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- 10 Ways To Start Taking Control (Time Management, Goal Setting, Record Tracking)
- "Who's the Boss?" At first glance, it would seem that positive thinking and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) have nothing to do with one another. But many of us with ADD develop negative thinking patterns because we become frustrated by our challenges and frequent feelings of being overwhelmed. This negative outlook...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- The Structure Of The Product Space And The Evolution Of Comparative Advantage
- This paper establishes a robust stylized fact: changes in the revealed comparative advantage of nations are governed by the pattern of relatedness of products at the global level. As countries change their export mix, there is a strong tendency to move towards related goods rather than to goods that are...
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Searching For Patterns Of Competitive And Relational Contracting Over Time
- This paper explores and compares two sets of contractual relationships over a twelve-year period: the patterns of contracting between a state transportation agency and its prime contractors providing engineering design services, and between the prime- and sub-contractors. The evidence was found that patterns of relational and competitive contracting may co-exist...
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Confronting Conflict: How to Decide if You Should Without the Benefit of a Crystal Ball
- Taken individually, some problems and differences seem minor. Taken as a whole, they may suggest a wider pattern that needs addressing. When debating whether or not to confront a certain situation, one should step back and look at the cumulative effect on himself and others.
- White papers 2006-09-18
- Trade-FDI-Technology Linkages In East Asia
- East Asia is characterized by intricate production and distribution relationships, constituting part of a global triangular trading network. This paper presents an analytical description of the global triangular trading patterns; Considers whether East Asian economies are comrades or competitors; Discusses implications for exchange rates of triangular trading patterns and global...
- White papers 2006-07-21
- An Ontology-Based Infrastructure For Usability Design Patterns
- Usability patterns represent knowledge about known ways to design graphical user interfaces that are usable and meet the needs and expectations of users. There is currently a plethora of usability patterns published in books, private repositories and the World-Wide Web. The dominance of pattern creation and discovery efforts has neglected...
- White papers 2005-10-11
- Linking Requirements Goal Modeling Techniques To Strategic e-Business Patterns And Best Practice
- We propose that requirements for strategic-level IT systems for e-business can be linked to business strategy via techniques in goal modeling. We further propose that there exist repeating patterns of best practice in business strategy, which are based on recurring business models. These patterns have both direct and indirect implications...
- White papers 2003-08-14
- Implications Of Technology Use Throughout Organizations
- Until now, not everyone in an organization used technology directly. A premise of ubiquitous computing is that everyone will use technology most of the time, whether in offices, meeting rooms, or on the road. The first steps in this transition have exposed organizational consequences that were unanticipated in design, acquisition,...
- White papers 2003-07-08
- Managing Purposeful Change
- The article highlights how to manage change? It tries to understand why people decide to resist or to embrace change; learning to recognize the typical patterns of behaviour within groups; and knowing how to direct scarce resources in order to support the change process successfully. Apart from looking change from...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Goal-Oriented Patterns For Business Processes
- From the executive summary: ‘Organizations of today are becoming ever more focused on their business processes. This has resulted in an increasing interest in business process patterns, which can be used in order to understand the sources of best practices. To fully exploit patterns, they need to be defined in...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Innovation Patterns
- This paper identifies the dynamic interaction of individual motivation, organizational culture, and the challenge presented by an innovation to produce patterns and tests their reflection in real environments. Eight innovation patterns are identified: reactive, imposed, active, necessary, proactive, buy-in, transformational and continuous innovation. The paper then examines evidence that the...
- White papers 2002-07-06
- Patterns: The Strategist's Foundation For Action
- The article states that strategists recognize the constraints, the insights, and the power to leverage some understanding of the future that patterns provide. In almost every imaginable situation, field of learning, area of discipline, ritual, crisis, news story, one names it, looking for and finding common features from previous experience,...
- White papers 2002-06-17
- Technological Regimes or Strategy: Intraindustry Heterogeneity in the Organisation of Innovation Activities
- This paper analyzes the patterns of innovation within and across industries using firm level survey data from Finland and Denmark. The theoretical starting point is evolutionary theory with its premise that firms in different technological regimes pursue different paths to innovation. First, statistical patterns of innovative activity are identified through...
- White papers 2001-06-29
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- Reengineering for Parallelism: An Entry Point Into PLPP (Pattern Language for Parallel Programming) for Legacy Applications
- The authors have developed a pattern language for developing parallel application programs [MSM04]. This pattern language, which one call PLPP (Pattern Language for Parallel Programming), embodies a development methodology in which one can develop a parallel application by starting with a good understanding of the problem and then working through...
- White papers
- Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Economies: An Exploration
- Explanation of magnitude and pattern of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into developing economies requires a complex ray of factors. This is because these economies differ significantly from developed economies and also among each other in economic development levels and endowment of market institutions. This paper attempts to develop a conceptual...
- White papers 2001-02-01
- Value Destruction In Joint Ventures?
- This paper explores a striking empirical pattern that has gone unnoticed in the literature: U.S. multinationals’ joint ventures abroad are substantially and systematically less profitable than their wholly owned ventures. This pattern is found across many
- White papers 2003-07-27
- Information Sharing In A Supply Chain With Dynamic Consumer Demand Pattern
- Previous research suggested that applying different Information Sharing Strategy (ISS) to the supply chain under different demand pattern may improve the supply chain performance. But the assumption was made in the scenario that only one kind of ISS was used throughout the entire supply chain when the end consumers' demand...
- White papers 2003-12-08
- Booms, Busts, and Babies' Health
- This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to selection among women choosing to give birth or to behavioral changes. The paper gives the study of the relationship between the unemployment rate at the time of a baby's conception and...
- White papers 2004-03-08
- Factors Affecting Residential Property Development Patterns
- This study uses a disaggregated data set, county property appraiser data, to track the number of new single-family housing units built in each section (square mile) of Alachua County, Florida by the year built over a twenty-year period. It explores the role of transportation, large-scale development, employment nodes, existing patterns...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Social Entrepreneurship: Pattern-Changing Entrepreneurs And The Scaling Of Social Impact
- This paper presents findings from an investigation of pattern-changing social entrepreneurs. We examined the efforts of fifteen entrepreneurs and sought to understand the factors that enable successful ones to scale their social impact. All the entrepreneurs were operating in capital constrained environments and scaling required overcoming funding constraints. The findings...
- White papers 2006-01-14
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