A Robust Statistical Methodology for Measuring Enterprise Agility

Enterprise Infrastructure Support for Agility

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper describes how an Enterprise infrastructure is supporting agility on two ARPA initiatives namely, RASSP (Rapid prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors), and AM3 (Affordable Multi-Missile Manufacturing). The two programs involve several large enterprises linked electronically to form virtual enterprises and aiming to address the issues raised by the cons...

A Robust Methodology for Prediction of DT Wireline Log

DT log is one of the most frequently used wireline logs to determine compression wave velocity. This log is commonly used to gain insight into the elastic and petrophysical parameters of reservoir rocks. Acquisition of DT log is, however, a very expensive and time consuming task. Thus prediction of this log by any means can be a great help by decreasing the amount of money that needs to be allo...

Extending Software Project Agility with New Product Development Enterprise Agility

Methodology for Enterprise Interoperability

This paper aims at presenting a methodology for guiding enterprises to improve interoperability. This methodology consists in (i) a framework of interoperability, which structures specific solutions of interoperability and is composed of barriers, concerns and approaches dimensions; (ii) method to measure interoperability, which takes into consideration interoperability (maturity) before and (o...

Length of stay as a performance indicator: robust statistical methodology

Length of stay (LOS) is an important performance indicator for costing and hospital management and a key measure of efficiency of NHS. However, LOS is difficult to analyse because its statistical distribution is non-normal and LOS data habitually have many outliers. Furthermore, the usefulness of LOS for improving NHS performance is undermined because no adjustments are made for some key factor...