How could designers contribute to organization design?

As many organizations are taking open innovation or crowdsourcing as their new strategies, their organization design also need to be adjusted to support their strategic changes. As I understood, such self-organizing organizations should be designed by different approach from the traditional organization design. That is, the activities of members should be encouraged by designing the protocols and environment of organizations rather than directly controlled in a hierarchical structure. When the members are perceived as the user of protocols and working environment of an organization, it can be inferred that the participatory design can contribute to improving organizational design.

In this context, I wonder if there are any previous studies on organizational design methods or tools to support the participation of organization members in designing their own organizations. If not, would the attempts to develop such organization design methodologies be necessary or helpful for improving the performance of organizations undertaking open innovation or crowdsourcing?

Here is the situation, a subcontractor hired by the main contractor is doing a excavation job. He must buy good product quality of blades for his equipment to the best job as wanted by owner. Assuming he is really buying the good stuff, when blades are off-function I mean the blades did their job and have to be replaced by new ones. The number of the blades must counted under an engineer supervision and then the engineer must confirm they used these numbers of blades for today, for instance, and the owner accepts. The problem is the equipment must work day and night because of the importance of the project and sometimes after time of engineer work the subcontractor calls engineer to come up for counting the blades. But this is not his work time but resting time. And the engineer tell the owner I can't do it. How the owner can handle this situation. 

The research I have reviewed indicates a need to understand context across disciplines (e.g., Health, Education, etc.). Multiple frameworks offer pathways to understanding from different perspectives (e.g., Fixsen et al, Damschroder et al. Pettigrew et al). I want to better understand, and impact, successful improvement/implementation practices within the organization to create sustainable practices at the project/school-level. I see parallels with the research around principals' and teacher s' impact on student achievement but, as in those studies, little is written of the parent organization. For example, what is it about the parent organization's leadership and improvement practices that maximize conditions for principals' and teachers' impact?

Incinerator, Design, Procedures, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Mechanics of Machines, Fluid Mechanics, CAD

I am currently involved in a PAT project and it is a requirement that I design a materials sampling unit to convey 240 deg C polyester resin from a reactor into a recirculation line that will house a number of sensors (viscosity, temperature, colour and NIR).

I am looking for information regarding the material specification of the recirculation piping system such as, type or grade of pipe to be used, seals, special valve requirements, expansion couplings and any other design considerations.

Thank you in advance

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It seems that "likes" are mainly social grooming stuff, not really good predictor of content quality. At least it shows "popularity", but the link between popularity and quality is not evident.

Stars and more complex scales seems better (Riedl et al 2010).  But I didn't find literature about new options (e.g. emotional icons).

Any idea ? I'll give you at least 4 stars ! ;-)

Thanks