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Banking channel management : global trends and strategies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Banking channel management has become a crucial component in the drive for improved efficiency. Since the channel is the interlocutor between customers and products, banks are leveraging their knowledge of channels to ...
Innovation in mature industries : recent impacts of the oil & gas and automobile technological trends on the steel industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
In order to survive, the steel industry has undergone traumatic changes in the last years. A thirty years old overcapacity combined with a slow growing market led to a steadily eroding profitability of steel companies, ...
Commercialization of nanotechnologies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Nanotechnology, which involves creating and manipulating organic and inorganic matter from the molecular to the nanoscale level, is an emerging, enabling technology that is receiving enormous amounts of attention in ...
(Re-)integration dynamics of the PC platform
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Since the 1990's, the PC has come under increasing integration pressure. Many electronic components which had previously existed as separate standalone components have been integrated onto the PC mainboard. Examples include ...
The Innovation Institute : from creative inquiry through real-world impact at MIT
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This document is an exploration into the past, present, and emerging future of MIT from the perspective of a participant-in and observer-of Institute life and learning, and seeks to better understand how creative inquiry ...
Clash of the Titans : impact of convergence and divergence on digital media
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
In last decade, the world was bewildered by the dazzling array of choices and offerings of digital technology. While digital convergence has created new possibilities in digital media, it has also created great uncertainty, ...
Feasibility study of fuel cell residential energy stations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Electricity provisioning has historically satisfied demand by centralized generation and pervasive distribution through an extensive transmission and distribution network. Once demand increases beyond a fixed threshold, ...
The evolution matrix : navigating the competitive advantage and sustainability of outsourcing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The thesis addresses whether there is competitive advantage to outsourcing and whether outsourcing is sustainable. The reason, outsourcing (to foreign countries) has become an acerbic topic because the breadth of its impact ...
In search of the silver lining : case analysis for mature market businesses
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
The business models of industries addressing consumers over the age of 55 are examined. A 3-D framework: Define, Design, and Deliver is developed to provide an understanding of notable failures in the mature market. Case ...
Personalized medicine, population genetics and privacy : an empirical study of international gene banks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The promise of personalized medicine lies in its potential to fundamentally change healthcare. In the past, pharmaceuticals were prescribed on a "one size fits all" basis-patients with certain disease phenotypes were given ...