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(2000-09)Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are playing a significant role in economic, political and cultural development. The relationship between technologies supporting information processing and distribution, ...
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(1999-07-23)This paper demonstrates the importance of knowledge for effective management of outsourcing. Drawing on an empirical study on automakers? management of supplier involvement in product development in Japan, this paper ...
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(2001-03-31)Drawing on an empirical study on automakers? management of supplier involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows that when the design of a component is outsourced to a supplier, how much and what automakers ...
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(2002-07-18)Korean automotive industry drew world's attention as it grew to be the 5th largest producing country in two decades as a later comer. Now it faces a transitory period as domestic mmket growth drops to less than 5% despite ...
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(1996-10)One of the main cost drivers in the defense aerospace industry is overhead personnel. Traditionally, labor support ratios have been used as an efficiency measure and to control overhead levels. This report outlines the ...
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(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1983)
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Layoffs and Worker Effort Theory and Evidence from the North American Automotive Supplier Industry (1995-07-09)In this paper, we examine the effect of layoffs and layoff policies on three measures of worker effort. More specifically, we use data on first-tier automotive suppliers in the U.S. and Canada to test the proposition that ...
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(1999-02)The integration of customers and suppliers along the supply chain involves a fundamental transformation of the way business is conducted in the Aerospace industry. Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) members, as well as ...
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(1998-01)There is an emerging consensus in the Aerospace sector around the importance of Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD). Now nearly every new program is now established around a set of Integrated Product Teams ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000-12-14)-Status report on June Executive Board commitments -Enterprise-level LESAT Beta Version -Detailed-level LESAT Development Plan -Industry and government participation and support requirements -Resource Needs -Executive ...
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(1997-11)The researchers of the Lean Aircraft Initiative developed a hypothesized lean implementation model seeking to provide its members guidance on implementing lean transitions in factory operations of low volume/high complexity ...
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(2000-04)This volume of the final report documents the technical work performed from December 1998 through December 2002 under Cooperative Agreement F33615-97-2-5153 executed between the U.S. Air Force, Air Force Research Laboratory, ...
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(2002-03)Lean Transition of Emerging Industrial Capability (LeanTEC) program was a cooperative agreement between the Boeing Company and AFRL conducted from January 1998 to January 2002. The results of this program are documented ...
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(1999-07)This document takes a critical look at the first lean principle, Value. The meaning of value is ivestigated in: 1.) general context, 2.) product development context and 3.) the business literature context. Insights about ...
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(1995-06)Balance of payments considerations have driven the automobile industry strategies of many late-industrializing countries such as Thailand, Mexico, and Malaysia. These countries do not intend to become leading suppliers ...
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