Applied Practice

An Applied Practice is the application of ideas and methods to a set of interrelated Tasks.

• AKA: Practice, Technical Domain, Technical Discipline, Skilled Activity, Professional Practice, Technical Practice.
• Context:
  • It has one or more Practitioners who have received specialized Education/Training.
  • It can have a Technical Vocabulary.
  • It can be supported by Educators.
  • It can involve Accreditation Task.
  • It can be associated to one or more Academic Disciplines.
• Example(s):
  • Computer Programming Practice, with Computer Programming Practitioners.
  • Data Mining Practice, with Data Mining Practitioners.
  • Data Modeling Practice, with Data Modeling Practitioners.
  • Statistics Practice, with Statistics Practitioners.
  • Nursing Practice, with Nursing Practitioners.
  • Educational Practice, with Educational Practitioners.
  • Legal Practice, with Legal Practitioners.
  • Medical Practice, with Medical Practitioners.
  • Engineering Practice, with Engineering Practitioners.
  • Terminology Practice, with Terminologists.
  • Cooking.
  • Construction.
  • Railway Operation.
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Academic Discipline.
  • Research Task (is a Researcher a Practitioner of Research?).
• See: Practice Method.

References

1999

• (Moody & Buist, 1999) => Daniel Moody, and Anne Buist. (1999). "Improving Links Between Information Systems Research and Practice - Lessons from the Medical Profession." In: Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Conference on Information Systems.
  • In an applied discipline, research should be relevant to the needs of practice and research outputs should ultimately contribute to the development of improved practices.