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Reducing Flow Time in Aircraft Manufacturing: This paper describes about key concepts in the planning of airplane manufacturing, the costs of flow time and shows how to quantify these costs; to propose a strategy for flow-time reduction based on productivity improvements from learning. A regression analyses that relate system variances to the direct labor content and...; Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aircraft, strategy, manufacturing; White papers
MIT Podcast: How Enterprise Software Drives Higher Productivity Efficiency: If you are a small business or midsize company currently thinking about investing in IT, you might be wondering if it is even worth it. Download this MIT Podcast, featuring an interview with Dr. Sinan Aral of MIT and NYU, to hear about the results of his...; Tags: Podcasts, SAP AG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, podcast, enterprise software, small business, information technology; Download resources 2008-01-01
The Natural Way to Better Ideas: National Geographic has a good, ultimately hard-headed look at biomimetics -- using nature as a model for product design. Velcro would be the best example (it was invented in 1948 by copying cockleburrs). The article, Design by Nature, starts out breathy, looking at some of the...; Tags: Semiconductors, Michael Fitzgerald, biomimetic, Janine Benyus; Blog posts 2008-03-19
Sharpen Your Business Skills for Free @ MIT: While putting off one of my last econ assignments tonight, I ran across "23 surprising things you can get for free" on CNN.com. (I'm a total sucker for both lists and free things, so I couldn't pass this one up.) I was surprised to see the first...; Tags: Leadership, Jenna Miller, business skill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Blog posts 2008-02-11
Sharpen Your Business Skills for Free @ MIT: Sharpen Your Business Skills for Free @ MITExcellent siteThis is a terrific site. Thanks for the link.; Tags: Leadership, Sharpen, business skill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Discussion threads 2008-02-11

MIT Develops Clutter Detector: The definition of clutter has been intensely fought at home and at the office. Your co-worker's neat might be your obsessive compulsive and your husband's lived-in might feel more like war-torn to you. But today MIT announced that scientists are stepping into the debate with a tool to measure clutter....; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Team management, Jessica Stillman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, clutter, tool; Blog posts 2007-08-21
On The Grouping Of Tasks Into Firms: Make-Or-Buy With Interdependent Parts: A common element in many classical theories of the firm is that the inefficiencies of markets increase with the frequency of transactions, while the costs of integration are more or less fixed. This paper examines a similar but slightly different proposition: that it is more attractive to integrate a set...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supply chain, adjustment, theory; White papers 2007-04-20
Enhancing R&D Productivity: The Enhancing R&D Productivity program seeks to achieve a 5% improvement in the probability of success in moving innovative therapeutic products from Lead Finding to Commercialization. Although investments in R&D have risen steadily and the process has been continuously improved by key innovator companies in the industry, the risks of...; Tags: Research & Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, R&D, patient, industry, health care, tool; White papers 2006-11-10
Project Control Book: This is a template for project control book.; Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Tools & templates 2006-05-03
MIT Sloan Sales Club Executive Speaker Series: This presentation explains MIT slogan sales club executive speaker series.; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sales; Presentations 2006-10-10
Design-Inspired Innovation: What makes products great? What is the role of design firms in creativity and innovation, and how is this role changing? What accounts for design firms' successes? How is the process of innovation and design changing? Does this differ between products and services? This paper reports the results of a...; Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, design company, innovation, industry; White papers 2006-09-17
Scale Without Mass: Business Process Replication And Industry Dynamics: In this paper, we identify several other changes in the economy that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of Information Technology (IT) in general and enterprise information technology in particular. In a series of case studies, we find that IT...; Tags: Operational planning, Strategy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, business process, information technology, industry; White papers 2006-08-29
Offshoring Radiology Services To India: This paper discusses teleradiology and medical image reconstruction from the perspectives of both India and its client countries. Radiology is an "Extreme" professional service with extensive usage of tacit rather than codified knowledge. The importance of tacit knowledge leads to long training periods, a limited global supply of radiologists and...; Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, India, knowledge, training; White papers 2006-08-28
Autonomous Logistics Technologies For Space Exploration: The ability to autonomously track and manage assets in space or at a planetary exploration site holds the potential to greatly improve multiple aspects of space missions. At the International Space Station (ISS) everything from food and clothing to tools and experiments is currently managed manually or tracked using simple...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, RFID, food, asset, technique, tool; White papers 2006-07-05
The New Practice Of Global: Globalization pressures have begun to have a major impact on the practice of product development across a wide range of industries. A new paradigm has emerged whereby companies are utilizing skilled engineering teams dispersed around the world to develop products in a collaborative manner. Best practice in product development (PD)...; Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, Groupware, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, product development, collaboration, globalization, best practice, industry; White papers 2006-06-19
Emerging Trends In Supply Chain Governance: This paper explains the impact of vertical disintegration in large scale supply networks-of the type that has been observed in the automotive, textile and electronics industries over the past few decades. Our interest is in understanding the strategic and operational implications for the key network players in industries undergoing such...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ownership structure, supply chain, industry, electronics, network, strategy; White papers 2006-06-01
Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation-Brokered Agent- Mediated Marketplace: We describe an Agent Mediated marketplace, with dynamically changing reputation ratings. In this marketplace, the seller reputations are updated in a collaborative fashion based on the performance of the user in the delegated tasks. We study the market with computer simulations of multi-agent interactions, where sellers learn how to price...; Tags: Real estate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, agent, pricing strategy, performance, computer; White papers 2006-05-16
Redistribution by Insurance Market Regulation: Analyzing a Ban on Gender-Based Retirement Annuities: This paper shows how models of insurance markets with asymmetric information can be calibrated and solved to yield quantitative estimates of the consequences of government regulation. The authors estimate the impact of restricting gender-based pricing in the United Kingdom retirement annuity market, a market in which individuals are required to...; Tags: Investment, Financial Planning, Regulations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, annuity, gender, insurance, pricing strategy, tax; White papers 2006-04-01
Why Supply Chain?: Why is the World Customs Organization interested in supply chain? Let's explore. In its traditional role, customs is responsible to check goods to enable proper revenue (tariff, excise or duty) as well as the physical security. In the world of Time Oriented Enterprises (TOE), delays in delivery or shipment contribute...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supply chain, tariff, SCM, security; White papers 2006-03-06
Reducing The Risks Of New Product Development: Companies strive to develop and produce exactly what customers want, when they want it ? and to accomplish all of that with no risk of overstocks. But such a manufacturing nirvana has become increasingly difficult to attain, given customers' quickly changing preferences, the heterogeneity of their demands and the resulting...; Tags: Sales force management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New Product Development, risk, forecasting, manufacturing, sales; White papers 2006-01-10