News/Events
October 2009
Dr. Lia DiBello was honored
with the "Women Who Mean Business Award" (WWMB) at
the
16th annual award
luncheon
held on October 27th, 2009.
The event was attended by over 800 people and acknowledged
25 successful and motivated women business leaders for their talent and
contributions to business and San Diego.
April 2009
The San Diego Business Journal acknowledged Sterling Chamberlain as a finalist of the 2009 Information Technology Executive of the Year Awards sponsored by Cox Business. An event to honor the eighty finalists and thirteen honorees took place on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines. The finalists and honorees were featured in the April 27th issue of the San Diego Business Journal.
March 2009
In a joint venture the
Blue Mine Group Inc and WTRI are developing a
Virtual World Sales OpSim™.
The on-line, multi-player environment will emulate a competitive world
in which users must sell complex products to a variety of customers
while at the same time managing their pipeline. The product prototype is based on a
hybrid of the dominant selling models used by high performing sales
experts. However, any selling model or product mix
can be imported into the OpSim™. The product
will be demonstrated at the upcoming 3D Training Learning and
Collaboration Conference sponsored by Gallaudet University, Washington
D.C. April 20-21. Come and visit our booth!
January 2009
Published in The
International
Journal of Cognition Technology & Work.:
"Information
technologies and intuitive expertise: A method for implementing
complex organizational change among New York City Transit Authority's
bus maintainers."
By DiBello, L. and Missildine,
W.
January 2009
Published in the International Journal of Mind, Culture, and Activity:
“Intuitive Expertise and Empowerment: The Long Term Impact of Simulation Training on Changing Accountabilities in a Biotech Firm” by DiBello, Missildine & Struttmann. To appear in the Fall 2008
September
19, 2008
WTRI has been chosen as one of four finalists in the
American Electronics Association (AeA) San Diego Council's 15th annual
High Tech Awards. Specifically, this was for our product, the
Cognitive Profiler,
which is enjoying great success among our customers.
For more information about the Profiler, please call our office and we
will get you in touch with a representative the same day. September 8, 2008
National Science Foundation features WTRI in it’s “Research in Action”
Website; Links:
http://www.livescience.com/researchinaction/ria-080903.html
OpSims™ help
win the X Prize.
From page 15 of The Rocket Company, 2005, AIAA
publishers
"Tom (Rabbet) had also hired some industrial psychologists to develop
business/engineering simulations of the vehicle development process.
Their work was based on that of Dr. Lia DiBello and her team, who had
proved so successful in turning around dysfunctional businesses.
As modified for the problem facing Tom, DiBello's techniques were
applied to develop simulations of the engineering development, flight
test, and production of a launch vehicle. Using these simulations,
the engineering, management and support teams conducted exercises
running from two days to a week, in which real strategies for working
more effectively as a group were experienced. By this means, Tom
hoped to build a team that had the equivalent of many years' of
experience working together developing and producing aerospace systems."
April 3, 2008
Accepted for publication in the upcoming book: Experts in Complex Situations: Transforming Information into Knowledge.
Chapter entitled:
"Not all experts of the same kind are experts in the same way; a study of distributed decision making among senior managers in business" by DiBello, Lehmann & Missildine. To appear in Fall 2008.
http://www.livescience.com/researchinaction/ria-080814.html
Made in IBM Labs: IBM Develops a “Rehearsal Studio” to Let You Practice Your
Job in a 3-D World
New 3-D studio helps IBM employees gain hard-to-learn skills
in a virtual world
