Dr. Kenneth B. Tingey |
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Utah State University National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Training Materials/SPER Strategy and Policy Specialist Research Assistant ProfessorAppointed: 2005 Private Consulting Appointed: 1988 |  |
Mailing Address46 North 750 East Logan, Utah 84321United States | Contact InformationPhone: (435) 797-1581 Fax: (435) 797-7537 Mobile: (435) 757-4096 ken.tingey@usu.edu http://kentingey.com |
Qualifications
Ph.D., Utah State University, Education with emphasis on Organizational Information Processing & Systems Legitimacy, 2006.
Master of Pacific Int. Affairs, University of California, San Diego, International Policy and Economics with emphasis on China and Latin America, 1992.
M.B.A., Brigham Young University, Business Strategy and Policy, 1981.
2nd Baccalaureate Cert., Brigham Young University, Accounting with extramajor in Economics, 1981.
B.A., Utah State University, Music Education with minor in Spanish, 1976.
Expertise and Research Interests
I refer to the Twenty-first Century as the Process Century. Much of what we have learned in the past is not applied now. People learn what should be done in organizational environments, but working environments, cultures ,and available technologies do not necessarily support detailed efforts to arrive at desired outcomes. We know, but we do not do. Conversely, someone knows, but we do not find out. My work efforts are intended to resolve such challenges using scientific methods, supportive technologies, and lifelong education.
My principal interest is in strategy and policy development in network-intensive, global requirements of organizations in government, educational, and commercial sectors. An important object of study is to orchestrate a merger in fact between operational systems and learning systems in support of the requirements of large-scale enterprises and institutions. I have developed the research construct "fluidity," referring to the relative ease by which knowledge can be transferred to and from computerized systems in usable forms, including expressive, or process-oriented structures. The study and implementation of fluidity can be considered and application of lean production principles to information processing among organizations and networks.
From a strategy standpoint, I am interested in continued work in social network analysis (SNA), comparative policy environment (CPE), lean/quality production, and model economics (ME) models. These include political, economic, and organizational development approaches. Understanding such policy environments is critical in development of viable strategies. Such strategies require development of business policies, implementation of which is highly dependent on information processing.
From a business policy and organizational development standpoint, I work on research and the development of methods and technologies to allow for direct, systems-based governance and management of both public and private organizations. I developed the concept of "Dual Control" in organizational systems - top-down control of organizational preferences and prerogatives along with simultaneous horizontal control of variation of operational processes as required by commerce, regulatory mandates, or other factors. Dual control involves the simultaneous application of hierarchical and lean, network-oriented models -- something of a paradox. Necessary to accomplish this task is the removal of arbitrary technical limitations while providing tools for the design and implementation of logical preferences using familiar concepts, vocabularies, and information stores.
Based on ongoing research, I have observed that tree-based models have the potential to provide straightforward logic design while supporting the requirements of complexity and security. Tree-based technologies researched and used to date include two widely supported paradigms - the XML document and meta-data markup environment and LDAP-based directory services technology. The third tree-based technology is a means of defining and implementing complex process requirements also using trees. I refer to this approach as the "generative taxonomy" approach.
I view the process of encouraging cognitive and social bridges using technology from an organizational development standpoint. I have worked to connect a tree-based "process manager" technology using generative taxonomies, directory service objects, and database stores. The purpose of this endeavor is to create prototype models for managing the strategy, policy, and administrative preferences of organizations in digital, networked environments. This project, code-named "Tutti," has demonstrated great potential for rapid implementation and real-time management of institutional and value chain preferences in a digital, networked environment.
I am also studying possibilities for treating various types of meta-data using the three tree-based technologies and social networking analytical models to provide for substantially improved management of the information resources of the organization.
My principal interest is in strategy and policy development in network-intensive, global requirements of organizations in government, educational, and commercial sectors. An important object of study is to orchestrate a merger in fact between operational systems and learning systems in support of the requirements of large-scale enterprises and institutions. I have developed the research construct "fluidity," referring to the relative ease by which knowledge can be transferred to and from computerized systems in usable forms, including expressive, or process-oriented structures. The study and implementation of fluidity can be considered and application of lean production principles to information processing among organizations and networks.
From a strategy standpoint, I am interested in continued work in social network analysis (SNA), comparative policy environment (CPE), lean/quality production, and model economics (ME) models. These include political, economic, and organizational development approaches. Understanding such policy environments is critical in development of viable strategies. Such strategies require development of business policies, implementation of which is highly dependent on information processing.
