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Coastal communities and climate change : a dynamic model of risk perception, storms, and adaptation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Climate change impacts, including sea-level rise and changes in tropical storm frequency and intensity, will pose signicant challenges to city planners and coastal zone managers trying to make wise investment and protection ...
Using critical chain project management methodologies to build a production schedule
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Critical Chain project management methodologies have been used for the last ten years to manage a wide range of projects. These methods, which apply Eli Goldratt's Theory of Constraints, have demonstrated the ability to ...
How companies can transform from product to platform ecosystem
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The industrial revolution led to great innovations in machinery, methods and techniques for producing goods at a large scale. In order to compete and maximize their profits, companies primarily deployed a twofold strategy: ...
Evaluating the technical innovation landscape for wind energy's competitive future : a value creation -- value capture analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis utilizes a systems approach to develop a framework to analyze the value creation and value capture potential of technical innovations in the wind energy sector of the electric power industry. Six technical ...
Raw material inventory strategy for make-to-order manufacturing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
What is the appropriate raw material inventory strategy for a make-to-order manufacturing company? As companies grow in size and the business environment changes over time, many companies adapt their operating policies to ...
A systems approach to procurement of automated technology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Company A's Product Group B (PGB) is developing an automated system to complete final assembly of the Component, a structural member of the product that includes technology supporting two features of the product's competitive ...
Supply chain disruptions : managing risks vs. managing crises
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis looks at two back-to-back disruptive supply chain events, one due to a sole-supplier's bankruptcy and the other caused by Hurricane Rita, that occurred at a specialty chemical company, and uses these examples ...
An approach to improving the power management system in electronic devices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
The current power management technology baseline does not address the increasing gap between system charge performance and functionality needs in a smartphone. This gap can eventually inhibit further increases in functionality ...
The evolution of business ecosystems : interspecies competition in the steel industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This thesis contributes toward the building of a theory of the evolution of business ecosystems by exploring the applicability of Piepenbrock's' theoretical framework to a commodity industrial setting, namely the U.S. steel ...
The economics of investing in green buildings
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This thesis discusses economics of green buildings. The need to reduce greenhouse gases emissions became clear. Buildings account for a large part of the greenhouse gases emissions, changing the atmosphere's composition. ...