11 resources evaluation of innovation projects between lean and slack

... the management of innovations: uncertainty and complexity Uncertainty represents a constituent feature of profound innovation projects (Lynn and Akgün 1998, p 13), and profound innovations are ... information and communication systems at the TU Berlin and the University of Queensland, and is currently doing his PhD under Prof Dr Hans Georg Gmünden, holder of the chair of innovation and technology ... What role does the degree of novelty of innovations play? Are innovations of a low degree of novelty (incremental innovations) or those of a high degree of novelty (radical innovations) more promising?...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 14:20

... regarding lean management The most common misconception of lean management is lean means layoffs While this misconception may be due to the term lean (especially in the context of lean and mean”), ... intersection of lean management and Six Sigma The performance of a business is determined by the complex interactions of people, materials, equipment, and resources in the context of the program ... element of lean production, and for this reason the TPS remains a model of excellence for advocates of lean management By contrast, the traditional US production system was based on the “batch -and- queue”...

Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2013, 14:22

... region of CS is a repeating disaccharide of glucuronic acid (GlcA) and N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) [-4)GlcA(b1– 3)GalNAc(b1-]n, which may be O-sulfated on the C4 and ⁄ or C6 of GalNAc and C2 of ... allowing an understanding of species, tissue, age and pathology related differences and the estimation of changes in CS ⁄ DS abundance and composition However, the reduction of the polymer to its ... sulfates 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR studies of reduced disaccharides and tetrasaccharides Eur J Biochem 268, 118 1 118 9 Bayliss MT, Osborne D, Woodhouse S & Davidson C (1999) Sulfation of chondroitin sulfate...

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22

... activity of these agents in RCC represent landmark studies, between a third and two-thirds of patients (depending on prognostic factors and clinical setting) have intrinsically resistant disease and ... kinases, respectively The persistent upregulation of VEGF and PDGF in the majority of RCCs through inactivation of VHL fosters angiogenesis and growth of these tumors The multitargeted tyrosine kinase ... distinguished: resistance of the tumor vasculature to the inhibition of VEGF and PDGF signaling (vascular resistance); and resistance of cancer cells to the hypoxic and nutrient-depleted microenvironment...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... history of atopic dermatitis, we did not study the association between eczema and candidate genes 1.1.5 Relationship between atopy and atopic diseases The relationship between atopic diseases and ... anterior nasal symptoms of pruritus, sneeze, discharge and stuffiness, and an associated loss of sense of smell and inability to taste These symptoms may be present for part of the year or throughout ... understanding of its causes, pathophysiology, and also a lack of a specific marker of the disease Asthma is currently defined as a “chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways in which many cells and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:58

... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i TABLE OF CONTENTS ii SUMMARY ix LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xi UNITS OF MEASUREMENT xvi LIST OF TABLES xix LIST OF FIGURES xxi LIST OF APPENDICES xxiv LIST OF PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS ... PDF Complete Expanded Features Unlimited Pages Documents 116 116 4.2.2 Glomerular expression of IL-13 receptors and STAT6 118 4.2.3 Glomerular expression of nephrin, podocin and dystroglycan ... dilutions of plasmid standards 116 Figure 4.2 Example of real-time PCR results showing the Cp value and the copy number of target gene in each sample 117 Figure 4.3 Glomerular gene expression of IL-4Rα,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 11:58

... systems and risk management systems The fact that there is often an overlap between these systems has not escaped the notice of the chief information officer, the chief risk officer and the heads of ... reputations with regulators and ratings agencies And, thirdly, in the US and UK, there has been talk of expanding the role of government in the financial services sector All of those stakeholders are ... Complexity of convergence process 39% Lack of human resources/ expertise 36% 34% Too many other priorities 23% Lack of accountability Lack of clarity around potential benefits 23% Lack of financial resources...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:16

... bridges between risk and the business and ensure that there is mutual understanding between the two sides A talent management program encourages risk professionals to gain direct experience of the ... credit services and analytics to customers in sectors, including retail and financial services, grew by 11 percent in 2010 and has revenues of US$2.8bn Greater co-ordination of risk and compliance ... duplication of effort This lack of co-ordination also leads to inconsistency and a lack of transparency Only 38 percent of respondents say that their organization is effective at sharing information and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:16