From a business policy and organizational development standpoint, I work on research and the development of methods and technologies to allow for direct, systems-based governance and management of both public and private organizations. I developed the concept of "Dual Control" in organizational systems - top-down control of organizational preferences and prerogatives along with simultaneous horizontal control of variation of operational processes as required by commerce, regulatory mandates, or other factors. Dual control involves the simultaneous application of hierarchical and lean, network-oriented models -- something of a paradox. Necessary to accomplish this task is the removal of arbitrary technical limitations while providing tools for the design and implementation of logical preferences using familiar concepts, vocabularies, and information stores.
Based on ongoing research, I have observed that tree-based models have the potential to provide straightforward logic design while supporting the requirements of complexity and security. Tree-based technologies researched and used to date include two widely supported paradigms - the XML document and meta-data markup environment and LDAP-based directory services technology. The third tree-based technology is a means of defining and implementing complex process requirements also using trees. I refer to this approach as the "generative taxonomy" approach.
I view the process of encouraging cognitive and social bridges using technology from an organizational development standpoint. I have worked to connect a tree-based "process manager" technology using generative taxonomies, directory service objects, and database stores. The purpose of this endeavor is to create prototype models for managing the strategy, policy, and administrative preferences of organizations in digital, networked environments. This project, code-named "Tutti," has demonstrated great potential for rapid implementation and real-time management of institutional and value chain preferences in a digital, networked environment.
I am also studying possibilities for treating various types of meta-data using the three tree-based technologies and social networking analytical models to provide for substantially improved management of the information resources of the organization.
Other Expertise
Attended Advanced Social Network Analysis seminar under Steve Borgatti at the 2008 LINKS Center Summer SNA Workshop at the University of Kentucky.
Several years experience as founding general partner of an institutionally-sponsored venture capital fund. Participated in global fund raising efforts, organized the fund's legal and business documentation and plans, and participated in the monitoring and in some cases, the management of many of the fund's investments. Participated in many private and public equity funding endeavors. The fund's areas of focus were health care products and systems, computerized systems for management and education, and energy. Also managed international food products company and acted as consultant in operations, marketing, and computer systems to several consumer products companies. Edited and published an economics newsletter for a private financial planning foundation.
From these early professional endeavors, I developed an economic and policy model which I have termed Model Economics. The point of the model is that there are three defacto partitions to society and to the economy, distinguished by the nature of the cash flows supporting them -- growth, maturity, and decline. An understanding of appropriate policies is contingent upon awareness of the needs and requirements of individuals and institutions in each of the three areas. A balance among the three areas is necessary for sustained growth and prosperity.
Several years experience as founding general partner of an institutionally-sponsored venture capital fund. Participated in global fund raising efforts, organized the fund's legal and business documentation and plans, and participated in the monitoring and in some cases, the management of many of the fund's investments. Participated in many private and public equity funding endeavors. The fund's areas of focus were health care products and systems, computerized systems for management and education, and energy. Also managed international food products company and acted as consultant in operations, marketing, and computer systems to several consumer products companies. Edited and published an economics newsletter for a private financial planning foundation.
From these early professional endeavors, I developed an economic and policy model which I have termed Model Economics. The point of the model is that there are three defacto partitions to society and to the economy, distinguished by the nature of the cash flows supporting them -- growth, maturity, and decline. An understanding of appropriate policies is contingent upon awareness of the needs and requirements of individuals and institutions in each of the three areas. A balance among the three areas is necessary for sustained growth and prosperity.
Future Research
Methods for identification and empowerment of experts within organizations using social network analysis, grounded theory development, econometrics, and application of the CPE model. Development of systematic approach to support communities of practice with lean information processing models and tools among professions in public and private sectors. Work in the feasibility and requirements for systems-based, top-down manifestation and control of organizational mission and resources in concert with horizontal control of variation of operational processes (Dual Control).
Critical to this study is an increased understanding of the possibilities for use of tree-based technologies to better support the preferences and requirements of organizations as understood and expressed by their primary governing boards, executives, and managers. The development of specific taxonomies in support of common, traditional areas of functional specialty, such as accounting, sales, production management, and other enterprise activities is a priority.
