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Benchmarking of a medical device company's product development process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
In todays' global economy, having a lean operation is no longer considered a competitive edge; rather has become the new necessity and norm [15]. The new source of this competitive edge is innovation [15]. What sets an ...
Lean effectiveness model for products and services : servicing existing systems in aerospace and technology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Enterprises undergo transformation for more efficient and effective performance and growth. The Lean Enterprise Self Assessment Tool (LESAT) is a product of the Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) and the Massachusetts ...
New frontiers in diffusion modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Over the last fifty years, diffusion researchers have sought to explain why the rate of adoption of an innovation varies over time. Some innovations are adopted quickly as compared to others, which take decades for adoption. ...
Architecting the future telebehavioral health system of care in the United States Army
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Charged by the Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff, the authors were members of a study to develop innovative recommendations for transforming the military enterprise to better manage post-traumatic stress and related ...
A field-based study of alternative microbial indicator tests for drinking water quality in Northern Ghana
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Safe drinking water is essential for human survival, yet it is unavailable to over 1 billion of the world's people living in poverty (World Bank, 2009). The current methods used to identify drinking water sources are ...
The diffusion of innovations in the presence of geography and media
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Increasingly, the world we live in is digital, mobile, and online. As a consequence, many of your seemingly mundane actions are recorded, archived, and for the first time widely accessible to both the generators and curators ...
Analysis of enterprise architecture alignment : delivering system of systems solutions in response to shifting customer expectations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
There is urgency for NewCo, a large multinational corporation, to better execute programs spanning across product lines. This is because the number of these programs appears to be increasing and there are indicators that ...
Aggregate model and analysis of the energy dynamics in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is facing a crisis in the near future centered on increasing energy consumption. Today, the kingdom consumes approximately 1/3 of its oil production. If no action is taken and the kingdom continues ...
Incorporating uncertainty in the Life Cycle Cost Analysis of pavements
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) is an important tool to evaluate the economic performance of alternative investments for a given project. It considers the total cost to construct, maintain, and operate a pavement over its ...
Converged video delivery over heterogeneous networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Mobile traffic has grown substantially over the last few years; a trend which is expected to continue. The chief reasons behind this phenomenon are the availability of better handsets, faster cellular networks and the ...