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Phased & Gated Project Life Cycle (Plc) Process For Product Development, Raman Attri Dec 2007

Phased & Gated Project Life Cycle (Plc) Process For Product Development, Raman Attri

Raman K. Attri

Every company has a unique project Life cycle which is used as a tool for project management and tracking the product development projects. Project Life Cycle is a tool typically used to manage the projects from its inception till the product has been introduced into the market. This report describes the Phase-Gate Project Life Cycle for product development outlining formal PLC structure, PLC elements, gate review process and gate deliverables.


Geschäftsmodelle 2010 – Wie Sie Ihr Unternehmen Erfolgreich Transformieren, Hubert Oesterle Dec 2007

Geschäftsmodelle 2010 – Wie Sie Ihr Unternehmen Erfolgreich Transformieren, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Silent Processes For Independent Living, Hubert Oesterle Dec 2007

Silent Processes For Independent Living, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


R&D Policy In The United States: The Promotion Of Nanotechnology, Philip Shapira, Jue Wang Nov 2007

R&D Policy In The United States: The Promotion Of Nanotechnology, Philip Shapira, Jue Wang

Philip Shapira

This case study reviews the evolution of nanotechnology policies and programmes in the United States with a particular focus on three thematic areas: governance, interactions among R&D policies, and interaction between R&D policy and non-R&D policies. Federal R&D policy in nanotechnology has moved through several stages, including initial exploration before the 1980s, the promotion of scientific and technological breakthroughs in the 1980s, policy development in the 1990s and multiagency national initiatives in the 2000s. Since 2001, the major federal R&D policy mechanism in nanotechnology in the US has been the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). NNI promotes policy deliberation and, most …


Defining A Research Domain In An Emerging Technology: Vaccine Research In The State Of Georgia, Shannon Barker, Jan Youtie, Philip Shapira Oct 2007

Defining A Research Domain In An Emerging Technology: Vaccine Research In The State Of Georgia, Shannon Barker, Jan Youtie, Philip Shapira

Philip Shapira

This paper presents an approach for measuring emerging technologies in the context of mature industries. In particular, this article focuses on vaccine-related research. Although vaccines comprise an established industry, new developments in biotechnology have led to emerging area in vaccine R&D, including therapeutic vaccines; subunit and DNA-based vaccines; advances in vaccine delivery; and new methodologies for vaccine design, manufacturing, and testing. Defining this field is challenging because it spans multiple disciplines, including biotechnology, public health, and epidemiology. To gain an understanding of the field as it is related to biomedical research, we focused our study parameters to concentrate on these …


Kooperative Geschäftsmodelle – Auf Dem Weg Zu Silent Processes, Hubert Oesterle Sep 2007

Kooperative Geschäftsmodelle – Auf Dem Weg Zu Silent Processes, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Sources Of Wood And Wood Residues For Energy Production In Indiana, Isaac Slaven, Eva Haviarova, Klein Ileleji Sep 2007

Sources Of Wood And Wood Residues For Energy Production In Indiana, Isaac Slaven, Eva Haviarova, Klein Ileleji

Isaac Slaven

As energy prices rise and there is a push for energy to be produced from renewable resources, the contribution of Indiana’s corn and soybean industry often overshadows the impact that wood residues can have in response to these demands. Reports show that the wood products industry is the largest, by paid wages, of any agricultural industry in Indiana and employs 47,000 Hoosiers (Biocrossroads 2005). In fact, Indiana has more than 4.5 million acres of forest land (USDA FS, FIA 2005) compared to about 12.3 million acres of crop land (NASS 2006). In addition to the millions of acres of forestland, …


Geschäftsmodelle 2010 - Kundenwert Aus Kundenprozess, Hubert Oesterle Aug 2007

Geschäftsmodelle 2010 - Kundenwert Aus Kundenprozess, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Lettre Recommandée Électronique, Jacob Johnsen Jun 2007

Lettre Recommandée Électronique, Jacob Johnsen

Jacob Johnsen, MSc

Les principes et les avantages quand on se sert du courrier hybride pour les lettres recommandées.


Segundo Congreso Nacional De Organismos Públicos Autónomos, Bruno L. Costantini García May 2007

Segundo Congreso Nacional De Organismos Públicos Autónomos, Bruno L. Costantini García

Bruno L. Costantini García

Memorias del Segundo Congreso Nacional de Organismos Públicos Autónomos. "Autonomía, Profesionalización, Control y Transparencia"


Outsourcing The Packaging Function, Rihaz Z. Chughatta Apr 2007

Outsourcing The Packaging Function, Rihaz Z. Chughatta

Rihaz Z Chughatta

If you are currently working in the packaging department of a major corporation in the pharmaceutical, food or consumer products industry, you have probably been exposed to some form of outsourcing, which is a global trend that has emerged over the past decade, and continues to evolve, within the packaging field.