Publication of performance metrics and fitting case studies to demonstrate the benefits of such an environment - building on the literature on quality and statistical process control and system optimization is an objective. Development of a methodology for education, introduction, and training of concepts in support of these findings - taking into account logical, physical, and emotional barriers to their introduction and successful implementation - is an underlying research requirement.
Specific attention to fluidity in scientific research and in science-based management of environmental, regulatory, and business processes in a multi-disciplinary, integrated network of people and of computational machines. Development of a measurable, valid construct - fluidity - in the context of a systems legitimacy model, coupling fluidity with cognitive legitimacy of systems. Related work in establishment of improved people-computer-people models in support of knowledge continuity in longstanding organizations potentially troubled by large numbers of retirements. Research in the most parsimonious approach to managing logical processes based on hypothetical syllogisms, the "if p, then q" model.
Critical to this study is an increased understanding of the possibilities for use of tree-based technologies to better support the preferences and requirements of organizations as understood and expressed by their primary governing boards, executives, and managers. The development of specific taxonomies in support of common, traditional areas of functional specialty, such as accounting, sales, production management, and other enterprise activities is a priority.
Publication of performance metrics and fitting case studies to demonstrate the benefits of such an environment - building on the literature on quality and statistical process control and system optimization is an objective. Development of a methodology for education, introduction, and training of concepts in support of these findings - taking into account logical, physical, and emotional barriers to their introduction and successful implementation - is an underlying research requirement.
Specific attention to fluidity in scientific research and in science-based management of environmental, regulatory, and business processes in a multi-disciplinary, integrated network of people and of computational machines. Development of a measurable, valid construct - fluidity - in the context of a systems legitimacy model, coupling fluidity with cognitive legitimacy of systems. Related work in establishment of improved people-computer-people models in support of knowledge continuity in longstanding organizations potentially troubled by large numbers of retirements. Research in the most parsimonious approach to managing logical processes based on hypothetical syllogisms, the "if p, then q" model.
Industrial Relevance
This research in the development of naturally grounded links between strategy development and business policy implementation is fundamental to the success of institutions in all fields of endeavor--particularly in environments benefiting from increased use of and dependence on electronic, networked systems. The principal objective is to achieve a synthesis between operational systems designed to support the basic functions of the organization, its partner institutions, regulators, individuals, and stakeholders and knowledge bases that represent the collective understanding of these groups.
By instituting a common language environment through which all responsible, knowledgeable parties can contribute in meaningful ways, digital systems can achieve much higher levels of legitimacy. Knowledge continuity is thus served, as knowledge transfer can be enhanced through people-computer-people dialogs in addition to people-people and people-document-people dialogs. Such a development will substantially reduce the cost of doing business, of educating, and of governing and will provide much higher levels of service. Training and education (learning) will be more easily integrated into the overall activities of the organization based on timeliness as well as perceived performance limitations of system users.
Such an integrated, common language environment will provide a more sound foundation for collaboration between line-of-business executives, managers, and knowledge specialists and workers. Though beneficial in all enterprise and institutional environments, this work is of critical importance in areas involving critical science-based or compliance-oriented requirements involving large numbers of people. This work has specific applicability to areas of health care generally, environmental and other forms of science-based compliance, commercial standards-setting, and other areas characterized by complexity, scale, and change.
By instituting a common language environment through which all responsible, knowledgeable parties can contribute in meaningful ways, digital systems can achieve much higher levels of legitimacy. Knowledge continuity is thus served, as knowledge transfer can be enhanced through people-computer-people dialogs in addition to people-people and people-document-people dialogs. Such a development will substantially reduce the cost of doing business, of educating, and of governing and will provide much higher levels of service. Training and education (learning) will be more easily integrated into the overall activities of the organization based on timeliness as well as perceived performance limitations of system users.
Such an integrated, common language environment will provide a more sound foundation for collaboration between line-of-business executives, managers, and knowledge specialists and workers. Though beneficial in all enterprise and institutional environments, this work is of critical importance in areas involving critical science-based or compliance-oriented requirements involving large numbers of people. This work has specific applicability to areas of health care generally, environmental and other forms of science-based compliance, commercial standards-setting, and other areas characterized by complexity, scale, and change.
