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Welcome to the archives. These articles represent many different seasons of my career. You’ll find posts written during my doctoral studies, years of marketing consulting, entrepreneurial experiments, and the occasional reflection on whatever happened to be capturing my attention at the time.

Blogging looked very different when many of these posts were published. Rather than removing them or fixing broken links from now defunct themes, I’ve chosen to preserve them as a snapshot of where I was, what I was learning, and how my thinking has evolved over the years.

Some ideas have stood the test of time. Others reflect the questions I was wrestling with at that particular moment. Either way, they tell part of the story.

What is Transferrability (and Why Should I Care)

by | Nov 15, 2012 | Uncategorized

Research Should be Transferrable

In an earlier post I discussed why research should be generalizable.  Here I will cover transferrability which is equally powerful.  I will continue with my example where we had a hypothetical study showing that nurses who worked 8-hour shifts committed less errors than nurses who worked 12-hour shifts.

Transferability means that the original findings have been shown to work across many additional industries.

For a finding such as this to be transferrable, one would have to see similar results in different industries such as manufacturing, engineering, hotel management, newspaper production, etc.  Not all research is meant to be transferrable or generalizable; however, if it is found to be transferrable it is an indicator that the findings may very well be replicable in your organization.