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High performance in Procurement Risk Management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Research on Procurement Risk Management has been conducted by Accenture and MIT in order to identify the best practices used to manage commodity price volatility and supplier risk. In today's increasingly turbulent market ...
A systems thinking approach to business intelligence solutions based on cloud computing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Business intelligence is the set of tools, processes, practices and people that are used to take advantage of information to support decision making in the organizations. Cloud computing is a new paradigm for offering ...
The incentives and disincentives of innovation prizes : a survey of the dropout teams from Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Technological innovation is driven by incentives. However, our understanding of how incentives actually work "on the ground" to change the level of activity of innovators or to shape the direction of their innovation is ...
Mobile marketing strategies for B2C companies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Mobile application ('apps') development is a recent pandemic phenomenon; companies that are not associated with mobile technologies are noticing it and want to develop their own mobile apps. However, these companies do not ...
Analysis of Japanese Software Business
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Today, our society is surrounded by information system, computers, and software. It is no exaggeration to say that our daily life depends on software and its function. Accordingly, the business of software has made miraculous ...
On developing business architectures : a multi-framework evaluation of an early-stage enterprise
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Early-stage enterprises are characterized by leveraging limited resources during periods of accelerating industry growth and relatively high uncertainty. This thesis is an examination of an early-stage enterprise within ...
A framework and methodology for enhancing operational requirements development : United States Coast Guard cutter project case study
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Within any major United States Coast Guard cutter acquisition project, developing the operational requirements in the early phases of acquisition is difficult as the complexity of the system is not easily understood until ...
Integrating the Army Geospatial Enterprise : synchronizing geospatial-intelligence to the dismounted soldier
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
The Army's Geospatial Enterprise (AGE) has an emerging identity and value proposition arising from the need to synchronize geospatial information activities across the Army in order to deliver value to military decision ...
Product development practices that matter
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Product Development consists of activities to transforms a market opportunity and technological innovation into successful products. Several waves of improvements in technological innovation and product development have ...
Software reuse in defense electronics : a study of organization and architecture approaches in a challenging business and technical environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Although large scale software reuse has been studied and practiced in industry for more than 20 years, there are some practice areas where it has presented both technical and business challenges. A sector notable for ...