Keywords
COS Keywords:
Biological Sciences, Business Planning or Policy, Electronic Commerce, Genetics, Management Information Systems, Management Science, Networking, Phylogenetics, Software Engineering.Additional Terms:
Adult and Continuing Education, Belief or Knowledge Systems, Business Cycle Or Crisis, Business Policy, Business Strategy, Business Systems, Common Business Language, Continuity Management, Corporate Governance, Dual Control, Econometrics, Economic Policy, Economic Studies - Developing Countries, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Systems, Environmental Planning Or Policy, Executive Empowerment, Fluidity, Formal Theory (Political Science), Generative Taxonomies, Genetics, Global Enterprise Systems, Handicapped Rehabilitation, Human Services, Industrial Cooperation, Industrial Organization, Industrial Sociology, Institutional Governance, International Economics, International Planning Or Policy, Knowledge Continuity, LDAP, Lean Production, Management Empowerment, Networked Systems, Organizational Development, Organizational Theory and Behavior, Phylogeny, Political Economics Or Economy, Political Methodology, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Process Design, Process Management, Professional Development, Public Policy, Quality, Rehabilitation Counseling, Rehabilitation and Therapy, Six Sigma, Social Development, Social Network Analysis, Social Service Planning Or Policy, Social Services, Software Engineering, Statistical Process Control, System Architecture, Taxonomy Development, Tree-Based Technologies, XML.Languages
(Reading, Writing, Speaking)
English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
Spanish: (Fluent, Functional, Fluent)
Chinese, Mandarin: (Basic, Basic, Functional)
Memberships
Academy of Management
International Network for Social Network Analysis
Honors and Awards
2006-2008,
Postdoctoral Fellowship,
U.S. Department of Education,
National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Training Materials
2005-2006,
Doctoral Assistantship,
U.S. Department of Education,
National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Training Materials
2000-2006,
Cum laude doctoral graduate,
School of Graduate Studies,
Utah State University
2000-2002,
Research Assistantship,
Business Information Systems/College of Business,
Utah State University,
Great Salt Lake Navy Project
1980, MBA Internship,
Strategic Information/Ziff-Davis Corporation,
Brigham Young University,
Marriott School of Management
1979-1981,
Top third of MBA class,
Marriott School of Management,
Brigham Young University
1976, Cum laude graduate,
College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences,
Utah State University
Previous Positions
2001-2004, Managing Director,
Bonneville Technology Partners LLC
2000-2002, Director,
Utah State University,
School of Business,
Business Information Systems,
Center for E-Commerce
1992-2002, Founder/C.E.O.,
OpenNet Corporation
1991-1992, General Manager,
Neways, Inc.
1989-1991, Editor,
Foundation for Financial Education,
Economics Newsletter
1988-1991, Business Consultant,
Rawlins Tingey
1987-1988, General Manager,
Sunrider International
1985-1986, Acting C.E.O.,
Intelligent Images
1985-1985, Executive Vice President,
DataGene Corporation
1981-1986, Founding General Partner,
Ventana Growth Fund,
Early Stage Venture Capital Fund
1979-1979, Assistant to the President,
Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.,
Strategic Information
1974-1978, Senior Marketing Supervisor (Independent),
Shaklee Corporation
Patents
System architecture and method for entering and accessing entity data in events accounting,
Patent Number: 0133583,
2004,
Institution-owned,
United States.
Funding Received
- USU Research Foundation: Commercialization and Intellectual Property Management System, $202,500, Oct 2000 to Dec 2002.
- Community University Research Initiative: Study of Security Education Needs in Utah in Planning for Certification by National Security Agency as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance (Author), $31,560, 2005 to 2006.
