Advancing the Value of Ethnography

EPIC2025 Session: Leveraging Front-Line Intelligence in Organizations: Value in Local Knowledge

The most innovative solutions often emerge from frontline workers adapting systems to meet real needs. This session examines how organizations can recognize and systematize intelligence from the ground up.

Date & Time

Thursday, September 18, 2025 | 
2:00 pm – 
3:30 pm 
Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00)
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | 
4:00 am – 
5:30 am 
Pacific Daylight Time (PDT, UTC−07:00)

Format

Virtual or livestreamed

Overview

The most innovative solutions often emerge from frontline workers adapting systems to meet real needs. This session examines how organizations can recognize and systematize intelligence from the ground up. Presentations in this session:

  • Sharing Results, Sharing Power: Re-imagining Intelligence as a Collective Good
  • From Factory Floor to ‘Collectively Intelligent’ Solutions: Participatory Design in Practice
  • Empowering the Field: Designing Adaptive, Open, and Collaborative BIM Viewer Ecosystems
  • Investors as Uneasy Ethnographers: Resolving Frictions between Technical-Rational Ideals and Para-Ethnographic Practice in Private Equity Due Diligence

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