Networkability Of Organizations And Business Networks, Rainer Alt, Martin Smits Apr 2007

Networkability Of Organizations And Business Networks, Rainer Alt, Martin Smits

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Collaborative Tool Kit For Educational Sector And Delivery Of Tool Kit To Education Summit In March 2007., Malcolm Fraser, Stephen Kelly Mar 2007

Collaborative Tool Kit For Educational Sector And Delivery Of Tool Kit To Education Summit In March 2007., Malcolm Fraser, Stephen Kelly

Malcolm Fraser

Inter-firm collaboration is now recognized to be a primary driver of competitiveness and performance, where the rise of interconnected and interdependent networks act as complex adaptive systems giving rise to the fundamental requirement to collaborate. However, the process of establishing and maintaining strong and fruitful collaboration between firms is not well understood and as a result most attempts to manufacture such associations fail. The project provided a tool kit that will support successful collaborative international go-to-market initiatives by New Zealand academic institutions and commercial enterprises.


Soa Adoption In Practice - Findings From Early Soa Implementations, Christine Legner, Roger Heutschi Feb 2007

Soa Adoption In Practice - Findings From Early Soa Implementations, Christine Legner, Roger Heutschi

Hubert Oesterle

Despite the wide range of advantages which many authors associate with the introduction of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), comprehensive SOA implementations continue to be scarce in practice. Consequently, questions arise as to how the concept is adapted in practice. This paper compares the scientific view of SOA concepts with initial practical experience from first SOA implementations. Based on an SOA model which is derived from recent SOA publications it examines SOA realization in four case studies. From the cross-case analysis, the authors derive three focus areas of SOA adoption, a prioritization of SOA design principles as well as typical steps …


Geschäftsmodelle 2010 - Trends Und Schritte, Hubert Oesterle Feb 2007

Geschäftsmodelle 2010 - Trends Und Schritte, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Ontology Development For Context-Sensitive Decision Support, Shah Jahan Miah Jan 2007

Ontology Development For Context-Sensitive Decision Support, Shah Jahan Miah

Dr Shah Jahan Miah

Semantics have become acceptable techniques for data integration, data interoperability and data visualization in many software engineering domains and web developments over the past few years. This paper describes a software development where semantic ontology techniques have been used for developing a generic knowledge model applicable across rural industries. This technique enables us to outline a single access point for building end-user specific knowledge based systems. We have called the new solution prototype an End-User Enabled Design Environment (EUEDE) where the knowledge components from the problem ontology is used in building specific decision systems that are contextsensitive to end-user factors. …


New Practice Creation: An Institutional Approach To Innovation, Michael Lounsbury Jan 2007

New Practice Creation: An Institutional Approach To Innovation, Michael Lounsbury

michael lounsbury

Neoinstitutionalists have developed a rich array of theoretical and empirical insights about how new practices become established via legitimacy and diffusion, but have paid scant attention to their origins. This blind spot has been reinforced by recent work on institutional entrepreneurship which has too often celebrated the actions of a single or small number of actors, and deflected attention away from the emergent, multilevel nature of how new kinds of activities emerge and provide a foundation for the creation of a new practice. In this paper, we examine the case of the creation of active money management practice in the …


Globalization, Regional Economic Policy And Research, Edward Feser Jan 2007

Globalization, Regional Economic Policy And Research, Edward Feser

Edward J Feser

This paper considers two questions. First, are there unique implications of growing global economic integration for development planning and policy making at the city and regional level? Key issues include whether globalization is appreciably different today than it used to be and whether it means anything more, from the perspective of a given city or region, than heightened competition for resident industries and related challenges of more rapid macro-regional structural change and adjustment. Second, what kinds of spatial empirical research and model building would be most valuable to regional policy makers faced with designing programs and making specific allocative investment …


U.S. Regional Economic Fragmentation & Integration: Selected Empirical Evidence And Implications, Edward J. Feser, Geoffrey Hewings Jan 2007

U.S. Regional Economic Fragmentation & Integration: Selected Empirical Evidence And Implications, Edward J. Feser, Geoffrey Hewings

Edward J Feser

The emergence of ten U.S. megaregions—increasingly contiguous spaces of high density development and population capturing a high share of U.S. economic activity—raises the question of appropriate scales for local, state and federal policy and how regional planning as a practice can adapt to an extended and, in some cases, almost continuous economic integration over space (RPA, 2006). Notions of cities as functional economic areas, more or less distinct spaces that operate as independent economic units, are less and less tenable as the basis for planning and policy making. At the same time, the megaregion phenomenon does not necessarily imply that …


