinants of Green Purchase Intention of Saudi Consumers
January '20 - Publication in Nature Sustainability: Antonie Jetter co-authored an article titled Wisdom of Stakeholder Crowds in Complex Social-Ecological Systems published in Nature Sustainability. Her research was also featured in an article by Portland State.
January '20 - Grant Award: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine announces its award of a $684K research grant to Dr. Jetter. The grant, titled Bringing High-Reliability Safety Culture Decisions into Focus: Training with Interactive Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping, is funded by the Gulf Research Program. The three year project will occur in collaboration with Louisiana State University.
Dr. Byung Sung Yoon successfully defended his dissertation on Dec. 10: Narrowing the Cognitive Distance between Engineers and Customers: A novel Approach, based on Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping. Congratulations!
June '19 - Award: Ph.D. student Christopher Davis received a Doctoral Colloquium award at the ACM SIGSM 2019 Conference on Advanced Discrete Simulation. Chris' work is titled Combining Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Agent Based Modeling. Congratulations!!!
Team
Team
Dr. Antonie Jetter (Professor) works on ways to leverage individual's and groups' cognition to solve "wicked" problems, ranging from new product innovation to policy.
Dr. Ahmed Alibage (post-doctoral fellow) models organizational culture in "High Reliability Organization" to improve the safety of offshore oil and gas operations.
Hakan Kutgun (PhD student) has recently joined our team an is exploring different topics at the intersection of project management and safety culture.
Pei Zhang (PhD candidate) improves scenario planning methods for Future Studies. Combining FCM and Delphi, his work looks into the impacts of autonomous vehicle technology on urban living.
Rasnia Tabla (PhD student) researches how lean startup methodology and similarly agile approaches to entrepreneurship help academics transfer technology to industry.
Christopher Davis (PhD student) plans to combine FCM and artificial intelligence to understand how humans and machines will collaborate.
Dr. Jetter's courses in Fall 2021
Dr. Jetter's courses in Fall 2021
New Product Development
New Product Development
Examines complete product development process and key issues in new product development with a particular focus on the engineering process.
Technology Marketing
Technology Marketing
This course is designed to introduce students to the special issues faced by managers marketing technological products in markets characterized by rapid environmental change.
Image Credits: Portland State University, personal, and Unsplash
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