Case Study Archive
This Archive will contains Task Force Members'reports and 'work-in-progress 'examples of care studies in which they arre involved.
If you would like to place within this archive a report or preliminary example of a case study within the framework of the Task Group, please send an email to p.humphreys@lse.ac.uk (Patricik Humphreys, Task force Convenor) identifing the content that you would like to place in this archive : either as a file attached to your email)or link to iURL tha contains the the content material that you would like to pllace in this archive., together with a short description the content (1- 2 sentences) for indexing purposes.
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1. Case study: Proof of concept plus Proof of Value for Sail Cargo London,Kent and Channel's integrated Business Model
Authors: Miguel Imas, Kingston University, Amy Luk, Hong Kong, Patrick Humphreys, London School of Economics
Starting in November, 202, Sail Cargo Channel and Raybel Charters CIC (the operating company for Sail Cargo London and Kent) are collaborating to form the initiative “Sail Cargo London Kent and Channel”where both organisations will implement linked activities within the framework of the integrated business model established in 2021 through the merger of Kent Sail Cargo and Sail Cargo London.(see Humphreys and Imas, 2024: Supporting Sustainability within the Sail Cargo Alliance Ecosystem https://doi.org/10.1080/12460125.2024.2349407)
The activities planned to realise Sail Cargo London, Kent sndChannel’s aims during 2025 within the framework of the integrated business model are to develop links to local producers in Kent Sussex, Porttgal and Colombia of bespoke single origin products (cheese, charcuterie, confectionery, etc.) which can be traded as “live provenance certified sail cargo”.
The aims for this "Sail Cargo London, Kent and Channel Proof of concept and Proof of Value Initiative include :
1. Developing links to local producers in Sussex , Kent and Normandy of bespoke single origin products (cheese, charcuterie, confectionery, etc.) which are traded locally as “live provenance certified sail cargo” by Port Allies located (i) between Newhaven and Great Yarmouth on the UK’s southeast coast, (ii) inPortugal (iii) in Santa Marta (Colombia). This will provide a direct supply chain benefiting our port Allies in UK, Portugal and Colombia. The sail cargo products traded in this way will be transported between these UK ports on S/B Raybel (see https://www.raybelcharters.com/sail-cargo-overview). Newhaven plans to be the hub port linking Sail cargo carried to and from Newhaven and Santa marta, Colombia on Schooner Ide Min (see https://kaapkargo.com)
2. Activating Penance Creator App at Raybel Charters, CIC the for use Raybel Charters and its Port Allies to place a QR code on each of the “Sail Cargo ” products that they offer for retail sale that, when scanned by potential customers, takes them to the page describing that product on Raybel Charters’ Website (see https://www.raybelcharters.com/sail-cargo-overview) where they will be able to acts the provenance Exploration facilities of the Provenance Creator App, that enable them to explore at will the full activity history of the “Live Provenance certified” product, now including the sailing ships, voyages and port allies involved in transporting and distributing the scanned product.
We plan a case study that will constitute a “proof of concept, use and value” trial involves interviews with the Sail Cargo Provenance Creator App’s users (including producers in the ecosystem who are registering their Sail Cargo products; Port Allies usingSail Cargo “live Provenance certified” labels for placing on the products they will offer for retail sale, and customers considering buying a “live provenance certified” sail cargo product, who investigate its ”live provenance” by scanning the QR code in the label to see what they might find out about that product.
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1. Case study: Proof of concept plus Proof of Value for Sail Cargo London,Kent and Channel's integrated Business Model
Authors: Miguel Imas, Kingston University, Amy Luk, Hong Kong, Patrick Humphreys, London School of Economics
Starting in November, 202, Sail Cargo Channel and Raybel Charters CIC (the operating company for Sail Cargo London and Kent) are collaborating to form the initiative “Sail Cargo London Kent and Channel”where both organisations will implement linked activities within the framework of the integrated business model established in 2021 through the merger of Kent Sail Cargo and Sail Cargo London.(see Humphreys and Imas, 2024: Supporting Sustainability within the Sail Cargo Alliance Ecosystem https://doi.org/10.1080/12460125.2024.2349407)
The activities planned to realise Sail Cargo London, Kent sndChannel’s aims during 2025 within the framework of the integrated business model are to develop links to local producers in Kent Sussex, Porttgal and Colombia of bespoke single origin products (cheese, charcuterie, confectionery, etc.) which can be traded as “live provenance certified sail cargo”.