Publications
- Tingey, K. B., Li, J. K. K., Allen, D. K., Cliften, P., Yan, C., Millington, M. J. (2008) Molecular Groundings for the Logic of Organizations, To be disclosed upon acceptance, Unpublished
- Sundarasaradula, D. (2009) A Physical Theory of Military Organizations and Their Strategies, World Systems Research, Submitted
- Sundarasaradula, D, Tingey, K. B. (2009) Complex Systems and Their Behavior, Entropy, Submitted
- Tingey, K. B., Millington, M. J., Schultz, J. C. (Fall 2009) A Grounded Theory Approach to Defining Fragmentation and Unification in the Rehabilitation Counseling Profession, Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, 40 (3), 2009
- Tingey, K. B. (May 2009) Methods-Based Management, San Diego, CA, University Readers, 248 pages, ISBN=978-193426958
- Millington, M. J., Tingey, K. B. (2008) Acceptance Patterns of Information Systems Fluidity in a Human Services Agency, Unpublished
- Tingey, K. B, (1989/2008) It's the Necronomy, Stupid: Introduction to Model Economics, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co., 267 pages, ISBN=9783639095821
- Tingey, K. B, (1991/2008) Entail: An Unanswered Question, Saarbrücken, Germany, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co., 96 pages, ISBN=978363907115
- Tingey, K. B. (2008) Cognitive Networks and Cognitive Maps of a Human Services Agency, Unpublished
- Tingey, K. B, (2008) Dual Control: Science As Applied to Organizational Performance, Second Edition, 125 a 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co., 134 pages, ISBN=9783639069310
- Tingey, K. B. (2008) Expert Networks in Human Services, Unpublished
- Tingey, K. B, (2008) Model for Systems Legitimacy in Rehabilitation Counseling, Republished, 125 a D - 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co, 209 pages, ISBN=978363903618
- Tingey, K. B. (2008) Dual Control and Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, Submitted
- Tingey, K. B., Millington, M. J. (2008) Social Network Analysis Approach to Training, Needs Assessment, and Dissemination, Spring 2008 NCRE Conference, National Conference for Rehabilitation Education
- Tingey, K. B., Millington, M. J. (2008) Social and Cognitive Networks and Cognitive Maps of Human Services Agency, Sunbelt XXVIII International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, International Network for Social Network Analysis
- Tingey, K. B. (1998/2007) History of Control in Symphonic Music--History of Control in Business, 2nd. Ed., 71 pages
- Tingey, K. B., Paper, D. J., Millington, M. J., Schultz, J. C. (2007) Model for Information Systems Legitimacy in Human Services, To be disclosed upon acceptance, 31, Submitted
- Tingey, K. B., Millington, M. J., Graham, M., White Paper: A Communities of Practice Approach to Training and Education: Building Sociocognitive Networks in Rehabilitation Counseling, Logan, UT, National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Training Materials, May 2007
- Tingey, K. B., Millington, M. J. (2007) Politics of Alliance in Rehabilitation Counseling, 2007 NCRE Educators Conference, National Council of Rehabilitation Education
- Tingey, K. B., Model for Systems Legitimacy in Rehabilitation Counseling, U.M.I. Dissertations, 15 Nov 2006
- Tingey, K. B. (2005) Breaking Through the Digital Barrier: Letting Managers Manage Ii, Unpublished
- Tingey, K. B., The Structure of Knowledge and the Intelligent Enterprise, UnPublished, 2005
- Tingey, K. B. (2005) Breaking Through the Digital Barrier: Letting Managers Manage, Unpublished
- Allen, D. K., Tingey, K. B. (2004) Taxonomy Development: The Super-Science, Utah State University Center for E-Commerce
- Paper, D. J., Tingey, K. B., Mok, W. (January 2003) The Relation Between BPR and ERP Systems: A Failed Project, Annals of Cases on Information Technology, 5, 45-62
- Paper, D. J., & Tingey, K. B., Realizing Frictionless Global E-Commerce, Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications, 3(1), 1-8, 2002
- Paper, D. J., Tingey, K. B. (January 2002) Application of Tree-Based Solutions: A Case Study With INEEL, Annals of Cases on Information Technology, 4, 260-271
- Paper, D. J., Tingey, K. B. (2002) A Three-Tiered Approach to Global E-Commerce: Experiences of NuSkin International, Cases on Worldwide E-Commerce: Theory in Action
- Paper, D. J., Tingey, K. B., & Mok, W. (2002) The Myth of Enterprise Database Redesign, Managing Data Mining Technologies in Organizations, Hershey, PA, Idea Group Publishing (bookchapter)
- Tingey, K. B. (2001) Countering Moral De-Education, Fourth Annual Intermountain Paper and Poster Symposium, Utah State University
- Kenneth B. Tingey, Managers of the World, Unite!, 13, October 1999
- Kenneth B. Tingey, eManagement, 7, October 1999
- Kenneth B. Tingey, Novell's NDS and OpenNet's Tutti--Flexibility and Security for Openly Expressing and Managing the Overall Institutional Model, 6, May 1999
- Kenneth B. Tingey, We Have Seen the Future, and It Is a Tree, 5, April 1999
- Kenneth B. Tingey, The Network Society's 'Switches' and Dual Control, 5, March 1999
- Kenneth B. Tingey, Process Manager Technology and e-Commerce, 12, Jan 1999
- Kenneth B.Tingey, Education and Training Requirements--Dual Control and Process Manager Technology, 18, October 1998
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