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- Learning How and Learning What
- This paper examines effects of tacit and codified knowledge on performance improvement as organizations gain experience with a new technology. The authors' draw from knowledge management and learning curve research to predict improvement rate heterogeneity across organizations. The paper first notes that the same technology can present opportunities for improvement...
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- Campus Chilled Water System Improvements Yield Enormous Savings: Tucson, Arizona - University of Arizona Puts Emphasis on Low-temperature Chilled Water Delivery
- Improvements in energy consumption in the chilled water plant at the University of Arizona in Tucson were significant enough in recent years that the electric utility felt they should check their metering equipment. Plant improvements led to an electric demand reduction with a magnitude of two megawatts. At the same...
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- University of Arizona Puts Emphasis on Low-Temperature Chilled Water Delivery
- Improvements in energy consumption in the chilled water plant at the University of Arizona in Tucson were significant enough in recent years that the electric utility felt they should check their metering equipment. Plant improvements led to an electric demand reduction with a magnitude of two megawatts. The improvements included...
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- After The Show: Self Analysis A Critical Component To Improve Performance
- Continual improvement is a goal for many exhibitors. Knowing that tradeshows can play an integral role in a company's marketing campaign, they're committed to doing the best job they can this year - and a better one next year. To continually improve, you have to have a very clear and...
- White papers 2007-07-09
- Fostering Improvement Through Innovation
- Improvement means whatever the one who wants it to happen wants it to mean. It could mean doing what's being done now to a greater degree of efficiency or speed or detail. In other words, 'Do what you're doing now 'Only better.' It could also mean that something else altogether...
- White papers 2005-12-07
- Dynamic Links Between the Economy and Human Development
- This paper empirically confirms the significance of various links in each of two chains over time: from Economic Growth EG to Human Development HD, including EG itself, income distribution, the social expenditure ratio and female education; from HD to EG, including HD itself, along with the investment ratio. One most...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Software Tools for Advanced Drilling Engineering and Operational Follow-Up
- Improvements are necessary in many areas. Applying more advanced software tools not only for design but also in operational planning, training and follow-up can be very important for the drilling industry to reach the challenging goals. The results can be improvements in design, better understanding of the physical processes in...
- White papers 2004-07-20
- Fuel Economy Improvement: Policies and Measures to Save Oil and Reduce CO2 Emissions
- This report focuses on fuel economy improvement in light-duty vehicles, and on what can be learned from the experience of three countries: Denmark, Germany and the United States. The report covers potential technical efficiency improvements, and policies and measures to promote this improvement. Work is also underway to assess policies...
- White papers 2004-04-27
- 2004 Insurance Market Overview
- Improvement in the investment marketplace in the latter half of 2003 helped underwriters to book year-end increases in investment yields and realized capital gains. As these improvements in carriers' capital positions generated more capacity, insurers also took the opportunity to divert some of these gains to strengthen loss reserves. The...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Accelerated Depreciation of Qualified Leasehold Improvements
- Until recently, federal tax law required owners to depreciate the cost of tenant improvements to nonresidential real property over a 39-year recovery period. Lessees and occasionally lessors were able to write off the remaining balance upon termination of the lease, but otherwise the improvements' useful life might end long before...
- White papers 2003-07-02
- The Executive Guide to Improvement and Change
- The content of this paper is presented in three parts: Initiating Change, Paths to Implementation, and Measuring and Evaluating Improvement. The three principal authors begin with anticipating rapid change, leading the transformation through decision making, and using the cost of quality as a key driver for improvement. An additional on...
- White papers 2003-02-13
- Sixteen Steps To Improvement
- Improvement can be achieved in one or more of the many characteristics of any given product or process. In most situations, however, improvement primarily implies that performance is enhanced. Experimental design is one technique that can be learned and applied to determine product or process design for improved performance. This...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Quick & Easy Kaizen
- Quick and Easy Kaizen recognizes that the person doing a job is the best expert on that job. It encourages everyone to make small improvements that are within their power to implement. Over time, these thousands of small improvements have major effects. The Quick and Easy Process and benefits...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Eight Keys To Successful DOE
- Design of experiments is a very powerful tool that can be utilized in all-manufacturing industries. Quality managers who encourage DOE use will greatly increase their chances for making breakthrough improvements in product quality and process efficiency. The article promotes that DOE provides an efficient path to improvement for those who...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A Case Study in Quality Improvement
- Solving technical quality problems and making process improvements alone does not constitute a quality program. Without a process in place designed to foster continuous improvement, performance can begin to deteriorate almost as soon as improvements are made. The paper discusses the planning lasting improvements which consists of designing the quality...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Whole System Performance Enhancement
- TOC is based on the idea that in any complex system at any point in time, there is only one, or at most, very few aspects of the system keeping that system from achieving more of its goal. Article address that these constraints, if properly identified and broken, provide the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Quality improvement
- Quality Improvement is basically, the actions taken throughout the organization to increase the effectiveness of activities and processes to provide added benefits to both the organization and its customers. In simple terms, quality improvement is anything which causes a beneficial change in quality performance. All beneficial change results in improvement...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Organizational Improvement : Building a Better IEEE
- Organizational improvement is one of the five primary goals adopted in "Strategies for the Future." The three models presented in this article are all aimed at improving the Institute as a volunteer organization; the staff structure is to be addressed later. Strategic planning and organization effort have involved scores of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Eagle Group USA Case Study
- This case study tells about Eagle Group USA, an expert in quality and environmental management systems, turned to Microsoft Small Business Server to meet its network and communications needs. The company needed to address growth issues in a way that affirmed its own management principles. Since the recent Small Business...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What Is Integrated Performance Excellence?
- For years safety improvement has been approached more as a patchwork than an integrated set of components. New ideas such as audits, culture surveys, management training, or behavior-based safety have been introduced as independent programs. Many of these new initiatives have resulted in short-term improvement, with some even producing long-term...
- White papers 2002-10-17
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