The aims for this "Sail Cargo London, Kent and Channel Proof of concept and Proof of Value Initiative include :
1. Developing links to local producers in Sussex , Kent and Normandy of bespoke single origin products (cheese, charcuterie, confectionery, etc.) which are traded locally as “live provenance certified sail cargo” by Port Allies located (i) between Newhaven and Great Yarmouth on the UK’s southeast coast, (ii) inPortugal (iii) in Santa Marta (Colombia). This will provide a direct supply chain benefiting our port Allies in UK, Portugal and Colombia. The sail cargo products traded in this way will be transported between these UK ports on S/B Raybel (see https://www.raybelcharters.com/sail-cargo-overview). Newhaven plans to be the hub port linking Sail cargo carried to and from Newhaven and Santa marta, Colombia on Schooner Ide Min (see https://kaapkargo.com)
2. Activating Penance Creator App at Raybel Charters, CIC the for use Raybel Charters and its Port Allies to place a QR code on each of the “Sail Cargo ” products that they offer for retail sale that, when scanned by potential customers, takes them to the page describing that product on Raybel Charters’ Website (see https://www.raybelcharters.com/sail-cargo-overview) where they will be able to acts the provenance Exploration facilities of the Provenance Creator App, that enable them to explore at will the full activity history of the “Live Provenance certified” product, now including the sailing ships, voyages and port allies involved in transporting and distributing the scanned product.
We plan a case study that will constitute a “proof of concept, use and value” trial involves interviews with the Sail Cargo Provenance Creator App’s users (including producers in the ecosystem who are registering their Sail Cargo products; Port Allies usingSail Cargo “live Provenance certified” labels for placing on the products they will offer for retail sale, and customers considering buying a “live provenance certified” sail cargo product, who investigate its ”live provenance” by scanning the QR code in the label to see what they might find out about that product.
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2. Case Study:Anam Cara Support for sustainability of young persons' decisions on how to say NO
Authors: Jyotika Bedi , Happiness is Love, India, Patrick Humphreys, London School of Economics
In this qualitative case study, we explored how Indian youth learn to say “no” and sustain self-love in challenging contexts. Focusing on fifteen individuals (aged 18–25, 8 female and 7 male) from diverse urban schools and colleges across India, Each participant told us how they engaged in activities that sustain effective personal decision making, positive affirmation and self love while learning to say NO" in a particular context of their own choosing. This multi-case design enabled cross-case comparison of decision-making patterns while respecting each person’s unique context
We investigated whether outcomes of "saying NO" were sustained over time with comprehensive support, and how effective support mechanisms could help youths uphold their decisions as life contexts changed (for example, entering college or joining new social groups)..Our conceptual framework integrated the Anam Cara Ontology with relevant psychological and social theories.
Anam Cara (Gaelic for “soul friend”) traditionally refers to a spiritually intimate, supportive friend. . Our case study development project focuses on the first two levels of the Aman Cara Ontology, i.e., Personal and Interpersonal, , emphasising that individual agency and close relationships can spark wider change. This multi-level lens guided our design, ensuring we captured personal reflections along with the relational and cultural dynamics around each youth’s experience.
We found that all our participants had established and benefitted from interacting with Anam Caras (Soul Friends). The benefits included: supportive Anam Cara relationships as safety Nets; setting boundaries; asserting Self-Love through limits; saying“No” as a New Beginning.
In the concluding section of this paper, we describe how the results gained from this case study open up practical opportunities for developments located at the third and fourth levels of the Anam Cara Ontology, i.e., the Community and Compassionate Institutional levels.
Authors: Jyotika Bedi , Happiness is Love, India, Patrick Humphreys, London School of Economics
In this qualitative case study, we explored how Indian youth learn to say “no” and sustain self-love in challenging contexts. Focusing on fifteen individuals (aged 18–25, 8 female and 7 male) from diverse urban schools and colleges across India, Each participant told us how they engaged in activities that sustain effective personal decision making, positive affirmation and self love while learning to say NO" in a particular context of their own choosing. This multi-case design enabled cross-case comparison of decision-making patterns while respecting each person’s unique context
We investigated whether outcomes of "saying NO" were sustained over time with comprehensive support, and how effective support mechanisms could help youths uphold their decisions as life contexts changed (for example, entering college or joining new social groups)..Our conceptual framework integrated the Anam Cara Ontology with relevant psychological and social theories.
Anam Cara (Gaelic for “soul friend”) traditionally refers to a spiritually intimate, supportive friend. . Our case study development project focuses on the first two levels of the Aman Cara Ontology, i.e., Personal and Interpersonal, , emphasising that individual agency and close relationships can spark wider change. This multi-level lens guided our design, ensuring we captured personal reflections along with the relational and cultural dynamics around each youth’s experience.