Encouraging Broadband Deployment From The Bottom Up, Edward J. Feser Jan 2007

Encouraging Broadband Deployment From The Bottom Up, Edward J. Feser

Edward J Feser

State governments that have elected to make investments to increase the availability of affordable broadband service in rural areas and low income urban neighborhoods should organize their efforts around a strategy that encourages and leverages locally-driven initiatives, rather than follow a top-down approach that seeks to identify and close all broadband service gaps in a comprehensive fashion. A bottom-up approach to state broadband policy has three major advantages. First, it is a conservative policy response in an economic arena in which the appropriate role of the public sector is highly contested and in which private sector deployment is proceeding rapidly, …


Menedżerowie W Oczach Informatyków, Dariusz Jemielniak Jan 2007

Menedżerowie W Oczach Informatyków, Dariusz Jemielniak

Dariusz Jemielniak

Niniejszy artykuł prezentuje wyniki jakościowej, etnograficznej analizy relacji menedżerowie-programiści w projektach informatycznych. Opisuje percepcję przełożonych w oczach informatyków.


Zarządzanie Wiedzą W Powiązaniu Z Hpws: Zastosowanie W Spółkach High-Tech, Dariusz Jemielniak Jan 2007

Zarządzanie Wiedzą W Powiązaniu Z Hpws: Zastosowanie W Spółkach High-Tech, Dariusz Jemielniak

Dariusz Jemielniak

No abstract provided.


Managers As Lazy, Stupid Careerists? Contestation And Stereotypes Among Software Engineers, Dariusz Jemielniak Jan 2007

Managers As Lazy, Stupid Careerists? Contestation And Stereotypes Among Software Engineers, Dariusz Jemielniak

Dariusz Jemielniak

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a qualitative study of software engineers' perception of dress code, career, organizations, and of managers. Design/methodology/approach – The software engineers interviewed work in three European and two US companies. The research is based on ethnographic data, gathered in two longitudinal studies during the period2001-2006 . The methods used in the study include open-ended unstructured interviews, participant observation, collection of stories, and shadowing. Findings – It was found that the majority of software engineers denounce formal dress-codes. The notion of career was defined by them mostly in terms …


(Dis)Trust In Software Projects: A Thrice Told Tale: On Dynamic Relationships Between Software Engineers, It Project Managers, And Customers, Dariusz Jemielniak, Dominika Latusek Jan 2007

(Dis)Trust In Software Projects: A Thrice Told Tale: On Dynamic Relationships Between Software Engineers, It Project Managers, And Customers, Dariusz Jemielniak, Dominika Latusek

Dariusz Jemielniak

Software development traditionally has been a field particularly prone to delays, exceeding budgets, and misunderstandings (May 1998; Connel, 2001; Humphrey, 2002; Goodwin, 2002; Kesteloot, 2003). Only 1/4 of IT projects is completed successfully – i.e. in time, with the assumed cost, and fulfilling the promised functionality (Smith and Keil, 2003). Although there is some improvement over the last years, software creation is still one of the most unpredictable businesses in the world. It should not be surprising then that high-tech environment often is described as stressful an demanding (Kunda, 1992; Hochschild, 1997; Perlow, 1998; Cooper, 2000; Jemielniak, 2005). It is …


Enhancing Performance By Salvaging Route Reply Messages In On-Demand Routing Protocols For Manets, Rendong Bai, Mukesh Singhal, Yi Luo Jan 2007

Enhancing Performance By Salvaging Route Reply Messages In On-Demand Routing Protocols For Manets, Rendong Bai, Mukesh Singhal, Yi Luo

Rendong Bai

Researchers prefer on-demand routing protocols in mobile ad hoc networks where resources such as energy and bandwidth are constrained. In these protocols, a source discovers a route to a destination typically by flooding the entire or a part of the network with a route request (RREQ) message. The destination responds by sending a route reply (RREP) message to the source. The RREP travels hop by hop on the discovered route in the reverse direction or on another route to the source. Sometimes the RREP can not be sent to the intended next hop by an intermediate node due to node …


Performance Analysis Of Security Aspects In Uml Models, Dorin Bogdan Petriu, Dorina C. Petriu, C Murray Woodside, Jing Xiu, Toqeer A. Israr, Geri Georg, Robert B. France, James M. Bieman, Siv Holde Houmb, Jan Jurjens Jan 2007

Performance Analysis Of Security Aspects In Uml Models, Dorin Bogdan Petriu, Dorina C. Petriu, C Murray Woodside, Jing Xiu, Toqeer A. Israr, Geri Georg, Robert B. France, James M. Bieman, Siv Holde Houmb, Jan Jurjens

Toqeer A Israr

The focus of the paper is on the analysis of performance effects of different security solutions modeled as aspects in UML. Aspect oriented modeling (AOM) allows software designers to isolate and separately address solutions for crosscutting concerns, which are defined as distinct UML aspect models, then are composed with the primary UML model of the system under development. For performance analysis we use techniques developed previously in the PUMA project, which take as input UML models annotated with the standard UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance and Time (SPT), and transform them first into Core Scenario Model (CSM) and then into …