Browsing Engineering Systems Division by Title
Now showing items 187-206 of 1993
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Backroom space allocation in retail stores
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Space is one of the most scarce, expensive, and difficult to manage resources in urban retail establishments. A typical retail space broadly consists of two areas, the customer facing frontroom area and the backroom area, ... -
Balancing tax incentives with operational risks in captive overseas production facilities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Due to the general macroeconomic downturn, many companies have turned to offshoring - sending a function overseas - to reduce production costs. While some companies elect to outsource overseas production to outside companies, ... -
Balancing technology-focused and solution-focused strategies in the high-tech industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Companies in the high-tech industry can pursue a range of strategies around delivering value to their customers. A technology focus strategy enables organizations to offer to their customers products that feature best-in-class ... -
Balancing utility and privacy of high-dimensional datasets : mobile phone metadata
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Large-scale datasets of human behavior have the potential to fundamentally transform the way we develop cities, fight disease and crime, and respond to natural disasters. However, understanding the privacy of these data ... -
Barriers to implementation of new programs and pedagogies in K-12 STEM Education : a systems perspective
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The continued usage of poor pedagogies in K-12 classrooms, despite large pressures for teachers to change their practice, points towards systematic barriers to change. In the last few decades, there has been a national ... -
Barriers to the adoption of telemedicine as explained by the disruptive innovation framework
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Despite its development and suitability to many specialties of medicine for the past forty years and the driving demands of an aging population, telemedicine has not made significant progress in deployment or commercialization. ... -
Barriers to the Success of 100% Maritime Cargo Container Scanning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2007-01)The attacks of September 11, 2001 revealed national security vulnerabilities that had previously not received high level priority in the United States, such as insecure transportation and infrastructure networks. In response, ... -
Beating the system : accelerating commercialization of new materials
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Over the past century, materials have faced notoriously long delays between invention and commercialization. These delays make private investment very difficult, and can prevent good materials from reaching markets. A ... -
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 ... -
Benefit from Web services in the mobile Internet industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Over the past five years, mobile Internet services in Japan have seen major expansion as a result of collaboration between mobile operators acting as mobile portal providers, and their complementors, namely, content ... -
Benefits and applications of commonality and platforming in the oil and gas industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Platforming, the sharing of parts, processes, knowledge, and technologies, across products and projects has proven to be an effective way for firms to reduce their costs. While platforming is now common in many consumer ... -
Benefits of emerging transportation technologies : simulation analysis and policy issues
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis explores the quantification of transportation technology benefits, through simultaneous consideration of technical and policy issues. Benefits are first defined and identified based on current literature and ... -
Benefits of postponement for fashion products with forecast updates
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis examines the benefit of postponement of fashion products by considering the overage cost of the intermediate product and the correlation between the demand for each end products produced from it. The benefit ... -
The benefits of structured training on manufacturing process ramp-up : a process based cost model approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Manufacturing facilities ramping up a new production process are faced with critical decisions, which determine the ability of that process to be cost efficient. Without quantitative analyses, these decisions are made with ... -
Best practices for industry-university research collaborations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This thesis reports a study of industry-university collaborations aimed at the development of best practices to enhance the impact of such collaborations on company competitiveness. The data sample involves twenty-five ... -
Best practices for the sustainable scaleup of lighting technologies in bottom of the pyramid communities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This thesis deduces a set of best practices for sustainably scaling up lighting technologies in developing countries with a focus on Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) communities, whose annual incomes are US $3000 or less (in ... -
Best practices for university-industry collaboration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This thesis reports findings from a study of best practices for university-industry collaboration. The study involved over 70 interviews at 17 large technology companies with company managers and individuals having ... -
Beyond the lean startup : applying the lean startup methodology in established firms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The lean startup methodology has been successfully applied to product development at startup companies, however many of its principles may also be of benefit to established firms. The purpose of this research was to explore ... -
Bidder response to combinatorial auctions in truckload procurement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis explores how truckload carriers use conditional bids within the framework of a combinatorial auction to win more business and balance their existing networks. Because a considerable portion of a truckload ... -
Bidding strategies in reverse auctions for the automotive industry procurement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)The Information Era has brought along a myriad of revolutionary changes. The Internet in particular has given new forms to old paradigms. It is quite a challenge for companies to decide which of all these options best suit ...