We found that all our participants had established and benefitted from interacting with Anam Caras (Soul Friends). The benefits included: supportive Anam Cara relationships as safety Nets; setting boundaries; asserting Self-Love through limits; saying“No” as a New Beginning.
In the concluding section of this paper, we describe how the results gained from this case study open up practical opportunities for developments located at the third and fourth levels of the Anam Cara Ontology, i.e., the Community and Compassionate Institutional levels.
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3. Case Study: Reclaiming Discernment: A Situated Paradigm for Human-Centered
Decision Support and Learning
Author: John Hegarty, IPAG Business School, Paris
This paper introduces the Situated Discernment Paradigm (SDP) as the foundation of a
design science research program that addresses five interlocking crises in business
education, decision-making research, and decision support system design—crises that are
civilizational, methodological, pedagogical, epistemological, and anthropological. At their
root lies the displacement of discernment as a core human capacity—replaced by
procedural rationality, optimization, and fragmented expertise.
SDP re-centers the discerning subject in relation to others, engaged in the
apprehension and realization of value across six registers of participation (from cognitive
to societal) and seven moments of value engagement (from originating value to
performance). These intersect in the Field of Discernment—the shared site of attention,
understanding, judgment, and commitment. We work within a philosophical tradition that
deepens inquiry rather than foreclosing it, and affirm discernment not as an add-on to
decision-making but as its very condition of possibility.
Our theoretical contributions include: (1) naming the field of discernment; (2)
articulating the implicit precepts of an ethics of participation; and (3) recovering
discernment as the grounding of responsible action. Methodologically, we contribute: (1)
the Field of Discernment Matrix as a meta–context-based insight generation (CBIG) tool
for locating insight; (2) a typology of CBIG tools to fuel the fire of thinking; and
(3) Appropriateness Assessment Indicators, comprising Key Situation Indicators (KSIs)
for contextual fit and Key Relationship Indicators (KRIs) for relational tact.
Our design science contributions span theory, method, and practice: from the
architectural integration of CBIG tools to scaffold insight and learning, to role-based, AIenhanced
enactments of discernment, to reflective essays and multi-agent dialogue. While
this paper draws on a single classroom illustration, Appendix B provides transferable
guidelines for adapting SDP to diverse contexts. We invite others to join us in reclaiming
Decision Support and Learning
Author: John Hegarty, IPAG Business School, Paris
This paper introduces the Situated Discernment Paradigm (SDP) as the foundation of a
design science research program that addresses five interlocking crises in business
education, decision-making research, and decision support system design—crises that are
civilizational, methodological, pedagogical, epistemological, and anthropological. At their
root lies the displacement of discernment as a core human capacity—replaced by
procedural rationality, optimization, and fragmented expertise.
SDP re-centers the discerning subject in relation to others, engaged in the
apprehension and realization of value across six registers of participation (from cognitive
to societal) and seven moments of value engagement (from originating value to
performance). These intersect in the Field of Discernment—the shared site of attention,
understanding, judgment, and commitment. We work within a philosophical tradition that
deepens inquiry rather than foreclosing it, and affirm discernment not as an add-on to
decision-making but as its very condition of possibility.
Our theoretical contributions include: (1) naming the field of discernment; (2)
articulating the implicit precepts of an ethics of participation; and (3) recovering
discernment as the grounding of responsible action. Methodologically, we contribute: (1)
the Field of Discernment Matrix as a meta–context-based insight generation (CBIG) tool
for locating insight; (2) a typology of CBIG tools to fuel the fire of thinking; and
(3) Appropriateness Assessment Indicators, comprising Key Situation Indicators (KSIs)
for contextual fit and Key Relationship Indicators (KRIs) for relational tact.
Our design science contributions span theory, method, and practice: from the
architectural integration of CBIG tools to scaffold insight and learning, to role-based, AIenhanced
enactments of discernment, to reflective essays and multi-agent dialogue. While
this paper draws on a single classroom illustration, Appendix B provides transferable
guidelines for adapting SDP to diverse contexts. We invite others to join us in reclaiming
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discernment.
4. Case Study: Tech sector initiative to address sustainability, e-waste and social value
Authors: Freddie Quek and Paul Finnis, Co-Directors, TheNextPath Device Consortium
According to the UN, “The same rights (to communicate) that people have offline must also be protected online”. Today 10% of UK Households (2.8m) do not have a home computer representing between 3 million and 5 million individuals with no access.