... type name type of plant of plant of plant of plant of plant of plant of plant parts parts parts parts parts parts parts Rule Rule Rule Rule Rule Rule Rule 1 5 Figure 9: Results of the semantic ... Understanding P B F D i a g r a m Understanding 2.1 A diagram in the PBF consists of its title and elements A title shows the subject of the diagram and it is generally located under the diagram ... and "natsurnikan" in Figure are written in Katakana letters of a plant part success failure 74 name Relation connection adjacency Table 1: Results of the semantic analysis property of type of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... a mean value of zero and a standard deviation of 0.03, therefore, processing noise covariance ∂2 = ∂2 = ∂2 ≈ 0.001 Initial values of the state ax ay az vector SV and the variance of the estimation ... investigated and utilized in model-based algorithms and extended gradient-based algorithms Sudhir et al [13] and Clifford and Nasrabadi [14] used Markov random fields to combine the stereo and motion ... 657–667, 1993 [11] W Wang and J H Duncan, “Recovering the threedimensional motion and structure of multiple moving objects from binocular image flows,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... numbers and its derivatives,” Memoirs of the Faculty of Science Kyushu University Series A, vol 39, no 1, pp 113 –125, 1985 18 K Shiratani, “On Euler numbers,” Memoirs of the Faculty of Science ... 2005 16 Y Simsek, “Complete sums of products of h,q -extension of Euler numbers and polynomials,” preprint, 2007, http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2849 17 K Shiratani and S Yamamoto, “On a p-adic interpolation ... integration,” Proceedings of the Jangjeon Mathematical Society, vol 2, pp 45–49, 2001 14 H Ozden, Y Simsek, and I N Cangul, “Remarks on sum of products of h,q -twisted Euler polynomials and numbers,” to...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... University, Tampere, Finland From 1993 he has been Professor of signal 14 processing at Tampere University of Technology and is currently Head of Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Signal ... representation of a general class of fast transforms and define families of Haar-like, Hadamard-like, and slant-like transforms A methodology of synthesizing parametric transforms of arbitrary order ... v2 = and the “minus” sign may float to any of the four entries Let us now consider two families of transforms within Ω, the families of Hadamard-like and Haar-like transforms, which are of a particular...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 20:20

... assignments, and cross-cultural management Linda and her husband, Greg, have married children: Angie and Joe Gittleman and Brad and Brandy Stroh They are awaiting their first grandchild in July ... planning and leadership development; in coordination and control; and in technology, innovation, and information exchange and dissemination Leadership Development and Global Assignments One of the ... planning and leadership development, in the coordination and control of international operations, and in technological and information exchange between the parent company and subsidiaries and among...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 09:20

... shortest path between u0 and ui Note that the path between u0 and ui contained in the outer cycle has length i The path: u0 → v0 → vk → v2k → v3k → u3k → u3k+1 → · · · → ui between u0 and ui has ... ul−s to ui along the outer cycle is a shortest path between u0 and ui , as desired In what follows, we give the proof of the main theorem Proof of Theorem 2: By Proposition 4, there exists a shortest ... with n 6k and k If 3k i n − 3k, then there exists a shortest path between u0 and ui which passes through the edge u0 v0 first the electronic journal of combinatorics 16 (2009), #N33 Proof By symmetry,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 21:21

... release and persistence of organic acids (ligands) capable of mobilizing Fe and Al Consequently, the study of relationships between forest floor properties and the degree of development of albic and ... for each sample of albic horizon; t is its thickness (cm) and Vand Care the numerical values of its Munsell value and chroma; and Due to the design of the study, the thickness of the forest floor ... in morphological and chemical properties of forest floor and mineral soil, and each accumulation of DW was examined for the origin (species) and age of decay The objectives of the present study...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... coupling all sorts of parameters (top), (ii) less well-defined combinations of kM and kI values (centre), and (iii) poorly defined combinations of energy constants (bottom) Page of 11 (page number ... the arbitrary choice of the standard reaction directions, we counted each reaction in both forward and Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling ... experiments Numbers of protein molecules were measured in the yeast S cerevisiae The symbols x and σx denote mean values and standard deviations of the natural logarithms, in data sets of different...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... wells (Wells and 2) was to shut-in Wells and while fracturing all of the infill wells Wells and were shut-in while Wells and were fractured For the fracturing of Wells and 6, all of the previously ... observation of depletion-driven far field stress reorientation for a range of permeability and stress anisotropy relevant to shale resources and develop quantitative trends as shown in Figure 11A and ... by a slope of unity, indicating possible boundary effects As suggested by others (Anderson et al., 2010; Song et al., 2 011; Houze et al., 2 011) and in the absence of nearby wells and known geological...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2014, 22:11

... INTRODUCTION Hypertension (HTA) is cause and consequences of CKD Renal failure is severe of HTA and affects quality of life’s patients and is the heavy burnde of social USRDS 2005 showed 27% FSRD ... cause of ESRD in near future HTA lead increasing of blood flow of kidney and intragromerular pressure increase Belong the time, normal structure of gromeruli will be destroyed, sclerosis and kidney ... resistance index of renal artery RI dam, PI found no differences were statistically significant between RI and PI indices in the right kidney and left kidney, between the disease and the control...

Ngày tải lên: 17/11/2014, 12:06