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- Managing Process Variants As An Information Resource
- Many business solutions provide best practice process templates, both generic as well as for specific industry sectors. However, it is often the variance from template solutions that provide organizations with intellectual capital and competitive differentiation. In this paper, we present a modeling framework that is conducive to constrained variance, by...
- White papers 2006-06-02
- Dynamics Of Multiple-Release Product Development
- Product Development (PD) is a crucial capability in many markets, therefore, it is essential to understand how this capability can be built and sustained. Building on case studies of development of two software products at a large firm, this paper explores the interaction among the PD process, the underlying architecture...
- White papers 2005-10-18
- Integrating Vehicle Design and Human Factors: Minimizing Elderly Driving Constraints
- With a projected rise in the number of elderly, most of whom have also relied primarily on the private automobile for their mobility; it is likely that future adaptations in vehicle design will be linked in some part to the physical infirmities often faced by the elderly. This paper offers...
- White papers 2005-02-10
- Cross-Cultural Influence on Strategic International Human Resource Control of Taiwanese High-Tech Subsidiaries in USA
- In order to perform subsidiary's value-added activities, MNCs need to identify the value and capabilities need of this activity. At the same time, subsidiaries also need to compare the cultural advantage of home country in terms of these activities. In addition, from the perspective of cross-cultural influence input control is...
- White papers 2004-11-25
- Adaptive Discovery: Accelerating the Deployment and Adaptation of Automated Business Processes
- This paper first explores the challenges of "process discovery." It then presents Adaptive Discovery, a new innovation from Ultimus that accelerates the deployment and adaptation of automated business processes in a practical, efficient manner. This patented technology simplifies the discovery effort, shortens deployment cycles, and enables process changes to be...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- An Approach For Dynamic Service Management
- Managing dynamic changes in a service system requires the handling of the modifications and extensions of the system without stopping or disturbing its functionality. For this purpose, a framework for dynamic service management with respect to service specification, selection and adaptation is proposed. The service specification is based on modifiable...
- White papers 2004-05-05
- Pattern Formation and Adaptation in Multi-Robot Systems
- This white paper reports reviews some of the recent literature in multi-robot systems. It consists of two parts. In the first part, the report reviews the studies on the pattern formation problem that is how a group of robots can be controlled to get into and maintain a formation. The...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Mutual Adaptation: Japanese Automobile Transplants in North America and the Restructuring of Buyer-Supplier Relations
- This paper examines how the arrival and expansion of Japanese automotive assemblers in North America during the 1980s and 1990s, has been characterized by a complex process of mutual adaptation by both the transplant assemblers and North American suppliers. It argues that despite the arguments that globalization is necessarily associated...
- White papers 2002-10-18
- A New Low-Cost Modular Inverter Using Advanced ASIC Control: Rigorous Performance Tests Result in Rapid Adaptation to Market Demands
- In this paper, Laboratory tests on a new modular inverter using an application-specific integrated circuit are discussed. The inverter design is optimized for Ascom's large-scale telecom production facilities. The ASIC is developed by means of sophisticated simulation tools and is the key controlling unit in the design. Special attention is...
- White papers 2001-10-29
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- Bidding For Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Analysis Of Adaptation Costs
- Public and private sector procurement contracts are often incomplete because the initial plans and specifications of the procured goods or services are changed and refined after the contract is awarded to the winning bidder. As a result, final costs differ from the winning bid and may include significant adaptation and...
- White papers 2006-12-12
- Bidding For Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Analysis Of Adaptation Costs.
- Public and private sector procurement contracts are often incomplete because the initial plans and specifications of the procured goods or services are changed and refined after the contract is awarded to the winning bidder. As a result, final costs differ from the winning bid and may include significant adaptation and...
- White papers 2007-01-08
- Context-Based Media Adaptation in Pervasive Computing
- In Pervasive Computing applications, computer embedded devices are used to perform control tasks and access the Internet or other information sources. They contain rich media data, which are not suitable for those pervasive devices with limited capabilities. Context -based media adaptation is mainly concerned with selecting different qualities of single...
- White papers 2001-05-31
- Multi-Stage Efficiency Tools For Goal Setting And Monitoring In Supply Chains
- This paper explains the extension and potential application of some theoretical results on efficiency monitoring and throughput rate optimization for serial processes. In particular, we consider the relevance and adaptation of these results for use in monitoring and continuous improvement uses in supply chains or networks, with particular emphasis on...
- White papers 2004-07-26
- Providing Support for the Use of Analogies in Demand Forecasting Tasks
- Management judgment is widely used to adjust statistical forecasts in order to take into account special events, such as sales promotions. There is evidence that forecasters often use analogous past events to estimate the effects of a future special event. An experiment was carried out to investigate whether a forecasting...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Diversification And Adaptation: How Organization Drives Taxi Firm Performance
- This paper proposes that diversification reduces the value of specialized organizational capital by altering firms' routines, formal contract structures and strategies. The author tests the proposition that diversification creates organizational adaptation costs using rich, novel microdata on taxicab firms from the Economic Census before and after a diversification wave into...
- White papers 2006-12-18
- The Effects Of Prior Export Performance On Firms’ Commitment To Exporting And Marketing Strategy Adaptation To The Foreign Market: Evidence From Small And Medium-Sized Exporters
- The paper emphasizes on examining performance as an independent variable. It presents a survey data of over 400 managers responsible for the main export ventures of Portuguese SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises). The findings show that past performance plays a crucial role in building SMEs’ commitment to exporting and to...
- White papers 2001-08-01
- Product Market
- The author of this article says that alteration of a material product is sometimes required to match the product to local taste and conditions. Many times adaptation is also used to maintain a product’s righteousness in a unique environment. . A product may be well acceptable in markets, but may...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- An Evolutionary Approach to Innovation
- Can biology teach people anything about innovation? The essence of Darwinism is that progress is created by adaptation to changed conditions. What starts as a random mutation can also spread to become the norm through a process of natural selection. The same is surely true with innovation. New ideas are...
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- Money for Your Music: The Cold Hard Facts About Music Licensing
- Music can be used in four broad categories under copyright law: Adaptation, Recording, Reproduction, and Public Performance. Depending on where and how someone is going to use a song, there are mechanical rights and synchronization rights that have to be negotiated, and the various parties involved may include the songwriter,...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Global Products And Services
- Most marketing organizations are engrossed in the debate of ‘to standardize or not to standardize.’ There are two major ways to standardize products viz. Global vs. Regional Standardization, and Localization vs. Adaptation. The paper examines the issue of standardization and elucidates the advantages and drawbacks of standardization.
- Presentations 2003-01-01
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