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Strategic analysis of mobile viral marketing through a holistic study in technological evolution of mobile devices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Rapid advancement in Electronic Communication gives rise to the popularity of Viral Marketing. Mobile Communication, in particular, offers greater potential in the utilization of this Word-of-Mouth phenomenon as a Marketing ...
Model of medical supply demand and astronaut health for long-duration human space flight
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The medical care of space crews is the primary limiting factor in the achievement of long-duration space missions. (Nicogossian 2003) The goal of this thesis was to develop a model of long-duration human space flight ...
rEVaMp : Risk Elicited Earned Value Management procedure -- A systematic framework for accounting for project uncertainties
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Background: Project and program budget estimation and execution within the estimated budget are critical functions in any organization, in particular those dealing with fixed cost contracts. During planning, the functional ...
IT investments and firm performance across economies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Research has shown a positive relationship between IT investments and firm performance. But the results vary across firms and performance measures. Evidence indicates that IT resource allocations, in the form of investment ...
A new approach to product development in Islamic finance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Islamic Finance is a banking sector which caters to the Muslim population's banking needs by complying with the Islamic financial law. In this research some of the most prevalent financial products in Islamic Finance are ...
Technology strategy of competing with industrial design in markets of high-tech consumer products
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This thesis explores the role of industrial design in the formulation of technology strategy for certain firms that compete in markets of high-tech consumer products. The initial intuition is that the role of industrial ...
Aligning product and supply chain strategies in the mobile phone industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Designing and managing the supply chain of a company in the mobile phone industry is particularly challenging. Short product lifecycles, rapidly evolving technology, globally linked distribution networks, increasing product ...
Material feedback in digital design tools
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
How do design tools feedback material behavior to the designer? Digital design tools in use by designers today provide a rich environment for design of form but offer little feedback of the material that ultimately realize ...
Value proposition development of early stage computational fluid dynamics analysis in automotive product development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Concurrent engineering initiatives and the closely related principle of front-loading development processes - identifying and solving problems early rather than waiting for traditional development and test processes to ...
OpenSPARC : how giving away CMT chip hardware implementations creates value for Sun microsystems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This thesis uses systems thinking and system dynamics modeling to explore how open source communities such as OpenSPARC can lead to enhancement of the performance of Sun's multithreaded systems and thereby increase its ...