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Management: the use of professional skills for identifying and achieving organizational objectives through the deployment of appropriate resources. Management involves identifying what needs to be done, and organizing and supporting others...; Management definition on BNET »

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Management of Research and Development in Difficult Times: The world is changing rapidly around us. Some companies that once dominated global industry no longer exist, and newcomers arise every week. Companies that wish to survive and grow must change to fit new ways of working, and adapt to the immense differences that the growth in telecommunications and transport...; Tags: Royal Academy Of Engineering, R&D, Transport, Research & Development, Asset Management, Strategy, Telephony, Business Operations, Operational Planning, Management, Networking; White papers 2005-01-07
Biochips at the Heart of Healthcare: This paper provides information on the advances in Biomedicine. Combining techniques from the microchip industry with advances in biomedicine, British engineers have devised biological microchips biochips that can provide rapid and inexpensive diagnosis of a growing number of medical conditions. A UK-based company Randox Laboratories Ltd has pioneered the biochip...; Tags: Royal Academy Of Engineering, Microchip, Diagnosis, Health Care, Semiconductors, Strategy, Hardware, Management; White papers 2004-08-18
How to Save the Planet: The White Paper advocates a series of policies designed to encourage energy conservation and efficiency, the development of renewable energy, security of supply, and progressive reduction of fuel poverty. Since these policies inevitably thread their way through almost all aspects of our lives, there is always a risk that they...; Tags: Royal Academy Of Engineering, White Paper, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Security, Management; White papers 2004-08-18
High Street: The New Technological Battleground?: Modern technology employed by the retail industry already profiles customers for targeted advertising and records our every purchase. The latest advances include video screen modelling in changing rooms and the prospect of having every item in a basket scanned simultaneously at the checkout. Compared with the technical complexities of telecommunications...; Tags: Royal Academy Of Engineering, Corporate Communications, Retail, Taxes, Strategy, Marketing, Financial Planning, Finance, Management; White papers 2004-02-20
The Need for Speed: The team responsible for constructing the Channel Tunnel Rail Link is making engineering history with the 109 km line that is due to be completed in 2007. When the first section of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link opened for commercial services on 28 September 2003, passengers for the most part...; Tags: Royal Academy Of Engineering, Team Management, Management; White papers 2004-02-20

A Missing Piece of the Innovation Puzzle: Innovation is the key to survival. We all know this at a basic, Darwinian level. What may not be as widely appreciated is that innovation is becoming increasingly critical for established businesses. This runs counter to the popular notion of innovation as the purview of small startup companies. In fact,...; Tags: Innovation, Royal Academy Of Engineering, Leadership, Strategy, Management; White papers 2004-02-20
The Pursuit of Trustworthy Information Systems in the New Millennium: Today and for the foreseeable future, new public policy issues are brought up by advances in communication and information technology. The Internet is much more than an apparatus for moving bits of information around the world - it generates whole new patterns of behavior and whole new possibilities for everyone....; Tags: Royal Academy Of Engineering, Internet, Strategy, Management; White papers 2004-02-23
Exciting Innovations for the Spinally Injured: Spinal injury can be devastating, resulting, as it often does, in some paralysis and loss of sensation. Engineering plays an important role in spinal cord injury rehabilitation. This paper surveys current research into the uses of functional electrical stimulation to improve the quality of life of spinally injured people. Touching...; Tags: Innovation, Royal Academy Of Engineering, Leadership, Marketing Research, Strategy, Management, Marketing; White papers 2004-02-23
Protecting The Railways: The Management of Safety in a Fragmented Industry: This paper considers how safety is managed in an industry that requires very high levels of technical and commercial integration but where management has been distributed between more than 100 different organizations. In comparison with other transport modes, rail is a highly integrated system. Unlike the situation in the road...; Tags: Royal Academy Of Engineering, Strategy, Management; White papers 2003-07-30
Electricity Costs: Start With a Level Playing Field: Will Government targets for renewable electricity generation ever be met? How much will this policy cost? All currently available generating technologies have their own characteristics, which are valued differently. If an energy policy is designed to truly subsidies the positive aspects and penalizes the negative, policy makers must understand the...; Tags: Royal Academy Of Engineering, Subsidy, Investment, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Finance, Management; White papers 2004-05-11
Digital Energy: Working Smart in the Oil and Gas Industry: In the past, the technologies used in well engineering have been relatively simple. The well was drilled and the hardware selected, installed down the hole and locked in place. The production then started but the well remained passive. It was essentially just down-hole plumbing - albeit on a grand scale....; Tags: Management, Oil, Royal Academy Of Engineering, Strategy, Well; White papers 2004-05-11
The Challenges of Complex IT Projects: This paper seeks to understand what makes complex software and IT projects different from, and potentially more difficult than, other typical engineering projects, with a view to improving success rates. This paper is concerned with large scale IT projects with a significant and complex software component. For simplicity, the term...; Tags: Software, Royal Academy Of Engineering, Information Technology, Strategy, Management; White papers 2004-04-01
Fuelling the Future: A Consultation Document: This paper welcomes the opportunity to respond the Energy Futures Task Force's consultation document "Fuelling the Future". The response which follows is a collation of personal views expressed by Fellows with direct experience of the energy industry. Respondents felt that on the whole, the issues identified were the right ones....; Tags: Royal Academy Of Engineering, Benefits, Strategy, Human Resources, Management; White papers 2001-02-01

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The engineering profession must talk with the public says the Royal Academy.: M2 PRESSWIRE-28 January 2003-ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: The engineering profession must talk with the public says the Royal AcademyC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01292003 In an innovative collaboration by leading social scientists and engineers and other professionals, The Royal Academy of Engineering...; Tags: Academy, engineering, FINANCE, Royal Academy of Engineering, SECURITY, Strategy; Research articles 2003-01-28
RCCL earns environmental honor: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. was recently honored by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers for the development and implementation of the cruise industry's first comprehensive ISO 14001-certified environmental management system and environmental officer-training program. The academy presented its 2004 "Excellence In Environmental Engineering Competition" grand award in the small projects...; Tags: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.; Research articles 2004-07-01