It is a social crisis that cannot be solved by any single organisation or individual. The UK Government published its Digital Inclusion Action Plan in February 2025 pledging action and a call for everyone to contribute in some way. There are many great people involved in tackling this issue and for many years, but there remains much to be done. There is still too little sign of any real urgency or any joined-up and scalable solution.
The tech sector is contributing as a collective to create a systemic, strategic, scalable, and sustainable solution addressing its social responsibilities at a corporate, personal and UK plc levels. It has established a Consortium in #JoiningTheDots with tech organisations, professionals, communities and individuals to extend device life, maximise reuse, minimise e-waste, and provide affordable, sustainable and scalable solutions to achieve universal digital inclusion, high social impact and ESG goals. Its vision is “Devices for All” with a mission to “Move the needle on digital inclusion by getting more devices, more quickly into the hands of those who need them.”
Authors: Freddie Quek and Paul Finnis, Co-Directors, TheNextPath Device Consortium
According to the UN, “The same rights (to communicate) that people have offline must also be protected online”. Today 10% of UK Households (2.8m) do not have a home computer representing between 3 million and 5 million individuals with no access.
It is a social crisis that cannot be solved by any single organisation or individual. The UK Government published its Digital Inclusion Action Plan in February 2025 pledging action and a call for everyone to contribute in some way. There are many great people involved in tackling this issue and for many years, but there remains much to be done. There is still too little sign of any real urgency or any joined-up and scalable solution.
The tech sector is contributing as a collective to create a systemic, strategic, scalable, and sustainable solution addressing its social responsibilities at a corporate, personal and UK plc levels. It has established a Consortium in #JoiningTheDots with tech organisations, professionals, communities and individuals to extend device life, maximise reuse, minimise e-waste, and provide affordable, sustainable and scalable solutions to achieve universal digital inclusion, high social impact and ESG goals. Its vision is “Devices for All” with a mission to “Move the needle on digital inclusion by getting more devices, more quickly into the hands of those who need them.”
5. Case Study: The Internship-Offer Analysis Project
Author: Patrick Brézillon, Sorbonne University, Paris
This pepper starts with the synthesis about the key points to be employer in the four modeling level framework,
with their characteristics and evolution from the conceptual level to the environment level. Then, we comment the
interdependency of these concepts for having a holistic view on the four-modeling level proposed.
The 25 key points, found along these 25-years research on
context modeling and use, lead to a robust CxG formalism (defined with only four items, action, activity,
contextual element and ESIA) implemented in a piece of software easy to use for modeling a large number of
very different problems in a large spectrum of applications (subway, power systems, management, medicine,
psychology, etc.), thanks to making contextual element and instantiation explicit with knowledge and reasoning.
A contextual element can be considered as containing a step of the contextual reasoning developed from the
mental representation in a mental model, the former appearing as a uniform description of all the mental models.
The presentation of the key concepts is led in the four-modeling level framework. First, key concepts are identified
in the list of key points established in previous chapters. Second, some concepts appearing at a low level may
have backward effects at upper levels. Three, other key concepts appear either at a unique level (e.g. Contextual
graph at implementation level) or at several levels (e.g. contextual element at context-based formalism and CxG
software and are implicitly used at operational, implementation and environment levels). The seventeen key
concepts are discussed respectively to their relationships.
Author: Patrick Brézillon, Sorbonne University, Paris
This pepper starts with the synthesis about the key points to be employer in the four modeling level framework,
with their characteristics and evolution from the conceptual level to the environment level. Then, we comment the
interdependency of these concepts for having a holistic view on the four-modeling level proposed.
The 25 key points, found along these 25-years research on
context modeling and use, lead to a robust CxG formalism (defined with only four items, action, activity,
contextual element and ESIA) implemented in a piece of software easy to use for modeling a large number of
very different problems in a large spectrum of applications (subway, power systems, management, medicine,
psychology, etc.), thanks to making contextual element and instantiation explicit with knowledge and reasoning.
A contextual element can be considered as containing a step of the contextual reasoning developed from the
mental representation in a mental model, the former appearing as a uniform description of all the mental models.
The presentation of the key concepts is led in the four-modeling level framework. First, key concepts are identified
in the list of key points established in previous chapters. Second, some concepts appearing at a low level may
have backward effects at upper levels. Three, other key concepts appear either at a unique level (e.g. Contextual
graph at implementation level) or at several levels (e.g. contextual element at context-based formalism and CxG
software and are implicitly used at operational, implementation and environment levels). The seventeen key
concepts are discussed respectively to their relationships.
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