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The China advantage : a competitive analysis of Chinese high-tech industries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The emergence of China as a rising economic power has surprised many pundits and commentators around the world. It first gained its status as one of the largest manufacturing centers in the world, creating companies from ...
The effects of part commonality on product development lead time
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Nortel Networks, a leading global supplier of telecommunications equipment, is engaged in an increasingly competitive global market place. Within this market, Nortel Networks is positioning itself as the leader of global ...
Standards in the data storage industry : emergence, sustainability, and the battle for platform leadership
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
In order to cope with the continuous increase of magnetically stored data and of mission critical dependence on this data, storage systems must similarly increase in their functionality offerings, and with that, their ...
An analysis of retention issues of scientists, engineers, and program managers in the US Air Force
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The United States Air Force is having a difficult time retaining their technical officers, who are critical to the success of their research, development, and acquisitions of major military and defense systems. A statistical ...
Complexity reduction in automotive design and development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Automobiles are complex products. High product complexity drives high levels of design and process complexity and complicatedness. This thesis attempts to reduce complicatedness in the automotive vehicle design and development ...
Supply Chain Architecture in a high demand variability environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
A systems-based approach to the design, management and integration of enterprise-level change in defense shipbuilding
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Continually declining Navy surface combatant acquisitions, the war on terror, shifting Congressional priorities and a consolidated shipbuilding industrial base are forcing fundamental changes in the defense shipbuilding ...
Case study on re-architecting of established enterprise software product : major challenges encountered and SDM prescriptions from lessons learned
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The paper studies a real word project of an enterprise software product re-architecting at a mid-sized telecommunication company. It begins with a description of the company and the software product, as well as an elaboration ...
Success and failure of firms in the IT outsourcing industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
In the year 2004 amidst the hype against outsourcing heard in the wake of elections something important happened: the first few IT outsourcing companies crossed the threshold of billion dollars in revenue (viz. TCS, Infosys, ...
System theoretic framework for assuring safety and dependability of highly integrated aero engine control systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The development of complex, safety-critical systems for aero-engine control is subject to the, often competing, demands for higher safety and reduced development cost. Although the commercial aerospace industry has a general ...